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News'Love Actually? The Musical Parody' Has Revealed Three Casts for Stints in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
A Christmas classic is getting parodied on stages across Australia this summer.
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NewsA Marvel Hero's Guide to the Harbour City
The definitive guide to Sydney's nightlife for fans of Iron Man, Captain America and Thor.
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NewsBroadway Hit 'Waitress' Is Making Its Australian Debut at Sydney Lyric Theatre in 2026
Pie tins at the ready for a Broadway classic finally ready to make its debut Down Under.
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NewsThe 2025 AFL Grand Final Was Australia's Most-Watched Program of the Year So Far
The Brisbane Lions' Premiership win over Geelong drew more than 6.1 million viewers, cementing the AFL Grand Final as the year’s most-watched program.
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NewsLove Actually? The Musical Parody Is Coming Back — With Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Dates
The cheeky stage send-up of the 2003 Christmas rom-com is returning to Australia this spring, with three city stops locked in.
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NewsPete Davidson Is Bringing His 2025 Stand-Up Tour to Australia
The former 'Saturday Night Live' cast member is hitting Perth, Melbourne and Sydney for one show in each city.
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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these potent westerns, horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, and expressive dance flicks.
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NewsA List of All of the Wes Anderson Films, Ranked
No one makes movies quite like Wes Anderson, so we've revisited and ranked them all — even though every single one is a gem.
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NewsIt's Eurovision Time: Here's When You Can Watch 2025's Song Contest (with Tony Armstrong and Courtney Act Hosting Australia's Coverage)
This year's Australian entry: Go-Jo with the song 'Milkshake Man', which is being performed with a four-metre-tall blender as part of the set.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes movies about determined architects, whirlwind romances, catty cardinals, sandworms and more.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 33 of 2025's Oscar-Nominated Movies in Australia Right Now
Massive musicals, monumental dramas, stunning animated gems, heartbreaking documentaries, two Timothée Chalamet movies: they're all Oscar contenders, and you can watch them all.
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NewsEleven 2025 Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Shows That You Can (and Should) Watch Right Now
Make a cinema or couch date with a freshly minted Golden Globe-winner — here's what you can watch right away, and where.
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NewsTwenty-Five Movies That You Can Stream This Christmas No Matter How You Feel About the Festive Season
Pour a glass of eggnog, find your comfiest spot on the couch, then enjoy everything from 'The Holdovers' and 'Die Hard' to 'Last Christmas' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
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GuideThe Best Free Events to Catch During Sydney Festival 2025
Sydney Festival is saving your wallet this summer with a cost-of-living defying program of free events throughout January.
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News'The Great Gatsby'-Inspired Cabaret and Pop-Up Club 'GATSBY at The Green Light' Is Returning to Sydney Opera House
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic text with drinks, plus a show that gives the book the cabaret and variety treatment.
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News'The Phantom of the Opera' Is Celebrating 40 Years Onstage with a Spectacular 2026 Season on Sydney Harbour
This production graced the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour stage in 2022 — and now it's heading back to the stunning setting to mark a milestone.
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NewsBroadway's Hit 'Pretty Woman' Stage Musical Has Locked in a Date with Sydney From November 2025
After making its Australian debut in Brisbane, the production will head to Theatre Royal Sydney with Samantha Jade starring.
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NewsInternational Theatre Hit 'ECHO' Is Bringing Its Completely Unrehearsed and Unpredictable Solo Performances to Australia
The cast for this play's Australian-premiere season: Pia Miranda, Stan Grant, Jan Fran, David Campbell, Michelle Brasier, Nadine Garner and Ben Lawson.
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NewsSarah Snook Just Added a Tony to Her Trophy Cabinet for the Broadway Season of Sydney Theatre Company's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
The Australian star won Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play — and the production also picked up Best Costume Design.
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NewsCirque du Soleil's Spectacular 'Corteo' Has Added More Shows to Its Upcoming 2025 Australian Season
You've now got more chances to see the acrobatic wonders of this beloved production when it heads Down Under from August.
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News'Dracula' Is the Next Sydney Theatre Company Production That's Heading to London's West End, This Time Starring Cynthia Erivo
Another Kip Williams adaptation of a gothic classic featuring one performer in every role is travelling from Australia to the UK.
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NewsGo on Country with Bangarra Dance Theatre, Without Leaving Your Home City
The performing arts company’s latest production, 'Illume', opens the door to Bard-Bardi Jawi culture and storytelling on stages across Australia.
