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Benjamin Millepied's 'Romeo & Juliet' with female-female, male-male, and female-male couples. Photo: Josh Rose. Two female performers balance with holding hands with each other. They appear to be on a tall platform outdoors, overlooking a city scape and blue sky.
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Rediscovering Romeo & Juliet through universal love

Benjamin Millepied and L.A. Dance Projects bring a twist to 'Romeo & Juliet', giving it cinematic elements and same-sex couples.

'Shakespeare in the Garden – A Midsummer Night’s Dream'. Image is a green leafed clad fairy atop a green leafy piece of set with a background of trees.
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Theatre review: Shakespeare in the Garden – A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wollongong Botanic Garden

Merrigong Theatre Company's enchanting reimagining of Shakespeare's classic against a breathtaking natural backdrop.

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Theatre review: Measure for Measure, Queens Gardens, Townsville

Style and substance succeed in this little-staged Shakespeare play.

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Opera review: Macbeth, Her Majesty's Theatre Adelaide

Something not so wicked this way comes!

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Theatre review: As You Like It, Queensland Theatre

Queensland Theatre’s 'As You Like It' plays to its comic humour at the expense of narrative and Shakespeare’s language.

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Theatre review: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Melbourne Theatre Company

Full of humour and pathos, this is a story ripe for our times, about one extraordinary woman, seizing her own…

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Performance Review: The Tempest

Shakespeare, but not as you know it!

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Theatre review: The Tempest

TheatreiNQ produces a show that was 'the stuff dreams are made of.'

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5 myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to modern English

Utilising powerful computer analyses, researchers bust five myths around Shakespeare’s impact on the English language, most of which have been…

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Theatre review: Twelfth Night

The non-binary nature of human love is explored in Shakespeare's classic play.