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Six dancers in formation. The bare-chested men in black pants are balancing the women on their backs.
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Ballet review: The Wild Between Stars: Ballet at the Quarry, Perth Festival

Three different performances showcase different choreographic styles and ambience.

Three women with elaborate bouffant blonde hairstyles. The one in the middle is pointing a pink gun directly in front of her.
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Musical review: Ruthless! the Musical, MC Showroom, midsumma festival

Interwoven tales of raging ambition for theatre stardom, with songs, sequins and satire.

Carcaca: ten contemporary dance performers dressed in a range of colourful and black cstumes dancing as a group on an open stage.
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Dance Review: CARCAÇA, State Theatre Centre, Perth Festival

While this high-octane, percussive dance work lacks a coherent conceptual thread, the individual energies of its cast carry it through.

Laura Quinkan Indigenous Dance Festival is hoping to proceed in 2026.
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Cape York's Laura Quinkan Indigenous Dance Festival delayed following management review

The Festival has run biennially for 40 years, but will not proceed in 2025 amid organisational challenges.

A performer in a white jumpsuit with rainbow trim. Swirling around them are two rainbow ribbons.
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Performance review: Yummy: Joy Machine, FRINGE WORLD

High-voltage drag cabaret.

A pair of orange football shoes next to an orange and white football.
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Performance review: The Game, FRINGE WORLD

Power and misogyny portrayed in this multimedia show about Australian Women's Football.

Miss Ellaneous wearing drag as Tina Turner. They are on the middle of the stage wearing a short sparkly dress.
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Performance review: Tina – A Tropical Love Story, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Festival

Breaking the well-worn mould of the tribute show, this dazzling production excels in its capacity to generate joy.

Bek Schilling and Sean Donehue in 'Bearded'. Shilling is on the left and has dyed platinum blonde hair with pink tips. Thye are mock playing and holding Sean Donehue's mouth open.
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Musical review: Bearded, Theatre Works

A queer musical set in the middle of Australia’s 2017 marriage equality debate.

A sequence from Tra Mi Dinh’s 'Somewhere between ten and fourteen', which features in Sydney Dance Company's 2025 season. The photo depicts four barefoot dancers in blue coveralls dancing on a blue-lit stage. The dancer on the far left has their legs spread, their right arm raised and their left arm extended horizontally; the dancer on the right, who is the focus of the focus, stands in a half-crouch, her arms extended to the right and her right foot bent so that the side of the foot rather than her sole is touching the stage.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the 2025 season announcements you may have missed.

The cast of 'Love Actually? The Musical Parody' on stage. There are Christmas tress behind then and two large lit up arches with a bow in the middle.
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Musical review: Love Actually? The Musical Parody, Athenaeum Theatre

For the rusted-on fans of the 20-year-old movie, this production follows the same beats as the original.

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