The Stage Show
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In-depth conversations with the world's top directors, performers and writers for the stage.
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Best of The Stage Show
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Best of The Stage Show: Pamela Rabe + a kid's point of view on stage
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Best of The Stage Show: How Anais Mitchell wrote Hadestown
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Best of The Stage Show: Stephen Rea + the soul of Butoh
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Best of The Stage Show: Robyn Nevin and Patricia Cornelius
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Farewell friends: Denise Scott, Bernadette Robinson and Love Actually? the musical
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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A look back at Michael Cathcart's 25 years on air
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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West End's Alfie Boe + Meow Meow puts on The Red Shoes
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Three moods of William Shakespeare hit our stages
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Danielle de Niese's journey to the heart of Carmen
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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The couple performing theatre's worst marriage + Lamine Sonko
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Why Eddie Perfect wrote a musical for his alma mater
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Broadway star Bernadette Peters + reviving The Shiralee
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Shining a new light on 'Rebecca', a gothic tale of infatuation
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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A Filipino-Australian story in the shadow of a revolution
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Suzie Miller's new play 'Inter Alia' delves into uncomfortable truths
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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The Stage Show
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Jazz Legends: Keith Jarrett
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Jazz Legends: Charles Mingus
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Jazz Legends: Billie Holiday
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Jazz Legends: Quincy Jones
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Jazz Legends: Joni Mitchell
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Jazz Legends: Sonny Rollins
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Jazz Legends: Nina Simone
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part II)
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part I)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Dancing with life and death + the spooky joy of Beetlejuice
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Pamela Rabe tackles an iconic role + a kid's point of view on stage
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May 26, 2025 |
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How to make it on Broadway, plus a twisted tale challenges these actors
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May 20, 2025 |
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Getting under the skin of Edith Piaf with Nathalie Lermitte
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May 13, 2025 |
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Meet Margo Kane, a legend of Canadian theatre + a hit Spanish movie on stage
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May 05, 2025 |
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The Black Woman of Gippsland flips the script on a Victorian mystery
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The Wrong Gods weighs the cost of 'progress' on a mother and daughter
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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100 years of La Boite: a little theatre with big ambitions
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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'We're very scared when we're on stage': comedy sisters Flo & Joan
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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In 'Lazarus', a playwright resurrects a living legend
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Ruby Wax dives deep (with whales) in her comedy + Eliza Scanlen on Oscar Wilde
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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How Anaïs Mitchell wrote the hit musical Hadestown
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The story that brought Leah Purcell back to the stage
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Actor Stephen Rea in Krapp's Last Tape + the soul of Butoh
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Turning the late Ryuichi Sakamoto into mixed reality
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Dancing in the street with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Robyn Nevin on Agatha Christie's 'dark side' + a play about Julian Assange
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Emma Rice's dark, rollicking Wuthering Heights
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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How do you tell the world's longest tale 'Mahabharata', in five hours?
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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'I think the rock swallowed them up': Ian Michael takes on an Australian classic
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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The surprising history of Shakespeare in a divided America
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Why Eric Idle always looks on the bright side of life
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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The story of the groundbreaking Warumpi Band
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Giacomo Puccini 100 years on
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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'I know what I'm doing' — Why Miriam Margolyes courts controversy
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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William Yang — A life in a slide show
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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How an accident redefined the possibilities of dance
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Can Kiss Me, Kate be tamed?
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Broadway writer Rick Elice, the theatre boy who wouldn't grow up
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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The star of Prima Facie plots the next stage of her brilliant career
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Olympic gold medallists Torvill & Dean take one last dance
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Why Monty Python's Eric Idle laughs at death
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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A director's career-long effort to empower everyone in the room
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Dear Evan Hansen comes to Australia
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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A cabaret lover's journey from sheep farm to Spiegeltent mastermind
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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The secrets and stagecraft of magic
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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School's out — Matthew Whittet explores the dreams of our youth
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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A creative life undimmed by a devastating diagnosis
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Shakespeare in a divided America
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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How a writing class with James Baldwin inspired this Tony and Pulitzer winner
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Noni Hazlehurst trades teddy bears for torment in Mother
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 06 | Tragedy
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 05 | Nationalism
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 04 | Race
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 03 | Horror
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 02 | Gender
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 01 | Comedy
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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A circus performer's journey from Albury to the Arsenale
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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'Welcome to Splott' — A Welsh playwright's local stories go global
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Ray Lawler and 'The Doll' forever changed Australian theatre
