Making ‘clouds’ onstage and other strange challenges solved by this design supremo

Making ‘clouds’ onstage and other strange challenges solved by this design supremo

Designer Elizabeth Gadsby loves to push boundaries in her work.

  • byChantal Nguyen

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Have you heard the one about the scientist who does stand-up?

Have you heard the one about the scientist who does stand-up?

Scientists are increasingly crossing over into comedy.

  • byDaniel Herborn
The rare sound of perfection:Don’t miss this Mahler performance
★★★★½
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The rare sound of perfection:Don’t miss this Mahler performance

Our reviewers run a critical eye over the latest shows around town.

  • byPeter McCallum,Daniel Herborn andBernard Zuel
Opera Australia posts $4.9m loss,as shift to musicals draws audiences

Opera Australia posts $4.9m loss,as shift to musicals draws audiences

Rising costs and a twice-cancelled production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle have all added up for the nation’s biggest arts company.

  • byNick Galvin
‘We’re just really mad’:What keeps the parents of murder victim Matthew going

‘We’re just really mad’:What keeps the parents of murder victim Matthew going

Keeping their son’s memory alive with and beyond The Laramie Project has become a life’s work for Dennis and Judy Shepard.

  • byCassie Tongue
Macklemore brings Gaza protest song to Sydney

Macklemore brings Gaza protest song to Sydney

Our critics give their take on the latest shows around town.

  • byDaniel Herborn,Bernard Zuel,John Shand andMillie Muroi
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‘I probably wanted to be a politician’:The Sydney Shire boy who made it big in opera

‘I probably wanted to be a politician’:The Sydney Shire boy who made it big in opera

A lover of cocktails,cigars and conservative politics,Stuart Skelton isn’t your typical opera star.

  • byNick Galvin
Miraculous:This play in a tiny theatre shouldn’t work but it does

Miraculous:This play in a tiny theatre shouldn’t work but it does

Our critics give their verdicts on the biggest shows around town.

  • byChantal Nguyen,Daniel Herborn,John Shand andHarriet Cunningham
A beautiful jigsaw puzzle of a film that will ultimately move you
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A beautiful jigsaw puzzle of a film that will ultimately move you

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda takes his time unfolding this complex story.

  • byJake Wilson
From the footy field to the stage for this Indigenous dancer

From the footy field to the stage for this Indigenous dancer

Indigenous dancer Thomas ES Kelly says his work SILENCE has a message for all Australians.

  • byChantal Nguyen
This tale of the Nazi resistance is both gentle and heartbreaking

This tale of the Nazi resistance is both gentle and heartbreaking

From Hilde,With Love avoids Nazi film cliches while telling the story of a brave couple in 1942.

  • byJane Albert