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This album is the first pop masterpiece of the post-Brat age
April Harper Grey, better known as Underscores, is pop’s new avant-garde genius.
- Robert Moran
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Why the world chose the wrong NSYNC solo star
While Justin Timberlake played it safe with R&B, JC Chasez’s Schizophrenic was a fearless, genre-bending masterpiece that was simply too weird for 2004.
- Tom W. Clarke
Judy Blume’s books were my companions in a lonely, liminal time
A new biography of the legendary author of teen realism has Simmone Howell indulging in casual bibliomancy
- Simmone Howell
Younger people have no idea I spent most of my 20s in a moshpit: Rosalie Ham
The author of The Dressmaker has written a book about ageing, which she gleefully says cannot be done gracefully.
- Jane Sullivan
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
Arthouse director Jim Jarmusch sums up most things with this three-word catchphrase
If Jim Jarmusch can be said to have anything as brazenly branded as a catchphrase, it would have to be this.
- Stephanie Bunbury
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One brilliant performer sets this Aussie classic alight
Kala Gare’s exceptional turn as Sybylla in My Brilliant Career leads this round-up of all the latest shows around the city.
- Peter McCallum, Harriet Cunningham and John Shand
Getting intimate: Pinchgut wants you to lean forward in this ‘reckless’ move
Historically scaled performance returns intimacy to the concert hall.
- Nick Galvin
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
Was Hollywood legend Joan Crawford really a megalomaniac monster?
Biographer Scott Eyman reveals that there was much more to the star than what we think we know from Mommie Dearest and the Bette Davis “feuds”.
- N. Smith