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Todd Woodbridge’s son didn’t follow dad’s footsteps. He walked into a lead role instead
The tennis great’s son admits he’s the “odd one out” in a very sporty family as he prepares to take on the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen.
- by Louise Rugendyke
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John Waters might be seeing ghosts but he still doesn’t believe in them
The veteran of stage and screen is starring in a fresh adaptation of the long-running play The Woman In Black.
- by John Shand
Fish, family and friends: Young Archie winners on show
This year’s winners, including Anh Do’s 14-year-old son Leon, painted siblings, parents and best friends.
How a Melbourne Cup windfall brought the great Arthur Boyd into my life
As his landscapes return to the Bundanon Art Museum, I reconnected with a print that I’ve taken with me around the world.
- by Julie Power
The one rule at this daring new show? Don’t bring a friend
The idea for Australian actor Tilda Cobham-Hervey Sydney Fringe show came to her when she locked down in Los Angeles.
- by Garry Maddox
Love Hamilton? Then you should see this as well
Our critics take a look at the biggest shows around town.
- by James Jennings, Frances Howe and John Shand
The swimmer who got to the Paris Olympics without training in the pool
Olympian Clementine Stoney Maconachie is headed for Paris, but not as a swimmer this time.
- by Helen Pitt
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Think of the drinkers: the advice that helped turn Hamlet into an opera
Composer Brett Dean needed some sage advice to adapt Shakespeare’s longest play.
- by Joyce Morgan
The stunning photos that captured British theatre royalty’s trip Down Under
The stand-out element of Shiroma Perera-Nathan’s account of the tour of Australia and New Zealand by acting couple Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh’s in 1948 is the photographs.
- by Tom Ryan
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Why a playwright who updates the classics thinks it’s mostly unnecessary
Adapting Uncle Vanya, Joanna Murray-Smith was desperate to stay true to the playwright’s intentions.
- by John Shand
These are the cartoons that kept Australians laughing for a century
A new show at the State Library of NSW celebrates a century of Australian cartooning.
- by Helen Pitt