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The Yellow Line brings you inside the prison walls.

Drawn from the experiences of a former prison guard, this play crosses an invisible line

The Yellow Line is based on the real-life experience of Tyson Tuala and his attempt to teach a group of initially disinterested inmates the haka.

  • Nell Geraets

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A rendering of the glass facade out the front of QPAC’s new theatre.

Brisbane’s new theatre name revealed following public poll

The state government has given a first look into the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s new $184 million theatre, christening the space with a performance and a name.  

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
The Hives perform at Forum Melbourne, July 19, 2025.

One of the best live bands in the world is finally back in Melbourne

To attend a concert by The Hives is to be inducted into a sweaty, euphoric cult for just over an hour of frenetic power.

  • Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Jessica Nicholas, Tony Way and Cameron Woodhead
MARGATE, ENGLAND - JUNE 14: Midge Ure performs onstage during Rewind Festival Margate at Dreamland on June 14, 2025 in Margate, England.  (Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns) ...

What happens when New Romantics grow old? Just ask Midge Ure

The former Ultravox frontman still gets a buzz from performing.

  • Rod Yates

A right royalty battle: Why some actors get repeatedly shafted

While today’s TV performers make sure their contracts include “residuals” when their programs are rebroadcast, it wasn’t always the case.

  • Andrew Hornery
Tricia Paoluccio channels Dolly Parton’s vocal mannerisms and expressions impressively.

This Dolly Parton musical has a wafer-thin plot – but who cares when the music’s this good?

You’ll have a much better time if you go in expecting a tribute concert over a fully integrated musical.

  • Cameron Woodhead, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Tony Way
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The four-metre puppet, Fauna, is the star of the show planned for the Paddington Reservoir Gardens.

Other places would be delighted to host Paddington’s puppet show. No strings attached

Sydney’s eastern suburbs received almost a quarter of all federal arts funding over the past decade. If residents don’t want an art event, send it elsewhere.

  • Andy Marks
A photo of the puppet created by Erth Visual and Physical in Sydney

‘Excessive in the extreme’: Why Paddington is protesting against a kids’ puppet show

A plan to hold a puppet show in an inner Sydney park has sparked an uproar over potential noise impacts, rowdy crowd behaviour and crime.

  • David Barwell
Sheridan Adams scored the role of a lifetime: Elphaba Thropp in Wicked. But after opening night in Perth, Western Australia, she disappeared. Now, she’s back on stage in South Korea, and telling her side of the story.

Sheridan Adams scored the gig of a lifetime. Then, she vanished

A role of such magnitude is not something one simply walks away from. Unless you have no choice.

  • Bronte Gossling
Rusalka Director Sarah Giles with soprano Nicole Car.

‘It’s a story you already love’: Can fairytales lure young people to the opera?

The audiences at Opera Australia’s Cinderella this year were mostly first-time opera-goers. Now the company is back with another fairytale favourite.

  • Hannah Kennelly

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