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Jazz composer and performer Shabaka Hutchings

Shabaka Hutchings is a “custodian of energy that rouses the spirit”

Higher powers have slipped a new tool into the jazz prodigy’s hands.

  • Michael Dwyer

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Tilda Cobham-Hervey

Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s best career move? Running away from the circus

Cobham-Hervey is in demand as an actor, writer and director, but prefers to live in her home town of Adelaide with partner Dev Patel.

  • John Bailey
Teller, a former schoolteacher, almost never speaks on stage, while Penn almost never stops.

‘I hated magic’: The moment that broke, and made, a Penn & Teller star

He’s one half of the world’s biggest comedy-magic act, but Penn Jillette owes his career to a moment of heartbreak.

  • Karl Quinn
Drag queen Bianca Del Rio

‘Everything I was punished for as a child, I’m celebrated for now’

Drag queen Bianca Del Rio has been dubbed “the Joan Rivers of the drag world” by The New York Times.

  • Lenny Ann Low
‘There was a definite, unspoken prejudice about gay men in the folk world,’ says Rufus Wainwright, who tours Australia in 2025.

Affairs, drugs and Elton John: Rufus Wainwright’s turbulent youth

He lost his virginity at 13, then fell into addiction. But the acclaimed musician has made peace with his past – and found love along the way.

  • Michael Lallo
Kim Deal: so cool the Dandy Warhols wrote a song about her.

How rock’s coolest woman blew Olivia Rodrigo’s mind

Kim Deal says opening for big headliners is to “watch people find their seats”. But Olivia Rodrigo made a sweet gesture for her supporting act.

  • Michael Dwyer
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She’s as funny as ever but when Ruby Wax isn’t OK, she knows what to do

The comedian and author’s “happy place″⁣ is not what you might expect.

  • Richard Jinman
The performer performs: After a breakout run with her “one-woman show to end all one-woman shows”, Kate Berlant is bringing a new standup special to Australia.

This cult comedian is touring in March. She still has no idea what her act will be

Kate Berlant is bringing her absurdist, improv-leaning comedy to Australia for the very first time.

  • Robert Moran

Where do we come from? Find out from the woman who makes science easy

Archaeologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts admits that explaining life on Earth in one evening is “a bit ambitious”.

  • Kylie Northover
Irwin in his New York studio: “I love being taken to a place by music.”

He joined the B-52s for the twang. But sacred harp singing brings him to Melbourne

Musician and composer Pat Irwin has played it all, across six decades. He’s now in Melbourne for a world premiere that draws on a type of singing made famous in the Appalachian hills.

  • Michael Dwyer

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