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From ballet to Afrofuturism to a world-class immersive spectacle, Guardian Australia critics pick out the best live stage experiences of the year

David Van, former Liberal now independent ‘senator sixpack’, chatted up women on his official Instagram account using terms such as ‘babe’, ‘hon’ and ‘darling’, and leading No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price knocked back requests for interviews from the ABC at least 52 times.

The Sydney Theatre Company has apologised for the way it has responded to a protest by actors at an opening night performance.

What is comedy?

In our weekly series about objects, the actor tell us about her blended bear family - and her rubber band habit

Andrew Upton’s adaptation transplants the play’s ensemble to Australia in the early 2000s, where they discover the cost of art and thwarted dreams

A decade ago, William Shakespeare was the most performed playwright in Australia. In 2024 not one mainstage theatre company in Australia will perform Shakespeare. The only exception will be Bell Shakespeare.

Diversity advocates say more funding and leadership opportunities are needed to match the high participation rates

Jane Harrison’s play tells of the first fleet landing from the perspective of the First Nations people watching. It’s a story set in the past – but its most potent questions are about the future

It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and performed in February 1895, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was already 16 years old. Both plays, in different ways, expose the foundations of society (marriage; class; money; property) to searching critique.

One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes: