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Kylie Minogue's Padam Padam outfit is featured in DIVA. Image: Supplied.
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Diva review: mighty goddesses unite in this glittering exhibition

The first exhibition at Melbourne's new Australian Museum of Performing Arts is a star-studded look at the diva through the…

Alexander Briger conducts the Australian World Orchestra. Briger has his arms raised dramatically and his head is thrown back; orchestra members are arrayed before him, with audience members visible behind him.
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2026 season announcements: our rolling guide to the performing arts

Orchestras, recital centres, theatre companies and more: we're compiling a list of 2026 season announcements, to be updated regularly, for…

L-R: Tom Conroy and Colin Friels in Belvoir's 2025 production, 'The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear and his Three Daughters'. A bloodied, pale and shirtless younger man and an older, grey-haired man, speak intently to one another in a moody photograph of Belvoir's Shakespeare production.
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Much ado about who? The enduring appeal of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is having a Renaissance moment. What has caused this enduring fascination, and how do his plays resonate with…

Amyl and The Sniffers. Image: ARIA Awards.
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Amyl and The Sniffers and Ninajirachi top the 2025 ARIA Awards 

Amyl and The Sniffers won four awards from the band's six nominations at last night's ARIA Awards in Sydney.

Cocteau's Circle – ACO. Image: Daniel Boud.
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Cocteau’s Circle review: champagne sparkles with the ACO

Led by the inimitable Le Gateau Chocolat, the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Cocteau’s Circle is sublime.

FKA twigs. Image: Jordan Hemingway.
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EUSEXUA Afterglow review: FKA twigs returns at her rawest

Afterglow is confident in itself – a messy and oftentimes chaotic release of sensuality and liberty from FKA twigs.

Amyl and the Sniffers. Image: John Angus Stewart/ PHC Films.
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Amyl and The Sniffers announce free Fed Square Melbourne gig

Amyl and The Sniffers will play a free live gig in Melbourne this Friday, 14 November.

A scene from WAAPA's new Australian musical by Eddie Perfect, 'Tivoli Lovely'. An elderly, grey-haired woman in a grey cardigan sits on a sofa in a nursing home as her showgirl memories of life on the Tivoli Circuit come to colourful life behind her.
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Tivoli Lovely review: Eddie Perfect’s new WAAPA musical is outstanding

Developed through WAAPA’s Premier Visiting Artist Fund, Perfect's 'Tivoli Lovely' pays tribute to Australia’s theatrical past.

fringe festival audiences: a brightly lit outdoor scene crowded with people queuing to enter a performing arts show in a circus tent.
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Which Australian Fringe festival is achieving the greatest growth?

All four of our major fringe festivals continue to draw strong crowds, but one looks likely to be on the…

Joel Bray Dance's 'Garabari' features in the Blak Out program at Sydney Festival 2026.. Three First Nations people, two male-presenting and one female-presenting, pose dramatically on a smoky, yellow-lit back-lit stage. Sydney Festival 2026.
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Sydney Festival 2026 celebrates 50 years of helping shape the city’s culture

Festival Director Kris Nelson discusses his inaugural Sydney Festival program, and looks to the future while celebrating the festival’s legacy.

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