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Putting artists first: Diane Larter’s Rogue Pop Up Gallery

It’s an uncommon sensation to enter a gallery and feel that you’re in a down-to-earth artist space. That’s the experience of walking into Rogue...

“I’m your weird aunty”: Ella Hooper finds her ground on ‘Overnight Success’

Ella Hooper opened tonight’s Petersham Bowling Club show with Growing Up Is Hard to Do, a song that felt less like a warm-up and...

Islander

A stunning presentation by the Australian Theatre for Young People of a Scottish a cappella musical reimagined in Pasifika and featuring remarkable vocal performances by two young performers.

Digger

Digger Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Starring: Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John...

Author Kathryn Heyman at Sydney Writers’ Festival Homegrown program

Luminous. That’s the word being used to describe author...

The Unburdening

A courageous and entertaining semi-autobiographical play exploring the situation of an chronically ill soon making a bid for independence from his caring father.

Resident Evil

Resident Evil (2026) is pretty amusing and worth watching even if you know nothing about...

Dixon and Daughters

A powerful piece of familial drama, disturbing and memorable, exploring the lives of women damaged by an abusive patriarch.

Ride Lonesome – The magic of the ocean swell put to music

Beck’s Ride Lonesome arrives not as a reinvention but...

Jan Gunnar Hoff brings Nordic jazz to Sydney

Acclaimed Norwegian jazz pianist Jan Gunnar Hoff will make...

‘Learning to Rise’

I’m learning to make it simple ...

The End of Oak Street

As a bit of a nerd, it’s very frustrating to me when something happens in a film without...

‘if you reach into your mind’s eye’

if you reach into your mind's eye sitting somewhere nice and calm ...

‘blue wren’ 

blue wren ...

‘for birds’

for birds …

Krank Fuss

Andrew Upton makes an assured debut as a novelist with...

The Book of Everything

A magical, quirky story for all ages exploring childhood innocence, domestic violence, religious extremism, and memories of the Nazi regime and the ability to find a refuge in the imagination.

Mum Club

A fiercely entertaining satirical comedy exploring the intense pressures of modern parenting culture and celebrating the resilience of Blak Sisterhood.

Redfern gallery brings artists together for Gaza

A Redfern gallery will bring together more than 60...

Not Just a Bunnings Man: The Life and Times of Tom (G.M.) Bunning

Joseph Christensen has produced something rarer than another corporate success story: a genuinely humane portrait of the man behind Australia's most recognisable hardware name. 

Grappa’s new chapter in The Rocks

Grappa is an institution in Leichhardt. Despite being located...

The old is new: Inside the collections of Sydney’s newest fashion designers

A live recording of Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child (Slight...

Coffee tales from Rural Japan

As an Australian, ordering a flat white overseas is...

Into the Woods

Sondheim's beloved musical weaving together many fairy tale characters as they chase their wishes in a magical, perilous wood, and a moving meditation on the reality of "happily ever after".

Brett Whiteley : Coming Home

The Art Gallery of NSW has invited visitors back...

Young talent takes centre stage at Young Archie 2026

Held at the Art Gallery of NSW, the Young...

Top Silk

A major revival of David Williamson's 1980s satire set within the competitive world of the legal elite exploring relevant moral dilemmas and family dynamics,

The Odyssey

The Odyssey (2026) is based on Greek mythology that has been the subject of lots of movies and TV mini-series since the early 20th century.

Fool’s Paradise adds a new dimension to Sydney Fringe

Sydney Fringe Festival is back and has added a...

‘You Already Know’

Lie down in the grass ...

Casey and Diana

A moving and uplifting play inspired by Princess Diana's visit to Casey House , an AIDS hospice in Toronto, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis.

Funny, freaky and fierce film festivals

All of Sydney’s film festivals are great because they...

‘Dey work it out wiv de crisis improbability’

Dey work it out wiv de crisis improbability ...

‘transition’ 

slowly ...

‘The space between reality and perception’

The space between reality and perception …

‘Before the Morning Knows’ 

There is a station ...

Behind the Screens: How the internet works and how to make it work for you

Behind the Screens is a slim volume that goes into detail about the dangers and pleasures of the internet, written with a young audience in mind by Dr Niraj Lal...

Raye goes all in on a stunning second album

This album came to me the best way possible. In a time where the algorithm and socials constantly shove new music at you, numbing you with choice, I was sent This Music May Contain Hope...

The Ladies of Erskineville

They sit emporched, like seals in the sun, drink...

Introducing Super 44, Enmore’s newest margarita bar

Enmore Road's newest cocktail bar, Super 44, debuted on...

The Jungle and the Sea

The epic story of one family torn apart by the devastating violence of the Sri Lankan War, the overwhelming immensity of their loss and their struggle to survive.

Afterglow

After the annual Barbershop Competition, the men gather for the traditional "afterglow". Whisky flows, dickie bows are loosened and quartets sing booze soaked melodies far into the night. But Barbershop has rules, both musical and social.

The Dapto Chaser

The Sinclair family are down on their luck and their one chance of reversing their fortunes depends on their much-loved greyhound, Boy Named Sue.

Pay No Attention

A brand-new show from The Flying Fruit Fly Circus. Thirteen young performers with spectacular circus skills in a high-energy extravaganza which is hilarious, unsettling and awe-inspiring. Excellent holiday entertainment.

Learning to see: Inside Sydney Photographic Workshops

Alexandria holds plenty of creative secrets, but tucked away...

The Roommate

A dark comedy about two very different women who clash, re-invent themselves and find out that change entails risks.

‘I Saw a Duck’

I saw a brown duck …

The Day of the Triffids

Adapted from John Wyndham's iconic sci-fi novel exploring human survival after large-scale catastrophe and the rise of the Triffids, mobile carnivorous plants. A bold, new theatrical experience from Newtown Theatre.

Locust

Try reading Locust by Joel O’Connor slowly and silently to yourself ...

‘Has there ever been delight?’ 

Has there ever been delight? She smiled then sighed ...

‘Venus’ 

Every glance you cast becomes a small devotion to beauty ...

‘Do Not Fear’

Try looking like a poet, do not fear ...

First, Do No Harm

Unflinching and unsettling, Grace Malouf's bold new play spotlights questions of whether there are limits to medical ethics and to the right to personal self-determination.

Disclosure Day

Steven Spielberg is famous for many of the classic science-fiction films he’s directed, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind...

Where is the Green Sheep?

An immersive visual theatre experience based on the beloved children's book by Mem Fox and Judith Horacek.

‘Firepop’ serves up woodfire magic in Enmore

There’s nothing quite like Enmore Road during the Sydney...

My Fair Lawyer

Tony Laumberg's My Fair Lawyer is a light-hearted satire of family secrets, legal egos and cultural misunderstandings.