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Emmaline Carroll Southwell and Freddy Collyer in Beyond the Neck.

A response to the Port Arthur massacre, this is not an easy play to watch

Beyond the Neck underscores the importance of memorialising, reflecting upon, and grappling with the terror and the trauma of public violence at scale.

  • Cameron Woodhead, Sonia Nair, Andrew Fuhrmann, Jessica Nicholas and Tony Way

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Pinchgut’s Erin Helyard.

Getting intimate: Pinchgut wants you to lean forward in this ‘reckless’ move

Historically scaled performance returns intimacy to the concert hall.

  • Nick Galvin
The 2026 MICF has kicked off

Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026

This year’s laugh fest has kicked off, with more than 2000 performers stepping up to the mic. Here, our writers take a closer look

Bonachela works with two dancers this week.

Sydney Dance Company artistic director Rafael Bonachela reveals departure date

The Spanish-born choreographer and Kylie Minogue collaborator joined SDC in 2008 and has taken its work to the global dance stage.

  • Nick Galvin
Joan Crawford (right) with co-star Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Forget Taylor and Kanye – this celebrity feud lasted 40 years

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford clung to their bitter quarrel until Crawford’s death.

  • John Shand
Playwright Kath Duncan has written a play, Specials, which will premiere at Arts House this month.

Not all kids in ‘special schools’ had bad experiences – but this writer absolutely did

Kath Duncan draws on her own experience for her play, Specials. “I hated it,” she says. “It was a torture chamber.”

  • Will Cox
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Catherine Russell in the Manhattan building where she performs eight times a week and for which she’s also the general manager.

At 70, Catherine does 180 ‘Marine’ push-ups a day and takes to the New York stage each night

Actor Catherine Russell still performs eight shows of New York’s longest-running play a week – and has missed just four performances in four decades.

  • Liz Gooch
Anna Lapwood radiates authenticity and glee.

How this organ superstar picked up 4 million followers on social media

Anna Lapwood has become one of the best recognised classical musicians of her generation playing one of the most unlikely instruments.

  • Nick Galvin
Attorney-General Deb Frecklington said the Glasshouse Theatre had been the government’s preferred name.

State defends Glasshouse name as opposition slams ‘corrupted’ vote

The state said it was ‘lucky’ the public voted in favour of its preference, which had been green lit months before the public was told it owned the decision.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
The public voted on a name for the new Glasshouse Theatre at QPAC in mid-2025.

Premier says why theatre name secretly decided before poll, Indigenous name omitted

The state green-lit the Glasshouse Theatre name for QPAC’s newest venue months before the public got to decide, and left a key recommendation off the ballot.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt