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Loosely based on the opera Carmen, and using Bizet’s score as inspiration, Matthew Bourne’s sultry ballet The Car Man is an exciting version of that tale of seduction and murder. Instead of Seville, the action is set in the 1950s, in a …

This beguiling title, Pride and Prejudice (sort of), entices us to wonder what the “sort of” will deliver. We soon find out. Five women busy on stage, seemingly cleaning, ignore the audience as we take our seats. But it’s not long before we …

Ensemble Q’s performance at Sydney Opera House offered a delightful sonic journey that combined energetic modern pieces with some of classical music’s best-known works. Taking place in the intimate Utzon Room, the performance opened with Beethoven’s ‘String Trio No. 3 in C …

Amidst the frost and fog of a July evening, audiences gathered at Canberra Grammar School’s Snow Concert Hall for an immersion in an evening of musical imagination. With the warmth of the hall contrasting against the crisp Canberra air, violinist Leila Josefowicz …

A delightful mix of impressive circus acts performed with engaging comic delivery kept hundreds of children gasping with awe throughout Pay no Attention, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus performances that sold out at the Sydney Opera House from July 4 to July …

The all-new Audi RS5 Avant is set to arrive in Australia later this year. The addition of the plug-in hybrid system pushes its weight up to 2,370 kg, making it 625 kg heavier than the previous generation RS4 Avant. It is even …

If this play ever comes to Sydney, grab yourself a ticket immediately. It’s called 1536 because that was the year that Henry VIII decided, on spurious grounds, to have his wife’s head chopped off, but this is not a history lesson as …

Launching tomorrow: ROSEBERY PLAZA Nights: Life & Art After Dark On June 19, Rosebery Plaza will switch on a new large‑scale projector, lighting up the Rosebery Plaza wall (18 metres wide by 32 metres high) as part of Rosebery Nights: Lights & …

With loneliness on the rise, people are paying strangers to cuddle them. But is it therapy, companionship, or something else entirely? When a young man arrived for a cuddle session with Jerika, he could barely make eye contact. Fresh out of university, …

  Paula Arundell has her audience spellbound in this clever and contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, made famous by the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film. That film was set in California, du Maurier’s original took place in post-WWII …