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Stage

Theatre

Dance

Career spectrum: The Australian Ballet's Nutcracker - The Story of Clara, choreographed by Graeme Murphy.

One dancer's story told beautifully through movement

This Nutcracker moves fluidly through time, as an elderly Clara remembers her youth as a young ballerina in Russia, the heartbreak of love lost on a battlefield, and her eventual, bewildered arrival in Australia.

Musicals

Natural dag: Muriel's Wedding, The Musical star Maggie McKenna.

New Muriel's Wedding star named

Sydney Theatre Company has announced that Maggie McKenna will take the lead role for its upcoming production, Muriel's Wedding The Musical, the stage version of the much-loved 1994 film starring Toni Collette.

Opera

Lauren Zolezzi and Richard Anderson in Anacreon.

Sublime music and fart jokes, too

Pinchgut Opera's winter production often presents events which, history tells us, shaped the development of music, but in which, without live performance, it can be difficult today to see what the fuss was about.

Comedy