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Theatre review: Super, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre

A super entertaining experience.

Four dancers stand poised on a gree-lit stage as a DJ plays at stage front. An audience looks on. This is a sequence from 'Cortex' by the Kianí del Valle Performance Group, which has been programmed alongside cutting edge sound works and DJs at Melbourne Town Hall for Now or Never.
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How winter festival Now or Never celebrates technology while remaining carbon-neutral

Artistic Director Elise Peyronnet describes Melbourne’s newest major festival – now in its third edition – as 'a festival like…

Crowds watching Water Stories, projections on mist over water, at Lightscape Royal Botanic Gardens 2025
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Installation review: Lightscape, Royal Botanic Gardens

Every year, 'Lightscape' ups the ante to ensure the crowds keep on coming back.

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AC/DC announces first Australian tour in a decade

Founded in Sydney in 1973, the legendary hard rock band returns to Australia for what may be their last tour.

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Musical review: Promise and Promiscuity, Chapel off Chapel

An energetic musical romp through assorted well-known Austen tropes.

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Theatre review: The Spare Room, Belvoir St Theatre

Based on the Helen Garner book, this play is a study of terminal illness from the point of view of…

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Dance review: The Chronicles, RISING, Playhouse Arts Centre Melbourne

An epic multimedia dance feat that travels from womb to tomb.

A grey-haired and grey beared fair-skinned man wearing a long black coat and dark framed glasses, stands in a circus training facility. The word 'Circus' in colourful lettering hangs on the wall behind him.
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Flying Fruit Fly Circus appointed head tenant of state-of-the-art circus centre in Melbourne

The former Circus Oz training and rehearsal centre in Collingwood, renamed Circus Centre Melbourne, is expected to open its doors…

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Performance review: The Act, RISING, Chunky Move Studios

A movement/theatre hybrid delving into the parallels and disconnections between dance and sex work.

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Immersive review: Prison Island Melbourne, Docklands

34 cells offer escape room challenges of varying difficulties.

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