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A scene from A Daylight Connection's 'A Nightime Travesty' at Malthouse Theatre for Asia TOPA 2025. Two Aboriginal women dressed as airline stewardesses stand on a blue-lit set as bloody rags fall from above. Behind them at stage right stands a sexy, shirtless, Aboriginal actor playing Death; at stage left, two musicians are visible.
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Theatre review: A Nightime Travesty, Malthouse Theatre, Asia TOPA 2025

A ferociously funny, controlled yet chaotic Blak vaudevillian comedy that pulls no punches and decapitates its prisoners.

Two women and five men inside a house. You can see a darkened sky outside.
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Theatre review: And Then There Were None, Comedy Theatre

The best selling crime novel of all time receives another stage adaptation.

LON Gallery Booth C2 with a duo presentation of Jeremy Eaton and Stephen Benwell, installation view, Melbourne Art Fair 2025. A white walled space inside a grey convention centre. On the walls are canvases of soft yellow, green, orange and purple hues, while small earthenware sculptures are lined up on a plinth in the centre of the space.
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Best of Melbourne Art Fair 2025

ArtsHub's annual round-up on what to see at Melbourne Art Fair.

An African Australian woman with long dark haired tied back, a Caucasian woman with a messy blonde bun, an Indian man with a black bun and a Caucasian man with short blond hair sit around a pit with sand in it drinking espresso martinis on stage set decorated like a Turkish restaurant. Never Have I Ever, Melbourne Theatre Company.
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Theatre review: Never Have I Ever, Fairfax Studio

Both witty and wily, Deborah Frances-White's play makes for a very entertaining night in the theatre.

Maroon-coloured seating and curtains resembling those of a theatre.
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Immersive review: Invisible: Darkfield, Adelaide Fringe

From out of the darkness, a voice beckons you to embrace the chaos.

Two figures in shadowed darkness in the middle of the stage holding onto each other. Heavy drapery surround them with red tones.
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Theatre review: Our Monster’s Name is Jerry, Theatre Works

Gothic tropes are explored, but without the promised scares.

Ryuichi Sakamoto in mixed-reality, ‘KAGAMI’. A virtual image of Sakamoto playing a black grand piano in a limbo or dark virtual space.
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Mixed-reality concert review: KAGAMI, Asia TOPA 2025

In this one-on-one encounter with Ryuichi Sakamoto, ‘KAGAMI’ is a tender, yet ambitious, ode to life and death.

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Asia TOPA 2025: revitalising the spirit of the Asia-Pacific in Melbourne

Back after a break, Asia TOPA offers a place 'where ideas are born and traditions reimagined'.

The entrance of TarraWarra Museum of Art's new Eva and Marc Besen Centre, designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects. A rectangular steel structure framed by green leafy branches with an entrance way into a contemporary education and visible storage centre.
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From visible storage to new photography centre, major builds drive regional traffic

TarraWarra Museum of Art is delivering an education space with visible storage while Ballarat’s National Centre for Photography reveals opening…

Five people wearing suits stand across a dark stage, with the large word SILENCE above their heads. Truth at Malthouse.
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Theatre review: Truth, Merlyn Theatre, Malthouse

Patricia Cornelius' latest play tells the story of the WikiLeaks founder who 'wanted to change the world'.

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