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Damon Herriman, Richard Roxburgh, and Toby Schmitz star in Art.

What does it take to break up a friendship? We’re about to find out

Richard Roxburgh, Damon Herriman and Toby Schmitz are pushing things to the limit in this very funny - and savage - play.

  • Lenny Ann Low

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Richard Roxburgh lunching at The Corner in Palm Beach.

‘What a great and holy thing’: Roxburgh on what the world needs right now

Captivating and convivial, Richard Roxburgh talks over lunch about why he wants his new play to bring rowdy roars of laughter from the audience.

  • Katrina Strickland
Stills from new series Robin Hood, starring Australia’s Jack Patten.

Will next-gen NIDA grads join former alumni Cate, Baz, Toni and Hugo?

Just 22 students – whittled down from 1000 applicants – will graduate from the world-acclaimed drama school next Friday.

  • Andrew Hornery
Richard Roxburgh in the Ray White Sydney house movie.

‘The worst thing that’s ever happened’: Richard Roxburgh on renovating

After years of starring in Hollywood films, Australian actor Richard Roxburgh has a new role – and it’s not what you’d expect.

  • Caroline Zielinski
Leigh Sales says the student journalists featured on The Assembly are “genuinely curious. The person at the receiving end of the question understands that”.

How Leigh Sales’ neurodivergent journalism students are bringing celebrities to tears

Guy Sebastian, Richard Roxburgh and Julia Morris are among the stars facing unfiltered questions in the second season of the ABC’s The Assembly.

  • Bridget McManus
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What to stream this week (clockwise from top left): Heads of State; When No One Sees Us; Ironheart; Watchmen; Joh: Last King of Queensland; and The Waterfront.

What to stream this week: Richard Roxburgh as Joh and five more to watch

A sun-soaked crime drama with echoes of Dept. Q, a documentary about Joh Bjelke-Peterson and a new Marvel superhero are the picks this week.

  • Craig Mathieson
Richard Roxburgh portrays Bjelke-Petersen in the documentary.

‘The Trumpian model’: Richard Roxburgh takes on Australia’s most provocative politician

A documentary about Joh Bjelke-Petersen argues that the man who ruled Queensland for almost 20 years paved the way for the US president.

  • Karl Quinn
 Richard Roxburgh as journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.

Richard Roxburgh’s nervy intensity works in a film about despair in an Egyptian prison

The Rake star plays jailed journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.

  • Sandra Hall
Peter Greste (left) and actor Richard Roxburgh, who portrays him in the movie The Correspondent.

They made a movie about my prison nightmare. I watched it through my fingers

As Richard Roxburgh stars as me in a feature film, I confront a disturbing reality: more journalists are behind bars today than when I was incarcerated in Egypt more than a decade ago.

  • Peter Greste