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InTown, a new theatre platform aimed at tourist trade, launches in Australia. Photo: Supplied.
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New Australian theatre booking platform takes cues from Broadway and West End

InTown wants to turn tourists into theatregoers – but can it offer something new to Australia's already crowded ticketing market?

Installation view, The Mall, Powerhouse Parramatta, 2026. Photo: OMA / Cieran Murphy.
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Poorly lit and scattered, Powerhouse Parramatta's opening exhibitions fail to impress

New museums will inevitably have teething issues, but despite bright spots like The Mall exhibition, the opening of the hotly…

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Industry News

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

The Western Australian Department of Creative Industries announces a new Executive Director, and Tasmania's The Unconformity gains new board leadership.

Hayden Tonazzi, CEO & Artistic Director of ATYP, will share his expertise at the Australian Musical Theatre Incubator. Photo: Supplied.
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New Australian Musical Theatre Incubator aims to nurture the next generation of homegrown musicals

Bringing Broadway and West End expertise, the initiative aims to help new Aussie musicals find their feet – and their…

We are Creative Vodcast Podcast Artwork. In-partnership with Create NSW.
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Introducing We are Creative, a limited series vodcast with Create NSW

We Are Creative features necessary discussions about key issues in the arts.

Benjamin Rasheed as Papignol and Opera Australia Children's Chorus in Opera Australia's La Bohème, 2026. Photo: Peter Foster.
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Opera Australia's La Bohème is a lavish triumph

Directed by the polymath Constantine Costi, Opera Australia’s latest rendition of Puccini’s masterpiece swoops and soars.

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Career Advice

Best opportunities, grants & awards for creatives this week

Opportunities for 9 to 15 November 2026 include touring grants and major writing prizes.

Early Morning Rain designed by John Coburn AM (1972), woven by Tim Gresham, Cheryl Thornton, Amy Cornall and David Pearce at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 2023. Photo: Marie-Luise Skibbe / ADC.
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Landmark survey finds most craft and design practitioners earn less than $10,000 a year

Australia's craft and design practitioners are highly trained and deeply committed, but rewards are slim.

Installation view, David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (Not Smaller & Further Away), Carriageworks, Sydney. Photo: Jacquie Manning.
Opinions & Analysis

David Hockney: the celebrated artist is bigger in this immersive digital spectacle, but not closer

Art historian Mark Ledbury ventures inside the illuminated David Hockney experience at Sydney's Carriageworks.

Author Bri Lee. Photo: Saskia Wilson. The Work
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Bri Lee's novel The Work heads to TV

Bri Lee’s bestselling novel The Work is set to become a TV series, with local Hannah Lehmann as showrunner.

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