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Performance review: Dropped in It: Crime Scene Improvisation, Adelaide Fringe

An improvised crime scene comedy where one-liners and terrible puns could prove deadlier than any weapon.

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Theatre review: Henry 5, The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House

Bell Shakespeare kicks off its 2025 season with this modern and accessible adaptation performed by a fresh-faced cast. 

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Here You Come Again, the Dolly Parton musical, is dancing down to Australia

Bring your dancing shoes for a celebration of Dolly's biggest hits in a musical promising southern charm and a dazzling…

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Raising the Bar 2025: combining your night out with some new ideas

One night, 20 free talks, and a lot to learn.

The Australian Ballet's 'Carmen', 2025, choreographed by Johan Inger, featuring Jill Ogai in the role of Carmen. A dark-haired woman in a red, ruffled dress, her legs bare, gestures dramatically and powerfully towards the camer. Three man are faintly visible in the gloom behind her. All four people are ballet dancers performing in the ballet 'Carmen'.
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Ballet review: Carmen, Regent Theatre

A fresh interpretation of a centuries old story that sizzles and provokes on stage.

A woman in a shoulder less black top with short bleached hair sings in to a microphone. She looks a little tortured. Cat Power. Port Fairy Folk Festival.
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Music review: Cat Power Sings Dylan, Port Fairy Folk Festival

When a performer truly shows their vulnerability, sometimes that can give rise to the greatest gigs of all.

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A master storyteller willing to connect: Rob Carlton

The Silver Logie winner is bringing his powerful and award-winning one-man show, ‘Willing Participant’ to MICF 2025.

On a pink background an image of a woman in a hospital gown kicking her leg up in the air. Cancer and Cartwheels Jo Prendergast
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Turning cancer on its head

Dr Jo Prendergast took her devastating diagnosis and said, ‘Yes, I can make a comedy show out of this.’

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Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival

A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.

Geraldine Quinn's 'Bastard Joy' at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025. A publicity image for the show: Quinn, a fair-skinned woman with swept-back, shoulder-length auburn hair, stares dramatically at the camera. She wears an ornate ruffled dress in hot pink, and large, half-moon pink earings to match.
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2025 summer festival highlights for your arts diary part 3: March

A hand-picked guide to some of the most intriguing cultural events on offer around the country in March 2025.

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