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Performance review: Hour of the Wolf, Malthouse

This choose-your-own adventure (again) is the Malthouse's latest immersive production.

Potato Race. Two women stand back to back, each carrying a potato sack over their shoulders.
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Theatre review: The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race, Bille Brown Theatre

Mashing through the glass ceiling, one potato race at a time. 

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Performance review: The Blood Vote, Gasworks Arts Park

Fusing opera and circus, The Blood Vote by composer Jenny Game and librettist Caitlin Vincent sees Australian suffragist Vida Goldstein…

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Theatre review: Wolves are Coming for You, Emerging Artist Sharehouse, Sydney Fringe

An adult fable from an exciting new theatre company about a town under threat.

Groundhog Day the Musical. Man with microphone sits at piano talking, in front of screen.
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Groundhog Day musical in a Melbourne exclusive

Another big musical is heading to Melbourne in 2024.

My Sister Jill. A group of five adults dressed as children leaning out from a window with their hands on the sill.
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Theatre review: My Sister Jill, Southbank Theatre

The star pairing of writer Patricia Cornelius and director Susie Dee transforms this book to stage adaptation into something poignant…

performing arts. Against a green and blue backdrop with small images of two women, a woman with bleached blonde hair wearing a blue hoodie holds a musical keyboard while a woman with black wavy hair and sunglasses an black and blue coat holds a typing keyboard both in three-quarter profile.
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What’s in store for season 2024 in the performing arts (part three)

Continuing our round-up of season launches from companies around the country, including a three-part theatrical epic and an ambitious restaging…

Fatness. A shirtless man with pink hair has one hand on his belly.
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Slim pickings: the state of fatness on Australian stages

A new play in the Melbourne Fringe Festival aims to make the world a little bit fatter and little bit…

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Theatre review: Love, Lust, Lost, Austral Picture Theatre

This immersive theatre show ensures a different viewing experience every night.

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The First Peoples-led festival committed to developing First People's stories

The 10th anniversary of Yellamundie Festival brings a First Peoples' lens to First Peoples' storytelling.

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