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A snapshot of the inhabitants of Melbourne’s invisible world at night comes alive in this show.
The newest Spidey instalment has spun major success at the box office amid a superhero movie crisis. What sets this film apart from the rest?
The cast of Ted Lasso talk World Cup, real-life soccer skills and the power of optimistic TV
The live-action animation Looney Tunes hybrid lands in Australian cinemas on September 17.
It’s always OK to try to prick hugely inflated egos and status bubbles. We should always be about decapitating tall poppies.
A drive-by shooting in 1996 claimed one of the most defining and iconic figures of hip-hop. It also left an enduring mystery in its wake.
A simple rally prompted supporters to dig deep, offering new hope for a $30 million plan to redevelop the site.
The author and actor on that life-altering chat with the literary icon, and confronting grief, fatherhood, and letting go of Catholic guilt.
Melbourne nurse Vinnie Gibaldi says it was his day job that helped him handle the pressure of the kitchen.
The 15th century saint will be celebrated in music as one of 13 world premieres in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s season next year.
It’s a rare and charming thing to see Uncle Vanya done in period dress, on a set that evokes a crumbling estate in the last decade of the 19th century.
Elliot Constable has been named winner of the ABC’s Race Around the World – but it was far from smooth sailing.
Full of spectacle and humour, emotion and nostalgia, as a tribute to Neil Diamond, A Beautiful Noise does exactly what it says on the jukebox.
Tony Jones’ documentary Sentient traces the journey of Dr Lisa Jones-Engel, as well as that of the macaque primates.
Kyle Sandilands Live has begun, but the opening moments of the show were far from smooth.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pulled out of the show at the last minute, but other big names joined Sandilands’ much discussed return.
What business does a 22-year-old, who belongs to a generation that barely engages with traditional media, have hosting the most traditional night on Australian TV?
The celebrity blogger’s family has asked members of both the media and the public to stop visiting his home, as he prepares to undergo surgery.
The former MasterChef Australia judge has swapped the bright lights of a studio for the great outdoors.
Artist Tom Carment reflects on five decades of bushwalks, brutal art reviews, and stylish typewriters with the late poet Robert Gray.
My arm hairs stand on end; an uneasy shock settles in. The whole thing takes about 15 minutes.
Abou Sangare won a Cesar award for his debut performance in The Story of Souleymane, but he’d prefer to stick to his dream job.
Virginia is not the place our girl belongs. Meanwhile, Miranda has gone viral for all the wrong reasons.
The stars have not responded to fevered speculation about their relationship, but the pictures tell the story.
The central relationship in F1 is between Pitt and the camera – and he knows exactly how to use it.
Yungblud’s new album is a Tarantino-esque pastiche of ’80s metal, ‘90s Britpop and ’00s emo. It works … sometimes.
The famous actor from all your favourite movies returns to Australia for the Supanova pop culture expo.
On new album I Quit, the sister-trio embrace single life and sound positively dizzy about it.
It’s 23 years since director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland redefined the zombie genre. Their latest outing proves there’s life in it still.
With inventive animation and neat plotting, this Pixar production is more ambitious than the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch
K-pop titans BTS split in 2022 to pursue solo projects and complete military service but this week, their fans got some good news.
Aidan Jones describes his latest show as “classical piano presented with jokes by a bald dickhead” – and it’s a formula that works.
The billionaire entertainment mogul and royal friend allegedly repeatedly harassed and assaulted an actor working on his show The Oval.
The 1000-Lb Sisters looked back at just how far they'd come by returning to the scrapyard where they weighed themselves years ago.
US writer and director Cooper Raiff worked on his bittersweet dramedy for five years. Letting go has been surprisingly difficult.
Analiese Gregory is as adventurous as ever as she returns for the second season of A Girl’s Guide to Hunting, Fishing and Wild Cooking.
New western The Unholy Trinity, shot in Montana, has an unlikely Australian connection.
What better way to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday than to imagine yourself dating her male archetypes?
The 24-year–old is storming the charts with her critically acclaimed debut album and heading out on a world tour.
Primrose Dunlop has died aged 70 following a colourful life among the social elite of Sydney and Melbourne.
After personal grief, the 26-year-old star steps back into the light with her adventurous second album.
How the pioneering artist who once declared “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people” has come to refer to himself as ‘Yadolf Yitler’.
The nation’s biggest arts company is facing some of the most significant challenges in its existence.
Apple Cider Vinegar, the story based on scammer Belle Gibson, has topped Netflix charts world-wide. Here’s a guide to the key players.
The bonkers tale of a group of high school students who (mostly) survive a 1996 plane crash returns with even more mysteries.
All other biennale finalists have called for Creative Australia to reinstate multimedia artist Khaled Sabsabi as the nation’s chosen entrant.
The ones that I find most irritating are the family photographs. They are always the same.
Creative Australia has dumped artist Khaled Sabsabi as the nation's entrant to the Venice Biennale, after questions were raised in parliament about his work, including this 2006 piece titled Thank you very much.
The two contestants say gender politics plays a large role in the new season of Australian Survivor - and not everyone will be pleased.
Cameron Daddo will perform alongside good friend Rebecca Gibney as the pair make their STC debuts.
The musical adaptation of smash hit movie Pretty Woman will make its Australian debut in Brisbane, but will it be a sure thing?
“It’s very strange to go through the life journey in real time with a fictional character,” says the actor of reprising her most enduring role.
Curator Michael Dagostino and artist Khaled Sabsabi had been selected to show at the 2026 event, regarded as contemporary art’s most prestigious event.
From an Andy Samberg time loop comedy to a gender-swapped Notting Hill, these titles deserve a bit more love this February 14.
The rockers revelled in the Marvel Stadium crowd’s good vibes, performing a set too infectious to deny.
More than 75,000 tiles were manufactured to replace original glass mosaics encased in ugly pebblecrete on the walls of Sydney’s first high-rise tower. The effect is shimmering.
In his new novel, Nick Harkaway fills in the blanks of the years between his late father’s novels, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Smiley’s People.
At 63, the acid-rave legend talks up Primal Scream’s politically charged new album and their upcoming Australia tour.
Season 2 of Netflix’s The Diplomat stars Keri Russell as the US ambassador to the UK – and Australia as a back-stabbing support act.
Real or not, the elusive beast has its claws deep into the collective psyche of the western city. Art gallery director Toby Chapman is no exception.
Fans of the British writer shared collective groans and called for the focus to be on the author at Thursday night’s show.
The New York-based Julie Mehretu has become a star of the international art world, at times courting controversy.
Subscribers have the opportunity to stream the world’s best documentaries for free for 3 months with DocPlay.
Don’t miss the final Australian season of cultural phenomenon, Hamilton for an exclusive discounted price.
Following sold-out screenings at the Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne Film Festivals, subscribers have the opportunity to see this radical documentary for free.
The painting is on loan for two years from the National Gallery of Australia as part of a program designed to bring visitors to regional galleries.
Bridget Jones fans are furious after a preview for the new film revealed her long-time love interest is dead. But I couldn’t be happier.
Yellowstone star Kelly Reilly reveals the unlikely inspiration behind her character Beth Dutton on The Drew Barrymore Show.
Andrew Turley knew little about art when he walked into an auction house and walked away with a $40,000 painting. It was the beginning of a remarkable journey.
“In the arts we often wear our struggles as badges of honour but the question remains: is this hustle taking a toll on our leaders and our organisations?”
In one of her last acts as US ambassador, Caroline Kennedy has sealed a deal to safeguard at-risk South Pacific cultural relics and artefacts.
Can Bob Murphy and Sharnelle Vella help turn around the fortunes of ABC Radio Melbourne?
She may have a famous family name - and connections - but the Irish actor is building a career all her own.
To have suggested 25 years ago that The Wharf Revue would last 25 years would have been one of the jokes.
Retiring 2GB star Ray Hadley has lost his first radio ratings survey since 2004, breaking a streak of 160 wins.
As the landmark music program celebrates its 50th birthday, local artists celebrate its impact and call for a new version.
Daniel Bogado’s documentary tracks the trail of devastation left by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, but also shines a light on the goodness of people in the aftermath.
Sturdy and familiar pillars support this origin story behind the science-fiction movies, set 10,000 years earlier.
Set in Berlin, Counterpart features two J.K. Simmons characters in parallel worlds linked by a single crossing.
The star of the new crime drama Cross, based on James Patterson’s novels, brings a methodical, detailed approach to his work.
The musician and composer has played it all, across six decades. He’s now in Melbourne for a world premiere that draws on the sacred harp singing made famous in the Appalachian hills.
After five years in the chair, comedian Sammy J has called time on his stint as host of ABC Melbourne’s Breakfast show.
The network will run AFL content every night and offer a fresh news bulletin. Chris Brown gets a new comedy-travel show, but there’s not much in the way of original programming.
In an interview on Today Extra, Wes Bentley discusses the final ever episodes of Yellowstone and what we can expect from the new season.
Karl Stefanovic shares his horror after the fate of Kevin Costner's character John Dutton was confirmed in the first few minutes of the Yellowstone mid-season premiere.
The world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction has been announced in London this morning. Australian Charlotte Wood was among six authors shortlisted, but an English author took out the award.
The Sharon Horgan-led family comedy drama was a surprise hit for the streamer. But did it really need a sequel?
This handsome coffee-table book about the “iconic” director is well-written and accessible, if not entirely substantial.
A new documentary by an Australian filmmaker explores Maria Anna Mozart’s immense talent and how it was gradually obscured over time.
At 30, the 21-year film veteran sparked a global discussion about violence against women without the usual backlash.
With credits including The Newsreader, So Long, Marianne, Secret City and Mindhunter, Anna Torv’s impressive CV has steadily grown without attracting a lot of public attention.
This collection of literary journeys based on real places is both travel companion and time machine.
The author of The Overstory’s new novel examines the climate crisis, life in our oceans and generative AI
British author Minette Walters, once one of the world’s most successful crime novelists, on her new historical novel The Players, and why she always has strong female characters in her books.
Sacked pianist Jayson Gillham will come up against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for an initial hearing in the Federal Court next week.
Some suggestions: paper-shaper, a cubist, a cartonist, a cat-home architect, a crease monkey, a chairman of the board, a manila folder and a Pratt.
If it’s a human thing to want what we can’t have, then even men of the cloth might be super sexy for the irreligious.
Ruva Ngwenya’s powerful performance as Tina Turner must be seen – and heard – to be believed.
Christopher Reeve was Superman to the world, but his children watched him take on his greatest challenge.
The cast of Yellowstone reveal a big set 'secret' ahead of the series' finale coming soon to Stan.
The case has gained new attention in recent weeks after Netflix began streaming a documentary series about the brothers.
The viral baby pygmy hippo’s keepers have warned zoo goers to be gentle. Here’s a look at the cautionary tales of the internet’s other favourite animals.
Our guide to the best of what’s on the streamers and free-to-air in Australia this month.
Chris Martin has said “quality control” fades around the dozen-album mark. A new album takes the band a step closer to its end.
Documents released under freedom-of-information laws reveal Australia’s richest person appealed directly to the National Gallery’s chair Ryan Stokes.
Studios and streamers have become skittish about projects based on Neil Gaiman’s work after sexual misconduct allegations.
Star of Wombat and It’s A Knockout’s death comes after three-year battle with motor neurone disease
From the secrets of a public library to dating roulette, this year’s Fringe is in full swing. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.
90 Day Fiancé's Big Ed opens up to 9Entertainment about how his recent engagement ended and why he's 'never giving up' on love.
The stoush between the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and a pianist has escalated, with legal action filed in the Federal Court.
A Dally M red carpet appearance had fans non-stop talking about … Bunnings? Let’s unpack this baffling response.
Joe reveals in the time he's lost over 400 lbs he's also found love on My 600Lb Life Where Are They Now?
Joe works to lose over 100 lbs to qualify for weight loss surgery on My 600Lb Life Where Are They Now?
Celebrities rubbed shoulders, dancers gyrated inside giant balloons, models lounged in bikinis. The hip hop mogul now in custody had a broad reach into worlds of music, movies, fashion and more.
Ethical issues abound as medical staff debate whether to go on strike, but this series also has a soapie side.
Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, the sequel is wildly misconceived – a small story inflated by grandiose intentions.
As Beau Woodbridge prepares to take the stage for Dear Evan Hansen, the actor and show’s director talk about the musical’s dark subject.
This sordid yet cosy British melodrama starring Ian McKellen is full of people behaving badly, but it never quite comes together.
With creatives from Succession and Veep, this movie set satire perches uneasily between the current reality and plausible excess of superhero film making.
A professor of architecture, Anthony Burke has an unpretentious bounce and cheer that make him ideal for the Australian edition of this prestige series.
If you need a new binge, try dipping into the back-catalogue of some of this year’s hottest TV creators.
The zany framework of the comedian’s show - asking guests about an impending disaster - provides revealing moments.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author continues her intricate world building, and brings back characters that her fans will love.
Having wowed audiences in London, the Succession star is set to take on New York in the brilliantly reimagined Oscar Wilde tale.
Ali Abbasi sees The Apprentice as a study in naked ambition. But his subject isn’t the only one who’s not happy.
John Witzig’s photographs are a unique and evocative record of the golden era of Australian surfing.
They were saints and scholars, radicals and trailblazers. Finally, their stories are being told.
The alleged victims are men and women, ranging in age from nine to 38 at the time of the attacks. Combs’ lawyer says the music mogul looks forward to proving his innocence.
The superstar channels her inner rebel as the complex Harleen “Lee” Quinzel in Joker: Folie à Deux.
As part of an upcoming exhibition, ACMI is turning to pop culture, video games and films including Blade Runner 2049 to offer up a look of what might lie ahead.
National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo, has become mired in controversy over its stance on AI.
The story of how Charles Todd connected Australia to the world has violence, tragedy, obsession and more.
The GameChanger Academy promises to create a pipeline of highly skilled animators, VFX artists and game designers. But will it be enough?
The Scottish woman who outed herself as the real-life ‘Martha’ has a reasonable chance of succeeding in her defamation claim, a US judge has ruled.
It’s an embarrassment of riches for live music fans this month, with rap icons, a jazz legend and a swag of pop megastars hitting town.
