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Sterling Notley and Matt Hogan in Canberra Youth Theatre's production of 'Work, But This Time Like You Mean It'. Two young men, both dressed in red and white shirts and black pants, sit in a pit of yellow balls against a red wall. One boy holds the other in his arms; both are shouting or screaming.
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Canberra Youth Theatre takes drastic steps to ensure its survival

The long-running company will not stage any productions in 2025 and is also cutting back and consolidating its training programs…

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This week's arts news and trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.

Windmill Theatre Co's 'Moss Piglet' is touring regional South Australia in 2025. Two actors in colourful costimes, one with eight limbs and another with wings, stand on a brightly lit set.
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Windmill Theatre Company announces a 2025 season of experiments, new initiatives and tours

Windmill Theatre Company and its screen arm, Windmill Pictures, have a busy year ahead.

Art Music Fund 2025 open for applications. Image: Mindy Meng Wang and Monica Lim. Two woman with black hair and pale skin under a white veil against a black background.
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Opportunities and awards

Quilters get ready for $37,000 prize, plus winners of Koorie Art Show 12, SA celebrates Ruby Awards and more!

Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured are the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of Orpheus & Eurydice.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.

Asia TOPA's newly announced Nightlife program is a dynamic blend of performance art and club culture. A person wearing a fringed cowboy hat, facemask and fringed and laced-up dress poses dramatically, arms raised, before a culturally diverse crowd of young adults.
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Pop-up clubs and performance art announced for Asia TOPA’s Nightlife program

Returning after a five-year hiatus, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts reflects the many ways people now experience culture, including…

In the production of 'Ilarun' a black woman in white, with a white turban, is sitting down wit h her arms apart. On the right is a tuft of plants.
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Theatre review: ILARUN: The Cutting Comb, fortyfivedownstairs

A story of decolonised power based on a 18th century Jamaican matriarch.

The Wiggles were Australia's most listened to artist in 2024 according to Spotify Wrapped.
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Australia's Spotify Wrapped 2024: the year in Aussie music

Once again, Spotify Wrapped has revealed global listened habits. No local artists made Australia's top five most streamed this year.

Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz (right) in rehearsal with the Circa ensemble. A shaven-headed man in black-framed glasses and black clothes gesticulates as he explains something to a group of shirtless men and women in dark green dresses in a rehearsal studio.
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Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz receives ISPA Distinguished Artist Award

Lifschitz joins the likes of Taylor Mac, Robert Lepage, Laurie Anderson and Pina Bausch in receiving the accolade from the…

Singer Missy Higgins wearing a white pantsuit and holding a guiltar on stage. Behind her on the left is another musician playing the guitar.
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Music review: Missy Higgins, The Second Act Tour 2024, ALWAYS LIVE festival

Missy Higgins stands in her own power in the face of heartbreak and uncertainty.

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