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Beloved Australian actor Henri Szeps, who starred in the classic Australian sitcom Mother and Son, has died at the age of 81.

Henri Szeps, star of the ABC’s Mother and Son, dies aged 81

Szeps revealed during a television appearance with his son in 2021 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Louise Rugendyke and Michael Lallo

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Mackenzie Dunn stars in Annie.

‘It must be in the DNA somewhere’ - Annie star credits her famous gran

In her latest role Mackenzie Dunn is following in the footsteps of her grandmother, Australian stage legend Jilly Perryman

  • Sonia Harford

Stan Grant is used to war zones. His ‘crazy’ next act comes close

A solo stage show and a previously unseen script. What could possibly go wrong?

  • John Bailey
Logie winner Hazem Shammas will play Macbeth for Bell Shakespeare’s 2023 season.

‘We all have the capacity to be monsters’: Hazem Shammas on playing Coriolanus

Macbeth has nothing on one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known and most monstrous subjects.

  • John Bailey
Daphne du Maurier in 1929.

It’s time to meet the mystery woman behind Hitchcock’s greatest hits

The full power of Daphne du Maurier’s writing is unleashed in new stage productions of The Birds and Rebecca.

  • John Bailey
Actress Chenoa Deemal, left, and writer Andrea James revisit a local myth in The Black Woman of Gippsland.

A missing woman, an ancient mystery. Finally, a new story emerges

Andrea James was haunted by “The White Woman of Gippsland”. Her contemporary stage thriller shifts the perspective.

  • John Bailey
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 Eddie Perfect unleashes his inner chaos agent as Beetlejuice. 

Rude, chaotic, needy: Why middle-class me loves playing Beetlejuice

This obnoxious loudmouth lets us laugh at death and decency. What better way to celebrate life?

  • Eddie Perfect
Rosanna Raymond of the Pacific Sisters.

The Pacific Sisters want you to don your Melbourne Cup best, then add nan’s lace and some bling

This Aotearoa-based arts collective has been blending ancestral Pasifika power with fashion, music, performance and fun for over 30 years.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

She spent too long watching pandas. Then this artist had a cute idea

Chinese-born artist Ran Chen unpacks the appeal of adorability in a show that even comes with a serve of fairy floss.

  • John Bailey
Eddie Perfect takes the title role in the musical, Beetlejuice.

From Beetlejuice to Les Mis and Annie: A big-ticket guide to Melbourne’s shows

There’s a massive year ahead for the city’s theatre fans, with big names, big shows and some big surprises (well, maybe).

  • Cameron Woodhead

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