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The Brisbane Lions have secured their three-peat, the Newcastle Knights are living their Cinderella Story, and the NRL Premiership will be decided this weekend. Footy finals season is well and truly upon us. Sport is a keystone of the Australian experience. Sport …

  Cirque Alice is breathtakingly good fun, pure entertainment for all ages. Drawing on Lewis Carroll’s famous characters, we are invited to join Alice and venture down the rabbit hole to meet the Tweedles, the Caterpillar, the Queen of Hearts and various …

  Eloise Snape’s play The Elevator raises some interesting questions and does so – at times – with some very funny lines. She highlights the difficulties women face when trying to keep pace with big business (and big tech) empires and juggle …

Put three near strangers in a boat, all of whom have healthy egos, keep them cooped up on said boat for weeks and tensions are bound to arise. And that’s exactly what happens in The Shark is Broken, a 90-minute (mostly) comedic …

Through a program spanning the Baroque era to the contemporary works of Arvo Pärt, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and lutenist Thomas Dunford demonstrated the enduring beauty of two of music’s most expressive instruments. Across the evening, the pair transported audiences gathered at Canberra’s …

‘It doesn’t mean anything, it’s just fun!’ declares nine-year-old (‘almost 10’) Thomas Klopper at the end of this feel-good little tale that Belvoir has revived after its debut 16 years ago. Of course, it’s more than ‘just fun’ as Thomas has to …

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 …