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For Its Broadway Run, Sydney Theatre Company's Sarah Snook-Starring 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Has Been Nominated for Six Tonys
The production's 'Succession'-alum star scored a nod, of course — and the show is now the most-nominated solo production in Tony history.
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NewsSydney Comedy Festival Is Taking Over Bondi Pavilion for Five Nights of Top-Tier Stand-Up
The best way to enjoy live comedy? Beachside, with a drink in hand.
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NewsAn Australian-Exclusive Performance by Broadway Icon Bernadette Peters Is the First Event on Melt Festival's 2025 Lineup
She originated the role of The Witch in 'Into the Woods' and starred in TV's 'Mozart in the Jungle', and now she's heading to Brisbane.
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NewsBroadway's Hit Screen-to-Stage 'Anastasia' Musical Is Finally Making Its Australian Premiere in 2025
First, Russian history inspired an animated 90s favourite — and now the stage production based on it has a date Down Under.
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EventAll About Women 2026
Sun, 8 Mar, 2026
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Hear centrepiece talks from change-making heads of government, justice-seeking journalists and razor-sharp authors as part of this powerhouse lineup.
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EventFelons Barrel Room Launch Weekend
Fri, 5 Dec - Sun, 7 Dec 2025
Felons Brewing Co. Manly, Manly
Experience this fully realised wharfside brewery, featuring three days of top-notch live music, Vietnamese cuisine and barrel-aged beers.
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EventOperation Sickie at The Bob Hawke Beer & Leisure Centre
Multiple single dates
The Bob Hawke Beer & Leisure Centre, Marrickville
It's every Australians right to chuck a sickie, so let this Marrickville boozer reward you with big discounts on six occasions this summer.
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EventCharlotte de Witte at The Hordern Pavilion
Fri, 6 Mar, 2026
Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park
Off the back of a headline festival appearance, this Belgian techno superstar is heading to Sydney for this tour's one and only sideshow.
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EventIggy's and PIÑA Takeover at Venroy
Sat, 6 Dec - Sun, 7 Dec 2025
VENROY, Bondi Beach
Some of Sydney's best matcha and pastries are coming together this December only.
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EventChristmas at Darling Harbour 2025
Mon, 17 Nov - Thu, 25 Dec 2025
Darling Harbour, Sydney
With a stacked lineup of free festive fun, Darling Harbour 2025 is ready to melt the heart of even the grinchiest among us.
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EventTHE WORKS at Carriageworks
Mon, 29 Dec 2025 - Fri, 16 Jan 2026
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Get immersed in the inaugural season of this cutting-edge warehouse event, featuring groundbreaking electronic stars from around the globe.
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EventMov'In Bed Barangaroo Beach Cinema
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - Thu, 30 Apr 2026
Barangaroo, Barangaroo
Catch up on classics and 2025's biggest movies on mattresses on the sand at Barangaroo.
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EventWaterworld Central Sydney 2026
Fri, 9 Jan - Sun, 1 Feb 2026
Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park
Get ready to cool off and make memories as you slip, slide, and splash your way through the holidays.
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EventThe Morning Circuit
Sat, 6 Dec, 2025
Circular Quay, Sydney
The first Saturday of summer is host to a delicious new run club and sandwich collab.
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NewsLaughs Incoming: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Is Back for 2025 with 1000-Plus Performers and 690 Shows
For a month each year, Melbourne becomes a haven for giggles, chuckles and hilarity — and that time for 2025 is now.
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NewsMelbourne's Malthouse Theatre Is Bringing 'The Birds' and Its Iconic Horror Tale to the Stage From the Page and Screen
To experience the story's full terrors — and every swoop and squawk — theatre attendees will don headphones at this world-premiere one-woman production that follows in Alfred Hitchcock's footsteps.
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NewsRhinestones at the Ready: Dolly Parton-Worshipping Musical 'Here You Come Again' Is Coming to Australia
'Jolene', '9 to 5', 'Islands in the Stream' and 'I Will Always Love You' are among the iconic songs featured in this stage production, which is heading Down Under in 2025.
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NewsYou Could Win an Exclusive MJ The Musical Experience in Sydney
A bucket list experience for any theatre lover.
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News'Corteo' Is the Next Dazzling Cirque du Soleil Hit That's Bringing Its Acrobatic Wonders Down Under
A beloved part of the troupe's repertoire since 2005, this show takes place inside a carnival-like parade imagined by a clown.
