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Following the immersive portrayal of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray in Room of Regret in 2013, Theatre Works presents the premiere season of THE RABBLE's poetic exploration of France's m…
Gavin Brown's latest exhibition was inspired by a trip to the Southeast Asian Kingdom of Cambodia in February 2016. Initially lured by the temples of Angkor Wat nearby the wonderful town…
Charting the painfully crazy, hilarious life of a defiant young poet and sexual rebel as she searches for artistic and personal freedom, New Theatre presents Dorothy Hewett’s iconic…
Opera Australia has announced the appointment of Mr Rory Jeffes as its new Chief Executive Officer. "We're thrilled to welcome Rory to Opera Australia,” said Opera Australia's Chairman…
Disney's hit musical Aladdin has opened in Melbourne at Her Majesty's Theatre after a successful season in Sydney's Capitol Theatre. Aladdin is Disney's most successful musical after The Lio…
Resplendent in blue leather kilt, a sizeable sporran, and neat blue shirt, Craig Hill led the room through an hour of uproarious stand-up. What a braw man. Well, it was more a conversation t…
Lexipalooza! features Lexi Simmonds and Pete Batt and some fine musical comedy. Zero pretensions, but oodles of charm, Lexi and Pete meander their way through songs, ukulele destruction, and…
Fourteen of the nation's best schoolyard comedy acts took to the Melbourne Town Hall main stage with their best five-minutes of material, competing in the Class Clowns National Grand Final, …
Celebrated on the third Saturday in April, Record Store Day Australia is an important day for the music industry as it reiterates the importance of the traditional music outlet as one of the…
By the time The Travelling Sisters " Lucy Fox, Laura Trenerry & Ell Sachs " come together near the end of the show to form Boadicea (the perfect name for this imposing, guitar-playing Vo…
The concept of Theatre Sports conjures images of brief games, audience stunts, and plenty of song. The group of Small Car " Andrew Watt, Broni Lisle, and Mario Hannah " are more ambitious. B…
The Great Debate, where comedians get together to argue for and against a barely serious-esque topic, later edited down for television, was also a neat glimpse for the audience present at ho…
English-born and of Sri Lankan heritage, Romesh Ranganathan sometimes feels like an outsider. In Irrational, he turned the accompanying perspective into good slabs of audience amusement. Thr…
Phill Jupitus edged onto the stage strumming a guitar and singing a tune to parody a Coldplay song. It seemed a promising start, but very quickly we got into some surprisingly uninteresting …
Who is Chelsea Gibb? I am… Passionate about my family, all things health and fitness (with a dash of smoochy food on the side), cooking, acting and singing and striving to be the best …
Offering a rare opportunity to view the response of two highly acclaimed Australian painters to a particular region of Australia – the Springbrook rainforest in the Gold Coast hinte…
TarraWarra Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Emily Cormack as Curator of the Biennial in 2018. TarraWarra Director, Victoria Lynn, said the appointment of Cormack as sole curato…
Who is Derek Deane? Someone who is desperately trying to preserve the true heritage of classical ballet whilst everyone else around the world seems to want to change it, just to be different…
Following its critically acclaimed season in Sydney, Disney Theatrical Productions hit Broadway musical, Aladdin is set to dazzle audiences at its Melbourne premiere at Her Majesty's Thea…
Overflowing with heart, humour and spectacular stagecraft, Big Fish is an extraordinary new Broadway musical that reminds us why we love going to the theatre – for an experience tha…
One man's insightful and hilarious examination of football, tribalism, belonging and identity, Griffin Theatre Company in association with the National Theatre of Parramatta presents S…
Who is Julie Lea Goodwin? I’m an independent woman who spends her days singing opera! I love my work as it's constantly changing, surprising, stressful and many other things. At the mo…
A sharp social observation about friends, relationships and the complexities of navigating through the everyday upheavals of life, Melbourne Theatre Company presents the world premiere se…
Man vs Meth is a kind of comedic schadenfreude. Simon Hughes spends the hour talking about the years he spent using drugs, stretching the definition of "recreational", until he ultimately fi…
Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize, The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose is a mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection – a meditation on love, art and comm…