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Australia's Hamilton has been in the role longer than Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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A Western Sydney playwright revisits his regional roots
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Bohème, Butterfly and beyond — Giacomo Puccini, 100 years on
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Charting the legacy of the First Nations theatrical canon
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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A playwright reconceives the undoing of Lady Macbeth
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning play counts the Cost of Living
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Come hear the music play at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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'We are here, we belong' — The unifying impact of Counting and Cracking
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Jonathan Biggins is closing the book on Keating and The Wharf Revue
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Bangarra looks to the horizon for its first cross-cultural collaboration
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May 28, 2024 |
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'I've had this career against all odds' — Bonachela's twisted path to Sydney Dance
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May 21, 2024 |
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From Europe to the USA, this Australian theatre company keeps on winning
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May 14, 2024 |
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Audra McDonald & Jason Robert Brown — Tony-winning Broadway icons
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May 07, 2024 |
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Simon Burke's wonderful (and Wicked) 50 years in the footlights
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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After a celebrated Ring Cycle, a director ventures to Lammermoor
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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'I didn't want sangría and bulls' — A timeless and brutal Carmen
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Angus Cerini delivers an Australian gothic trilogy
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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West Side Story comes to Sydney Harbour
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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The writer of The Whale makes a case for the existence of God
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Why Miriam Margolyes courts controversy — 'I know what I'm doing'
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Andrew Scott's one-man Uncle Vanya
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Extreme action, dreaming stories and theatrical theft in Adelaide
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Need help getting opera singers to soar? Add puppets
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Sam Mendes's five precepts for The Lehman Trilogy still inspire Es Devlin
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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At the Perth Festival, stories from home inspire new work
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Griffin marks the end of an era with a Louis Nowra triple bill
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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'We have to learn to listen again' — Akram Khan's reimagined Jungle Book
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Why Groundhog Day's Australian debut is healing for Tim Minchin
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Sunday — The woman who shaped Australian art
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Joanna Murray-Smith — a playwright in demand
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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The Tina Turner story on stage
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Theatre healed Heather Mitchell
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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How Eddie Perfect and Gillian Cosgriff make musical theatre
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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If your show needs a lift, 'Send for Nellie!'
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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The Warumpi Band story comes to the Sydney Festival
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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A Ring Cycle for our part of the world
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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A Game of Thrones villain finds redemption in A Christmas Carol
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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From a caravan in WA to the mainstage — The McElhinneys venture out
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part II)
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part I)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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How Chicago became a hit musical — 'We wrote fast and tore up fast'
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Bridal laments and vanishing vultures inspire new work at OzAsia
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Hamilton maestro reworks the music of Sting
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Taylor Mac's queer rock opera adds to 'the library of the deviant theme'
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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When asked to adapt a classic, Nakkiah Lui chose Showgirls
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Broome's complex history and culture inspire an award winner
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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How the stage needs to change
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Kate Miller-Heidke's new musical, and Wicked returns
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Bangarra Dance Theatre enters a new era
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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'I didn't know any better' — How David Lang redefined opera
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Is there something wrong with Debra Oswald?
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Helen Morse never sought the spotlight
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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After 10 years, Anthony LaPaglia returns to the stage
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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The radical innovations of Caryl Churchill
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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A high-camp provocateur treads unfamiliar territory: real life
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Michelle Law's latest play contests Chinese values
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Wesley Enoch honours the elders of First Nations performing arts
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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In his 90th year, Michael Frayn's plays still make noise
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Once Upon a Mattress composer Mary Rodgers was anything but shy
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Andrew Bovell comes home
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Eddie Perfect and Gillian Cosgriff show us how to make a musical
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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'It's been a slog' — Jacky debuts at the Melbourne Theatre Company
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May 30, 2023 |
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Is the stage the right place to talk about climate change?
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May 23, 2023 |
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Why Tina Turner was 'adamant' that the violence of her past be put on stage
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May 16, 2023 |
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A 114-year-old Australian novel in Chinese becomes a play for today
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May 09, 2023 |
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'It was such a balm' — How theatre healed Heather Mitchell
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May 02, 2023 |
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Lano and Woodley set sail in search of Moby Dick
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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A Pulitzer winner serves social justice and sandwiches in Clyde's
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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A satirical One Woman Show skewers the Fleabag generation
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Nureyev's Don Quixote recreated on stage
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Why dance in a museum?
