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A publicity image for 'Influencer'. a Junction Arts Festival dance production about social media. The image shows a group of people half-visible in a cloud of theatrical smoke: a pasted-on photo of a blonde-haired woman obscures one of the faces, which has a male figure in a brown coat and red beanie holding up a ring-light in front of them.
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Junction Arts Festival's 2025 program celebrates Launceston culture

Celebrating Launceston-based companies and artists, Junction also draws in mainland performers and musicians from across Tasmania.

Kala Gare in MTC's original stage musical 'My Brilliant Career' which returns for an encore in the company's 2026 season. The photo shows a fair haired and fair skinned young woman in period dress posing dramatically beneath a glittering chandelier. Her head is tiled back and her eyes closed as she sings, her right arm thrusts upward and her left arm swings back behind her.
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My Brilliant Career: MTC announces encore season of original musical in 2026

The critically acclaimed musical theatre adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career returns to the MTC in 2026.

ANAM students performing at Abbotsford Convent. The atmospheric photograph, taken in a historic venue with picturesque windows and a stage visible in the background, shows a seated audience listening to a group of six musicians, including strings, woodwind and a piano; one of the students stands behind a computer screen, suggesting the presence of electronics in the score being performed.
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Ghosts of Abbotsford Convent exorcised by poetic and musical collaboration

Poet Nam Le and former ANAM resident artist, pianist Anna Goldsworthy, join ANAM students to explore the Convent’s ‘fraught history’.

A publicity image for The Street Theatre's production of 'The Chosen Vessel', a new Aboriginal Gothic play by Dylan Van Den Berg. The photo depicts an Aboriginal woman staring at the camera; a white man stands ominously behind her, disappearing into the shadows.
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What is Aboriginal Gothic? Ask The Chosen Vessel playwright Dylan Van Den Berg

Palawa playwright Dylan Van Den Berg and Kalkadoon director Abbie-lee Lewis discuss the emerging theatrical genre, Aboriginal Gothic.

Tomorrowland Australia is set to be one of the largest festivals in the annual calendar. Image: Jessey Bijl.
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Tomorrowland Australia: electronic music festival coming to Melbourne in 2026

What does Tomorrowland Australia mean for Australian artists, audiences and the live music economy?

The Butterfly Club is closing. The photo shows a collection of dead butterflies pinned in a case.
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Breaking: Melbourne’s Butterfly Club to close indefinitely

The sudden announcement has shocked cabaret artists and theatremakers booked to perform at the intimate CBD venue in the coming…

The four members of Eddy Current Suppression Ring rehearse in a nondescript band room.
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Eddy Current Suppression Ring returns after nine year hiatus for free headline gig

The underground favourites, renowned as a blistering live act, have reformed to play Melbourne’s Fed Square in September.

Two older woman sitting at a table. The Spare Room
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Lessons from The Spare Room: what’s the real complication in your story?

Knowing where the complication lies is the true key to every storyteller’s job.

Three mature, fair-skinned female philanthropists pose together with objects recently acquired for the Australian Performing Arts Collection: a black leather jacket bedazzled with sequins, some of which spell out the word 'Olivia'; a glittering red gown, and a blue piano.
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Nearly $3 million donated by three philanthropists for performing arts history

Three major donations of approximately $1 million each will support and showcase Melbourne’s performing arts history.

A sinister figure wearing a half-mask over his face and 19th Century clothes, including a long, black, cloak-like coat, gestures dramatically as he sings. He stands in front of a large statue of an angel playing the violin in the scene from Opera Australia's Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour 2022 production, 'Phantom of the Opera'.
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The Phantom of the Opera returns to haunt Sydney Harbour in 2026

Opera Australia’s 2026 Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour kicks off a global celebration of Phantom’s 40th anniversary.

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