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Hamilton’s Australian production.

Art

More funding, more local stories: Arts sector lobbies Labor for a lifeline

Australia’s struggling arts sector says investment in the Australia Council and an insurance scheme to keep live shows on stage should be Labor’s top priorities.

by Linda Morris

Actor Vince Colosimo steps into the boardroom for the new season of Celebrity Apprentice.

Review

‘I made no enemies’: Vince Colosimo talks Celebrity Apprentice

by Ben Pobjie

Teacher.

Literature

‘I wish I was exaggerating but I am not’: The hidden toll of teaching

by Yumna Kassab

Recital Hall, Angel Place
Members of the cast of Pinchgut Opera’s Orontea Anna Dowsley and Jonathan Abernethy.
23rd May 2022
Photo: Steven Siewert

Performing arts

Comedy, tragedy and sexual shenanigans: The secrets of Baroque opera

by Nick Galvin

<i>This Woman’s Work, Essays on Music</i> edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson

Review

‘That was very naughty of us’: Challenging the narrative of music as a male domain

by Jenny Valentish

Movies

Tom Cruise reprises role as elite US Navy pilot Maverick. — 2:19

Film

'Top Gun: Maverick' official trailer

Tom Cruise reprises role as elite US Navy pilot Maverick.

Tom Cruise shares details on training the cast underwent on new Top Gun: Maverick movie — 2:49

Film

Tom Cruise talks training on new Top Gun movie

Tom Cruise shares details on training the cast underwent on new Top Gun: Maverick movie

Thor: Love and Thunder trailer reveals Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher — 2:15

Film

Thor: Love and Thunder trailer

This photo, found in a suitcase belonging to Bill Onus, was a vital clue in the documentary Ablaze.

★★★

Review

The first Indigenous filmmaker is revealed through a miraculous discovery

by Jake Wilson

Maigret et la jeune morte - Un film de Patrice Leconte, d’après le roman éponyme de Georges Simenon - Scénario et Patrice Leconte et Jérôme Tonnerre - Avec Gérard Depardieu (Maigret), Jade Labeste (Betty), Mélanie Bernier (Jeanine), Bertrand Poncet (Lapointe), Aurore Clément (la mère de Laurent), Pierre Moure (Laurent-, Clara Antoons (Louise), Jean-Paul Comart (Janvier), Hervé Pierre (Dr Paul), Loudia Gentil (logeuse immeuble Louise), Anne Lioret (Mme Maigret), Elisabeth Bourgine (Irène), Philippe du Janerand (le jude), André Wilms (Kaplan) - Yves Angelo DOP Gerard Depardieu in the film Maigret (2022).

★★★

Review

Is this the role Gerard Depardieu was made for?

by Paul Byrnes

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TV & radio

TV Guide

The brutal full trailer for the new season, coming soon to Stan. — 2:00

Gangs of London Season 2 official trailer

The brutal full trailer for the new season, coming soon to Stan.

Independent women: Deborah Mailman as Alex Irving and Rachel Griffiths as Rachel Anderson in Total Control.

Film & TV production

What political thriller Total Control predicted about the election, and what it missed

Season two of the ABC drama depicted a parliament awash with independents. But co-creator Rachel Griffiths admits it missed another huge trend.

by Karl Quinn

Stranger Things

★★★

Review

Patience pays off when Stranger Things goes back to the 80s

by Craig Mathieson

The highly anticipated series will premiere on June 8, on Stan. — 1:53

Everything I Know About Love official trailer

Netflix algorithm explainer

Explainer

Streaming

How does Netflix know what we want to watch?

by Karl Quinn

Multiple Emmy award winner Jean Smart returns to your screen in the brand new season of Hacks, now streaming only on Stan.

Humble beginnings with a legendary end. From the creator of Vikings, the brand new series Billy The Kid is now streaming, only on Stan.

Music

The man, the myth, the legend: Harry Styles.

