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Theatre review: Blue, State Theatre Centre of WA 

'Blue' will kick you right in the heart; make sure your mascara is waterproof.

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.

A promotional image for Black Swan’s 2025 production, ‘August: Osage County’. Five actors pose for the camera against a bacldrop formed by a bright red field and a blue sky. A tree-encircled family home is visible in the distance.
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Black Swan’s 2025 season designed to challenge and nourish audiences

Seven productions are featured in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s 2025 season, including new Australian works and a modern American…

A kitchen scene. Two women are on the left at a table, one seated, another perched on the table. A man is on the right, riding a tiny child's tricycle. The Children.
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Theatre review: The Children, Heath Ledger Theatre, WA

Environmental disaster and the rocky affairs of the heart are braided in this production.

Western Australia. Arts funding injection. Image is bundles of $100 notes photographed close up.
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$5.9 million funding injection welcomed in Western Australia

Major companies such as WASO, WA Opera and Black Swan will benefit the most, while 35 small-to-medium companies and two…

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Performance review: Jurrungu Ngan-Ga (Straight Talk), State Theatre Centre of WA

A dance performance that takes us into the brutality of prisons and detention centres.

Things I Know To Be True, presented by Black Swan State Theatre Company. Actors pictured l – r: Caroline Brazier, Laura Shaw, Kaz Kane, Emma Jackson, Humphrey Bower and Will O’Mahony. Photo: Daniel J Grant.
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Theatre review: Things I Know To Be True, State Theatre Centre, WA

Devastating hidden edges of family relationships are brought to light in Black Swan State Theatre's staging of Andrew Bovell's play.

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Theatre review: Oil, Black Swan

Directed by Adam Mitchell, Ella Hickson’s theatrical masterpiece is the highlight of Black Swan's 2022 season.

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What pipeline partnerships can achieve for the theatre sector

An independent theatre and a State Theatre Company are working together to support and re-stage new Australian works.

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Theatre review: The Glass Menagerie

Black Swan's reimagining of a classic play loses none of the original's power and pathos.

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