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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After 50 years at La Mama, a legend passes the torch
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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The book that brought us Macbeth
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Verdi's Messa da Requiem pulses with life in Adelaide
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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A Little Life on stage — Ivo van Hove adapts the 'cruel' bestseller
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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'Cabaret is the original punk' — Reuben Kaye at WorldPride
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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New works take flight at a cosmic Perth Festival
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Tim Minchin takes comedy seriously
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The woman who shaped modern Australian art
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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'The future is Blak' — How fatherhood changed Bangarra's head designer
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Dorian Gray's visionary director revitalises another classic
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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An Australian play on Broadway
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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'It was time they had a blackfella at the top' — A new era for ADT
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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90 years of performing arts on your ABC
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Finding true love at the barre
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Michael Sheen returns to Amadeus as a different man
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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'Sharing a mad moment together' — Chaplin's grandson's ode to theatre
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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The forgotten ballets of Australia
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's go-to director
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Sandi Toksvig has reasons to be cheerful
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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'We are here, we belong' — Uniting communities through the arts
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Matilda and A Christmas Carol director keeps The Old Vic young
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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A manifesto for dance of a different kind
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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From chook farmer to change maker
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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A comedian's debut play inspired by the on-field drama of footy
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Finding true love at the barre
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Les Misérables and Miss Saigon creators take centre stage
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Remembering Uncle Jack Charles
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Straight lines and stillness — New work from two theatre giants
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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New plays light up the Brisbane Festival
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Brett Dean's Hamlet triumphs at The Met
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Dorian Gray's visionary director revitalises another classic
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Hairspray brings back a Broadway legend
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Being an opera singer saved her life
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Diablo Cody found her dream collaborator in Alanis Morissette
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Catherine McClements is looking for a challenge
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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First London, next Broadway — An Australian playwright on the rise
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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'It became very woke' — An Asian Australian director embraces 'elder' status
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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'It was time they had a blackfella at the top' — A new era for ADT
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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90 years of performing arts on your ABC
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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The Tony-winning creator of Broadway's 'big, black and queer' Best Musical
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Tina Arena on the intimacy and vulnerability of cabaret
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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At RISING, the arts take the chill off winter
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Lea Salonga — a trailblazing star of the stage
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May 31, 2022 |
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Mr Producer — How Cameron Mackintosh rebuilt an industry
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May 24, 2022 |
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Truth-telling in the theatre — Why Andrea James ditched law for the arts
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May 17, 2022 |
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Theatre icon Geraldine Turner reveals her off-stage struggles
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May 10, 2022 |
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'Wagner belongs to humanity's treasure' — Confronting a contentious classic
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May 03, 2022 |
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Big plays in a tiny room — Red Stitch turns 21
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Power and ethics in playwriting
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Imagination will help young people 'sort out the mess' left by grown-ups
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Blind and vision-impaired artists rewrite Tchaikovsky's final opera
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Lano and Woodley set sail in search of Moby Dick
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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An Englishman in New York takes on An American in Paris
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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A reimagined Yentl and a play about race and privilege in education hit home for director
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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GoPros, spray bottles and a fake language — Making theatre with The Last Great Hunt
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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A gay hate crime that became a watershed moment for reform revisited in song
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Girl from the North Country — How 'pure ignorance' of musical theatre led to a hit
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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'We're making space for ourselves' — How Zindzi Okenyo is changing theatre
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Youth in trouble — Chunky Move's dance for the end of days
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Six the Musical's journey from student theatre to worldwide smash
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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A Palawa playwright on 'the biggest issue' his people are fighting today
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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David McAllister and Wesley Enoch start a new chapter
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Tom Stoppard's life examined
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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David Williamson shares some home truths
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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'Who's afraid of the truth?' — An Indigenous director tackles an American classic
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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The room where Hamilton happened
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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From the ashes — the lessons a reborn La Mama can share with Australia
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Elaine Crombie will calm you down before she punches you in the guts
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Diablo Cody found her dream collaborator in Alanis Morissette
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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'Artists with disability should be treated like any other' — 30 years of Restless Dance
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Dear Evan Hansen creator revives the show that came before Rent
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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'An accident of the theatre' brought Sondheim back to Broadway
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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How one of Australia's top directors discovered the power of telling our stories
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Why the writer of The Vagina Monologues now has climate change in her sights
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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The accountant who became an opera star
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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What regional Australia offers artists and audiences
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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David Williamson shares some home truths
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Animal Farm in the age of Trump
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Audra McDonald and Tony Sheldon's Broadway
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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'Fragility is okay, limits are okay' — Why the way we make art should change
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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'Who's afraid of the truth?' — An Indigenous director tackles an American classic
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Spectacular, spectacular! The music of Moulin Rouge
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Juliet Stevenson is drawn to danger
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Theatre dorks Zoë Coombs Marr and Anne-Louise Sarks get serious
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Why Hugo Weaving and Paula Arundell act
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Kate Champion and Paula Arundell — finding family and fantasy on stage
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Neil Armfield and Kate Champion — dancing into a perfect partnership
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Mark Howett and Neil Armfield reach out to a new generation
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Kylie Bracknell and Mark Howett — Leading lights of the West
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Wesley Enoch and Kylie Bracknell on language, culture and connection
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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David McAllister and Wesley Enoch start a new chapter
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Tom Stoppard's life examined
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Eddie Perfect turns introspective
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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For playwright Jen Silverman, theatre became the answer to any question
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Alan Cumming is not acting his age
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Deborah Cheetham opera heralds a new dawn
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May 25, 2021 |
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How a dancer overcame a spinal injury to shine on the international stage
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May 18, 2021 |
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'I had a lot of rage' — David Ireland tries to make sense of trauma with art
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May 11, 2021 |
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'Bill, that's a pirouette' — William Forsythe's unconventional rise to the top
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May 04, 2021 |
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Mark Ravenhill wants you to argue over his plays
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Apr 27, 2021 |