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Galatea Keneath in the opera M.T.H.R by Oliver John Cameron, Sydney Conservatorium x NIDA. Photo: Jacquie Manning.
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What can opera offer young people?

Opera is traditionally associated with older demographics. Why should Gen Z and millennials care about it, and what can opera…

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Slam poets prepare for the 2025 Bread & Butter Poetry Slampionship at Sydney Opera House

A regular slam poetry night is moving to the stage of the Sydney Opera House to decide the 2025 Bread…

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Sweet Charity review: capturing hearts at QPAC

The all-Australian cast shines in this production of the Tony Award-winning musical Sweet Charity.

The front door of Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall, with Nathan Beard's 'Floral Histories' installed. The portico of a Victorian-era building flanked by two old-fashioned lamp posts; floral artworks are visible in the windows on either side of the portico.
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20 years of Arts House: reflecting on where it all began

The founding Artistic Director of Arts House takes a look back at the early days of Melbourne’s home of contemporary…

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Born on a Thursday review: violence, force and fervour

Jack Kearney’s simmering Born on a Thursday draws us into a typical Western Sydney home in 1998.

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Christmas Actually review: come on and let it show

Christmas Actually is a rollicking good time sure to have audience members dancing in the aisles. 

Cleo Meinck and Emma Palmer in Fly Girl. Photo: Prudence Upton.
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Sydney’s year in theatre 2025: our three favourite shows

ArtsHub takes a look back at the year that was and revisits three of the most powerful theatre productions to…

Iestyn Davies as Orpheus and Samantha Clarke as Eurydice in Opera Australia's production of Orpheus and Eurydice, 2025. Photo: Jeff Busby.
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Orpheus & Eurydice review: a magisterial marvel

Opera Australia’s collaboration with Circa breathes dazzling new life into Gluck’s mythology-mining Orpheus & Eurydice.

The Royal Family Dance Crew to lead RISING 2026 program.
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RISING 2026 names global street-dance legends as first stars of festival line-up

Melbourne’s winter arts festival RISING 2026 is set for a shake up with the announcement of legendary The Royal Family…

Visualisation of the Ian Potter State Theatre. Image: NH Architecture.
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Melbourne's majestic State Theatre set to reopen six months ahead of schedule

Home to opera and ballet, Arts Centre Melbourne’s famed State Theatre will reopen its doors in October 2026.

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