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Daniela Farinacci on the set of MTC's 2026 production, West Gate. The actor, playing a grieving widow, sits in a reproduction of a 1970's kitchen surrounded by the wreckage of the collapsed West Gate Bridge.
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West Gate review: a flawed but powerful play about the loss of 35 lives

The collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge is dramatised in this new MTC production by playwright Dennis McIntosh and director…

Fernando Poyón, Bringing joy to the earth, 2025. Pencils, concaste, bamboo. Installation view, Rememory: Biennale of Sydney, Penrith Regional Gallery. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Photo: Maja Baska. Courtesy: the artist.
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Biennale of Sydney review: Western Sydney shines in this international showcase

In our second review, ArtsHub looks at the Biennale of Sydney's Western Sydney venues.

Scott Shepherd in the New York encore production of Gatz at The Public Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus.
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Gatz review: it’s The Great Gatsby (Jim) but not as we know it

Gatz, the acclaimed adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, returned to Australia for the Adelaide Festival.

Theatre of Dreams at Adelaide Festival 2026. Photo: Andrew Beveridge.
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Theatre of Dreams review: dance that channels such stuff as dreams are made on

Theatre of Dreams explored what happens when we close our eyes and drift away.

Rosalie Gascoigne. Installation view, Sky, Earth, Water, Bundanon. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
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Sky, Earth, Water review: a powerful exhibition about the elements that centres Rosalie Gascoigne

Alongside three First Nations artists, Bundanon explores artist Rosalie Gascoigne’s material connection with landscape.

Installation view, 25th Biennale of Sydney: Rememory, Chau Chak Wing Museum, showing Benjamin Work’s PÁPAAKI at front and Khalil Rabah’s Common Threads at rear.
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Biennale of Sydney review: a world, and an organisation, in decline

This Biennale of Sydney feels less like a single exhibition than a constellation of scattered fragments losing its capacity to…

Jonny Pasvolsky. Photo: Supplied. The CAN Principle.
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The CAN Principle review: Jonny Pasvolsky’s hilarious take on hope and can-do hucksters

In his one-man comedy act The CAN Principle, Jonny Pasvolsky shares a quick guide to 'can-lightenment'.

The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin. Photo: Brett Boardman.
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The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin review: landmark 1970s play revived for a new audience

Some 50 years on, The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin remains just as urgent as ever.

Isabelle Huppert in Mary Said What She Said at Adelaide Festival 2026. Photo: Lucie Jansch.
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Mary Said What She Said review: Isabelle Huppert's masterful turn as Mary Queen of Scots

The French actor delivered an unforgettable and commanding performance in Mary Said What She Said at Adelaide Festival.

Year of the Rooster. Photo: Cameron Grant.
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Year of the Rooster review: bold costumes and wild buffoonery are not quite enough

The third play in a series dubbed The Beast Trilogy, Year of the Rooster is a visual treat.

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