Stage shows
There are guns and cowboy hats, but this western goes places you’d never expect
Tue Biering has used a childhood love of westerns to explore more profound issues of colonisation and struggles for power.
- by John Shand
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The plan to help Walsh Bay party harder during this year’s Sydney Festival
Tasked with helping reboot Sydney’s nightlife, the state government has rolled back restrictions under which bar patrons were forced inside at 10pm last year.
- by Megan Gorrey
How Shen Yun tapped religious fervour to make a fortune
The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work free and pay its bills.
- by Michael Rothfeld and Nicole Hong
Camp, trashy, then one got mauled by a tiger. The opera writes itself
The true story of Las Vegas legends Siegfried and Roy is a tale for the ages. The wonder is how it took so long to hit the stage.
- by Nick Galvin
You’ve read and watched this series, but now the musical is here
From page to screen, The Lord of the Rings is coming to the stage with a musical to rule them all.
- by Helen Pitt
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Expect the unexpected from a delightfully bonkers night at this pub
In Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern, the audience gets to control the action.
- by Michael Idato
With goat horns, this metal head is reviving music not heard for centuries
From black metal to Nordic folk, Einar Selvik is on a mission to bring his musical past to life.
- by Scott Ellis
The world’s biggest role-playing game turns 50
Fifty years since it was first created, D&D has become a global cultural phenomenon.
- by Michael Idato
He received death threats for a joke about Jesus, now Reuben Kaye is in Jesus Christ Superstar
The cabaret star is the “power-hungry, extravagant child nepo baby” King Herod in the latest revival of the enduring musical.
- by Cassidy Knowlton
Dancing mermaids and salty pirates: The show that revels in being ‘something Netflix can’t do’
It won five Tony awards, now the hit Broadway show Peter and the Starcatcher has been given an Australian makeover.
- by Lenny Ann Low
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