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The 'Pretty Woman' Stage Musical Is Making Its Australian Debut in Brisbane in October 2025
Bryan Adams wrote the music and lyrics for the hit production, which premiered on Broadway in 2018.
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News'Titanique' Will Go On: This Céline Dion-Fuelled Stage Musical Is Extending Its Australian-Exclusive Sydney Season
You've now got until early June 2025 to see this off-Broadway hit filled with Dion's songs during its only Aussie berth.
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NewsIf You Just Can't Wait to See 'The Lion King' Onstage Again, the Tony-Winning Musical Is Returning to Australia in 2026
When it opens at Sydney's Capitol Theatre, this will be the third time that a local production of the film-to-theatre hit has been staged in Australia.
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NewsTricks, Trysts and Tigers: How the Lives of Infamous Illusionists Siegfried and Roy Became an (Unauthorised) Opera
The headline show of Sydney Festival 2025 immortalises two of the most famous magicians of all time — and the big cat who ended their careers.
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FeatureShoot For the Stars: How the Australian Cast of 'Hamilton' Is Spending Summer in Sydney
We chatted to the people who are always in the Room Where it Happens to find out how stage stars live it up in the Harbour City
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NewsGreat Scott!: 'Back to the Future: The Musical' Is Making Its Australian Premiere in Sydney in 2025
After hit seasons in West End and on Broadway, the award-winning stage version of everyone's favourite time-travelling 80s flick is zipping Down Under.
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NewsWhen a Delightfully Strange Screen-to-Stage Australian Musical Happens: Paul Hodge and Simon Phillips Chat 'Round the Twist'
Have you heard the word about Queensland Theatre and Queensland Performing Arts Centre's new adaptation of the beloved 90s series? We chatted to the composer/playwright and director behind it.
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News"I Learn From Her Every Night": 'Hamilton' Star Vidya Makan Is Putting Her Own Spin on the Musical Theatre Megahit
The performer and composer had to forget everything she knew about the blockbusting show to find some common ground with her character.
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NewsTony- and Olivier-Winning Hit 'The Play That Goes Wrong' Is Making a Comeback on Australia's Stages in 2025
What happens when The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society tries to stage a murder-mystery? Chaos — and this onstage comedy.
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GuideMany of the Best Seats at Sydney Festival 2025's Headline Shows Are on Sale for Just $49 — Here's Why
As NSW's flagship arts fest prepares to celebrate its 49th birthday, affordability has been very much front of mind for Festival Director Olivia Ansell.
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NewsDo You Hear the People Sing?: The 'Les Misérables' Arena Spectacular Is Coming to Australia in 2025
The music of the people, plus the songs of angry men, will echo thanks to a stacked cast and a 65-plus-piece orchestra.
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News'Cats' Is Returning to the Stage Down Under to Celebrate Its 40th Australian Anniversary
The movie mightn't have hit the mark, but you can see why this feline-fancying musical has been a huge theatre hit when it makes its Aussie stage comeback.
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News'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale' Has Added More Cities to Its Precious 2025 Australian Tour
This hit Middle-earth musical is not only taking the hobbits to Sydney, but to Melbourne and Perth as well.
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NewsSydney Theatre Company's Sarah Snook-Starring 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Is Heading to Broadway
After wowing London's West End, the 'Succession' actor will make her Broadway debut playing 26 roles in the one-performer Aussie stage sensation.
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NewsSplash-Hit Céline Dion-Fuelled Musical-Comedy 'Titanique' Is Making Its Australian Debut in Sydney This Month
The laughs will go on at this off-Broadway award-winner, which is told through Dion's songs — and is finally making its maiden voyage Down Under.
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NewsLive 'Dungeons & Dragons' Show 'The Twenty-Sided Tavern' Is Rolling Into Australia for Its Down Under Premiere
You won't just watch this stage version of the tabletop roleplaying game — you play along, choosing the characters and helping shape the story.
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NewsThe Stage Musical Version of Festive Big-Screen Favourite 'Elf' Is Finally Making Its Australian Premiere
The film-to-theatre Broadway hit is heading Down Under, debuting in Sydney, so that you can catch the Christmas classic onstage.
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The Musical Version of 'The Lord of the Rings' Is Taking the Hobbits to Australian Stages in 2025
Middle-earth gets melodic at 'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale', which is making its Aussie debut in Sydney.
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News'Parks and Recreation' and 'The Afterparty' Star Ben Schwartz Is Bringing His Live Improv Show to Australia
He's also the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog — and he's locked in a two-city trip Down Under in 2025.
