Anthony Nocera’s Log Boy asks how we can possibly move on from a crisis that is, indeed, still ongoing.
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An Olympic emblem has to represent a city and a nation – while also engaging the rest of the world. How can one symbol do it all?
In Grace Chapple’s delightful and incisive adaptation, the story refocusses and settles into 2026, reminding us of the power of theatre.
New Stan series Gnomes embraces the cultural cringe of Australianness in a way that’s thoroughly disarming.
Scandinavian design is rooted in a philosophy that seems to make life easier. But it’s been turned into a bland colour palette.
Ultra-short digital content can now be produced, tested and recommended to viewers faster than ever before.
The apology, with the news that personnel and veterans can apply to have historical homosexual convictions wiped from their records, are a well overdue step.
For over two decades, Justene Williams has developed a distinctive visual language. Her survey show, Once We Were Mudskippers, is now at the Queensland Art Gallery.
Tom Holloway’s play uses the real-life story of 1960s chatbot ‘Eliza’ to explore the tension between humans and AI.
Eva Marie Saint showed rare versatility by changing image and style and medium and format across eight decades.
Pneumonic plague was feared by humans for centuries before the advent of modern antibiotic treatments.
For many people, friends play second fiddle to partners and family. Here’s what legal recognition could change, and why getting there is tricky.
Every dollar invested in local live performance is multiplied in benefits to local communities. But state funding has to be strategic and targeted.
Birds are ingenious when it comes to foraging for nest materials, but in the Anthropocene, this often comes at a cost. Giving them better options is one solution.
A divisive documentary, a top-tier Australian drama, a queer baseball comedy and more.
The first major Hollywood animation centred on Filipino culture speaks to the experience of migration that has become so deeply embedded in Philippine society.
In one research project, more than 93% of stage managers interviewed said they had ‘probably’ or ‘definitely’ experienced burnout.
A self-described ‘platypoditudinarian’, Burrell figured out how to keep these animals in captivity – which allowed them to be studied.
Many former convicts changed their names and hid their past. But over the last 50 years, Australians have increasingly discovered – and embraced – convict relatives.
It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure another would stop coming.
One of Australian rock’s most recognisable vocalists, Angry Anderson has died at 79.
Female employees of a tech company get stuck in an elevator in Eloise Snape’s timely play about AI, corporate culture and the patriarchy.
Films using a mixture of animated and live-action elements have been around since the earliest days of animated cinema.
For nearly 60 years, Cue dressed Australian women for changing working lives. Its troubles reveal how work, fashion and professional dress have changed.
Netflix is billing its new series as a ‘modern reimagining’ of the 1971 experiment. But over the past 55 years, the original has become much criticised.