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Callum Linnane in the Australian Ballet’s return season of Nijinsky.

Ballet grows up: The Australian Ballet’s bold new era with Nijinsky

Even people who have never given ballet a moment’s thought often know the name of the “God of Dance”.

  • John bailey

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Author David Sedaris has been touring Australia this month.

Once my favourite author, David Sedaris has become a first-class prat

I thought it would be impossible for a writer who revels in shock value to get me offside, but then he started talking about wealth.

  • Annemarie Fleming
Jean-Jacques Burnel performs in London in 2022.

‘I was just looking for a fight’: How The Stranglers’ JJ Burnel calmed down and grew up

Fifty years on the veteran punk outfit is still touring – though with only one original member.

  • Scott Ellis
Denis Carnahan wrote and stars in Cricket The Musical.

Howzat: a cricket satire wrapped in Australian kitsch and nostalgia

Playful rewrites of pop and rock and country favourites are the main attraction of this irreverent, funny ode to cricket.

  • Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Cameron Woodhead and Tony Way
The president Joe Biden and Donald Trump stand together before the start of Trump’s inauguration in January.

Trump revokes Biden’s security clearance, fires art centre’s board and declares himself its chairman

Here are the US President’s latest head-turning moves and the pushback he encountered in several areas.

Oscar and Barry Humphries.

‘I used to be a bit mean about it’: One thing Barry Humphries’ son regrets about their relationship

Oscar Humphries opens up on why the family is selling his late father’s rare art and book collection, and his dad’s love of Oscar Wilde and artist Charles Conder.

  • Rob Harris
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Why this story of ill-fated lovers is everywhere right now

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired countless works of art down the years.

  • Nick Galvin
In his work Truth to Power Cafe, Jeremy Goldstein stands in front of an image of Ebensee, a sub-camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.

Anger, walkouts: This show was an identity politics dumpster fire

Truth to Power Café has been staged 60 times, but on Wednesday night in Melbourne, it spiralled into a traumatic experience for performers and spectators alike.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Andrew Fuhrmann
A Body at Work is a show that takes the audience, with a conspiratorial wink, behind the veil.

Erotic, funny and unflinching: The stellar show that lifts the veil on sex work

A Body at Work is a show that takes the audience, with a conspiratorial wink, behind the veil to expose what it’s really like in strip clubs and brothels.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Liam Pieper
Malthouse artistc director Matthew Lutton.

Leading theatre company announces surprise exit of artistic director

Matthew Lutton, who has been artistic director of Malthouse Theatre for nine years, will depart the role at the end of March.

  • Elizabeth Flux

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