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Sam Shepard’s scorching look at sibling rivalry, masculinity and aspects of the American Dream is darkly comedic. Austin (Darcy Kent) has agreed to housesit his mother’s place in a remote part of California while she takes a holiday because it will provide …

Wildly funny and completely outré, Garry Starr’s Classic Penguins had the audience in fits of laughter all the way through his 70-minute foray into the world of books. Starr’s ‘mission’ is to save literature by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. …

Playwright Melanie Tait has penned a paeon to A Country Practice with this supremely entertaining take on what happens when a writing team decides it has to up the ratings of an already exceedingly popular soap by ‘killing’ off a beloved young …

In this immersive theatre event, audiences – let’s call them ‘inductees’ – are invited to ‘seize the night’ (carpe noctem, as opposed to carpe diem) and indulge in the hedonistic pleasures of ‘the society’, itself heralded as ‘neat, discreet and elite’. To …

  ‘Bomb away!’ said Major Thomas Ferebee aboard his B-29 aircraft on 6 August 1945, as the atomic bomb dropped into Hiroshima and destroyed the city and killed up to 140,000 people. Hisashi Inoue’s The Face of Jizo opens three years after …

What protesters and the organisers of the Harbour Bridge Protest hoped the world would see seems to have taken root. A Taiwanese pro-Palestinian activist with a background in sociology (who asked not to be named) said she was “amazed” when she saw …

On August 24, Australia will witness its largest nationwide pro-Palestinian rally since the August 3 protest on the Sydney Habour Bridge demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The demand is now more intense in the wake of the recent UN-backed IPC famine review …

The Takács Quartet’s performance at Sydney’s City Recital Hall took the audience on a sonic journey through both famous chamber pieces and uncharted contemporary works. Made up of Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neil (viola) and András Fejar (cello), the …

Backlog at New Migration Tribunal: Critics Decry ‘Jobs for Mates’ as Agent Blames Stricter Visa Rules A former Labor politician (who prefers not to be named) has criticised the Albanese government’s new Administrative Review Tribunal (ART), claiming it has failed to deliver …

  El 47, this year’s centrepiece at the Spanish Film Festival, is a poignant biopic that shines a light on a little-known piece of Spanish history in the aftermath of Franco’s dictatorship. Inspired by a true story, Marcel Barrena’s film follows the …