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Damian Brantley performing as Michael Jackson in Legends in Concert.

Move over Joseph Fiennes, this is how it's done

Damian Brantley has been performing as Michael Jackson for more than 20 years.

Best written and made piece of local theatre in the festival so far: Peta Brady, Nicci Wilks and Sarah Ward.

Sydney Festival review: Patricia Cornelius' unblinking study demands to be seen

This play about three underclass women hits like a slap in the face.

Jonny Woo and Le Gateau Chocolat in <i>A Night At The Musicals</i>.

Midsumma's A Night At The Musicals a fun and frivolous drag cabaret

Lack of pants notwithstanding, there's something very seat-of-the-pants about the show tunes shtick that (just barely) holds this show together.

Sydney Festival review: Patricia Cornelius' unblinking study demands to be seen

This play about three underclass women hits like a slap in the face.

Alison Whyte plays Mary in <i>The Testament of Mary</i>.

Irish author tells Sydney Theatre Company to 'look after your actress'

Author Colm Toibin has words of advice for the Sydney Theatre Company: "You need to look after your actress."

Olivia Rose in the 2017 Sydney Festival production of <i>Hakawati</i>.

A story with food, but where's the meat?

Camel proves a turn-off in this celebration of Middle Eastern food and storytelling

Sydney Festival review: Inheritor Album

The six dancers of Canada's Company 605 attack their action-packed material with enormous energy and impressive agility.

The dancers work hard and well in Spectra.

Townsville meets Tokyo in dance collaboration

Spectra, a Japanese-Australian collaboration between Dancenorth and the butoh collective Batik, pursues a theme of interconnectedness.

<I>Nude Live </I>is a special experience.

Human bodies in graceful action

Was it the dancers? The paintings and sculpture? The music? The audience? The gallery ambience? The nudity that got us there in the first place?

Lea Salonga will perform shows in Sydney and Melbourne in February.

Salonga on song for Australian tour

The voice behind hit song A Whole New World from Disney's Aladdin returns to Australia in February.

A large crowd lines up for tickets to see The Book of Mormon at the Princess Theatre. Fans began to line up on Sunday.

Fans queue for blocks to get first show tickets for The Book of Mormon

Fans have queued around the block to get their hands on $20 tickets to the first preview of The Book of Mormon.

The cast of <i>The Book of Mormon</i> at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York.

Book of Mormon announces $20 preview tickets for one night only

Producers of smash-hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon have added a special, super-cheap preview show on January 17.

Sian Pendry as Lola in <i>Cavalleria Rusticana</i>.

Powerful operatic double act blurs boundaries with dramatic force

Opera Australia's latest production reimagines an onstage play as a nightmare.

Conductor Richard Divall outside Melbourne University's Newman College dome.

Richard Divall, renowned conductor and composer, dies aged 71

Awarded opera aficionado dies in Melbourne after battle with cancer.

Brisbane Baroque saga closes with creditors still out of pocket

The company behind the embattled Brisbane Baroque festival has been placed into voluntary liquidation bringing to an end a saga that has captivated the Australian arts landscape for months.

Your guide to a fabulous time at Midsumma 2017

Melbourne's premier LGBTI festival celebrates its 30th year with a bang.

Comedian Celia Pacquola gets serious

Comedian Celia Pacquola's nudity clause? "No nipples and no side boob!"

Season greetings from SNL: Beck Bennett as Russian president Vladimir Putin and Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump.

Trump is the gift that keeps on giving to SNL

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.

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