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For the best part of four weeks, two paintings in the style of the late Sydney artist Brett Whiteley sat in courtroom three of the Victorian Supreme Court. The paintings, Big Blue Lavender B…
Mario Lanza's film career lasted barely 10 years. Yet by the time he died at the age of 38, Lanza had achieved enormous fame as a film star and opera singer. This despite the fact that his f…
Sydney Theatre Company (STC) has announced that Artistic Director Jonathan Church has stepped down, less than twelve months into the role. In a statement released late yesterday, Church h…
Who is Mariaa Randall? I am a Gulibul, Githabul and Yaegl Woman from the Far North Coast of NSW. I traded the country in for the city, so that I could dance because I wanted (still do)…
At a ceremony in Washington DC this week, Australia's leading musical theatre performer Anthony Warlow was awarded the prestigious 2016 Helen Hayes Award for Lead Actor in a Musical for h…
An unapologetic, passionate and visceral narrative that traverses time, space and characters, Blood on the Dance Floor explores the legacies and memories of bloodlines, the need for…
The striking and youthful fashion of 1960s Melbourne is the starring subject of more than eighty photographs by fashion photographer Henry Talbot, many of which have never been exhibited bef…
Who is Linden Furnell? I presume you mean ‘who is Linden’ – in which case… I’m an actor and a singer songwriter. I grew up in the Blue Mountains, have 2 younger…
Australia's longest-standing and publicly owned short film festival, the St Kilda Film Festival, has announced this year's award nominees who are in the running for more than $50,000 wort…
On the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Class Act Theatre presents The Winter’s Tale – a timeless classic romance of jealousy and forgiveness reimagined in a modern sett…
The School of Hard Knocks is excited to present not one, but two fabulous Singers Festivals in Brisbane and Melbourne this coming June. The Brisbane and Melbourne International Singers…
Why is it that the current darling of the pop scene, Taylor Swift, called her best-selling album (released in 2014) 1989? It was, granted, the year of her birth – but among her inspira…
Exclusive to Melbourne and for three performances only, Follies in Concert will play at the Melbourne Recital Centre: 24 – 25 May 2016. Set at a reunion of the soon-to-be demolished…
Who is Ali McGregor? I'm a singer who ran away from the opera and joined the cabaret REVOLUTION! What would you do differently to what you do now?   Eat less carbs?! As far as my w…
What if your past could speak to you? Fresh from a completely sold-out season at Adelaide Fringe 2016, Andi Snelling's critically-acclaimed solo confessional, #DearDiary…
The fascinating career of the late Bentinck Island artist and senior Kaiadilt woman, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori will be explored in a retrospective exhibition at the Queensla…
A runaway hit both in London and off-Broadway, Nina Raine’s Tribes hones in on our universal desire to belong and to be heard with startling humour and biting accuracy, in a Sydney …
Sydney Theatre Company has announced Tommy Murphy as the 2015 Patrick White Playwrights’ Fellow, with Neil Levi the recipient of the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award …
Who is Paul Capsis? A working Performer, currently rehearsing Resident Alien – a play about Quentin Crisp for fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne. The play opens this week!…
The Sydney Dance Company can always be relied on to come up with something extraordinary. CounterMove consisting of two separate dance works, Cacti and Lux Tenebris –Â each entirely …
From Taxi Driver and Goodfellas to The Age of Innocence and The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese's intense and exhilarating films define him as one of the most influential directors of o…
Suzie Mathers, a member of the original Australian cast of the global musical phenomenon, Wicked – the untold story of the Witches of Oz, is to star as Glinda alongside celebrated W…
Australian audiences will be treated to a unique opportunity to hear from one of the world's greats, when Piers Lane performs Chopin by Candlelight – a beautiful selection of works by …
The first images of the world premiere cast of Fawlty Towers " Live on Stage have been revealed ahead of the strictly limited, four-week only season at Sydney's Roslyn Packer Theatre, fro…
The award-winning original cast of Menopause the Musical return to the stage with new songs, new dance routines and new gags, that celebrates all things menopausal, in the all-new Meno…