British producer Sophie’s ceaseless innovation had pop singers either imitating her or hitting her up to collaborate.
This cracking story is based on the real-life story of Joan Hannington, a master jewel thief in 1980s London.
The acclaimed author’s 500-page novel is something of a departure – a cli-fi thriller set 200 years from now.
Once considered a risky investment for HBO, the network’s sexed-up series about the world of high finance is finally blowing (and growing) up.
This year’s festival has kicked off, with almost 500 shows on offer across Melbourne and greater Victoria. Here, our writers take a closer look.
The country superstar wrote several classics. A singer himself, many of his songs were best known as performed by others.
Celebrity publicist Alan Edwards’ memoir is packed with anecdotes about his encounters with some of the biggest names in rock and pop.
In The Passion of Saint Nicholas, Geraldine Quinn tries to make sense of the loss of a sibling.
This pleasant and accessible version of Pride and Prejudice is for everyone – from dedicated Janeites to lovers of Bridgerton.
Read em’ and weep. Royel Otis has swept the 2024 Aria nominations, with the indie duo up for eight prizes, while Kylie Minogue returns with five nominations of her own.
The former first lady seems not to crave the constant attention which is her husband’s oxygen, but she apparently has the same instinct for hustling as he does,
All eyes were on Katy Perry in the lead-up to the AFL grand final. And when she finally performed pre-game, she was best on ground.
He spent more than 400 episodes on the Ramsay Street cul-de-sac, now Jesse Spencer is back for Last Days of the Space Age.
Soap operas and secret locations: here’s a taste of what’s to come at Melbourne Fringe.
Libraries are adding extra seats, opening late and clearing space for an expected influx of year 12 students. But teens are embracing them after exam time.
Dannii Minogue finally opened up to the popular ABC presenter on her music talk show, where famous guests reveal their top five songs.
British actor Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and won new fans in “Downton Abbey,” has died, her family said on Friday. She was 89.
An appeals court judge has ruled that the art gallery’s controversial Ladies Lounge is not discriminatory in refusing entry to men.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives isn’t just TikTok drama on a slightly bigger screen. It’s an exploration of a religion evolving in real time.
Head of Create NSW, Annette Pitman, has been named chief executive of the Museums of History, its fourth leader since the institution was formed two years ago.
Luke Wilson admits Kevin Costner left his speechless when being cast in his brand new movie Horizon: An American Saga on Stan.
Most video games are designed to be addictive, but Rotted Luck – which users play as a sentient fungus – actively tries to be the complete opposite.
From Damien Hirst to Andy Warhol, there are major artists on display where you might not expect them.
Forget Emmys, it’s the dictionary set to enshrine the writer’s legacy, capturing labels we never knew we needed.
As a singer, she broke records in the 1980s – then gave it all away. But Wilde, who tours Australia in October, couldn’t stay away from music for long.
The second season of Ryan Murphy’s biographical crime anthology, about Lyle and Erik Menendez’s murder of their parents, is a series of unspeakable horrors.
Nobody Wants This pairs a sex podcaster with a “hot rabbi” in a story that mirrors the writer’s life.
Jason Alexander, the actor who played George Costanza in the hit ’90s sitcom, says many of the show’s storylines wouldn’t be possible now.
Created by Mithila Gupta, whose credits include Neighbours, Bump and Home and Away, Four Years Later tracks a romance tested by distance.
A “favourite Australian artist” will perform I Kissed a Girl with the pop superstar – and one name is on everyone’s lips.
This long-running reality colossus succeeds because wherever you put people, ultimately we’re all the same.
Loosely based on creator Erin Foster’s real-life experiences, this 10-part series finds a hot rabbi and a tiny blonde shiksa falling for each other.
Watch the brand new trailer for adventure series Nautilus, filmed in Queensland and premiering soon only on Stan.
Padam Padam summer is coming to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in 2025.
It wouldn’t be an arts festival if there was not at least one show that was challenging and a little bewildering.
Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton reunite for the long-delayed sequel that never allows schmaltz to overtake the morbid gags.
Meet Becky Guiles, the self-proclaimed "most frugal mum in America' on So Freakin Cheap on 9Now.
From putting dishes in the washing machine to reusing rainwater Becky explains how she saves money on So Freakin Cheap on 9Now.
At 56, the rap great is looking to bust hip-hop’s age barrier with his first album in 11 years.
The documentary Never Look Away is about “a wild woman in terms of sex, drugs and punk music” – maverick photojournalist Margaret Moth.
September marks the beginning of the peak publishing season. Here is a selection of the novels coming from here and overseas in the next couple of months.
Debilitated by agoraphobia and depression in the 1980s, the English musician – who has a new album and a global tour – learned to find purpose in her struggles.
David Chase opens up about the origins The Sopranos in an in-depth celebration of the series.
Half a year before the MSO became embroiled in a free speech row, its managing director wrote to subscribers extolling the importance of freedom of expression.
The art market is hoping for a sales boost when Sydney Contemporary opens to the public on Thursday.
It was a new dog big on attitude who finally convinced The Book Thief author to put pen to paper.
Bride Brocarde explains how she first met her soon-to-be husband, a Victorian ghost named Edwardo, on Say Yes To The Dress With Tan France on 9Now.
Bride Brocarde tells Tan France about her unconventional relationship on Say Yes To The Dress With Tan France on 9Now.
The show’s response to its flagging Victorian ratings figures has been typically tasteful and classically understated.
Gina Rinehart has yet to resolve a wrangle between her and the National Portrait Gallery over a portrait she wants to donate to its collection.
The autobiographical revue by fashion’s ultimate gender bender is a saucy crowd-pleaser bursting at the seams with talent and creativity.
Sophie Turner plays a single mother-turned-jewel thief in the brand new series Joan, coming October 1, only on Stan.
Jayson Gillham was removed from the orchestra’s line-up after dedicating a piece of music to journalists killed in Gaza.
The three-time Grammy Award winners are back with a concert about the struggle against apartheid.
It’s meant to be a kids’ franchise, but young adults are still lapping it up. What is it about this yellow sponge that has Gen Z in a chokehold?
Our guide to the best of what’s on the streamers and free-to-air in Australia this month.
With a theme leaning so heavily on music, it’s not a surprise The Children’s Bach was adapted into an opera – but does it keep its magic when taken off the page?
She started as a 19-year-old tap dancer, was nominated for an Oscar when she was 84 and now has her first lead role, but June Squibb wouldn’t have it any other way.
Glenn A. Baker is to Australian rock music what Bob Woodward is to American politics. But questions remain. The “A”? The hat? What happened backstage at Countdown?
“I can’t think of a single example where an artist has come and created a work from scratch,” Art Gallery of NSW curator Melanie Eastburn said.
The singer, 53, was seen struggling as he climbed onto a platform during Friday’s performance in Connecticut, before passing out.
A shared passion for live music and country pubs has driven the new owners of the Punters Club to relaunch the Brunswick Street venue.
At 82, Australian abstract artist Lesley Dumbrell’s retrospective, Thrum, is long overdue.
The real-life story of a rap trio from Belfast and their fight to save the Irish language has become one of the year’s hottest films.
Yves Rees’ book tells the story of 10 Australian women who left the country to find their way in early 20th-century America.
When Gideon Haigh’s brother died he was utterly bereft. Now he has written about how the tragedy changed his life.
When Mark Baker writes about the operational activities of the men who sank the Tirpitz, his book really flies.
J.P. Pomare’s latest crime novel uncovers the role racism plays in the criminal justice system.
Female sexual taboos have offered rich pickings for filmmakers. But this time around, a familiar tale caused outrage in Cannes.
Chris Weitz was part of the team behind the raunchy 1990s comedy, but his new film Afraid proves how times have changed.
The people behind the cinematic legend relive the colour and chaos behind the scenes – and how one casting misstep might have changed everything.
The trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded epic Megalopolis has been withdrawn after finding it included false and misleading quotes.
ABC’s suite of factual programs propel often-marginalised people and subjects into the mainstream.
The Hollywood star plays a suspended cop seeking redemption in this darkly comic adaptation of Carl Hiaasen’s mystery novel.
Jennifer Wong is one of the stars of the upcoming Sydney Fringe Festival with her quirky take on food and growing up.
Based on a true story, the problems with Take My Hand are many, and evident from the outset.
The 35-year-old star found purpose, fury and Channing Tatum while making her provocative debut as a director.
Zoe Kravitz’s Blink Twice is an energetic horror satire that uses Tatum’s looks and charm to make an unlikely villain.
Famous for playing Sayid in plane crash thriller TV series Lost, British actor Naveen Andrews is trying a “different side” as a nightclub owner in Last King of the Cross.
When Alyshia Graham bought this book for her 10-year-old based on its cartoon cover, she had no idea it contained dozens of explicit sex scenes.
The partnership behind one of our most iconic bands ended badly but what happened next is less straightforward.
Nadia Townsend is the dramaturg double-Logie winner Felix Cameron thanked in his acceptance speech on Sunday night.
Antoinette Lattouf and Josh Szeps abruptly left the ABC within days of each other. Now they’re discussing one of the thorniest subjects in media.
Paul Duldig concedes a complaint was made about a writer’s pro-Palestine stance, but denies it was the reason for the cancellation of a series of workshops.
The Elliott Collection reveals the city of yesteryear – now it’s part of an exhibition showing how much Brisbane, and the world, has changed.
“There’s a certain type of person that enjoys self-flagellation,” says author Coleman Hughes, ahead of his Australian visit.
1000-Lb Sisters star Tammy Slaton marked her impressive 500-Lb weight loss in a TikTok video.
Donahue’s willingness to explore the hot-button social issues of the day emerged immediately. In 1967, he featured an atheist as his first guest.
Marco Fusinato strummed a guitar eight hours a day for 200 days straight as Australia’s representative at Venice – but didn’t play a single song.
Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds have provided a perfect case study in how modern films are marketed, and for some reason it involves eating a lot of chicken.
A well-deserved TV veteran won Gold, but a teenage actor from a streaming series won the night as the Logies confronted an undeniable changing of the guard.
Acclaimed Russian-American writer Masha Gessen has not been allowed to enter the country over the weekend, following convictions in Russia handed down in absentia.
Larry Emdur had rated his chance of winning the Gold Logie so low that he pledged to get the tattoo if won. The Morning Show host has proven he’s a man of his word.
“The distance between politics and art is never very large,” says Jessica Agoston Cleary, a patron of the MSO.
Netflix’s adaptation was the big winner as the local TV industry handed out prizes at the 64th annual Logie Awards.
Celebrities are beginning to arrive on the red carpet, ahead of Australian TV’s night of nights. Follow our live coverage.
Packing an Agatha Christie-like drawing room mystery into a two-person show, Murder for Two offers up an evening of criminally entertaining musical comedy.
Sarah McCreanor, a Brisbane dancer who now lives in Los Angeles, talks about her TikTok fame and physical — as well as funny — work.
Jane Campion, the director of The Piano and The Power of the Dog, has won the lifetime achievement award at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.
For over 60 years, the Gold Logie has recognised our best and brightest TV talent, but the prestigious award has had its share of bumps.
Arts and artificial intelligence are often at odds, but a new dance performance aims to create harmony from the intersection.
The recent additions of Higgins, Kasey Chambers and Jet to the Hall of Fame suggest the ARIA people have no idea how awards should actually work.
The MSO has been under fire since its decision to remove acclaimed pianist Jayson Gillham from a concert after he dedicated a piece to journalists killed in Gaza.
Masha Gessen says there is nothing unique when it comes to making historical comparisons, only the usual responsibilities demanded of all writers.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner has followed up her bestseller Fleishman is in Trouble with a dysfunctional family story in the vein of Succession and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Frank Gardiner pulled off the country’s biggest gold heist, but his story epitomises the ambivalence that Australians had for bushrangers.
Margaret Hickey’s latest novel could be termed as a “destination thriller”: beautiful setting, but grisly occurrences.
Author Tristan Bancks’ novel Scar Town is one of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia award winners.
A music program for boys brings together unlikely and often reluctant singers, with heart-warming results.
He has created grisly monsters for The Hobbit and The Portable Door, but now Australian Steve Boyle is taking up the scariest post of all: directing.
The 22-year-old First Nations artist crafts a coming-of-age marvel on her first album, Zorb.
Almost 25 years on, the Jackass ethos remains one to live by: happiness is not complicated.
Youssef and Alone Australia winner Gina Chick join Zemiro for the second season of SBS’s local travel show.
Former British politician Rory Stewart is one half of a hugely successful show that promotes intelligent policy discussion.
No topic was off limits when celebrities such as Sam Neill, Amanda Kellar and the Prime Minister agreed to take part in The Assembly.
This true-crime documentary series about laundering drug money through Texas horse racing could have had more impact
The nine-part series taps into a classic movie device that traces back to James Stewart’s It’s a Wonderful Life
Thriving competition and budget pressures challenge the network responsible for The Sopranos, The Wire and Game of Thrones
The actor and comedian is back presenting a new series of Great Australian Walks with help from Susie Youssef and Gina Chick.
As Lily Collins’ ingenue in Paris embarks on her fourth series of adventures, two critics argue why it’s OK to love – or hate – the show.
Back for a fourth season, Emily in Paris has nailed its formula more completely than ever.
Cars and golfers give way to bots and billabongs in the NGV’s 2070 vision for our much-maligned river.
Speaking on the Will & Woody radio show, Andy Lee tells the story of when he was stumped while presenting an award live on air.
Director Fede Alvarez had to look to the past - and the future - when designing Alien: Romulus, which sits between the original Alien and its sequel, Aliens.
It’s the biggest performing arts festival in the world, with a history of launching careers – if you can win the (sometimes empty) room.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has also cancelled an event on Thursday night, citing “safety concerns”.
Maureen Callahan’s book goes over some familiar ground, but assembles a case against Kennedy men over how they treated the women in their lives.
Timothee Chalamet and Scarlett Johansson might be cashing in, but these luxury ads really are worth watching.
Bridget Brennan, who became the first Indigenous panellist on Insiders in 2020, will take her seat on the couch after Lisa Millar departs next week.
The Blind Sea follows para-surfing champion Matt Formston on his quest to conquer the “Everest of waves” in Portugal.
