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Well-Behaved Women: this cabaret-esque celebration of women icons is musically delightful – but historically lacking

Women have long turned to the past to understand their place in the present. Many “great women” of history have served as role models and sources of inspiration –though the specific women celebrated have changed over time.

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Sydney Theatre Company’s Dracula: a virtuosic performance, sexy staging, and a queer rewriting

The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and our fantasy lives. His story is tailor-made for one of Kip Williams’ hybrid adaptations.

The Conversation

Dracula review – a clever and playful victory lap for Kip Williams’ gothic cine-theatre trilogy

Zahra Newman is remarkable in the director’s last production with the company

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The Hate Race review – Zahra Newman is brilliant in Maxine Beneba Clarke’s one-woman show

Newman – one of Australia’s best working actors – shows her impressive range in this moving adaptation of Beneba Clarke’s bestselling memoir

The Guardian - AU

Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2023

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

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Dear Evan Hansen and Dracula to headline Sydney Theatre Company’s 2024 program

STC will put on Tony Award-winning musical’s first original production since Broadway, an opportunity that artistic director Kip Williams describes as ‘thrilling’

The Guardian - AU

Zahra Newman on becoming Billie Holiday: ‘I want people to feel how they do when they listen to her’

The Jamaican-born Australian performer delivers an uncanny evocation of the jazz singer in an upcoming cabaret set during the last year of Holiday’s life

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Fences review – Australian debut of August Wilson play is a remarkable achievement

Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre CompanyThe STC’s production of the Pulitzer-winning play, about a flawed patriarch wrestling with self-destruction, is lead by a uniformly excellent cast

The Guardian - AU

Aboriginal actor-turned-director Shari Sebbens takes the reins on new theatre productions in Sydney and Melbourne in 2023

The Jabirr Jabirr and Bardi actor-turned-director is best known for her film and TV work, but her first love is theatre - and in 2023, she's directing a whopping four shows on Australia's main stages.

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