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A comedy about climate change? Played by actors, naked apart from crocs and handmade hats? Yes, you can ask why. Here’s the playwright, Ang Collins: ‘Long story short – the combination of a bushfire evacuation, a love of nude beaches and …

“Since when did we start normalising paying ten dollars for a drink?” my friend asks. It’s a breezy Sunday morning, and we’re basking in the sun on the veranda of a brunch café when her question catches me off guard. I look …

Billed as intoxicating blend of spectacle, comedy and cabaret, La Ronde does not disappoint. The performers – who include acrobats, trapeze artistes and aerialists – hail from Australia and overseas, and do things with their bodies which cause us mere mortals wonder …

  Deborah Lawrie was Australia’s first female commercial airline pilot – and what a fight it was for her to overcome the aviation world’s chauvinistic male attitudes to women being anything other than hostesses back in the even more patriarchal 1970s. Writers …

Making its Australian debut at the 2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival, Fuori is a poignant portrayal of the power and complexities of female friendship, as well as the experience of surviving in a male-dominated world. Set in Rome during the summer …

For better and for worse, much of our understanding about disabilities have come from cinema. Of course, there are the sensationalised Blockbusters that have probably done more harm than good in defying stereotypes. Think 1970’s smash hits like Rainman or One Flew …

On October 13, 2025, the Nobel Prize Committee announced it would award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences jointly to Joel Mokyr, Phillippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt. The prize was awarded to the three parties “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” …

Trio Isimsiz’s performance at the City Recital Hall was a Romantic delight. Though presenting a concise program of only three pieces, the trio managed to pack a musical punch that traversed the highs and lows of emotional extremes. Formed in 2009 at …

The date is Saturday March 8,  2025, International Womens’ Day. A day about celebrating achievement, accessibility, and action. A day about unity, regardless of sex. But not for me. At 3am, I was paralysed with fear; an irrational impairment I cannot understand. …

Bach Akademie Australia’s performance at the Sydney Opera House happily transported audiences to elegant Baroque ballrooms against the backdrop of Sydney’s Farm Cove. Performed to a crowd of eager music listeners in the Opera House’s Utzon Room, The Art of Violin was …