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Craig Silvey’s books pulled from WA and Victoria curriculums after child exploitation material charges

Sydney stage adaptation and new book put on hold after Runt and Jasper Jones author arrested

The Guardian - AU

11 best mulled wines for Christmas, taste-tested by a drinks expert

When it comes to the best tipples for the festive season, mulled wine is a must

The Independent UK

Miranda Tapsell: ‘I put pressure on myself: will this help or hinder my mob?’

Just weeks after giving birth to her second child, the actor and writer discusses Darwin, her first love and her commitment to creating complicated Indigenous characters

The Guardian - AU

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Belvoir’s Orlando is a love letter to the contemporary queer community that doesn’t quite come together

The production opens on skates. We are flung into an Elizabethan world articulated with the beautiful simplicity of a circle motif. A circle is dusted on the stage, the queen is dressed with an enormous circular petticoat reminiscent of crocheted toilet roll holders from the 1970s. Courtiers fly through on…

The Conversation

Belvoir St theatre’s 2026 season to be headlined by 24-year-old debut playwright

The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham is one of six literary adaptations to be staged at the Sydney theatre next year, alongside The Birds, A Room With a View and the Craig Silvey bestseller Runt

The Guardian - AU

Grief is the Thing With Feathers: why Max Porter’s strange but ‘magnificent’ debut keeps inspiring adaptations

With a new Australian stage version and a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch later this year, the author’s boundary-pushing novella continues to soar

The Guardian - AU

Helen Garner reflects on the ‘three worst weeks of my life’ caring for a dying friend

The author, who parlayed her experience into the award-winning novel The Spare Room, recently re-lived it while watching the stage adaptation

The Guardian - AU

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August: Osage County review – Pamela Rabe leads stellar cast in an American tragicomedy

Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, then Perth in 2025Tracy Letts’ family drama, which sees three generations gather after the disappearance of their patriarch, is beautifully performed

The Guardian - AU

Helen Garner, Virginia Woolf and Max Porter headline Belvoir St theatre’s 2025 program

‘Electrifying’ Judy Davis will star in adaptation of The Spare Room, with Colin Friels as King Lear later in the season

The Guardian - AU

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is about an autistic boy. But it hasn’t always been autism-friendly

Mark Haddon’s bestselling novel gets an Australian adaptation ‘that Christopher himself would enjoy’ – with a warning system, ‘timetables’ and an autistic star

The Guardian - AU

Car-free east of England: a Christmas castle, winter walks and fairytale villages

There’s so much to see in and around Lincolnshire and Leicestershire this Christmas – from nature reserves to medieval towns – and it can all be done without a car

The Guardian - UK

Scots mum left 'helpless' as leak pours from ceiling in water woes that have lasted a month

Fiona Feng, 33, has been without hot water for almost a month in the flat she shares with her husband and two children.

Daily Record

Kate Mulvany returns to the stage after Amazon's Hunters to star as Sarah Bernhardt in Melbourne Theatre Company's Bernhardt/Hamlet

Actor and writer Kate Mulvany has recently played a Nazi-hunting nun for Amazon and an artist accused of murder for Foxtel. Now, she returns to the stage.

ABC News

£95k Nottingham flat for sale in waterside setting but still within walking distance of the city

You could be at the railway station after a 20 minute walk

Nottingham Post

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Luxury home nestled in quiet village for sale

The house was renovated extensively in 2021 and boasts a host of luxury features

The Conversation

Blessed Union puts queer families centre stage, with hilarity and heartbreak

This review contains spoilers.

ABC News

Maeve Marsden's Blessed Union, opening at Belvoir for Sydney WorldPride, might be Australia's first lesbian divorce play

Maeve Marsden grew up the child of lesbian mothers — who subsequently divorced; this experience, and the same-sex marriage postal survey of 2017, inform her comedy Blessed Union.

Wales Online

Whole row of Welsh terrace houses are up for auction

Why buy one house when you can have 14?

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The Jungle and the Sea, follow-up to Counting and Cracking, uses theatre as a safe space to discuss Sri Lankan civil war

For years, Anandavalli stayed silent about her country's civil war but then her playwright son, S. Shakthidharan, started writing about it anyway. Now, she stars in his latest play.

The Conversation

The Jungle and the Sea reminds us war is profoundly local, with the intimate negotiation of human relationships

Review: The Jungle and the Sea, directed by Eamon Flack, Belvoir.

ABC News

Anne-Louise Sarks puts women centrestage in her first Melbourne Theatre Company season as artistic director

The first season from Anne-Louise Sarks features plays about a bohemian art museum founder, the way the legal system fails women, and two sisters seeking revenge.

The Conversation

Belvoir's Tell Me I'm Here looks at the impact of mental illness on the whole family. It is a wrenching and beautiful work

Review: Tell Me I’m Here, directed by Leticia Cáceres, Belvoir.

Nottingham Post

Belvoir Castle's summer series takes visitors back to the 1940s

Six events are planned between now and September

ABC News

The show must go on: How Australia’s performing arts sector has survived two years of COVID

After two years of cancellations and billions of dollars lost, we take stock of the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on Australia’s performing arts and the challenges ahead.

ABC News

Sydney Festival: Boycott, funding controversy and COVID-19 create perfect storm but artists stayed the course

Sydney Festival has been in the eye of a storm this summer, as a $20,000 sponsorship blew out into a boycott and culture clash of international proportions. Here’s how it felt for the artists.

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