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Opera for the Dead. Photo: Jacquie Manning.
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Opera for the Dead: ghosts in the theatre

Opera for the Dead blends the ancestral and contemporary to consider rituals around death and remembrance.

Sydney Theatre Awards 2025 winners - Lincoln Elliott and Joel Granger Phar Lap The Electro-Swing Musical (c) Robert Catto
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Sydney Theatre Awards 2025: new Phar Lap musical and Belvoir's grief adaptation lead the winners' race

From a sassy indie smash-hit to a beautiful exploration of grief, here are the winners of the Sydney Theatre Awards 2025.

WAKE at the 2026 Sydney Festival. Photo: Neil Bennett.
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WAKE review: queer cabaret from the Emerald Isle

WAKE brings a riot of colour and music to the Sydney Festival.

Hot Chip at Sydney Festival. Photo: Victor Frankowski.
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Hot Chip review: joy in repetition at the Sydney Opera House

Returning to Australia as part of Sydney Festival, Hot Chip showed why they are such beloved musical icons.

Mama Does Derby. Photo: Claudio Raschella.
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Mama Does Derby review: wheeling onto stage with brutal tenderness

Despite the roller derby chaos, the real heart of Mama Does Derby is in how it portrays a complex mother-daughter…

Tomáš Kantor, a curly-haired 20-something person dressed in non-traditionally gendered clothing, in the 2026 Midsumma production Sugar at Arts Centre Melbourne.
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Sugar review: a frothy, fun and fearless Midsumma treat

This whirlwind production works Chappell Roan into Pretty Woman by way of Tomáš Kantor’s commanding queerness.

Midsumma Festival 2026 highlights.
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Midsumma Festival 2026: queer culture highlights to pop on your calendar

Melbourne's leading LGBTQIA+ pride festival puts queer art in the spotlight  – here's our top picks

L-R: Leticia Cáceres (photo: Sebastian Bourges), Elizabeth Coleman (photo: Rodney Stewart), Priscilla Jackman and Jean Tong (supplied). Four female and non-binary directors who have moved from stage to screen.
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From stage to screen: four Australian creatives discuss sideways career shifts

Leticia Cáceres, Elizabeth Coleman, Priscilla Jackman and Jean Tong describe how they adapted skills honed in the theatre into film…

A scene from Hamlet Camp, now playing at Carriageworks. Three fair-skinned, middle aged men dressed in white, are photographed in the midst of an intense performance.
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Hamlet Camp review: 'To be, or not to be' as an occupational hazard

Quick, funny, and uncomfortably human, Hamlet Camp drags you into a world where art won’t let go, and neither will…

A dance sequence from Post-Orientalist Express, 2026. A shirtless male dancer poised on one foot with his arms extended; he wears a colourful headdress and costume.
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Post-Orientalist Express review: spectacle, parody, and the limits of post-orientalist dance in a festival economy

A fascinating but unresolved Sydney Festival production by avant-garde Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ahn.

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