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Actor Andrew McFarlane in a promotion image for David Williamson's The Social Ladder', which opens Ensemble Theatre's 2026 season. The actor, a dapper, tanned man with grey hair, wears a suit, shirt and cravat, and is posing before an ornate gilded picture frame against a bright red background.
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Ensemble Theatre announces its 2026 season

Ten productions have been programmed for Ensemble Theatres 2026 season, including four new Australian productions, one of them by David…

Detail from Would That I Were A Fortress cover art, by June Jones. Image: Arkie Barton & June Jones.
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Would That It Were a Fortress review: June Jones EP is a chrysalis

June Jones’ music is intensely personal, interrogating gender identity, mental health, disability and what healing might look like.

A man, Ian Stenlake, sitting in a chair near a shuttered blind in The 39 Steps.
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The 39 Steps review: Hitchcock gets the slapstick treatment

Hitchcock spy thriller meets Monty Python-style humour in The 39 Steps, a rollicking action-comedy. 

British comedian Eddie Izzard brings 'Eddie Izzard – The Remix Tour Live' to Australia later this year. The photo shows Izzard on stage, posing with a microphone held close to her red-painted lips in her right hand, and her left hand on her hip. She has short blonde hair and wears a long-sleeved black shirt and a ruffled blue skirt.
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Eddie Izzard: UK comedian announces 2025 Australian tour

British actor and comedian Eddie Izzard brings her stand-up show ‘The Remix Tour Live’ to Australia later this year.

A classroom scene in Trophy Boys, with three students. One is standing on a table.
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Trophy Boys review: boys will be boys on tour

Runaway hit play Trophy Boys returns to excoriate a world of privilege and male collusion.

A promotional photograph of the late Noel Tovey AM from the 2014 season of 'Little Black Bastard', presented by ILBIJERRI and Arts House. The photo shows an elder but still vigorous Aboriginal man with grey hair; he poses regally and is looking gravely down at the camera.
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Vale Uncle Noel Tovey AM: Indigenous champion of gay rights

Tovey is remembered for his spirit, courage and creativity, and as a courageous elder with a sly wit.

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‘I’m tired of barely being paid.’ Artists are living below the poverty line

Did artists feel the recent indexed wage increase? No. They largely remain on the poverty line. And this week’s speculated…

A middle-aged First Nations man wearing a khaki shirt looking towards the camera in a neutral but friendly expression.
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Bangarra Rehearsal Director – so you want my arts job?

Rehearsal Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre shares his transition from performer to leader, and why culture matters.

A man with holding a phone in his ear in the dark in Dial M for Murder.
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Dial M for Murder review: dial NQ for not quite

A new adaptation of Frederick Nott's 1952 play Dial M for Murder at Melbourne's Theatre Works feels like a missed…

Four women in sparkly gold outfits dancing. Two have silver pom poms in a production of PHANTASM.
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PHANTASM review: four dancers explore reality and beyond

Melanie Lane fights reality in PHANTASM, a new full-length work commissioned by Chunky Move.

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