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Cleo Meinck and Emma Palmer in Fly Girl. Photo: Prudence Upton.

Sydney’s year in theatre 2025: our three favourite shows

ArtsHub takes a look back at the year that was and revisits three of the most powerful theatre productions to…

Iksha II. Photo: Aesthete Captures.
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Iksha II review: myth made human at Seymour Centre

With brilliant dancers and bold ideas, Iksha II attempted to reframe the legendary figure of Ravana from The Ramayana.

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…

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Data Dreams: Art and AI review: exploring artist-AI collaborations

Sydney’s MCA leads a timely institutional conversation with a major summer exhibition that replaces fear of AI with a human…

Installation view of Chanel Tobler's Dissolving a Marrow Economy at Nasha Gallery, Sydney. Photo: Hamish McIntosh / Nasha Gallery.
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Chanel Tobler at Nasha Gallery: 'Colour can be a form of medicine'

Emerging artist Chanel Tobler moves fluidly between mediums in this solo exhibition at Sydney's Nasha Gallery.

Colin Friels in The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters at Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney. Photo: Supplied.
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The Life and Death of King Lear review: maximal title, minimal production

In this telling of King Lear, Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre presents a patchy, minimalist version of one of Shakespeare’s great…

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Christopher Kulendran Thomas review: rethinking safe zones through AI

In Safe Zone, Christopher Kulendran Thomas uses AI to ask powerful questions about how we record and relate to histories…

NIDA Open Studios Senior Tutor Louise Birgan. The photograph depicts a fair skinned woman with shoulder length red hair and wearing blue demim overalls over a sleeveless white and blue striped t-shirt. She is sitting on stage at a table, holding a script and is dramatically backlit; rows of theatre seats are visible in the gloom behind her.
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NIDA Open Studios: shaping unique artists through rigorous pre-professional training

Teaching artist Louise Birgan explains how NIDA Open Studio Programs prepare students for professional arts training and practice.

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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

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Strong sales see smaller art fairs pushing ahead of larger events

Big is not always better. This year, the Affordable Art Fairs have shown their muscle with a consistent upward trend…

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