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Aussie public school wins international design prize

A small inner Sydney public school has risen above major international design hubs to be named the World Building of the Year.

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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.

The Conversation

At the heart of Sydney Metro’s expanded Central Station lies a spectacular new public space

The new extension to the Sydney Metro can now be accessed beneath McAslan and Woods Bagot’s monumental roof structure above the city’s historic Central Station

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Big Name No Blankets review – Warumpi Band musical is a joyous, rollicking tribute

Co-directed by Rachael Maza and developed with founding member Sammy Butcher and his family, the new show celebrates a transformative, trail-blazing band

The Guardian - AU

Celebrating love in all its forms

Director Heather Fairbairn wanted a real sense of melancholy.

The Canberra Times

The Weekend review – Charlotte Wood stage adaptation tells of love, loss and ageing

Warmth, humour and a heartbreaking dog ground this new play about three women in their 70s dealing with the death of a friend

The Guardian - AU

Scenes from the Climate Era review – the world’s biggest story, told in 50 plays over 80 minutes

David Finnigan’s latest work is kaleidoscopic, using darkly comedic short plays to tell a much grander tale of tragedy, hope and catastrophe

The Guardian - AU

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At What Cost? Nathan Maynard explores the fraught issue of who can call themselves Aboriginal, in the safe space of the theatre

Tasmanian playwright Nathan Maynard is using the safe space of the theatre to examine the fraught issue of who can call themselves Aboriginal, in his play At What Cost?

ABC News

Like Captain Planet with marsupials: First Dog on the Moon steps on stage

First Dog has to ‘suffer the agonies’ of adapting his book The Carbon Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable Enviroteens into a play. He and the cast talk about making climate change fun

The Guardian - AU

Glenn Murcutt's 1970s 'environmentally responsive' farmhouse added to NSW Heritage Register

Architect Glenn Murcutt's "environmentally responsive" home in Kempsey is the second house designed by him to be included on the NSW Heritage Register.

ABC News

Sex Magick: this gender-bending, time-travelling play invites you to detangle love and sex

Review: Sex Magick, directed by Declan Greene.

The Conversation

Blessed Union review – lesbian divorce comedy poses big questions (and gets big laughs)

Charmingly clever and thrillingly sharp, Maeve Marsden’s debut play queers the contemporary domestic drama with heart-aching authenticity

The Guardian - AU

Jonathan had schizophrenia and died at 24. Now Tom Conroy is playing him on stage

The actor is wowing audiences as Jonathan Blain, the son at the heart of Anne Deveson’s bestselling memoir Tell Me I’m Here. He talks about preparing for such a difficult role

The Guardian - AU

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.

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‘An epic drawn from real life’: the radical hit play about a Sri Lankan family’s journey

Counting and Cracking, a multilingual tale of a family’s migration to Australia, is coming to the UK. Its writer Shakthi and director Eamon Flack discuss the inspiration behind this labour of love

ABC News

Indigenous musical The Sunshine Club, a tribute to Brisbane's postwar dance halls, returns to Queensland Theatre

The Sunshine Club celebrates the postwar equivalent of social media for Indigenous people, says writer and director Wesley Enoch: “The only way you got the gossip, or you met new people, or you got to exchange knowledge.”

ABC News

Aboriginal theatre maker Andrea James continues to tell vital First Nations stories in her tribute to tennis legend Evonne Goolagong

With Sunshine Super Girl and Ghosting the Party, Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai theatre maker Andrea James brings vital historical and contemporary First Nations stories to the stage.

The Guardian - AU

Wayside Bride review – a loving tribute to an Australian religious rebel

Alana Valentine’s profoundly relevant play about the Rev Ted Noffs, and the misfits he married in his Kings Cross chapel, is a celebration of diversity

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