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The flawed Australian play that’s still worthy of being revived
The success of Mr Bailey’s Minder at Ensemble Theatre rests on the chemistry between actors playing the elderly Leo and his carer Therese.
- by John Shand
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‘Most potent use of language’: Why poetry is having a comeback
Jazz Money is one of the headliners for a month-long celebration of the best in Australian verse, as an official poet laureate looms on the horizon.
- by Lenny Ann Low
From Miley to Garland: New show explores what makes a diva
Bernadette Robinson channels 10 powerhouse female performers, including Miley Cyrus and Judy Garland, in her new show Divas.
- by Cameron Bayley
From a Ratatouille musical and Kevin Rudd duet to the stage
Gabbi Bolt first found fame with her song for the unofficial Ratatouille musical and TikToks about Australian politics. Now she’s taking on a new challenge.
- by Hannah Story
These are the best Sydney gigs to catch in August
This month: Dance floor mavens from a range of eras, a great band with a dodgy name, a folk doctor, and a rapper who’s probably way more into the movie Titanic than most.
- by James Jennings
Latest reviews
Sydney live reviews
Sweeney Todd is the perfect show to get your loved ones into musicals
A wrap of the best live shows in Sydney, from theatre shows The Turn of the Screw, Fade, Tim and Sweeney Todd to Eagles of Death Metal and Jeonghwan Kim.
- by John Shand, James Jennings, Harriet Cunningham, Cassie Tongue and Peter McCallum
The surreal deal: Art inspired by the unspeakable
From Del Kathryn Barton and Patricia Piccinini, there are many Australian artists who have been influenced by Surrealism.
- by John McDonald
Why artist Wendy Sharpe is happy to leave things up to chance
Sharpe won the Sulman Prize when she was fresh out of art school, and she reckons that fate intervened on her behalf.
- by Elizabeth Fortescue
★★★½
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A shrewdly crafted, powerful feature debut from Aussie YouTubers
Teenagers are possessed by ghosts, with help from a ceramic, embalmed hand, in the debut feature from twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, aka RackaRacka.
- by Jake Wilson
Hustle Harder: Bringing dance into a gallery, all day long
Choreographer Adam Linder’s new commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art asks questions about how social media mediates our experience of the gallery.
- by Jo Higgins
Adoring crowd laps up every prowl, yelp and yowl from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs deliver a deliriously overstuffed set of crowd-pleasers, led by powerhouse frontwoman Karen O, at their Sydney Splendour sideshow.
- by Kate Hennessy