The stage production of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is heading to Melbourne – so how do you make such a famous creature feel real?
Alien: Romulus takes place in the period between Ridley Scott’s 1979 original and James Cameron’s 1986 sequel.
A stage show based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic The Lord of the Rings comes to Australia in 2025.
Bowie was born for the big screen, but among his famous roles is an obscure gem that Brisbane audiences now have the chance to see.
One festival is coming and another is going: it’s just another day in Australia’s turbulent live music industry.
The imminent demise of Bluesfest is not a complete surprise, but nor is it a death knell for the concept of music festivals.
The curtain is coming down on one of the nation’s best-loved and longest running music festivals.
The Billy Wilder classic Double Indemnity was the most influential film noir release, but certainly not the last.
Science Gallery Melbourne’s latest exhibition posits the controversial idea in a show featuring work by mostly women from across the Asia-Pacific region.
Pianist Jayson Gillham has said he was “surprised at the strength of the reaction” following his cancelled appearance by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
It would appear that & Juliet has been pipped at the post by Six the Musical for the poppiest show ever inspired by the 16th century.
Awkward interviews, Instagram snubs and a scene written by Ryan Reynolds? The new film starring Blake Lively has become mired in behind-the-scenes cast drama.
Powerhouse Museum’s star attraction, Locomotive No. 1, has been trucked out of its Ultimo home to make way for $300 million refurbishment, as part of a giant logistics effort.
Director Eric Goode explores the world of “monkey love” in his new documentary series – and it is wild.
The award-winning actor plays a drug dealer in new cop drama Critical Incident, and it’s a long way from Play School. “Even my dad couldn’t watch.”
Her performance divided the globe, and had many Australians wondering how she had qualified. This is how a 36-year-old academic was chosen for the Paris Games.
Returning to the airwaves six months on from his shock cancer diagnosis, the popular broadcaster explains his last-minute decision to switch treatments.
Parallel worlds collide in Critical Incident as a capable young police officer is investigated after a tragic accident.
The pioneering television journalist and war correspondent’s book Boned exposed cultural problems within commercial television.
In Dylin Hardcastle’s second novel, the two main characters face pressure not to be their true selves.
Bands hitting town this month include a home-grown Americana outfit, an Aussie rapper and shoegaze pioneers Ride.
Elijah Wood recalls his embarrassing first day of filming Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Hot Ones on 9Now.
Elijah Wood recalls the most magical and "jarring" cinematic moments from the set of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Hot Ones on 9Now.
Benjamin Nichol’s nuanced characters have made him a rising star of Melbourne’s theatre scene. His work starts with a single paragraph.
The ‘half Channel Seven, half Channel Ten’ master of deadpan quips is donning the tuxedo to host the Logies for a second time
Queensland Theatre cited illness when it cancelled a play satirising Donald Trump, but the truth is proving more complicated.
In his biggest exhibition yet, Rob McHaffie captures the quiet spirit of the everyday – and the title of each work is a short story of its own.
It’s a photo finish between South Korea’s cyberpunk, the Turkish shooter with his hand in his pocket, and a well-endowed pole vaulter.
After the ladies discover their sons are in their dating pool, the group gets to know each other on MILF Manor on 9Now.
It was the project that divided Melbourne and split the architectural community. A new exhibition reopens the city’s wartime wounds.
Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she will be “extra involved” in Kamala Harris’ campaign as interest in the HBO show soars.
The creator of Twin Peaks revealed that his condition leaves him only able to walk short distances before running out of breath, making directing nearly impossible.
Hit by cancellations and rising costs, festival organisers say the cap on concerts at Centennial Park should be lifted.
There are plenty of books coming out this month. Here is just a selection of the titles that could keep you out of the chill for the next few weeks.
Hillbilly Elegy was acclaimed on publication in 2016, but now its author is Donald Trump’s running mate, assessments are changing.
Both playful and powerful, the work of the Western suburbs-raised artist digs into important and thorny issues.
Ever wondered what Olympians listen to get in the zone? Shayna Jack loves hip-hop, while one of our favourite Matildas can’t get enough of Troye Sivan.
Sanaz Toossi’s comedy, English, probes the relationship between language, identity and power.
The entire three-week run of the White House farce has been pulled, but a spokesperson says sickness, not politics, was behind the decision.
After her Golden Globe-winning turn in The Farewell, the actress stars in what might be the funniest action movie of the year.
Aside from Donald Trump, most of us feel for Joe Biden, getting the tap that signals the twilight has gathered.
A new exhibition of Max Dupain’s photos at the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum shines a light on student life in the 1950s.
After a recent string of critical and commercial disappointments, is Hollywood’s most reliable hit factory back in the game?
The winners for 2024 have been announced, and they include an AI-generated work and images that push the definition of a “portrait” to the limit.
The National Museum of Australia’s Discovering Ancient Egypt exhibition, one of three big shows in Australia, has cautionary signs for those who might be upset by human remains.
Paul Ham has written an ambitious and stimulating book arguing that history is powered by ideas. Our reviewer is not entirely convinced.
Three friends go cliff climbing in Hayley Scrivenor’s new crime novel, but one plummets to her death. Why?
The strength of essayist Lauren Elkin’s first novel comes from the interiority of her characters.
As I wrote my latest novel, I wanted readers to think about something bigger than ‘whodunit’.
Six years after Declan Furber Gillick decided to teach himself how to write plays, he took out one of Australia’s most prestigious theatre awards.
Our guide to the best of what’s on the streamers and free-to-air in Australia this month.
Watching Girls, listening to Lou Reed and smelling Flowerbomb, I’m transported back in time.
The former teen idol gives a darkly funny performance as his character, the Butcher, tries to evade capture at a pop concert.
The veteran of stage and screen is starring in a fresh adaptation of the long-running play The Woman In Black.
Whether your favourite genre is romance, crime or history, there’s a new release to match your reading interests.
Martin Phillipps - widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest songwriters - penned heavenly pop hits across a five decade long career, while overcoming some of life’s hardships.
The comedic stage production parodies the iconic film about the world’s most famous nautical tragedy.
Three performers now present their acts in a deluge of 10,000 litres of water, but first they had to learn to walk on it.
Celine Dion’s showstopping performance at the Paris Olympics was almost a call to arms for her fans.
Deadpool & Wolverine has broken R-rated records box office records. But when it comes to R-ratings and movie tickets, almost anything goes.
Expectations were high after Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s creation was the top box office film of the year.
The vertigo-inducing spectacle of rooftopping is the backdrop for a budding romance in Skywalkers: A Love Story.
This year’s winners, including Anh Do’s 14-year-old son Leon, painted siblings, parents and best friends.
Andrewartha will be best remembered for playing Lyn Scully in Neighbours and Reb Keane in Prisoner.
The world’s biggest movie, America’s vice-president and a Penguin launch that almost went up in smoke.
The Piano Man has performed his final concert of a historic residency at Madison Square Garden.
With clowns, ballet dancers and models, and performances from Lady Gaga and Celine Dion, the Paris Opening Ceremony was a remarkable triumph.
Fly-on-the-wall series Junior Doctors Down Under shows that life in a hospital emergency department is not what you see in TV dramas.
Of all the art events I’ve attended over the past decade, my trips to Newhaven have proven the most valuable.
Patrick Clair says the best title designs are a lot more than just “wrapping” for a show.
Among the literary museums in the UK is one where the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived in the books by Arthur Conan Doyle.
As an 18-year-old the writer had an adventure in Corfu that has coloured the rest of his life.
Fiona McFarlane’s linked short stories focus on how a killer and his crimes affect various lives over time.
Inside Out 2 has broken two major records since its release but a Disney film is still beating it at the box office.
From the events worth staying up late for, to fun facts and myth-busting, our guide to the Games has it all.
When India Donaldson asked her little sister if she knew any actors, she couldn’t have guessed that Lily Collias had the makings of a star.
Founded in 1970 as a comic book convention, the event is where Hollywood’s studios bring out their big guns to promote upcoming films and series.
On her way to Australia, the genre-defying Alexandra Drewchin takes a moment out of her head-spinning schedule.
Australian musicians are calling for authorities to investigate the market power of major corporate players like Live Nation.
Singer Young Woo Kim was two days into a holiday when a phone call saw him racing to Melbourne for a flurry of rehearsals and excitement.
The TV adaptation of Scott Turow’s courtroom thriller ended with a twist you may or may not have seen coming.
The tight-knit hardcore scene has an aversion to outside interest. But that hasn’t stopped Speed from becoming Australia’s biggest musical export in years.
Rinehart lobbied Seven chief executive Ryan Stokes in a campaign the National Gallery of Australia feared would be weaponised by Peter Dutton in parliament.
A host of celebrities have attended this week’s Republican National Conference to support former president Donald Trump.
Olympian Clementine Stoney Maconachie is headed for Paris - but not as a swimmer this time.
After five years in Los Angeles, Salme Geransar returned home thinking her career would be over. Now she’s on stage in a Pulitzer-winning play.
Ashley Storrie delivers a commanding turn as the stubbornly outspoken heroine Nina in the at-times hilarious and sensitive comedy Dinosaur.
With epics, toe-tappers, classics and fresh imaginings of every size and flavour, Sydney’s stages are bursting with entertainment
A light-hearted TikTok video was viewed tens of millions of times before attracting the ire of online misogynists, including Andrew Tate.
Madeleine Stewart has curated a show that’s a carefree place for performers with disabilities.
The series set in a Chicago kitchen scooped Emmy Award nominations overnight, sparking renewed debate about category genres.
Birdeater uses the seclusion of the landscape to build and sustain a deep psychological unease, but struggles with characterisation and pacing.
British concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy is a champion of left-hand alone repertoire – and next year will be performing with the MSO.
From Francis Ford Coppola’s extravagant folly to a movie about Bigfoot and the premiere of Adam Elliot’s new animation, here are our top MIFF picks.
Shogun, The Bear and Only Murders in the Building were the most nominated programs for the 76th annual Emmy Awards.
There’s nothing like combat in the Colosseum, intrigue on the Senate floor, and decadent parties between masters and slaves to excite jaded genre audiences.
Samantha Morton is just as deliciously wicked in the new season of this account of the life of Catherine de Medici.
Jack Black and his musical partner, Kyle Gass, called off their Australian tour after an “improvised” joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Too soon?
More than 20 years after her breakout role in Bend It Like Beckham, Nagra is once again playing an outsider.
My Lady Jane is the latest in a long line of recent prestige dramas that prefer to unpick history and stitch it back together in a fantastical way.
There’s only one downside to the comedian’s meteoric popularity, but his friends have learned to live with it.
Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 have helped save Hollywood from a bleak year at the box-office. But it isn’t just children flocking to cinemas.
The self-proclaimed “greatest band on Earth” enjoyed a proud history as political provocateurs. Now the group is on the brink of demise.
Set in the hour before a high-school debate, Trophy Boys is an excoriating exploration of corrosive male entitlement that is both witty and highly incisive.
Visit California partners with Aussie streaming giant Stan for Gameday, premiering on July 17.
With her debut album Vertigo, British pop star Griff is navigating intense new heights.
Matt Damon confirms 26-year-old rumour from the set of Saving Private Ryan on Hot Ones on 9Now.
Anna and Lucy's mum Jeana doesn't want the twins to give up on motherhood on Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
Identical twins Anna and Lucy Decinque accept that their dream to fall pregnant at the same time may not be possible on Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
Matt Damon said he was "proud" to star in The Informant! during a quiet time in his career on Hot Ones on 9Now.
Black said all future creative plans for the musical-comedy duo are on hold following a bad taste joke at a Sydney gig on Sunday.
Director Osgood Perkins, the son of the star of Psycho, mixes familiar scary elements in Longlegs, but adds something extra.
Future Remains is the fourth exhibition in a series that opens doors for some of our most promising artists.
In his new book, Australian social philosopher and historian Roman Krznaric explores 10 impressively diverse “social innovations” relevant to today.
Promoting his return to the ABC, Shaun Micallef quips that he stepped aside two years ago to make way for young talent, but there “wasn’t any”.
The stand-out element of Shiroma Perera-Nathan’s account of the tour of Australia and New Zealand by acting couple Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh’s in 1948 is the photographs.
Katy Perry’s much-anticipated new single begins with the lyrics “sexy, confident, so intelligent.” Unfortunately, it is none of those things.
Adapting Uncle Vanya, Joanna Murray-Smith was desperate to stay true to the playwright’s intentions.
Defying the gloomy trend of cancellations, Strawberry Fields, Mundi Mundi Bash and Harbourlife have all sold out. Is there a pattern here for festivals to emulate?
The creators of two of streaming’s biggest hits have come to Australia to share their take on how it’s done with local writers and producers.
American actor Shannen Doherty, best known for her role as high school student Brenda Walsh on hit 1990s television drama Beverly Hills, 90210, has died.
A handful of works stand out from a selection that seems to have been made for variety rather than quality.
Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Jay-Z have all sampled songs from this Melbourne musical quartet.
Physical feats match vocal brilliance in this powerful staging of Purcell’s tragedy by Opera Queensland with the help of the acrobats of Circa.
Long after Sonic Youth’s bitter split, artist, writer and musician Kim Gordon is inspiring a new generation of women.
Jordan Prosser’s action-packed first novel will make you laugh but will unsettle you as well.
Former journo Michael Brissenden has written a cracking novel set in the aftermath of a Californian wildfire.
Alexandra Harris has written a remarkable book that melds personal memory with investigations of the historical record.
The Tony, Grammy, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Hamilton returns to Sydney later this month, with refreshed cast.
With a spectacular cast that includes Nadine Garner, Elegies: A Song Cycle is a moving and memorable production guided by emotion.
The ICC Test Cricketer of the Year explains why he continues to speak out on Gaza, his friendship with the Treasurer and the likelihood of a political career.
Bride-to-be Emily shares why she brought her mum and stepmum, who her mum considers "the other woman", to her wedding dress appointment on Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire.
Emily and her mum love a giant princess gown, but her stepmum Trina brutally shares a different opinion on Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire.
The stand-up comedian and Triple J host bombed out twice in Australia’s biggest open-mic competition, and now she encourages others to give it a go.
Alphonse Mucha made the bold claim that his posters turned the street in “open-air art exhibitions”.
