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Choose your own celebration: a guide to New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in Melbourne
Still not sure what to do with yourself this New Year's Eve? Want to avoid the CBD crush?
Still not sure what to do with yourself this New Year's Eve? Want to avoid the CBD crush?
Comedian Celia Pacquola's nudity clause? "No nipples and no side boob!"
There are no walls between the actors and the audience in this play of interwoven stories, set under the stars in western Sydney.
The sister of Daniel O'Keeffe, whose disappearance prompted a nationwide social media campaign, is staging a one-woman show about her sibling, whose death was confirmed in March.
It starts small, with a feather blowing gently in the breeze. Before you know it, a storm is brewing; vast swathes of bright silk and household umbrellas cascade through the air.
In this environment of uncertainty, it's a singular irony that homegrown commercial theatre has been one of the great success stories of 2016.
The production is aimed at introducing Tchaikovsky's classic to young children in a shortened version with a narrator.
Nakedness in dance can be beautiful but it doesn't improve the quality of the choreography.
Shifting patterns... Bodies moving in space to a grand plan... Tension building, then releasing...
It starts small, with a feather blowing gently in the breeze. Before you know it, a storm is brewing; vast swathes of bright silk and household umbrellas cascade through the air.
Jason Robert Brown's chamber musical is an intimate two-hander with a chronological twist.
From a new musical about Australia's first female prime minister to a three-person adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, there's plenty on offer in next year's season at the Q.
Any year with a Ring in it is bound to be worth celebrating. As it was with Opera Australia's revival of Neil Armfield's production of Der Ring des Nibelungen.
It is difficult to know what to commend most strongly.
It was hard to imagine things could step up any further but this last and longest of the Ring operas was also the most majestic.
Comedian Celia Pacquola's nudity clause? "No nipples and no side boob!"
Saturday Night Live unsurprisingly concluded the year with a Christmas special featuring Alec Baldwin as his favourite blonde in office, only this time Vladimir Putin was included in the act.
Comedian Amy Schumer has cancelled her Australian stand-up tour just five days before she was due to perform in Perth.
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