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This adaptation of a Charlotte Wood novel is unflinching and profound
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This adaptation of a Charlotte Wood novel is unflinching and profound

Reviews of all the best shows in Sydney this week, including The Weekend at Belvoir, and Opera Australia’s La Gioconda in Concert.

  • by Joyce Morgan and Peter McCallum

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Get across this singer before her star power has her playing ever-bigger rooms
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Get across this singer before her star power has her playing ever-bigger rooms

A wrap of the week’s live reviews, including Mr Bailey’s Minder, Constellations, Mad Scenes with Jessica Pratt, ACO’s Dvorak’s Serenade and Thandi Phoenix.

  • by John Shand, Peter McCallum and James Jennings
Sweeney Todd is the perfect show to get your loved ones into musicals
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Sweeney Todd is the perfect show to get your loved ones into musicals

A wrap of the best live shows in Sydney, from theatre shows The Turn of the Screw, Fade, Tim and Sweeney Todd to Eagles of Death Metal and Jeonghwan Kim.

  • by John Shand, James Jennings, Harriet Cunningham, Cassie Tongue and Peter McCallum
Adoring crowd laps up every prowl, yelp and yowl from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Adoring crowd laps up every prowl, yelp and yowl from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs deliver a deliriously overstuffed set of crowd-pleasers, led by powerhouse frontwoman Karen O, at their Sydney Splendour sideshow.

  • by Kate Hennessy
‘I’m not sure it’s for me’: What happened when I took my dad to Lizzo
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‘I’m not sure it’s for me’: What happened when I took my dad to Lizzo

Lizzo’s Sydney Splendour sideshow was for the fans – featuring Sasha Flute, her tiny bag, a shoey, and lots and lots of sequins.

  • by Em Meller
Story about the end of the world has moments of theatrical magic
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Story about the end of the world has moments of theatrical magic

A wrap of the weekend’s live reviews, including Sydney Theatre Company’s On the Beach and Slowdive at Enmore Theatre.

  • by Em Meller, John Shand and Harriet Cunningham
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Little Simz proves she’s not your usual rapper at Sydney sideshow
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Little Simz proves she’s not your usual rapper at Sydney sideshow

We caught a glimpse of the artist fully flexing her powers at Little Simz’ Splendour in the Grass sideshow in Sydney.

  • by Shamim Razavi