Staff have been warned against wearing apparel with pro-Palestine symbols as part of a new dress code.
The Incognito Art Show features works by Archibald winners and helps raise funds for artists with disabilities.
The Melbourne International Film Festival faces its third consecutive loss, but its inaugural CEO insists it’s not about to collapse.
A black comedy about grieving, a buddy comedy with a robot, a conspiracy thriller about Big Tech – there’s a lot to absorb in Sunny.
From Baz Luhrmann on the streets of Sydney to a nobody going viral after a provocative TikTok vox pop, street interviews are hijacking social media with mixed results.
Tammy Slaton reveals she's "not giving up" in a rehab video update on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
Forget the sexual tension, Twisters is at its best when Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones are dodging an inventive variety of heavy objects.
As a marketing whiz and an astronaut, the stars have zero chemistry in the wildly overextended and flat rom-com Fly Me to the Moon.
If the filmmaker’s much-praised, award-winning Poor Things was the main meal, Kinds of Kindness is the offcuts.
As more and more crossed my desk, I found that the best of them were written with a robust, fearless honesty that I’ve almost given up looking for in current fiction.
Australians have been consistently consuming more online content unlawfully over the past three years after a period of significant decline. What’s driving the sudden turn?
Caught in the clash between documentary, embellishment and a $US170 million lawsuit, getting the facts straight on TV has never been more important.
From Geek Girl to Graham Norton, these television favourites will warm the heart and lift the spirits.
Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad returns to Afghanistan for the first since she wrote the controversial book, The Bookseller of Kabul.
The controversy around the Ladies Lounge, a conceptual women’s only space at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art, has taken yet another turn.
It was a film festival hit, but for the writers and directors behind Birdeater, it was four years of rain, sweat and tears.
Greg Gonzalez is the man behind the songs that took Cigarettes After Sex from cult status to global arenas.
Former Dance Moms star JoJo Siwa is returning to her reality TV roots with a new docuseries.
In Pour Taste, which is running at Bondi Festival, includes a joke-filled tasting of five wines.
Anna and Lucy detail how they keep everything even in their relationship with shared fiancé Ben on Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
Supacell is sharp and engaging, elevated by stunning cinematography and a captivating story.
Hollywood has gained a new obsession over the past five years: movies about Formula 1 racing.
Inspired by star Martin Freeman’s own experiences, Breeders depicts the willingness to die for one’s children – and the desire to kill them.
The creator of thirtysomething has written a perceptive and entertaining account of his life behind the camera and the people he has worked with and fallen out with.
Former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo swore she'd never date an athlete again, until she met Christian McCaffrey on The Culpo Sisters on 9Now.
Former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo admits breaking up with Nick Jonas was a "pivotal moment" in her life on The Culpo Sisters on 9Now.
The Nobel Prize winner’s daughter, said her mother stood by her husband when she was told of the abuse. The Canadian author died eight weeks ago.
From Austin Butler in The Bikeriders to Josh O’Connor in Challengers, cigarettes have been inescapable at the cinema recently. What’s driving the revival?
The Oscar winner has returned to directing after 20 years, but Horizon – set to be one of four – is exposition heavy and a three-hour-long trek to nowhere.
Sam Neill returns as the “silver fox” barrister, but around him swirl a storm of micro-plots that are the show’s real purpose.
Chris Hemsworth admits it's a "full-time job" to maintain his body weight for Thor on Limitless with Chris Hemsworth on Channel 9 and 9Now.
Chris Hemsworth faces a "challenging" recovery while training for Thor on Limitless with Chris Hemsworth on Channel 9 and 9Now.
In 2015, Wu-Tang Clan released a single-copy album. This year, a handful of listening parties meant the public could hear it for the first time.
She’s a triple threat who can sing, dance and act – but can Australia’s golden girl win Dancing with the Stars?
Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore had to wait for the cosmic delivery of their latest album.
This Sydney Opera House concert was complex and sophisticated but full of childlike joy.
For Wet Hard Long, choreographer Jenni Large has created a darkly ironic work filled with extraordinary strength, stamina and technical skill.
Older women have been dating younger men on-screen for decades. What do these movies tend to have in common?
The 34-year-old actress and producer was spotted in Lake Como with husband Tom Ackerley.
Faye Dunaway was a luminous beauty and an incredibly powerful performer, but mental illness was the engine that drove her, a new documentary reveals.
In her latest role, the 50-year-old star of The Twelve goes on a journey of identity not unlike the one she’s taken in real life.
The theatrical impresario who brought Hamilton to Australia cut his showbiz teeth early. Very early.
In a new series, the 2010 Senior Australian of the Year and TV presenter takes her skills into a Perth aged care home to improve the lives of residents.
Ghost Cities challenges readers to make sense of life on a huge film set where everyone is both a citizen going about their business and an actor.
In his new book, Mark Dapin demonstrates that the truth and war are uncomfortable partners.
Clive Hamilton and George Wilkenfeld have written a necessary book for a world subject to the ravages of climate change.
Ailsa Piper’s salts her sorrow with spiritual longing in this subtle book about living with grief.
Tasha Coryell’s main character is a young woman who writes increasingly intimate letters to a man facing charges of murdering several women.
Backstage with Opera Australia’s brand new production of Puccini’s Il Trittico, ahead of its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House.
Actress Emma Meyers steps up on Stan's new mystery series A Good Girl's Guide To Murder.
In a new exhibition – which features tours led by a cat named Kovu – artist Candice Lin explores a non-human view of the world.
Pop music seems to have lost a lot of its energy recently, but a new generation of artists are filling the void by releasing songs that are both catchy and candid.
Genuine musical superstars – exceptional voices, charismatic presences, excellent lyricists – have been dulled and flattened, their voices muted and their lyrics uninspired.
This regional Australian theatre has received one of the world’s biggest arts prizes. This is what makes them so remarkable.
From Banksy protests to lip-synching accusations, here are some of the buzziest moments from the UK’s biggest music festival.
Yellowstone actor Josh Lucas proposed to his partner Brianna Ruffalo after two years together.
Australian musicians are already doing it tough, but a recent US government decision has made it much harder for Aussie acts to showcase their work.
With her season one buzz cut – a result of her cancer treatment – long gone, the actor had to reimagine how she felt about her tough private eye character.
Pill testing could make attendance at music festivals and events much safer – but it could dramatically increase the financial risk borne by festivals.
The best interpretation one may put upon this phenomenon is that it’s a bit of fun, but it is a worrisome trend because the prize becomes the public standard by which art is judged.
Doom and gloom have been hanging over the podcast world for the last 18 months. Is it the end, or a new beginning?
A safe escape from the world, Alexander McCall Smith’s new novel, like all his works, is grounded in an optimistic world view.
A pastry named after Ned Kelly is just one of the local linguistic enigmas investigated this week.
From Jane Austen’s abandoned novel to the first line of John le Carre’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, manuscripts give us fascinating insight into the creative process.
Poet Kevin Hart’s memoir traces his childhood as a “backward boy” in a poor part of London to his life in Australia.
This year’s Melbourne Rare Book Week features everything from vintage Women’s Weekly cookbooks to Virginia Woolf first editions.
Surrounded by commuters captured by their phones, this young woman was juggling empires.
Turner’s triumph over prejudice and violence to become the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll is a timely one for Australia in 2024.
Textile artist Luise Elsing returned to crochet after nearly 50 years - instantly she was hooked.
Dracula is the final piece in STC’s Gothic trilogy, which started with The Picture of Dorian Gray and continued with Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
MrBeast created possibly the single mass truancy event in Australian history this week. He has nearly 300 million die-hard fans. And you probably haven’t even heard of him.
In today’s saturated pop landscape, feuds are a proven way to boost yourself to viral stardom. Here’s how it’s done.
Youth groups were too holy, malls too expensive and skate parks too unpredictable when I was growing up. Thank goodness I had somewhere else to get my dopamine hit.
Irish author Caoilinn Hughes’ new book explores grief, isolation and sibling love and rivalry.
From The Idea of You to Poor Things, sex is back on the silver screen. What explains the resurgence in eroticism?
From Australian punk-rock royalty to a rapper who now plays the flute, here are the month’s must-see shows.
Kevin Costner stars in Horizon: An American Saga, streaming September 26, only on Stan.
3 in 4 trans and gender diverse people have been treated unfairly because of their gender identity. Each silent gesture, every unspoken word, carries weight. So, think about what you’re really saying.
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases, including new fiction from Bruce Pascoe and a memoir from champion surfer Pauline Menczer.
The transformation of the Arts Precinct is in full swing, but there’s still plenty to see and do, from ballet at the Regent to My Brilliant Career.
From sharing vegan snacks in the Ecuadorian embassy to downplaying rumours of a romance, the former Baywatch actor was one of the first celebrities to support Julian Assange.
Taylor Swift’s boyfriend has described what it was like to meet the royal fans backstage at the pop star’s London show.
Having sold more than 56 million books to youngsters, the comedian is concerned about “sanitising” children’s classics.
Inspired by Stephanie Wood’s memoir, this thriller starring Asher Keddie and David Wenham pinballs between exhausting highs and lows.
There’s no shortage of high-quality Australian drama right now, but you’ll need multiple subscriptions to view the shows.
Based on Jon Krakauer’s book, Under The Banner of Heaven uses the 1984 murder of a mother and daughter to explore violence hidden inside the foundations of religion.
Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney was given one instruction by Paul Simon: “The music has to sound good.”
In the vein of This Way Up and Derry Girls, The Dry is a female-driven comedy that celebrates the uncomfortable and brittle edges of family life.
Bringing the classic Disney animation to the stage, Beauty and the Beast the Musical features all the classic characters and songs.
Held for the third year running at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion the ARIA Awards will be on Wednesday November 20.
Parents of nine Eric and Courtney Waldrop get ready to celebrate their sextuplets' second birthdays on Sweet Home Sextuplets on 9Now.
As they prepare to potty train their sextuplets, Eric and Courtney Waldrop look back at just how many diapers they've used over the years on Sweet Home Sextuplets on 9Now.
Who is the legendary singer without her voice? It’s a possibility that echoes throughout the slightly unwieldy I Am: Celine Dion.
The Bear has confirmed one indisputable fact: restaurants are the best setting for onscreen drama.
Panel shows loaded with comedians and repeats of Hard Quiz may be cheap and easy, but they’re hardly a triumph.
Chris Stein’s memoir of growing up in New York and finding fame – and love – in pop-art band Blondie is a compelling portrait of music, fame and 1970s and ’80s New York
Jane Austen spoof Plied and Prejudice is a ‘drunk theatre’ show – a trend that attracts new audiences and gives companies an extra revenue stream.
This 26-year-old musician is getting love from some of the world’s biggest stars and now has more than 23 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
A funny thing happened last Thursday night. I fell in love with a singer I’d always shunned.
The culture editor-at-large also came second place in the coveted print journalist of the year category, an award he won last year.
Chris Hemsworth faces the "brutal" surf in near-freezing Arctic waters in Limitless on Channel 9 and 9Now.
Chris Hemsworth reflects on his unexpected health mission to brothers Liam and Luke in Limitless on Channel 9 and 9Now.
Visiting cellist Nicolas Altstaedt’s “genius for unusual programming” was on full display at this vibrant performance with the ACO.
The race for the top gong will be a battle between Tony Armstrong, Larry Emdur and Robert Irwin.
The NFL player has been to many of the pop star’s shows before, but never on the actual stage.
The Offspring star and her husband David Whiteley are bringing Edward Albee’s classic play about marital mayhem to the big stage.
This year’s gold nominees include Blake’s long-time comedy partner Andy Lee as well as the ABC’s Tony Armstrong.
Herald photographer Jessica Hromas finds cosplayers around Sydney adding some colour to a wet and cold mid-winter weekend.
A 344-kilometre journey during the 2022 floods proved an education, to say the least. Here’s what author Simon Cleary learnt.
These round yellow creatures have mastered the art of capturing our attention (and our money). Which of their antics won us over the most?
An online activist group is pushing for an advertising boycott of Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O as the shock jocks expand their show into Melbourne.
If you’re not a fan of reality shows or the 1990s, you probably won’t have a good time.
More than a century after Captain Robert Scott’s Antarctica expedition, the reasons for disastrous outcome are still fiercely debated by the explorer’s devotees.
A portrait rejected by the Archibald Prize judges has scooped this year’s Darling Prize.
First published in 1980, Beverley Farmer’s debut novel, Alone, reminds the reader how hard it was to be queer in Australia in the 1950s.
Catherine McKinnon’s sprawling new novel, To Sing of War, interweaves several stories against the backdrop of World War II.
Is Taylor Swift really “chart blocking” Charli XCX and Billie Eilish? And what does that even mean?
This year alone Zakir Hussain has taken home three Grammys and appeared in a Dev Patel film – now he’s heading to Australia.
The Canadian actor, whose lengthy career spanned from the 1960s into the 2020s, managed to switch effortlessly from character roles to romantic leads.
Ambelin Kwaymullina’s new novel blends fantasy, sci-fi, thriller and First Nations folklore to bring readers into a world of corruption and deceit.
There are some gripping shows to catch before the world’s two biggest cycling races for male and female cyclists.
In 1994, a group of Welshmen took part in a study for Viagra. But the little blue diamond was no magic pill.
With a cast including Emily Bader and Rob Brydon, this racy genre mash-up puts a new spin on the story of the woman who was queen of England for nine days.
A Silence unpacks the complicity that allowed a celebrated lawyer to commit horrific acts. For its director, it was also a reckoning.
The comedian has become the target of pro-Palestinian protesters over what has been interpreted as his support for Israel’s response to the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
The German-French cellist delivers a stunning program with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
That Nicola Coughlan had to address her body shape repeatedly shows we still have a way to go when it comes to seeing desire in all shapes and sizes and ages on screen.
With a couple of notable exceptions, the permanent hosting role usually goes to an older white man towards the twilight of his career. Not this time.
Constant touring was taking its toll on the band even as they were cracking the big time internationally. So they ripped up the formula and started again.
A new exhibition of the works of Peter Kingston – showing his beloved Sydney Harbour and home – has opened at the State Library.
The actor, writer and producer’s memoir is a warm portrait of an unusual – and celebrity-filled – upbringing.
