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Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Once on This Island (Curveball Creative & Hayes Theatre Co)

This uplifting musical fable set in the Caribbean has the charming simplicity of a fairytale.

August 8, 2025
Film, Opera, Theatre
news

Palace Opera & Ballet announces 2026 season

Some great productions and big names but top of anyone’s must-see list should be the third instalment of Barrie Kosky’s intensely theatrical Royal Opera House Ring Cycle.

August 7, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! (La Boite Theatre & Dead Puppet Society)

This Brisbane-centric collaboration mashes personal and ecological grief with outrageous monster mayhem.

August 6, 2025
Theatre
features

Oppenheimer: Noh Theatre in the Nuclear Age

80 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Allan Marett’s Noh play inspired by the "father of the atomic bomb" is being performed in Japan.

August 5, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Miss Julie (Company 16 & Liminal Space)

An immersive hospo setting for this adaptation of August Strindberg's drama promises plenty but doesn't quite cohere.

August 5, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Werkaholics (Purple Tape Productions & Belvoir 25a)

A memeable portrait of contemporary digital life, Werkaholics is rich in ideas and has depth beneath the bubbles.

August 4, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: What’s Yours (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre)

To be or not to be a parent? That is the question in this new Australian play that also explores friendship and relationships.

August 3, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Belvoir)

Toby Schmitz is in brilliant form in a role that demands the verbal facility of a performance poet as well as access to deep feeling.

August 1, 2025
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Kimberly Akimbo (Melbourne Theatre Company & State Theatre Company South Australia)

Marina Prior leads a winning local cast in this bittersweet new musical that won five Tony awards.

August 1, 2025
Classical Music, Dance, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Opera, Theatre
features

Limelight’s Big Read: Spotlight on China (Part 2)

In the second part of our look at the changing face of China’s arts scene, Tim Draxl, Lise Lindstrom, Dane Lam and Ivan Gil-Ortega share their experiences.

July 30, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: 1984 (Shake & Stir)

A fine piece of theatre craft breathes timely life into George Orwell’s ideas on the surveillance state and the right to privacy.

July 28, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Trophy Boys (Soft Tread & Carriageworks in association with The Maybe Pile)

Emmanuelle Mattana's hit play exposes the roots of male privilege as private school boys gather to debate the merits of feminism.

July 27, 2025
Classical Music, Jazz, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
news

OzAsia announces 2025 Festival

OzAsia is back in 2025 with world premieres, cheeky cabaret, Japanese jazz innovator Hiromi and some captivating sonic experiences.

July 25, 2025

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