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Eight years after Come Home (Cardinal Pell) became a viral success, Tim Minchin is no longer convinced that public shaming is the right mechanism for change.

‘We should be careful with public shaming’: Tim Minchin rethinks his George Pell protest song

Eight years after Come Home (Cardinal Pell) became a viral success, Tim Minchin is no longer convinced that public shaming is the right mechanism for change.

  • Thomas Mitchell

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There’s a fine supporting ensemble, plenty of colour, movement and pace, and obviously no Tim Minchin fan should miss the show.

We’d need to see Groundhog Day over and over to write the perfect review

For us, there’s always tomorrow, and this lively black rom-com does make you appreciate the beauty and the curse of living one day after another.

  • Cameron Woodhead
Tim Minchin at Gimlet restaurant

Tim Minchin has empathy for Trump-voting, gun-toting homophobic Americans. Just don’t call him a ‘nuance bro’

In a world of tribalism, Minchin’s principles are unpopular in the liberal echo chamber of today’s social media landscape – and he’s refusing to give in.

  • Cassidy Knowlton
Mabel Li (left), Harry Greenwood (right) and Megan Wilding (middle) wearing keffiyeh at curtain call of opening night of STC’s The Seagull, on November 25.

‘The Seagull 3’: The backstage drama engulfing the STC

When three young actors stepped forward to take their curtain calls for The Seagull last month, not even Russian playwright Anton Chekhov could have dreamt up the drama that would follow.

  • Nick Galvin and Helen Pitt
Tim Minchin in concert.

Tim Minchin weighs in on STC pro-Palestinian protest furore

The performer reportedly said three actors who wore traditional keffiyeh scarves at the opening night of The Seagull were living in leftie glass bubbles.

  • Helen Pitt
Thomas Brodie-Sangster plays Dr Jack Dawkins, aka the Artful Dodger.

How two of Dickens’ most notorious characters landed in Sydney

The Artful Dodger is a bloody re-introduction to the infamous pickpocket Jack Dawkins and his one-time criminal mentor Fagin.

  • Louise Rugendyke
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Stills from the video for the song written by Tim Minchin for the Opera House’s 50th birthday

Tim Minchin hopes ‘people feel lightened’ by new Sydney Opera House song

Performer Tim Minchin has written a song to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sydney’s world-famous Opera House.

  • Helen Pitt
Tim Minchin

Is this Australia’s most confounding celebrity?

Tim Minchin is one of Australia’s most successful cultural exports, though these days the unkempt hair and heavy eyeliner have been toned down.

  • Andrew Hornery
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Funny, zany and musical: but Tim Minchin has one more super power

The much-loved performer makes us feel better about being ourselves.

  • John Shand
“I’m a story-maker,” Minchin says of his multi-hyphenated career.

Tim Minchin takes a risk with his proudest project yet

The unfiltered all-rounder tells of his heartbreaking Hollywood experience, how he almost starred in Penguin Bloom and why he’d cut his hair for a role.

  • Kylie Northover

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