Performing arts
Musical theatre lovers should seize the opportunity to see Follies performed as intended
This star-studded production brings together Australian theatre’s grand dames to offer a spiky take on disillusionment and the dangers of nostalgia.
- Cameron Woodhead
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Erotic, funny and unflinching: The stellar show that lifts the veil on sex work
A Body at Work is a show that takes the audience, with a conspiratorial wink, behind the veil to expose what it’s really like in strip clubs and brothels.
- Cameron Woodhead and Liam Pieper
Leading theatre company announces surprise exit of artistic director
Matthew Lutton, who has been artistic director of Malthouse Theatre for nine years, will depart the role at the end of March.
- Elizabeth Flux
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Nicole Kidman has probably never been weirder than she is in Babygirl
Babygirl has been billed as an erotic thriller: the erotic part is accurate, but it’s hardly a thriller. All up, it’s a much more ambitious movie than expected.
- Jake Wilson
‘West End’ theatre district a step closer with $60m Star deal
The desperate sale of Star’s events business could transform Pyrmont into Sydney’s version of London’s famous theatre district.
- Linda Morris and Colin Kruger
Opera Australia in fresh turmoil after boss quits
Fiona Allan has left Opera Australia in the latest spin of the managerial revolving door at the nation’s biggest arts company.
- Nick Galvin
This is one of Sondheim’s finest works – why is it rarely performed in Australia?
Said to be inspired by a photo of an old starlet standing in the ruins of a theatre, Victorian Opera’s new production brings together some of Australia’s finest performers.
- Will Cox
Amyl and the Sniffers’ biggest show yet is a riotous celebration
There’s a real sense of community and communion as the crowd thrashes, screams and whoops for 90 minutes of pure chaos.
- Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Cameron Woodhead and Andrew Fuhrmann
Meet the kids who ran off to join the circus school
Students come from across the country to go to the select-entry Flying Fruit Fly Circus School in Albury.
Stranger than Trump? Penn & Teller provide the best performance art of the day
In a tour celebrating their golden jubilee, the duo showed a packed Hamer Hall exactly why their act is so enduring and beloved.
- Cameron Woodhead, Jessica Nicholas and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
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