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  If you could invite five famous women from history to a dinner party, who would you pick? Marlene, the savvy businesswoman of Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls chooses a colourful bunch of real and fictional figures to wine and dine. In …

Imagine you are on a boat with some people for several weeks on the endless ocean. The destination is a magic and strange land but for you and your shipmates, this is a one-way journey with no turning back. The boat is …

Australian voters are sick of slogans, political spin and lack of substantive issue-based debate. So The Hansard Monologues: A Matter of Public Importance couldn’t have chosen a more appropriate time to premiere its people-friendly political clarion call. Now more than ever, in …

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been to the Imax theatre but I made the effort to see the new Superman movie Man of Steel there and I was not sorry. The 3D effects, especially in the first …

It took me three attempts to actually find the new Bill Henson exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This has nothing to do with the AGNSW’s signage or the directions I was given by their ever-helpful staff. It’s not …

The current major exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is Sydney Moderns. It has the subtitle Art for a New World, and the pictures shown – over 180 works by many of Australia’s most significant artists of the 1920s …

With the recent change in leadership, there is speculation that Australia’s asylum seeker policy could become even tougher. This raises serious questions about Australia’s commitment to the international protection of refugees writes Daniela Carlucci. For those who’ve come across the seas, we’ve …

At 1am, Katherine Biggs awakes, her breath forming steam in the unheated animal shed that is her home. With no hot water, she skips a shower and gets ready to make the three-hour drive to Brisbane to sell vegetables at a farmer’s …

This year’s Vivid festival again brought Sydney alive with art. We had Kraftwerk and the parti-coloured Opera House; we had Wagner-a-la-multimedia and Johnny Cupcakes. But one of the most striking and jaw-dropping works presented under the Vivid umbrella was ‘test pattern ’, …

If you’re wondering where wandering songstress Miriam Waks has been for the past year and a half, the answer is anywhere but here. Deeply frustrated and consumed with an overwhelming desire to “feel alive”, she has been off meditating in India, tangoing …