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VELVET (starring Marcia Hines) is returning back to Sydney after a sell out season and will be playing the Roslyn Packer Theatre from July 26. VELVET is a celebration of all things disco, pitting dazzling acrobatics against disco divas as this sexy, spectacular and sparkling show channels the original Studio 54 nightclub. The show stars
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Based on the international bestseller by Hans Fallada, ALONE IN BERLIN shines the light on two ordinary German people who made an extraordinary impact. Berlin, 1940. Working class couple Otto and Anna Quangel (Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson) receive the news that their only son has been killed on the battlefield. They decide to resist
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It’s been a big year. The last twelve months, to give you just a short list, have included the surprise victory of the Brexit campaign and then the collapse of the Tory vote in the United Kingdom, the upset election of Donald Trump in the United States, Emmanuel Macron’s resounding victory in France, and the
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It’s been ten years since Priscilla — the only bus to have a musical named after her — made her way around Australia on her debut musical outing. Now, after seasons all around the world, including on Broadway and a two-year West End run, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the Musical is returning to Australia for a
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The latest film from the renowned South Korean auteur, Bong Joon Ho, has been caught up in a small and inconsequential discussion. Something about the alleged end of cinema as we know it. With streaming service providers extending their reach every day, and an increasing number of acclaimed, hitherto cinema-focused directors (like Joon Ho) migrating
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The Adelaide Cabaret Festival always begins, and concludes, with a Variety Gala. It has been a feature of the event since it began 17 years ago and it highlights one of the Festival’s most endearing aspects — which is that, temporarily at least, it creates a community of artists. This is much remarked upon by internationals and out-of-towners.
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By Raymond Gill
Circus Oz is the company that wears its heart on its sleeve and puts its money where its mouth is. Within hours of Senator George Brandis announcing his attack on the Australia Council in 2015, its management fired off a condemnation when other arts companies sat on their hands. After last Thursday’s opening of its new show
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By Shane Murphy
Sold out, sold out, sold out…. The Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria hums with anticipation on Friday night (June 23) although the trestle tables lined with diners make sure that the area in front of the stage is more compressed than usual. The Black Eyed Susans, an all-male band named after a flower
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“Things they do look awful c-c-old” sang The Who, talking about their generation, “I hope I die before I get old”. But the bittersweet legend of an early death long preceded 1965. Take your pick – you might start with Goethe’s 1774 sturm und drang best-seller The Sorrows of Young Werther; or that Marvellous Boy,
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By Ben Neutze
Netflix’s new show GLOW is a fictionalisation of the personalities and stories behind-the-scenes of the 1980s wrestling promotion and TV series, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. The ten-part series premieres today, and is inevitably going to be compared to Orange is the New Black. On paper, the shows have plenty of similarities: GLOW is a comedy-drama Netflix original, following an ensemble cast of “strong” women
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