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Theatre access: A bird's eye view on the interior of a lavish theatre space showing audience members finding their seats before curtain up.
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Do 'pay what you can' schemes boost ticket sales?

In these economically tough times, is now the right moment for more arts companies to try new ticketing models to…

Two Aboriginal men dance together, both dressed in orange prison overalls. One, fully dressed and with a shaved head, supports the other man, who has curly hair and is shirtless, his overalls tied around his waist.
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Remounting a Stolen Generations story told through dance

Remounting ‘The Other Side of Me’ has allowed NT choreographer Gary Lang to enrich its beauty and potency, he explains.

AFCM. Under an outside marquee a white man with glasses and a grey suit plays a violin from behind a music stand. There are microphones on stands. Behind him are seated a female and a male violinist resting.
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Australian Festival of Chamber Music offers an impressive and diverse 2024 program

Jack Liebeck’s third Townsville festival cements his reputation as one of its most exciting artistic directors.

Phsyical actors like Ell Sachs are saying self-taped auditions are dehumanising for actors.
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Actors lose out in self-taped auditions

Self-taped auditions have become the norm for screen and theatre in Australia, but actors nation-wide say the practice is unreasonable.

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Alarming cost increases for arts organisations not in-line with funding levels

How many more arts organisations will have to cancel or reduce their programming under the weight of rising costs?

Matthew Shepherd. Image is a black and white head and shoulders shot of a young blond man wearing a jumper and standing in a room in front of a window. His head is tilted to the left.
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Hate transmuted into theatrical gold in new staged reading of The Laramie Project

A Sydney reading of the verbatim play about Matthew Shepard’s murder will feature Shepard’s father, Dennis, reading his courtroom statement.

A young white man dressed as Harry Potter branding a wand, crossing that with a star wand brandished by an other young white man wearing devil's horns.
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Hairy Potter – selling a show when the author is persona non grata

While the creator of the Potter-verse may no longer be everyone's favourite multimillionaire, there are still plenty in the sector…

‘The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Dwelling in Tranquility – Reinventing Traditional Gardens’, installation view at Hong Kong Palace Museum. Photo: Pak Chai. A woman sits in a spacious gallery space with a traditional Chinese architectural structure forming a shelter overhead. Windows of different patterns are illuminated on the surrounding walls.
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Dodged the travel blitz? Here are 6 places to visit in Hong Kong post-Basel

Six places to add to your travel itinerary in Hong Kong, plus a selection of local and international galleries for…

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Funny Tonne – part four, MICF 2024

The fourth and final batch of top reviews from the Funny Tonne, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's fledgling reviewers for…

A bare-chested male ballet dancer dressed in a turban and long pants, photographed in mid air performing a leaping side split move.
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Why are we still watching La Bayadère?

Will this popular ballet join the likes of 'Miss Saigon' and 'Turandot' as a work deemed too culturally insensitive for…

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