Review

I spent a night with Harry Styles, and the man is way more interesting than his music

by Annabel Ross

Hearth at La Mama 2022.

★★½

Arts

Can great drama come from climate catastrophe? Or is it just too hard?

by Mary Varvaris, Tony Way, Cameron Woodhead and Jessica Nicholas

Darren Hayes

Sunday Life

Darren Hayes on coming out, divorce and what makes his husband ‘perfect’

by Jane Rocca

Sunday Life

The ‘harsh reality check’ that made Sampa the Great commit to self-confidence

by Jane Rocca

Tkay Maidza is returning to Melbourne stages after four years.

Rising Festival

She’s opened for Billie Eilish, but this rap queen is saving her best for Melbourne

by Michael Dwyer

Luke Sinclair of The Luke Sinclair Set says COVID has hit the music industry for a six.

Literature

Why the arts industry is in dire straits, no matter who wins the election

by Kerrie O'Brien

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Celebrity

Kim Kardashian at the 2022 Met Gala (left) and Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy Birthday” in 1962.

Opinion

Private Sydney

What Kim’s ‘Marilyn’ dress means for publicity-hungry celebrities

by Andrew Hornery

Lincoln Younes is cast to play John Ibrahim in an adaption of his autobiography, Last King of the X

Emerald City

Gangland TV drama filming interrupted by real gangland funeral

by Lucy Manly

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, Analisa Corr and the late former president Ferdinand Marcos.

Exclusive

Private Sydney

Daughter of Ferdinand Marcos flies under the radar in Sydney

by Andrew Hornery

Stage

Recital Hall, Angel Place
Members of the cast of Pinchgut Opera’s Orontea Anna Dowsley and Jonathan Abernethy.
23rd May 2022
Photo: Steven Siewert

Performing arts

Comedy, tragedy and sexual shenanigans: The secrets of Baroque opera

by Nick Galvin

Legendary Italian bass singer Ferruccio Furlanetto is still in demand all over the world.

Arts

He’s the greatest bass singer of his generation – and here’s his secret

by Barney Zwartz

Director and writer Daniel Schlusser with cast members of Hercules Katherine Tonkin and Mary-Helen Sassman.

Arts

Digging into toxic masculinity under the skin of a classic hero

by Steve Dow

Isabelle Champagnre-Chittick, Margot Mansfield and Harley Mann rehearsing new work Of The Land On Which We Meet

Arts

The circus acrobat showing, without words, how to better acknowledge Country

by Stephen A Russell

Art & design

Chloe Zuel and Jason Arrow as Eliza and Alexander Hamilton.

Art

More funding, more local stories: Arts sector lobbies Labor for a lifeline

by Linda Morris

Keld Moseholm’s Sculpture by the Sea.

Review

Enjoy your sculptures by the sea? Wait until you see them in the Snowies

by John McDonald

Daniel Crooks, Kiwi artists who has been commisioned to make an installation which will be situated in front of the main building at the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney ,5 May 2022. Photo Jessica Hromas

Visual art

‘Time as a volume’: Massive new work will dominate historic Sydney site

by Lenny Ann Low

Luca French, 11, id the youngest person ever to have artwork featured at Vivid.

Vivid Sydney

Giant robot mechs and walking sushi: Inside the mind of Vivid’s youngest star

by Linda Morris

Books

Teacher.

Literature

‘I wish I was exaggerating but I am not’: The hidden toll of teaching

by Yumna Kassab

<i>This Woman’s Work, Essays on Music</i> edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson

Review

‘That was very naughty of us’: Challenging the narrative of music as a male domain

by Jenny Valentish

True Friends

Memoir

Review

The power of friendship on the pathway to womanhood

by Jessie Tu

Alicia Vikander in a scene from the 2014 film Ex Machina.

Review

Your job isn’t the only thing that could be automated in our ‘superhuman’ future

by Jason Drake

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