An immersive, public sculpture by Australian artist Lindy Lee has been wending its way through three states in an epic journey from Brisbane to the National Gallery of Australia.
Indeed, posterity has paid Kafka the greatest tribute a writer can receive. His name has become an adjective.
As part of her ongoing investigation into her own life and art, Sheila Heti’s new book is composed of sentences taken from her diaries, arranged alphabetically.
In his new book, Nick Bryant argues that the division and hate in the US today are rooted in the nation’s past. But he doesn’t fully explain the Trump factor.
Shot in Norway, police procedural Wisting harks back to an era when crime shows went about their business with brisk efficiency.
A new exhibition at ACMI follows long-hidden Indigenous pathways to create the ultimate Australian road movie.
Whose idea was it for the Australian actor to be shirtless – and what’s with the Camus?
With a beefed-up performing arts program, this was the first year of Rising that felt like more than a poor shadow of an international arts festival.
The true crime drama traces the friendships and families of the teenagers involved in the grim death of a 14-year-old girl in Canada.
Farnham appeared at his son’s wedding celebrations and is pictured in family photos posted to social media.
The US comedian was heckled during his Sunday night performance, and video shows a man being escorted out by security.
There’s Still Tomorrow has a surprising light touch for a film about a woman trapped in a toxic marriage.
Last night at St Paul’s Cathedral, Shouse: Communitas showed that when we all sing together, remarkable things happen.
Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious sci-fi drama has had its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.
“She hadn’t written a show before,” admits the Colin from Accounts star who created the hit series with his wife, Harriet Dyer.
Rising is the biggest cultural event in Victoria and receives millions in government funding, with ambitions to rival the Australian Open and Grand Prix.
A new festival has been announced – in a surprising location, with an unexpected focus, and an even more unexpected guest headlining a star-studded lineup.
Chaos has always been what drives reality TV but it could also be the reason the genre, as we know it, might be over.
Duncan Armstrong and his son Tom put longevity science to the test in Dr Nick Coatsworth and Tracey Grimshaw’s medical show Do You Want to Live Forever?
Cinema revenues are collapsing, and Australia is no exception. But that doesn’t mean we’ve fallen out of love with the movies.
The one thing we’ve learned over decades of watching actors arrive on the world stage and be labelled heartthrobs is that the burden of attractiveness rests much more easily on men than it does women.
The new exhibition Namedropping at Mona is by turns enjoyable and uncomfortable, with ideas that pick at the way you see the world and then follow you out of the building.
Our reviewers give their verdict on the latest shows around town, including Chicago and gigs from Pond, Bangarra Dance Theatre. Opera Australia and 5 Seconds of Summer’s Luke Hemmings.
The Nobel Prize–winning author’s new book is a gorgeously illustrated volume of lyrics written for the jazz singer Stacey Kent.
As an aspiring author in his 20s, Corey Leadbeater landed what should have been a dream gig as an assistant and confidante to the legendary American writer. But his own life was unravelling.
The author of A Gentleman In Moscow has written a collection of six stories set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, as well as an experimental novella.
Hahn gives one of her best performances playing a 50-year-old who has lost control of her life and family until she begins writing an advice column.
Texturally brash and genuinely affecting, the pop iconoclast’s new album is a must-hear.
The trend for putting pregnant characters (and actresses) in the centre of TV dramas turns ludicrous in the British crime thriller After The Flood.
Isn’t it better that nepo babies actually use their privilege for something rather than hide the fact they even have it?
Actor Francis Greenslade’s ambitious debut play, The Platypus, skips between genres while tracking the breakdown of a relationship.
The celebrated dance group is about to embark on its first main-stage international collaboration.
The TV remake of the 1990 Harrison Ford thriller ups the tension and tightens the screws on its lawyer suspect.
Why are these smaller-scale movies attracting decent audiences while major studio films flop?
An intensive, eight-hour work of theatre that spills into the early hours offers a look at Arts Centre Melbourne as you’ve never seen it before.
Making it into the Salon des Refusés is no mean feat for Archibald and Wynne Prize entrants.
Sydney filmmaker and former musician Greg Perano bought an old 8mm film that contained live footage from the legendary Sydney Stadium gigs for $12.
Move over Barangaroo and Paragon, this 60s Fairlie apartment’s got top-end design in a highly coveted apartment block.
Looking beyond the headlines and focusing on the Eras Tour’s Australian leg in isolation, it’s worth noting a few sober facts now that we’ve all, ahem, shaken off the excitement.
The win signifies a return to the quaint, old-fashioned notion that a portrait should be a good likeness.
The story of Australian banker Ian Shepherd, who invented a system for the trading of derivatives, is as much about finance as it is about the very nature of ideas.
Scientist David Lindenmayer confronts the entrenched myths around the Australian logging industry and our native tall forests.
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases including a reimagining of the fate of Lady Macbeth and a spirited defence of liberalism.
The winners of the prestigious Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes were announced today.
It’s arguably the biggest day on the arts calendar in Australia and this year’s pool of finalists is suitably impressive. Stay tuned here for live coverage of the big announcement.
Scottish woman Fiona Harvey says the character of Martha in “Baby Reindeer,” is based on her and has destroyed her life.
A top-tier director, an A-list star, a blend of action, comedy and romance, and critical acclaim. So why won’t Hit Man pack out cinemas?
Starring Dakota Fanning, this supernatural horror shows Ishana has inherited a taste for tinkering with the unseen and incomprehensible.
Chart hits, festival slots, a fashion line, and finally a debut album – South Korean DJ Peggy Gou is a phenomenon.
The popular TV chef is back in his birthplace, as he hits up the coast for Guillaume’s French Atlantic and then hops on his bike for Plat du Tour.
Sarah Perry’s new novel is a 19th-century tale of astronomy that draws on autobiographical themes.
A shark in Paris’ Seine? A stubborn mayor who refuses to acknowledge the problem? Sign me up.
A song from Indigenous rapper Birdz was banned from a Sydney primary school this week. But he says it’s been taught inside classrooms for years.
Julio Torres has created, directed and stars in this masterpiece of absurdist comedy that can’t quite be explained.
Here’s what had us hooked for the first half of the year, and what’s going to get us through the rest.
Antiques expert Ian Pickford explains why this market find is such a rare piece on Antiques Roadshow on 9Now.
Antiques expert Ian Pickford reveals the jaw-dropping value of rare Chinese fan on Antiques Roadshow on 9Now.
The first game of the three-match series drew the biggest audience since 2016, and a new high for 9Now.
The just-released new season of The Test ends where the first season began, with the Australian cricket team accused of unsportsmanlike behaviour.
1000-Lb Sisters star Tammy Slaton shows the results of her health journey as she dances with friends during a park day out.
The show has collected a swag of Tony Awards and a Grammy and will receive its Australian premiere next year.
The banter between the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence remains the only drawcard in Bad Boys: Ride or Die.
The internationally renowned Indigenous artist trained her eye on hypocrisy, the abuse of power, interpersonal violence and human frailty, and was a powerful advocate for her community.
Ian Nathan’s book about the history of the Mad Max franchise is a lively read, even if some parts need to be taken with a grain of salt.
One of Australia’s biggest hip-hop artists has slammed comments from the NSW government, after a Birdz song was withdrawn from rotation at a Sydney school.
Friends, readers, reality television watchers, lend me your ears. I come to bury the Bachelor, not to praise him.
The Matildas star in Stan's newest sport documentary Trailblazers that celebrates the incredible rise of women's football.
You don’t get a good start to the streaming television year just because there are some great scripted shows on offer. What you need is the right viewing mix.
The Block stars Eliza and Liberty do their best Bluey impression as they try and figure out if they love or hate the show on their Try Before You Die podcast.
The first retrospective of the Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte is coming to Australia in October.
Deeply felt and searingly intelligent, Counting and Cracking has finally landed in Melbourne – and has all the makings of a modern Australian classic.
Most major studios are opting for less original and juvenile titles, as they struggle to attract the entire family.
A NSW Treasury audit shows the gallery’s $344 million expansion has not delivered on its forecast boost to its commercial activities, and more jobs may have to go.
An ethereal soundscape in Melbourne’s CBD begins the moment the sun grazes the horizon – and no two listeners will hear the same work.
Some kid named Caroline gets born in Boston, and 27 years later I can’t have a civilised halftime without being forcibly drafted into a mass singalong.
A new documentary shows the Australian writer as a glamorous rebel and unrecognised collaborator on George Johnston’s novel My Brother Jack.
The cult pop enigma returns to Australian stages for Vivid Live in Sydney and Rising in Melbourne.
English actress Phoebe Dynevor, one of the stars of season one of Bridgerton, is set to star in a Hollywood thriller to be filmed in Melbourne.
From Anne Hathaway to Nicole Kidman and Ryan Gosling: your favourite long-suffering genre is getting a big injection of star power.
Australia’s richest person is the subject of another portrait in Canberra, and this time she’s so happy to have it displayed she’s setting the rules.
Alan Attwood’s novel is a fictional account of escapologist Harry Houdini’s time in Melbourne in 1910.
At this year’s Rising festival, traditional brass bands meet classic techno tracks, and you’ll be surprised at the result.
As the world counts the cost of fast fashion, a new exhibition visits sustainability’s ground zero.
Mostafa Azimitabar was desperate for distraction while on Manus Island and denied art supplies, out of fears he would self-harm. So he used what he had.
Wife Elisa explains why she is pursuing multiple partners despite being married to husband Mike for four years on Seeking Brother Husband.
In William J Mann’s solidly researched new book, he described previous books about the famous Hollywood couples as “more about omission than invention”.
From Cannes award winners to local documentaries and big-name stars, these are the festival’s top picks.
The former MasterChef Australia judge joins the frontline of Australia’s hospital system as part of SBS’s new observational series.
From Rising to Pharoah, a sea slug count and the Reclink Cup, these are your must-see events in the city this winter.
As Vivid celebrates Sydney’s long-ago shuttered Hopetoun Hotel, memories of the gigs, the punters and the toilets come flooding back.
The Portishead singer’s first solo album has been years in the making. At its first live outing in Paris, she shares the rapture.
ABC managing director David Anderson said he regretted that Laura Tingle’s comments were made without the “usual qualification”, but declined to apologise to Peter Dutton.
The Minns government has been left red-faced after a $350.4 million costing of the Powerhouse Museum redevelopment at Ultimo was published in error.
Despite undergoing rehabilitation following his 2011 antisemitic rant, the French fashion designer still seems naively tone-deaf to society’s sensitivities.
Award-winning producers Bruna Papandrea and Tony Ayres are heading up a new summit designed to shake up Australian TV on the international stage.
On Thursday, 57 artists will be announced as Archibald finalists, and the winner of the Packing Room prize will be revealed.
The moment you tell us to look away, we can’t stop gawking, as Gina Rinehart recently found out to her detriment.
Big Name, No Blankets – the show that tells the story of the Warumpi Band – had standing ovations every night when it made its debut earlier this year.
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases including a swashbuckling tale of a woman pirate and a deep dive into the symphony beneath the waves.
Created and written by former police officer Tony Schumacher, The Responder returns for another compelling – if anxiety-inducing – season.
The journalist was told her comments about Opposition Leader Peter Dutton would not have met ABC’s impartiality standards.
Ryan J. Brown’s Wreck is a highly inventive caper that also has something to say about how capitalism spits out young, low-skilled workers.
The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland used that mash-up to sell the idea of her show to Lucasfilm. And it’s very accurate, says the show’s star, Amandla Stenberg.
In the first of three sold-out nights at the Forum, Angie McMahon commanded the stage and showed off her distinctive vocals.
In this dull big-screen adaptation, the orange plus-sized house cat even addresses the psychological issues underlying his food addiction and lack of motivation.
After winning millions on a scratchie, Lisa is overwhelmed with the luxury benefits she can have in her new house on My Lottery Dream Home on 9Now.
Bob explains the moment he realised he'd won $6 million dollars on My Lottery Dream Home.
In a TikTok video, 1000-Lb Sisters star Amy Slaton gave her fans a peek into her life as a single mum of two boys.
Two recent Australian TV series, Paper Dolls and One Night, are no longer available to watch. Dig further and the issue becomes more concerning.
British writer Abi Morgan recreates the crumbling New York City of the 1980s in a psychological thriller filled with complex characters and issues.
The world’s best-selling soprano makes her return to the stage for the first time in 34 years in Sunset Boulevard.
The author of Crazy Rich Asians returns with another outrageous comedy of manners, family and money. So much money.
The singer and her musician husband have called out the actions of protesters after a woman threatened another with a glass shard on Saturday.
Recent shows such as The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and Safe Home mark significant changes in how violence toward women is represented on screen.
The documentary Eno is “remixed” for every screening, giving viewers a unique experience.
Just as in real life, REST happens between 9pm and 5am. Audiences can even wear their PJs.
Actress Nicole Kidman explains why she's always drawn back to Australia in resurfaced interview from 2001 on Australia's Top Ten of Everything.
UK funnyman Greg Davies plays a crime-scene cleaner who can’t help getting involved with the oddballs he encounters on the job.
The fate of Australia’s oldest and most respected “creative community” looks uncertain, with long-term staff set to lose their jobs.
Yes, her dad’s Ethan Hawke and her mum’s Uma Thurman. But Maya Hawke is creating thoughtful work on her own terms – including her new album, Chaos Angel.
From student to director, Lisa Pavane’s storied 46-year journey with the Australian Ballet School is drawing to a close.
There is no way Robyn Nevin will go to see her upcoming movie Sting. The star of stage and screen – who has also directed three of our state theatre companies – is adamant.
ABC chief political correspondent Laura Tingle has come under fire for comments she made criticising Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
For as long as they keep churning out movies chronicling the lives of influential musicians, one will remain the most influential of all.
Just when it looked like streaming might have killed the soundtrack, several recent films show the artform might be entering a new golden age.
The announcement that Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres complex is to get a $188 million revamp may be Sydney’s biggest cultural reimagining since the Opera House.
A feminist author used her closing address to call out “himpathy”, where men who commit violence receive “disproportionate and undue sympathy”.
The rapper and pop star was travelling to England for the next stop of her world tour when police reportedly said they found drugs in her luggage.
