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Theatre
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Review: Life is a Dream (Fervour & Belvoir 25a)

A stripped-back retelling of a Golden Age classic explores confinement, control and freedom with sharp performances and design.

September 8, 2025
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Verdi Requiem (Perth Symphonic Chorus)

A masterful performance of Verdi’s choral masterpiece set the bar high early and kept it there for the duration.

September 8, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Mahler 4 & 5 (Australian World Orchestra)

Alexander Briger’s Australian World Orchestra “embrace everything” in a rare Mahler double bill.

September 6, 2025
Dance
Live Review

Review: Butterfly Effect (West Australian Ballet
)

Created by Alice Topp, Butterfly Effect is a work that leaves you longing to experience it again.

September 6, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Lark (Arts Centre Melbourne & Hey Dowling)

Noni Hazlehurst brings Daniel Keene’s retired publican to life in a play that’s greater than the sum of its minimal parts.

September 5, 2025
Opera
Live Review

Review: La bohème (Opera Queensland & Brisbane Festival)

Bohème again – but this staging slays with stunning performances and design.

September 5, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Speaking in Tongues (Black Swan State Theatre Company)

Black Swan's production unearths the subterranean strangeness beneath the play's onstage debates about infidelity and morality.

September 5, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Simone Young conducts Richard Strauss (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

One for the ages as Simone Young and the SSO track Richard Strauss’s musical journey.

September 4, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Bridge (CrissCross productions & bAKEHOUSE Theatre)

Spanning Generations X to Z, this Bridge proves too flimsy to carry us all the way across.

September 4, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Songs of Peace and Remembrance: 80 Years On (Ausfeng Event Productions)

Shenyang Conservatory of Music showcase of largely patriotic but musically powerful programming.

September 4, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: How to Plot a Hit in Two Days (Ensemble Theatre)

Killing off a beloved fictional character is not as easy as it seems in this delightful, nostalgia-fuelled dramedy by Melanie Tait.

September 3, 2025
Dance
Live Review

Review: Triptych (Lewis Major Project & Sydney Fringe Festival)

The Sydney Fringe Festival gets off to a cracking start with a sleek, elegant work celebrating bodies, light and space.

September 3, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Mozart & Beethoven (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

Double delight as two international sensations – conductor Dmitry Matvienko and violinist Aiko Suwanai – make their Sydney debuts.

September 1, 2025

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