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Win an exclusive opening night experience at The Fairy Queen*

To celebrate Pinchgut’s debut at the Roslyn Packer Theatre, you have the chance to experience Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in true VIP style.

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Metro-Minerva Theatre in Potts Point.

Billionaire Gretel Packer has plans for this historic Kings Cross site

She paid $26 million for the art deco Metro-Minerva Theatre last year, but had been schtum on plans for the beloved venue. Until now.

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What moment sent markets tumbling in 2008? Take our weekly news quiz

Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

 Richard Roxburgh as journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.

Peter Greste’s biopic gets journalists like few others

The film captures the drama of the Al Jazeera correspondent’s arrest and imprisonment in Egypt, but is also unsparing about the stubbornness the profession can breed.

Painter Zinaida Serebriakova’s 1909 self-portrait At the Dressing-Table.

What Russia can still teach us

From Tolstoy to Shostakovich, Russian culture helped shape the world. We must not lose it.

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Pedro Pascal as Joel, who is struggling with parenting a teenager, in season two of The Last of Us.

The 8 best shows to binge this Easter weekend

From CIA agents to zombies, F1 drivers to unemployed British strivers – here are eight shows to set you up for your days off.

Live Nation Australia chairman and 20% owner, Michael Coppel, at Icebergs Dining Room, Bondi Beach.

Live Nation boss reveals ‘unspoken secret’ of ticket prices

Veteran promoter Michael Coppel is now the biggest Australian cog in a multinational music machine. He says local fans would be bereft without it.

Brett Whiteley’s Untitled Red Painting III, 1961, in oil on board, was estimated at $450,000 to $650,000 at Menzies’ but sold for $950,000.

Why this early Whiteley went from £200 to $1.2m

Two paintings were brought from the young artist in 1961. Last week one sold for almost four times the other.

Steve Eisman was played by Steve Carell in “The Big Short”.

The 6 best movies about financial turmoil

From the Great Depression to The Wolf of Wall Street, watch these titles when you can no longer watch the ticker.

Demonic pigs in A Minecraft Movie spend their time plotting to stamp out creativity.

Feral ‘Minecraft Movie’ fans spark irritation – and optimism

These days it is unusual to see a crowd of teenagers at the cinema.

Artwork on display at the Deutsche Bank

In Pictures: Investment banks and art collections

Australia’s investment banks are building out their art collections

Which crisis sent markets down 57 per cent? Take our weekly news quiz

Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

anos Panay, president of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, which presents the Grammy Awards.

Singing in English a ‘blessing and curse’ for Oz music: Grammy boss

The president of the Recording Academy says singing in English can be a disadvantage outside America – but Australia’s music industry can conquer it.

Jacob Elordi as young doctor Dorrigo Evans in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

This epic but intimate Aussie war series deserves to be a hit

Justin Kurzel’s five-episode adaptation of fellow Tasmanian Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize winner, Narrow Road to the Deep North, is storytelling at its best.

What legal jargon taught this solicitor about translating literature

Stephanie Smee left corporate law to become a translator, where she says the ‘discipline of thought’ from her legal training remains influential.

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Mikaela Lancaster, managing director of Spotify Australia, says the “vast majority” of the platform’s streams aren’t generated by an algorithm.

Spotify denies it’s directing users away from Aussie music

The streaming giant has put a new hub for local music on its Australian homepage, as it claims its algorithm is not to blame for the lack of local hits on the charts.

Irish-American author J.P Donleavy, whose The Unexpurgated Code has a claim to be the funniest book ever written.

Could this be the author of the funniest book ever written?

The cult following for J.P Donleavy’s self-help manual from 1975 deserves to be much bigger, especially in dark times like these.

Noah Wyle stars as Dr Michael “Robby” Robinavitch in The Pitt.

Doctors say this show is first to get the emergency ward right

Binge’s unusually accurate medical drama The Pitt, starring Noah Wyle as a beleaguered intensive care physician, has become the talk of real-life hospital breakrooms.

Carol Jerrems’ Vale Street, 1975, the image for which the late Australian photographer is best known, blew through its estimate to set a record for an Australian photograph.

A record-setting photo and a $2.5m number plate

The biggest auction of the year so far delivered $10 million in sales and a record price for an iconic image, while a small plate brings a big price.

Taylor Swift performs at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 16, 2024

Welcome to capitalism (Taylor’s version)

Swift is a self-made billionaire and the most profitable live musician in history. A new book asks what her ascendance can teach us.

Stills from the final episode of The White Lotus season three.

‘White Lotus’ audience is big, and keeps getting bigger

The third season, which concluded at the weekend, is the series’ most popular yet, according to internal HBO statistics and Nielsen, the research firm.

NGA director Nick Mitzevich with Edvard Munch’s Man With Horse (1918), which has been purchased for the gallery by Geoff Ainsworth.

Biggest gift completes ‘unfinished business’ at National Gallery

The Canberra institution finally has a work by one of the 20th century’s most influential painters, Edvard Munch of The Scream fame, thanks to philanthropist Geoff Ainsworth.

Former AGNSW director Michael Brand and his deputy turned replacement Maud Page, pictured together in 2017.

Senior staff depart Art Gallery of NSW amid tension at the top

The chief operating officer and chief of staff have both left the institution following a change of directors.

Cryptocurrencies are gaining traction among even the most conservative art auctioneers.

Why the art market has an eye for crypto

Everyone wins: buyers avoid taxes, and auction houses make money.

Ja Rule and Billy McFarland promote the original. ill-fated Fyre Festival in 2019.

Fyre Festival’s mastermind is out of jail. Now he wants a sequel

In 2017, Fyre Festival descended into Lord of the Flies and ruined countless lives. So why is it coming back?

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