Conceptual photographer Rosemary Laing was best known for her images of brides suspended in the sky.
The regional town of Welcome would seem an unlikely location for a murder. Aoife Clifford’s new book is a nicely judged crime caper.
More and more design is appearing in galleries – and commanding big money – as this show at Melbourne Design Week attests.
Opera Australia took a risk staging Puccini’s opera at Margaret Court Arena – and it mostly paid off.
The Photos1440 Exhibition showcases the artistry of the Herald’s photography at the NSW State Library.
Spurlock was known for his groundbreaking film Super Size Me, which chronicled the detrimental physical and psychological effects of him eating only McDonald’s food for 30 days.
This year’s Cannes festival was largely defined by bold, daring and outright strange films. Here are six titles you should be across.
The young members of David Murray’s new quartet were no doubt eager to immerse themselves in of one the most thrilling sounds in jazz history.
“I never thought that we would have this kind of response,” choreographer Benjamin Millepied says.
In her first show at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sharpe has recreated her inner-city studio and will conduct live paintings.
There are over 30 light shows at Vivid this year. How do the paid events compare to the much-loved harbourside light walk?
I can’t cancel the stories of my childhood. Great stories can survive the sins of their writers.
A mutual passion for donning medieval-style armour led couple Rodney and Liberty Deaman to the perfect, albeit unusual, shared hobby.
Kaveh Akbar’s book Martyr! is a delight because it manages to embrace seriousness and irreverence, darkness and light.
The Melbourne-based artist developed an international following for her acerbic and witty installations and photography.
Watch the highly-anticipated trailer for the Stan Original Series Exposure which will premiere June 20, only on Stan.
The celebrated journalist and author is replacing Adams, who has been in the role for more than three decades.
Ventura said domestic violence had broken her down “to someone I never thought I would become”.
In this era of self-congratulatory and safe memoirs, the Netflix series dares to be dangerous.
At first glance I thought the palace was on fire, with Charles looking strangely pleased as he was engulfed in flames.
When Colin from Accounts became an international hit, the couple were faced with sudden celebrity – and the challenge of writing season two.
With the fifth instalment in the franchise hitting screens this week, we took a look at how The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald reviewed the first, now iconic, film.
Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases, including an engaging account of the seven Cleopatras and Geoffrey Robertson’s crisply argued case for prosecuting Putin.
The latest season of Bridgerton has been split in two, spread out across a month. It’s the latest sign the streaming giant is shifting from the binge model.
Two weeks on from the end of season one, Ashley and Gordon are determined to get back the mutt that brought them together. It’s easier said than done.
Percival Everett tells the story of Mark Twain’s classic from the point of view of Jim, the runaway slave who befriends Huck.
From meeting strangers to spying on strangers, there is plenty of variety in the Vivid Ideas program.
Live Nation’s controversial merger with Ticketmaster has been under the microscope since fans struggled to buy tickets for Taylor Swift’s massive Eras tour.
After years of planning, a new theatre has been announced for Parramatta and it’s comparable to Sydney and Melbourne’s best.
Seventy-five years on, Death of a Salesman retains its power and relevance, and in this version, Anthony LaPaglia gives an extraordinary performance.
George Miller’s thrilling, apocalyptic vision spawned Australia’s biggest film franchise. How does it hold up nearly half a century later?
The decommissioned power station is proposed to become a concert venue, dance hall and home for production spaces once the Biennale of Sydney packs up.
Eclipse, a Rising Festival drag performance, will have you counting down to the apocalypse while reconsidering the meaning of drag itself.
Carolina Bianchi will be drugged and probed while on stage in her Rising performance. But that’s not what she’s annoyed about.
Booker Prize winner 2023 Paul Lynch is in Australia to talk about his award-winning book Prophet Song.
Women like us are defined more by power than posing. We work hard, we shoulder immense duties, we bellow in the ears of prime ministers.
When her partner of 25 years died, Nova Weetman found the necessity of work and her two children kept her connected to reality.
Many see TV roasts as an opportunity to rail against wokeness. But they’re not: they’re nasty, retrograde and just not funny.
Clint Howard has done it all, from Star Trek to Seinfeld. It’s little surprise he’s now a homeless preacher on The Bold and the Beautiful.
Before playing the morally compromised Chris Carson in The Responder – a show full of violence, trauma and moral ambiguity – Freeman was an international star.
Featuring Craig Foster and superfan Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Came from Nowhere tracks the rise of divisive A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers.
Artist Stephen Turner shows the incredible interior of the floating egg he's planning to live in on George Clarke's Amazing Spaces.
Artist Stephen Turner unveils his plans to live and work in a floating egg on George Clarke's Amazing Spaces.
Like the character she plays in Hacks, the 72-year-old actress is enjoying a late-career surge, but nothing will stop her from hitting the supermarket.
Police are now examining why the 54-year-old star had so much ketamine in his system when he died in October.
Dr Chris Brown has yet again shown us all that dreams do come true, and in the good doctor’s case, the stranger the dream, the better.
George Miller’s action sequences in Furiosa, the most expensive Australian film ever, are as exhilarating as ever.
This year’s literary feast offers a tantalising menu for lovers of all sorts of writing.
If you’ve already worked your way through Netflix’s juicy drama, get your fill of corsets, cravats, and torrid love affairs with these other period drama shows.
During this year’s budget there was one recurrent word association that appeared more than others.
The prolific actor has done everything from theatre, film to lifestyle presenting. But the beloved children’s show was one of the toughest.
The constellation of distracting mobile phones, emanating from mostly young people filming much of the show, is one of the more infuriating aspects of modern-day gigs.
The Academy Award nominee expressed shock and anger at OpenAI’s latest AI tool, seemingly inspired by her role in the film Her.
The film, titled The Apprentice, charts the former president’s rise to wealth and power in the 1970s and 80s.
With the right artistic director in Tyran Parke, the Australian Musical Theatre Festival is on an upward trajectory.
Rival gangs come together to overcome prejudices ingrained through centuries of linguistic misunderstanding, in the latest play by youth theatre group St Martins.
From My So-Called Life to Firefly, the modern era of TV is littered with shows that were cancelled way too quickly.
Ali Cobby Eckermann always wanted to be a writer. Now she’s received the highest accolade in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for the second time.
Disabled actor Arthur Hughes plays an English barrister who gets to the bottom of the machinations that surround King Henry VIII.
The US actor had fans screaming and bellowing as he appeared at Cannes for the first time in more than 30 years.
The bride's family is in awe after seeing Wendy's "dramatic" gown on Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire on 9Now.
When 60-year-old Wendy found her racy dream dress, she was told "less is more" on Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire on 9Now.
Sleater-Kinney are now a duo who refuse to rest on their laurels, making and performing quality new music.
The vanity in portraiture lies in the conceit of being selected in the first place, swiftly followed by dismay at the outcome.
From Sydney’s first strip club, to drag cabaret and late night parties – Kings Cross was once the centre of Australia’s after-hours entertainment scene.
Security footage emerged over the weekend of the rapper beating his then-girlfriend and protégé in 2016. Combs has now released his own video, saying his actions were inexcusable.
Thirty years after Jeff Koons’ Puppy, three major outdoor sculptures will be commissioned from next year at the MCA Australia in honour of the late arts patron and philanthropist, Neil Balnaves.
As the lasagne-loving tabby returns to our screens, I’m glad he’s still happy to indulge.
The 2009 MasterChef winner has just released a memoir, and there’s a generous serving of real life and ripper recipes.
Now in its 28th year, the prize is given to an Australian writer of fiction aged 35 or under.
Bold new films from The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and Kevin Costner show there are still mavericks in American cinema, but can they pull it off?
Supporters of Australia’s richest woman wanted the National Gallery of Australia to remove portraits of her. Now both have received much more exposure than Gina Rinehart bargained for.
Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran has an agenda in her new book Safe Haven, as our desire not to see has only been strengthened.
In an exclusive interview, the 22-year-old dual Oscar winner opens up about making her new album and how the process transformed her.
The art world has apparently had a gutful of celebs trying to bury unflattering portraits. Australia’s richest person could learn from King Charles, who took his latest mauling on the chin.
The world's fastest blind motorcycle racer Ben Felton opens up about losing his sight on Ageless on 9Now.
Making the transition from child star to adulthood is hard enough without the judgement placed on young women embracing their sexuality.
It is said the heart is forever making the head a fool. Well, Bridgerton is forever making a fool of me.
Kyle Chalmers and one of the top officials in Australian swimming co-ordinated a group of 20 elite Australian swimmers to campaign against the National Gallery.
Easton and his mum Kellie see what he looks like with ears for the first time on Body Parts on 9Now.
Easton, eight, has been living without ears after he lost them in a dog attack on Body Parts on 9Now.
Anaplastologist Allison Vest answers all of Easton's questions about getting prosthetic ears on Body Parts on 9Now.
The popular ABC News Breakfast presenter criss-crossed the country on a bike in search of people’s most precious possessions for his new show.
Often ranked with Anton Chekhov, John Cheever and a handful of others, Munro achieved stature rare for an art form traditionally placed beneath the novel.
As a student, Emmanuelle Mattana faced the kind of schoolboy misogyny that made headlines last week. Her play, Trophy Boys, might just make a difference.
Are there two cameras, one for speeding and one for lights? Or just one camera? Voiced messages lack the punctuation to eliminate the doubt.
Journalist Daniel de Visé tells the story of the classic comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.
A 2022 tax filing published online suggests that Archewell suffered a $16 million drop in donations on the previous year.
Two separate dragons were damaged in the attack. Police have released images of two suspects they are looking for.
American writer Celeste Ng’s first two novels were realist domestic fiction, but her third was a more political creation.
Visitors need only keep moving to experience their own animated world inside ACMI’s Beings exhibition.
When presented with an antique tankard, one expert said it was "the finest he'd ever seen" on Antiques Roadshow on 9Now.
The crowd is in shock as an expert reveals the tankard mug could be worth tens of thousands of dollars on Antiques Roadshow on 9Now.
Writers K Patrick, Winnie Dunn, Jake Adelstein and Mirandi Riwoe on the theme of this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, Take Me Away.
Deborah Frances-White was surprised when a man emailed her saying he’d listened to 18 months worth of her show The Guilty Feminist.
The latest literature genre is a blend of romance and fantasy, and it’s proving to be a bestselling phenomenon.
As Air plays 1998’s Moon Safari live for the first time, the odd couple reveals the story behind the era-defining album – and their own relationship.
Rising costs and a twice-cancelled production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle have all added up for the nation’s biggest arts company.
If Elsbeth, a character first seen in The Good Wife, can become the star of her own show, then surely the odious Cousin Greg from Succession can too.
Keeping their son’s memory alive with and beyond The Laramie Project has become a life’s work for Dennis and Judy Shepard.
Doctors are surprised by the condition of Shan, a mechanic who was crushed by his ute when the car jack gave way on Emergency on 9Now.
The world’s craziest singing competition sailed into uncharted territory as politics and protests collided.
When Judy Garland arrived at Mascot Airport, customs officials made a decision that would likely prove fateful.
Just hours before the final, the Dutch artist was expelled from Eurovision following a complaint by a female member of the production crew.
The Miles Franklin winner took on a “terrifying project” when she wrote about George Orwell and his oft forgotten wife.
Watch the official trailer for Lady Gaga's concert special Gaga Chromatica Ball premiering May 26, only on Stan.
World Problems is a one-woman show that looks both backwards and forwards at the ideas, memories and possibilities that connect us all.
A new exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art explores our sometimes weird relationship with hair.
With the Melbourne Writers Festival kicking off today, here are some of the events that should not be missed.
Just weeks after The Picture of Dorian Gray made a West End splash, this local stage hit is heading to the US.
Gracie Otto has made a documentary about her beloved father, who no longer recognises himself in one of Australia’s biggest films.
The art gallery was ordered to close a women-only exhibit last month after a NSW man launched an anti-discrimination case.
Indigenous dancer Thomas ES Kelly says his work SILENCE has a message for all Australians.
From Hilde, With Love avoids Nazi film cliches while telling the story of a brave couple in 1942.
The best-selling children’s book author is revising his Weirdo audiobooks to remove a ‘prettiest girls’ list. ‘I was ranked low on a list and it affected me for years,’ he says.
Half of Australia’s working artists are earning as little as $200 from their craft as the sector falls deeper into crisis.
On new album Funeral for Justice, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar lets rip ferocious riffs steeped in urgent anti-colonialism.
What is it about ABBA’s songs that generate angst and ardour? English music writer Giles Smith tries to find out.
As Doctor Who enters its new Disney era, stars Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson reveal why they’re like “besties at the back of the school bus”.
While fans debate who is winning between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, there’s a key victor no one is talking about.
Stefanovic apologised on air after facing heavy criticism for his interview with Northern Territory fishing competition winner Keegan Payne.
It’s brazen, profane, sexual, demeaning and frequently flouts broadcasting standards but at times, it’s weirdly compelling. Here’s what it was like to take in a full week of their antics.
The story of how a low-budget indie flick led to a global pop culture phenomenon. Video by Tom Compagnoni.
It is one of the greatest innovations in music history, and it came from Sydney, Australia. Video by Tom Compagnoni.
Where the works of William Kentridge only asks questions, the Sydney Biennale provides ready-made answers.
The Victorian government’s 10,000 Gigs fund has got some of its intended beneficiaries up in arms.
The leading human rights lawyer will grapple with state of the world in a new live show.
Animals join artists at the final call for entries in this year’s Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW.
In the sequel to her novel Benevolence, Julie Janson has produced a gothic historical novel that does justice both to the sorrow and the story of what Aboriginal Australia suffered in the 19th century.
Years of correspondence between Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower reveal much about their unusual friendship.
After winning the 2016 Vogel’s Literary Award with a collection of short stories, Murray Middleton spent eight years on his first novel.
Theatre’s most successful ghost story enjoys a life after death in this national tour starring John Waters and Daniel MacPherson.
Looking for something slicker than Anyone But You, and saucier than Notting Hill? This movie is for you.
Jonathan LaPaglia, Beau Ryan and Blair Joscelyne are in the drivers’ seats for the latest iteration of the cult motoring show.
New album Hyperdrama from French duo Justice is nowhere near as bold as its title suggests.
