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Director Margaret Thanos’ stunning production of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens has returned to the Seymour Centre.

This was the best Shakespeare I’ve seen in Sydney this century. And now it’s back

John Shand gave Margaret Thanos’ stunning production of Timon of Athens five stars in its premiere season. Ahead of its return this week, he sits down with its visionary director.

  • John Shand

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Director Jafar Panahi.

From prison to the Palme d’Or: Jafar Panahi’s defiant message to the world

Iranian director Jafar Panahi said seeing his secretly made film with an audience after 15 years was the most exciting liberty.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Al Pacino plays Father Theophilus Riesinger in The Ritual.

Al Pacino tests credibility as a priestly exorcist in this horror outing

The Ritual is loosely based on a ‘real’ case in an Iowa nunnery in 1928, but that’s not the only point at which this film stretches belief.

  • Jake Wilson
A scene from The Great Lillian Hall

This star-studded tale takes us into the heart of acting and obsession

Loosely inspired by a true story, The Great Lillian Hall takes us into the life of an actress who lives her craft.

  • Sandra Hall
The US touring production of Anastasia

‘We all grew up on that movie’: How a beloved cartoon went from screen to stage

In the stage production of Anastasia the talking bat is gone, with the musical a more adult look at the tale of the possible last Romanov.

  • Cassidy Knowlton
Japanese Breakfast playing Coachella in 2022. Her crowds and venues keep getting bigger.

June tunes: The best gigs to see in Sydney this month

From Japanese Breakfast to Warren Ellis, here are the best acts to catch this month.

  • James Jennings
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Artist Cerith Wyn Evans.

If it was up to this artist, all his creations would be Untitled

The Welsh artist doesn’t lose sleep over people misunderstanding his work.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Bangarra dancers perform Illume at the Sydney Opera House. Illume is Bangarra’s first season on the Sydney Opera House mainstage of the Joan Sutherland Theatre.

Bangarra’s beautiful moments never quite reach full potential in night of firsts

Illume is Bangarra’s first show in the company’s new home and their first collaboration with a visual artist, but the performance falls short of their finest work.

  • Rod Yates, John Shand and Bernard Zuel
Artists Marian Abboud and Dennis Golding with Biennale of Sydney guest artistic director, Hoor Al Qasimi.

Major gallery misses out as Sydney’s biggest arts festival heads west

The Biennale of Sydney is shifting focus to western Sydney in a program partly inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison.

  • Linda Morris
Rojina Esmaeili and Saba Vahedyousefi.

Eccentric movie too full of in-jokes to be truly universal

Universal Language imagines the action unfolding in a country that seems to be an Iran superimposed on Canada. It does not live up to its promise.

  • Jake Wilson

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