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UK comedian Raul Kohli anchors A History Comedy Show.
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A History Comedy Show review: an entertaining FRINGE WORLD three-hander

Hosted by award-winning comedian & history buff Raul Kohli, A History Comedy Show brings casual lighthearted fun to FRINGE WORLD.

Shaun Gladwell, Planet & Stars Sequence: Barrier Highway, 2009. Production still, HD video, 16:9, colour, sound, 25 min 53 sec. Photo: Josh Raymond. Courtesy: the artist and PALAS, Sydney. Exhibited in SEARCHERS at National Art School Galleries, Sydney
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SEARCHERS review: graffiti, spray paint and bringing the outsider in

The National Art School exhibition SEARCHERS brings audiences into a world that has thrived in the shadows.

Opera for the Dead. Photo: Jacquie Manning.
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Opera for the Dead review: ghosts in the theatre

Opera for the Dead blends the ancestral and contemporary to consider rituals around death and remembrance.

WAKE at the 2026 Sydney Festival. Photo: Neil Bennett.
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WAKE review: queer cabaret from the Emerald Isle

WAKE brings a riot of colour and music to the Sydney Festival.

Hot Chip at Sydney Festival. Photo: Victor Frankowski.
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Hot Chip review: joy in repetition at the Sydney Opera House

Returning to Australia as part of Sydney Festival, Hot Chip showed why they are such beloved musical icons.

Mama Does Derby. Photo: Claudio Raschella.
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Mama Does Derby review: wheeling onto stage with brutal tenderness

Despite the roller derby chaos, the real heart of Mama Does Derby is in how it portrays a complex mother-daughter…

Objet D'art: Theo Koning: a photo of part of a gallery space showing a large brightly coloured canvas painting on one wall next to a freestanding wooden sculpture piece and a smaller coloured painting on the other wall.
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Objet d’Art – Theo Koning review: a dynamic tribute to the late WA artist

Across a five decade career, artist Theo Koning explored his unique perspectives on the human experience.

The Comedy of Errors. Photo: Grant Leslie Photography / Sport For Jove Theatre Co.
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The Comedy of Errors review: a riotous modern take on Shakespeare's comedy

Sport for Jove's production of The Comedy of Errors gives the Bard's absurd comedy a few modern twists.

Two women in a gallery setting looking at an historic exhibition of women photographers
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A Legacy of Light review: turning the lens on women photographers from 1900 to 1975

A Legacy of Light is an exhaustive – but exquisite – look at the women photographers who shaped the medium…

Pippin Drysdale Infinite Terrain: a photo of a ceramics exhibition in a large contemporary gallery space. The ceramics are colourful vessels and stone-like shapes of various sizes displayed on low to the ground wide shelf-like blocks and medium sized narrower plinths.
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Pippin Drysdale's Infinite Terrain review: charting 40 years in ceramics

Infinite Terrain celebrates the work of Pippin Drysdale in radiant style.

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