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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 …

  For over a hundred years, the Yiu Ming Temple has stood on Sydney’s Retreat Street, nestled among factories and apartment buildings, enduring the city’s changes.   Founded in 1909 by migrants from Gaoyao and Gaoming in Guangdong, Southern China, it served not only as a place …

  Steel Magnolias, with its whip-smart wit and female camaraderie, is the sort of play that will have you leaving the theatre smiling, and that is certainly the case with this production. It is set entirely within Truvy’s home-based beauty salon in …

‘Happiness is a choice. Even on bad days, we are lucky to be alive.’ These are among the closing remarks made by Eddie Jaku (enacted by Anton Berezin) as he relates his story of persecution, imprisonment and escapes, torture and near death …

Helene Hanff’s 1970 non-fiction book, 84 Charing Cross Road, is charmingly realised in this eponymously named play at the Ensemble with Erik Thomson and Blazey Best in the leading roles. In 1981, the book was adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans, …

  Who are we when we speak a language that isn’t our own? That is one question that Iranian American playwright Sanaz Toossi’s English subtly asks of its audiences. In Sydney, one of the most multi-lingual cities of the world, it is …

Pamela Rabe is the commanding and binding force in this ambitious adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel, which an interweb search variously describes as an ecofeminist, anti-authoritarian, animal-rights campaigning whodunit cum fable/fairytale. It is all of those things and Rabe, as the central …

On Thursday, 19 February 2026, the community celebrated the official opening of Rosebery Plaza at 81 Epsom Road. As one of the most significant community‑focused commercial developments in Sydney’s southeast living corridor in recent years, the opening marked not just the activation …

  For those unaware, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were two great Hollywood mega-stars, rising to fame in the 1930s – hard to believe that was nearly a century ago. Feted individually, they were brought together for the making of the film, …