Why watch the movie if the trailer has already shown you every twist, stunt and gag? It turns out we might be to blame.
The Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo will have a new entrance, and its interiors will be ‘decluttered’ of modern additions according to a new plan.
The Indigenous writer has won the $60,000 award for her acclaimed novel, Praiseworthy, making her the first to win the prize twice.
Adapted by the prolific David E Kelley, A Man in Full stars Jeff Daniels as a property tycoon who won’t change with the times.
As the entries arrived at the Art Gallery of NSW ahead of Friday’s deadline, you could tell a lot about recent events in Australia by the faces painted.
The show has an irresistible prankster vivacity, with fake endings, improvised role playing, audience dress-ups and a daggy dance battle.
Tom Blythe is back in brand new episodes of Billy The Kid, premiering June 3, only on Stan.
There’s a fine line between adventure and misadventure, as this remarkable odyssey demonstrates.
When it comes to someone getting their limbs sliced off or their head smashed in, Bill Skarsgard’s action thriller can’t be accused of stopping halfway.
In the countdown to her Australian tour, the grande dame of English comedy explains why the outrageous Patsy Stone is a creature of the past.
Juliette Binoche provides the perfect antidote to the cult of the celebrity chef in this modest film that finds fascination in life’s quieter moments.
Melburnians brought out their boas for Harry Styles then sequins for Taylor Swift. For a Jane Austen musical tribute, the dress code is: favourite character.
Jerry Seinfeld claims that the “extreme left” is to blame for the death of comedy on TV – but is he right?
There’s always a buzzy new show demanding your attention, while scores of series previously on your radar are washed away. Here are the shows you may have missed.
Rizwan cast members of his own family in his sitcom Juice, a joyous celebration of a neurotic Pakistani-British man navigating love, family and work stresses.
Australian contenders Electric Fields have hit the stage in Sweden with a two-pronged mission: Eurovision victory, with a side serve of world peace.
It’s not all good vibrations, as our reviewers reveal in this week’s pick of fiction and non-fiction releases.
Star Chris Hemsworth says it was “bonkers and crazy and wild and fun” making the fifth Mad Max film.
The behemoth cooking show has a new group of judges, and they’re reminders of the program’s core values.
This novel, by the author of One Day, is a celebration of the rare connection that can lift people out of seemingly intractable loneliness.
TV was great for so long that we were frogs in boiling water, but in reverse. It became lukewarm so gradually that you might not even have noticed.
Heather Morris’ book was an enormous success, but was mired in a controversy about accuracy. The series based on it doesn’t shy way from that.
This month brings lyrics from Kazuo Ishiguro, a Miles Franklin winner’s latest novel, the return of Miranda July, a surprise sequel from Colm Toibin and spacey stories from Ceridwen Dovey.
More than four decades on, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are still making pop’s most transcendent music.
Documentary maker Chris Smith spent four years trying to track down the Hollywood Con Queen and found it wasn’t the money they were after.
Subscribers have the chance to redeem one of 15 free double passes* to see acclaimed Australian-Macedonian filmmaker Goran Stolevski’s ‘Housekeeping for Beginners’.
Like many child stars before her, JoJo Siwa is testing out a NSFW persona. Her fans don’t seem to be buying it.
When the singer-songwriter is left genuinely alone on stage during this “solo” show, with just his piano as accompaniment, his status as national treasure is laid bare.
The 70-year-old comedian has revealed the jokes he says he couldn’t get away with on his celebrated sitcom today.
The Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian will appear at the Sydney Opera House next month.
A Jungle visit, not-so-fresh Air, an inner-city indie music festival and a couple of PNG-born singers round out the month of May.
Male artists are more likely to be represented and collected by galleries than women, according to a landmark report.
Murder, She Wrote sleuth Jessica Fletcher still inspires fan adoration despite suspicious deaths dogging her every footstep.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won him a Pulitzer Prize and employs cinematic tropes, but that doesn’t stop him being a fierce critic of the Hollywood machine.
Readers and subscribers have the opportunity to win a Billie Eilish fan experience in the US*.
The controversial Sydney radio hosts have debuted in Melbourne. Their first show was brash and explicit, but will it convert Melburnians into fans?
Before Bluey, Australian kids loved a pencil-nosed, moon-dwelling marionette. Now he and his cast of characters have found a new home.
Some of Australia’s highest profile writers, including a dual Miles Franklin winner, have announced they will no longer work with the library.
A recent smash hit Australian film has shown how we can rekindle the successful 1980s and ’90s era of Crocodile Dundee, Mad Max 2 and Muriel’s Wedding.
The first Australian to be honoured by the American Film Institute, Kidman paid tribute to her parents Janelle and Tony and their unwavering faith in her.
Inhabiting someone as illustrious as US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no mean feat, but Mitchell doesn’t just capture her likeness – she captures her spirit.
From learning to meditate with Ariana Grande to her connection with Hugh Jackman, theatre powerhouse Keala Settle is bringing her star-studded experience to & Juliet.
Sometimes you have to have your city reflected at you through the eyes of an outsider to see its best bits.
Our reviewers check out the best shows around town including those offered by Belvoir, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Comedy Festival.
The first Planet of the Apes movie hit screens in 1968. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes aims to extend the dynasty a little further.
The Aussie pop star sampled Jessica Pratt’s singular vocals on his last album. Now Pratt returns with her adventurous Here in the Pitch.
Bendigo Art Gallery’s collaboration with the Musee Carnavalet embraces the romance of Paris’ Belle Epoque.
Kendall Jenner has a toothpaste brand and I can’t fight the sense that these might not be passion projects.
Angourie Rice on her favourite film adaptations, missing Australia and handling imposter syndrome.
Andrew O’Hagan’s latest novel is a sprawling bit of social realism that exposes the inner workings of a society.
Anne Buist’s experience as a perinatal psychiatrist informs the novel she has written with Graeme Simsion.
Steven Carroll’s latest novel represents a shift in genre after his prize-winning books about T.S. Eliot.
Tana French’s The Hunter brings back the Chicago detective who has taken refuge in the west of Ireland.
Rebel Wilson’s book will finally be published in Australia, but the chapter about Sacha Baron Cohen will be missing.
With her fierce acting prowess and no holds-barred-career choices, Kidman is about to receive a rare industry accolade. Here’s why she deserves it.
The cost-of-living crisis is making it hard to justify paying for five different streaming services every month. Could I survive on just one free app?
A new Stan documentary explores the impact toxic man-made chemicals are having on all of us.
This all-day event had a lot to live up to but, powered by the terrific acts who actually did turn up, it didn’t disappoint.
James Bradley’s epic non-fiction book Deep Water explores the world’s oceans and our interconnectedness with them. And it may change your thinking about many things.
Before John Farnham’s You’re the Voice was chosen, there were moves to push another song as soundtrack to the referendum.
Sandra reveals her heartbreak after passing her condition on to three of her four children on Body Bizarre on 9Now.
Despite being born with the condition Sandra didn't know she had any health issues until puberty, she explains on Body Bizarre on 9Now.
Scrapper tells the implausible story of Georgie, a 12-year-old pretending to be an adult – but a hint of absurdism has made it a hit on the film festival circuit.
This is the director’s third Agatha Christie adaptation, and he is in full gothic mode, with another star-studded cast.
Starring Cobra Kai’s Xolo Mariduena, Blue Beetle adds a few progressive elements to routine production aimed at younger viewers.
In 2024, Melbourne Theatre Company’s program will include a play about football, a new spin on a classic, and a musical based on Miles Franklin’s “chaotic first novel”.
The pop superstar won nine prizes at Wednesday’s music awards, including the night’s biggest.
The Irish Booker Prize winner’s new novel explores the love lives of its various characters.
Nobody who gets near the gleaming loot remains untainted in The Gold, a based-on-reality drama starring Hugh Bonneville and Charlotte Spencer.
Zahra Newman is determined to honour the memory of the jazz great in her one-woman show.
Married At First Sight's Claire Nomarhas was asked to leave a restaurant after the staff realised she was dining alone.
In 1993, Tina Turner blew the crowd away with a set that included rugby league’s signature tune, The Best. Now, the cast of Tina: The Musical will perform.
Leading the nominees this year is Taylor Swift, who’s up for eight prizes including the coveted Artist of the Year and Video of the Year for Karma.
The writers have launched legal action, saying works like books and plays are particularly valuable for AI language training as the “best examples of high-quality, long form writing”.
After 33 years, organisers have pulled the plug on the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues in a move that has dismayed the Australian jazz community.
A look back at some of the best moments from Chuck Rhoades played by Paul Giamatti on Billions, available to stream now on Stan.
A look back at some of the best moments from Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod played by Damian Lewis on Billions, available to stream now on Stan.
The cast of Billions take us on a journey from seasons 1 to 6 as the final ever episode approaches on Stan.
Damian Lewis who plays Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod reveals his favourite scene he filmed on Billions, available to stream now on Stan.
When the first single off Olivia Rodrigo’s new album was released, listeners were quick to suggest its lyrics were aimed at Taylor Swift. Then came another.
The Australian Ballet’s 2024 season will feature a new performance inspired by the life and work of Oscar Wilde and a work by Melbourne choreographer Stephanie Lake.
The ABC drama series prides itself on historical accuracy. But there’s one big anachronism its makers deliberately embraced.
The couple admitted they were "scared to death" when they found out they were expecting six babies on Sweet Home Sextuplets on 9Now.
Junior high school sweethearts Courtney and Eric were already parents to three boys when they found out they were expecting six babies at once on Sweet Home Sextuplets on 9Now.
The celebrated lyricist wrote some of music’s best-known lines, but don’t ask him to recite the ones he penned for Princess Diana.
Last January, Nash set his alarm to FaceTime Crosby: “I waited and I waited for the call. It never came. And three days later he was dead”
Now, rather than beginning with our colonial past, visitors at NGV’s Federation Square will be greeted by Indigenous works.
Meet Barry Levinson who is so obsessed with mustard that he wears only yellow clothing and even brushes his teeth with it on My Crazy Obsession on Stan.
Barry Levinson only he wears only yellow clothing and even brushes his teeth with it on My Crazy Obsession on Stan.
The talk show will return for its fourth season next week, triggering the writers’ union to announce it will picket the production’s studios.
For her first venture into Dickens territory, the British novelist reimagines the Tichborne affair and the Australian fraudster at its heart.
After a tearful send-off, Neighbours has come back from the dead and reinvented Ramsay Street for a new era.
The Grammy award-winning rapper is the highest profile name attached to the first South By Southwest Sydney.
Narrowing the focus of teaching to literacy and numeracy outcomes in our children’s early years is proving to be detrimental to overall learning.
Hollywould Star walks the runway for the final time on RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under Season 3.
As women’s rights have been wound back, one teenager and her friends have found a way to study.
This wrap of shows includes an electric performance by Culture Club at Rod Laver Arena and Maria Stuarda, starring a truly impressive Helena Dix.
You shouldn’t do what I’ve done and wait until your 60s to learn the basics of human existence.
At the end of season one, Anna Torv and Sam Reid’s characters were at a crossroads, so where will they go next?
The former Neighbours star has achieved fame and fortune in his adopted home, but success has not delivered happiness, that’s come from elsewhere.
The reboot of Sex and the City is so timid and uninspiring, it was like the show runners forgot who the original characters were.
The first of two capacity shows at the Enmore reflected the drummer-turned-star’s celebrity, but the songs made a longer-lasting impression.
Heritage advocates said plans to rebuild the historic villa would have amounted to “fake heritage”.
Setting out to make an English working-class film that was joyful for a change, Charlotte Regan has struck gold with Scrapper.
I then described them as “the four oldest teenagers on the planet”, but with Thursday’s news of the release of a new Stones’ album, the title doesn’t quite work any more.
US talk show host Jimmy Fallon has reportedly apologised after staff on his top-rating Tonight Show complained about his professional conduct.
The London-based Australian has been recognised for his stellar career which includes designing Qantas lounges, a concept jet and now a public toilet in Tokyo.
Stray Gods is an interactive musical in the form of a video game, scored by a Grammy-nominated composer and featuring the voice of pop singer Montaigne.
Our indispensable guide to streaming continues with the essential shows that are currently available on Stan.
Angela Tiatia’s Dark Current is a dreamy exploration of colonialism and climate change.
Whether you’re forswunk or suffering acatalepsy, someone somewhere has coined a term to capture the mood.
Australian historian Christopher Clark’s history of the 1848 revolutions that erupted in Europe is a titanic piece of work.
Kate Mildenhall’s third novel displays a fearlessness in writing historical fiction of recent times that dissects class.
While progress in many fields over the past 50 years may be debatable, our cuisine has only got better.
The pop superstar draws on a well of 2000s pop-rock influence to chart the angst heartbreak and the thirst for vengeance.
From a bachelor’s handbag to the spicy cough, Macquarie Dictionary’s newest edition captures the current thoughts, feeling and preoccupations of Australians.
Identical twins Brittany and Briana face the reality that they one day might lose each other as Briana recovers from a pregnancy scare in Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
Identical twins Brittany and Briana open up about the "unthinkable" happening, that is if one of them passes away in Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
Now heading onto the global stage, Urvi Majumdar finds humour in her family, her suburbs and even her phone.
From Splendour to Burning Man, extreme weather is battering outdoor music festivals at an alarming rate. What do they need to do to survive?
Neil Armfield’s star-powered production of Death of a Salesman is creative while staying true to Arthur Miller’s vision.
The hit musical telling the backstory to The Wizard of Oz is a feast for the eyes and ears.
London’s Tate Modern museum has appointed Kimberley Moulton as an adjunct curator, specialising in First Nations and Indigenous Art.
The story of serial Sydney conwoman Samantha Azzopardi follows the recent trend for more “bodyless” crimes.
Intermissions used to be a regular part of our movie-going experience. But where did they go, and is it time to bring them back?
A new production of Jane Harrison’s The Visitors by Sydney Theatre Company closes on referendum day, but the timing is coincidental.
It was once the most successful romantic comedy of all time, now it feels like an excuse for the cast to go to Greece – and who can blame them?
We’ve seen it happen with Sculpture by the Sea, Vivid and, most recently, the Women’s World Cup.
