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Australian Arts Review (AAR) features the best of Australia’s performing and visual arts sector. Free to access and only featuring professional and independent artistic practice, the website provides up-to-date and relevant editorial content.
A landmark international exhibition celebrating the sari - one of the world’s most worn garments - will make its Australian debut at Bunjil Place Gallery on Saturday 21 March 2026.
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On the Couch features Kidaan Zelleke - who stars in Trophy Boys - which will be presented in the Space Theatre - Adelaide Festival Centre from 17 March - 2 April 2026.
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Classical music’s favourite internet sensations, TwoSet Violin are coming home in June with the announcement that the popular Australian violin duo, Brett Yang and Eddy Chen will embark on the Oceania leg of The Sacrilegious Games World Tour.
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Old Friends! are Back! Mark Trevorrow, Rupert Noffs and Musical Director Bev Kennedy are Singing Sundays again in March at Ginger's - an intimate, purpose built cabaret room upstairs at the Oxford Hotel, Darlinghurst.
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Melbourne’s premier festival of music, art and performance, Rising, has unveiled its 2026 program, unfolding across the city from 27 May to 8 June.
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Following a rigorous national and international search, Opera Australia (OA) has announced the appointment of Amy Lane as Director of Opera, completing OA’s senior leadership recruitment and marking a defining moment in the company’s 70th anniversary year.
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Bill Stephens OAM takes a look at My Brilliant Career - currently playing at the Canberra Theatre Centre until 15 March, before playing the Roslyn Packer Theatre from 21 March – 26 April, and the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 8 – 17 May 2026.
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Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) presents Torch the Place, a laugh-out-loud, deeply heartfelt comedy from much-loved Queensland writer Benjamin Law, playing at the Bille Brown Theatre from 10 – 29 March 2026.
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With a program spanning cane toad couture to interior design trends, robotic limbs to sportswear for a changing climate, Melbourne Design Week 2026 is a national platform for design innovation and imagination from around Australia and the globe.
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Paul Selar takes a look at Australian Contemporary Opera Co.'s double bill of Mary Motorhead & Trade - currently playing in the Beckett Theatre – Malthouse Theatre until 13 March 2026.
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Producers Opera Australia and John Frost for Crossroads Live have announced cast members for the upcoming 70th Anniversary of My Fair Lady, which will premiere at the Sydney Opera House in September before a season at Arts Centre Melbourne.
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Rohan Shearn takes a look at Back to Te Maunga by Joel Te Teira - currently playing at the La Mama Theatre Courthouse until 22 March 2026.
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Craig Dalglish takes a look at ANASTASIA - currently playing at Crown Theatre Perth until 28 March, before playing the Sydney Lyric Theatre from 7 April, the Adelaide Festival Centre from 2 August, and the Lyric Theatre - QPAC, Brisbane, from 16 September 2026.
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June Collins takes a look at The Diary of Anne Frank - currently playing at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre until 21 March, before playing Sydney's State Theatre from 25 March – 2 April 2026.
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Daniel McInnes takes a look at Tracey Yarad in All These Pretty Things - which is currently playing at The Box at ARTHUR ARTHOUSE, as part of the 2026 Adelaide Fringe, until 10 March.
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After award-winning seasons at FRINGE WORLD and Melbourne Fringe, the critically acclaimed cabaret Tomas Clifford Got Stood Up is finally coming to Adelaide Fringe to be the hottest date in town!
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Dr Jytte Holmqvist takes a look at Grace Jones - who recently played in Melbourne as part of an Australian tour.
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City of Melbourne's City Gallery will present On The Street Where I Live: Viva Gibb’s portrait of North and West Melbourne – a landmark exhibition celebrating the work of Melbourne artist and social documentary photographer Viva Jillian Gibb (1945–2017).
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Marking 30 years since the Port Arthur massacre, Theatre Works brings to Melbourne audiences, Tom Holloway’s award-winning play, Beyond The Neck, this March.
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On the Couch features Kate Hudson-James - who stars as Juliet in & Juliet - which will be presented at The Empire Theatre, Toowoomba from 13 - 22 March 2026.
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After acclaimed productions in 2014 and 2019 and international workshops, Drew Downing’s REBEL returns to Melbourne and The MC Showroom this March.
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Australian Contemporary Opera Co. (ACOCO) will present the Australian premiere of Emma O’Halloran’s acclaimed chamber operas Mary Motorhead and Trade in the Beckett Theatre at the Malthouse Theatre in March 2026.
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Melbourne’s largest free community festival, Moomba, kicks off today – with over 1 million visitors expected to flock to the banks of the Yarra River – Birrarung for an action-packed long weekend.
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On the Couch features James Clayton - who stars as Giorgio Germont in West Australian Opera’s production of La Traviata, which will play at Perth's His Majesty’s Theatre from 14 - 28 March 2026.
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Daniel G. Taylor takes a look at Little Miss Typecast - which recently played at the Dom Polski Centre, as part of the Adelaide Fringe; before playing at The Motley Wherehaus (The Candy Room), as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, from 23 – 29 March 2026.
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Tara Oldfield's Diamonds, Furs & Murder: The Many Crimes of Mona Hayes is a historical fiction inspired by the life and crimes of little-known 1930s thief Mona Hayes.
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Rehearsals have begun for the spectacular Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production of The Phantom of the Opera, which makes its highly anticipated return to Mrs Macquaries Point from 27 March to 3 May 2026.
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John Moyle takes a look at Live It Up - The Mental As Anything Story - which screens in selected cinemas across Australian from Thursday 5 March 2026.
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This March, International cabaret provocateurs Briefs Factory are coming to Spiegel Haus Melbourne with The Works - an after-hours edition - louder, raunchier and with a whole lot less left to the imagination.
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A powerful multichannel audio-visual artwork by multi-disciplinary artist Tahlia Palmer (Yuwaalaraay/Gamilaraay and mixed European descent), created in collaboration with Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung man Jasper Cohen-Hunter, will premiere at the Koorie Heritage Trust Inc.
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