Play shows to all-black audience free from ‘white gaze’
‘Black Out nights’, pioneered in New York, are becoming increasingly popular in the Western theatre world.
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Critics go Wilde for ‘virtuoso’ Snook
Australia’s Succession star Sarah Snook earns five-star reviews for her ‘brilliant’ and ‘virtuoso’ solo turn in Dorian Gray in London’s West End.
Sex, death and rock ’n’ roll
Queens of the Stone Age, Paul Kelly and Courtney Barnett kicked off the opening weekend of the Museum of Old and New Art’s annual summer arts festival. And, now in its 16th iteration, Brian Ritchie’s jovial jamboree was full a surprises.
World is a jungle for modern-day Mowgli
Dancers transform themselves into animals in this theatrical retelling of The Jungle Book, updated to a world on the brink of collapse.
‘The rich are scared of the poor’
Playwright Louis Nowra on the role of gentrification in his beloved Kings Cross, working with Brian Cox, and sitting through five hours of live theatre.
Life as Hollywood’s most famous ‘other half’
Matthew Broderick’s career took off with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 1986. But most people just want to know, what’s it like being married to Sarah Jessica Parker?
Unhappy returns produce an ingenious show
The musical version of Groundhog Day diligently ticks off every scene from the movie, with the addition of clever staging and smart songs by Tim Minchin.
Leaving Los Angeles: ‘I want to go’
Television star Josh Thomas has had the kind of US success most local comics could only dream of. So why has he had enough of LA?
UK arts trailblazer perfectly at home in ‘radical’ Adelaide
Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival program is a bit like going on safari. You might see elephants at the waterhole or you might not. Either way ‘we are going to take you on a journey’.
Joyce quits STC, urges ‘dramatic action’ to save company
Alan Joyce has ‘reluctantly’ resigned from the Sydney Theatre Company board chairmanship as a pro-Palestine protest is estimated to have cost the STC $1.5m.
Flurry of blanket coverage for dancing Brazilians
Brazilian dancers in Encantado land in Sydney with a promise to enchant audiences at the Sydney Festival.
The stage is set for 2024
Bio-ballets, Broadway musicals and new Australian operas are bound for our theatres next year, writes Matthew Westwood
An unforgettable dance work, Simon Rattle and The Ring Cycle
The arts should excite dormant senses, tickle the grey matter and make us feel alive. These stage productions did just that.
Mao’s Last Dancer takes one final bow
He went from an impoverished childhood in rural china to international stardom as a ballet prodigy. The man they call Mao’s Last Dancer is bowing out in style in his adopted home of Brisbane.
‘Pocket rocket’ proud to launch as Queensland Ballet director
Former Royal Ballet principal artist Leanne Benjamin is thrilled to be returning home after 43 years to head Queensland Ballet.
‘Some people definitely deserve to be cancelled. Not me, however’
After his bawdy joke about Jesus on The Project earlier this year, the cabaret star has some advice for anyone who finds themselves cancelled.
STC acting chair says October 7 attacks ‘abhorrent’
Ann Johnson tells donors the organisation will forge an ‘alternative’ path through its internal crisis that seeks common ground rather than division.
Mao’s Last Dancer says political posturing has no place on the stage
Ahead of his farewell shows in Brisbane and acutely aware of the row engulfing the arts over the STC actors’ pro-Palestinian protest, Li Cunxin says politics and the arts don’t mix.
‘I don’t see why films can’t have sex’
In an era where there is less and less intimacy in films, Tony McNamara’s Poor Things arrives practically throbbing with desire.
‘Am I out of the woods now? I don’t think I am’
Ballet supremo Li Cunxin faced down his mortality after he fainted suddenly and was airlifted off Hayman Island last year. What happens when the mind is willing but the body – once limber and powerful – is not?
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