After 14 years in film and TV, the in-demand actor chose My Sister Jill for her mainstage theatre debut.
This new Australian series examines the lives of three friends whose lifelong bond was broken by the events of one night.
Artist Alex Seton has chosen glass to make his striking monument to a generation of traumatised soldiers.
Ryan Cropp’s biography suggests Australia won’t see a public intellectual like Donald Horne again.
Her new album is just around the corner, so what better time to rank all 170 of Kylie’s songs.
Currumbin’s 21-year-old seaside sculpture festival helped one northern NSW artist bounce back from a devastating injury.
When even the makers of the Nun films are losing interest, it’s time to start looking for new ways to be scary.
During a visit with psychologist Dr Ritz, Amy revealed the source of her worries on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
The sisters see clinical psychologist Dr Ritz to help them with their increasingly tense relationship on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
Before the auction began, the entire room, including auction house specialists in black tie, banged their hands to the Queen song We Will Rock You.
When the Rolling Stones last made an album of original music, Lady Gaga was an undiscovered 19-year-old. Now, they’re back.
The New York satirist and writer lives without a computer or a mobile yet is one of our sharpest and funniest social commentators.
Former A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw will be back on our screens in 2024, as the Nine Network prepares for a big Olympic year.
Publishers and bookshops are gearing up for their busiest time of the year, with masses of books being published and bought.
While she’s been accused of skirting the tough stuff, Annabel Crabb poses politicians some ripping questions in the latest series of her interview program.
A formulaic outing for the four heroes in a half shell mostly irritates rather than entertains.
As host Costa Georgiadis and pint-size co-presenter Molly Moriarty explain, Gardening Australia Junior is the show the world needs right now.
The father reveals the names of the new family members on Doubling Down with the Derricos on 9Now.
Lord McAlpine, who first came across the artist thanks to a Qantas in-flight menu, owned at least 42 of his works. Now they’re hitting the open market for the first time.
A meeting in Coffs Harbour to determine the future of Australian kids’ TV started with spirits low but ended optimistically.
Salamander, a riveting fable of evolution and extinction, is a must-see Brisbane Festival highlight.
Richard Harris has left the film and television production and funding arm of Minderoo Foundation, following a string of other departures from Forrest’s businesses.
Fantasy connects with contemporary headlines in this adaptation of Victor LaValle’s 2017 novel starring LaKeith Stanfield, Clark Backo and Jane Kaczmarek.
Sarah Ogilvie’s book tells the stories of the people who contributed word definitions during the creation of the world’s first etymological dictionary.
If we’re talking about the words and notes on the page, You’re The Voice doesn’t in fact belong to Farnham. So was it entirely a gift?
Chelsie was 'heartbroken' over her family's harsh reaction to her wedding dress on Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire on 9now.
The veteran director told a Spanish newspaper that it was “only a kiss and it was a friend. What’s wrong with that?”
The singer, whose former band shot to fame after its 1999 hit All Star was featured in Shrek, died of liver failure at home on Monday.
From Donkey Kong and Bach to Tetris and Tchaikovsky, music in video games is vast and varied, yet some still associate it with 8-bit electronics.
Glenn Close, Rose Byrne and Ted Danson elevated Damages from campy schlock to high art.
As The Importance of Being Earnest opens at Sydney Theatre Company, we look back at the writer’s genius, with help from actor Helen Thomson.
Some of the biggest names in Australian advertising are split on how effective the John Farnham-backed Yes ad is.
From turning the Royal Exhibition Building into a dance floor to a free trail of art, the Now or Never festival had lofty ambitions.
Fears of recession are unlikely to put off Australia’s well-heeled art collectors from snapping up million-dollar artworks for sale at Sydney Contemporary.
Vedant and his father meet Dr Sabapathy in hopes they can find a cure for Vedant's leg overgrowth in an episode of Body Bizarre on 9Now.
Allee Richards’ second novel, A Light in the Dark, was inspired by her years performing in school musicals and working as a theatre lighting technician.
Vedant is a young boy with a rare condition that causes his right leg and foot to enormously overgrow in an episode of Body Bizarre on 9Now.
The former banker has hosted the Drive show since 2013 and said it was a huge honour to succeed Mitchell on 3AW, which unveiled its new line-up on Monday morning.
A classic tale of opposites attract, this charming romcom has some of the spikiness of Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe.
Academics have noted life-changing results from an Australian Chamber Orchestra program at one of the most disadvantaged primary schools in the state.
Minns government says it has brought to an end to user fee charges for Sydney’s world-famous fireworks’ display.
Here’s our indispensable guide – the first in an ongoing series – to the best shows that are currently available to stream on Netflix in Australia.
Prolific architecture writer Stephen Crafti on what he likes and what he loathes, and why we should demand more of design.
She’s been a Bachelorette, hosted FBoy Island and is back as a judge on The Masked Singer Australia, but the reality show star says it’s now her mum’s turn to appear on TV.
In a week of absolute chaos, the big two talk stations in Melbourne have announced the biggest shake-ups to their rosters in years. What on earth is going on?
After eight years of turmoil, the museum will be given a more modest $250 million revamp and promises the savings will go towards schools and hospitals.
Love Lust Lost is an immersive theatrical experience set across a two-square-kilometre, multi-level labyrinth.
The British TV presenter and hugely successful crime author doesn’t care if literary critics turn their noses up at his newfound commercial success.
Brisbane Festival show Unconditional takes an insiders’ look at a relationship where one partner has come out as trans.
In a bright, airy space she’s bringing together elements of Art Deco and Art Nouveau to create stunning, one-of-a-kind pieces.
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu and Zeynab Gamieldien’s first novels both dwell on the unacknowledged privilege of blending in.
The Sydney-centric characters in Jessica Seaborn’s first novel are only interested in what they wear, how much money they make, and where they live.
Twenty-five years after it premiered, we still can’t get enough of Friends. Now fans can take their obsession to the next level, by visiting the sets that made the show famous.
Get your copy of the Herald chief sports writer’s new book about NRL legend Wayne Bennett for a special discounted price.
The steady boyfriend. The one who got away. The charming rock star. Who will Cami choose? In this interactive rom-com, her love life is in your hands.
Melbourne radio’s game of musical chairs continues, with the ABC unveiling new hosts for Mornings and Drive.
As video games become huge commercial and critical successes, so do their music scores.
A cool drummer and an even cooler 16th birthday party lead the best gigs in Sydney in September.
If you’ve seen Babylon, you’ll never forget it. But not enough people have seen Babylon.
The war artist’s role has changed in line with the changing status of the Australian Defence Force abroad.
Tina Turner’s rise from poverty to stardom is a made-for-stage story and world-renowned producer Paul Dainty is bringing it to Melbourne.
The sisters laugh and shed tears as Amy prepares to have gastric bypass surgery on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
John Farrow, the Australian director who made a name for himself in Hollywood, abused women and traumatised his family.
The veteran journalist has revealed why he quit the ABC, accusing the broadcaster of not doing enough to protect First Nations staff.
To correct her breast reconstruction, Shannah seeks help from Dr Dubrow on Botched on 9Now.
What Dr Dubrow uncovers during Shannah’s surgery is truly “devastating” on Botched on 9Now.
Aaron Blabey’s Cat on the Run is being made into a movie even before it hits bookshelves.
The high-profile broadcaster will quit mornings on radio, which she has hosted since 2019.
LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish and Owen Wilson do their best in this loose remake of Eddie Murphy’s 2003 film of the same name.
He took Australian music to the world, but Michael Gudinski’s hard times are brushed over in this salute to the Mushroom boss.
Explaining sex scenes and deciding if a cyclops is “winking” or “blinking”; these are but a few of the creative challenges audio describers face in their jobs to help blind people watch TV.
From the pages of a 1991 spin-off novel, the stage is set for the debut of a new “big bad” Grand Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars: Ahsoka.
Bardot formed in 1999, in the footsteps of the Spice Girls, on one of the world’s earliest reality shows. Now one band member says it didn’t end as well as it seemed.
Alexandra Hudson, Henry Yan and Meg Jager have all wowed audiences in the Raw Comedy competition. Now they’re bringing their debut shows to Sydney Fringe.
Take seminal Detroit group the Stooges, mix in a splash of Radio Birdman, a generous dash of Celibate Rifles, shake, and C.O.F.F.I.N could be your new favourite rock band.
While Kim Kardashian and Matt Damon were promoting cryptocurrency to their fans, The OC’s Ben McKenzie was uncovering more and more red flags.
A bride's mother-in-law is horrified by her wedding dress choice and calls it "vile" in an episode of Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire on 9Now
Colson Whitehead’s sequel to the much-admired Harlem Shuffle is set in the decade that made New York a byword for squalor and danger.
The decision to dump the Australian-made submarine drama from its streaming platforms might make good business sense, but it’s a shock for everyone involved.
With its deadpan humour, the sci-fi themed Creamerie has a typically New Zealand flavour.
Nearly three decades after their debut, the EDM pioneers talk about their humble beginnings and making their 10th studio album.
The “Grace Slick and the Janis Joplin of the theatre world”, iOTA and Paul Capsis, reunite to take on Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist classic, The Chairs.
Suzie Miller’s play about late US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg earned rave reviews when it premiered in Sydney in 2022 and will now go national.
As well as taking on Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder next year, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will perform a work featured in Tar, starring Cate Blanchett.
The veteran journalist has hit back at a negative media report, and criticised the ABC for failing to defend him.
As a new season of the #MeToo drama beckons, there’s debate about whether it has lost its mojo.
3AW comfortably leads the pack, while Smooth FM leapfrogs Gold in a small shuffle in the FM band.
Survey five sees 2GB and KIIS hold their positions, but listeners have switched off in droves.
Luxe Listings Sydney chronicles real estate and buyers agents in Sydney, Australia, Simon Cohen, D'Leanne Lewis and Gavin Rubinstein, as they navigate their hectic personal and business lives.
The Duchess of Sussex scrubbed her personal social media account years ago, but a new profile bearing her name has already amassed over 100,000 followers.
The hotly anticipated resale market was set to open next Monday, but eager Swifties will now have to wait even longer.
Saxophonists on exercise bikes, a cappella singers in a locker room and a composition for string players and a rowing machine – Dead Weight is not your usual concert.
Film festivals are vital for promoting major releases, so what does it mean if stars can’t attend the red carpet?
Emma Cooper’s three-part series is almost completely shorn of retrospective analysis or expert opinion.
Abul, known as 'Tree Man', suffers from an extremely rare condition which leads to the development of warts resembling tree bark in an episode of Body Bizarre on 9Now.
Surgeons treat the 'Tree Man of Indonesia', one of five known cases of an extremely rare condition which causes a tree-like growths in an episode of Body Bizarre on 9Now.
Sydney Fringe takes over the city for September, with shows for every taste – whether you want to see Titanic in live-action, or a mix of drag and show tunes.
Creator Christopher Storer’s Chicago restaurant drama ventures into places that few other shows dare.
Ashley Madison walks down the runway for the final time on RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under Season 3.
In an era of Barbie, Taylor Swift and the Matildas, the musical’s messages are more relevant than ever.
Showing as part of Brisbane Festival, a young woman searching for her roots finds a family mystery in Don’t Ask What the Bird Look Like.
Capturing the essence of the Matildas in a statue means showing more than simply their sporting prowess.
Our species can’t design a toaster that works, and we think we can make a safe self-drive car?
The opening of the $140 million facility marks the next step in the seaside city’s evolution.
We asked a top cop, lawyers, a GP and a senator what TV and film gets right, and oh so wrong, about their chosen careers
Looking to emerge from winter hibernation? Here are five of the best gigs, theatre shows, art exhibitions, festivals and restaurants to get you out of the house.
New ABC comedy show WTFAQ introduces a couple of new faces while attempting to answer some thorny questions.
The singer-songwriter says it’s nice not to have the added stress of lyrics, for which she has been so well known previously, on her new album.
The owners of six Australian art collections reveal how they started and why they can’t stop.
The movies have long portrayed AI as the enemy. But could it actually be the best thing to have happened to human creativity in years?
Gabbie Stroud has written two books about the teaching profession. Her first novel has a powerful message as well.
Clare Carlisle’s book about the great Victorian novelist and her long relationship with George Henry Lewes suggests their non-marriage marriage was that impossibility, a perfect partnership.
The writer’s vignettes wittily chronicle the “false starts, failures and endless dabbling” of a self-confessed dilettante.
Our reviewers look at recent fiction and non-fiction books, including two that consider very different mother-daughter relationships.
With a series of strategic courtyards merging indoor and outdoor spaces, this transformation of a Federation-era home in St Kilda has won a slew of gongs.
This week it was announced that Ita Buttrose would not seek a second term as chair of the ABC. Will she leave as a success, a failure, or something in between?
Inspired by the 2001 film, Moulin Rouge! The musical is all about glitz and glamour, but despite all the wow factor, it leaves a feeling of emptiness.
Jerry's ex-wife jokes about moving in "a girl that she likes" next time in the season finale of You, Me & My Ex on 9Now.
Kayee storms out on her partner Jerry and his ex-wife Jessica, who she was both living with, in an explosive series finale of You, Me & My Ex on 9Now.
He had a famous falling out with Taylor Swift, now Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato are cutting ties with music mogul Scott ‘Scooter’ Braun.
After months of hype, Kim Cattrall has reprised her role as Samantha Jones in the season two finale of And Just Like That.
A group of Australians have turned the life of Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man, into a comedy musical that makes its Sydney debut at the Fringe.
Things felt a little tentative last year as the industry emerged from the pandemic, but the intervening 12 months have given everybody a chance to find new creative vigour.
The Powerhouse Museum has hand-picked 1001 objects from its collection of more than half a million items to create an exhibition of Australian icons.
Playing a young man who betrayed and poisoned two retirees, Irish actor Eanna Hardwicke was surprised when viewers said they were “moved” by his performance.
Created by bestselling thriller author Harlan Coben, this eight-part series is definitely no Scooby Doo.
The true story of white supremacist-turned-informer Matthew Collins is remarkable; so, too, is performance of Stephen Graham, whose struggle is writ large on his weatherbeaten face.
The British actor wanted to take a break, but an ensemble Australian drama about three close friends bound together by a life-shattering event changed her mind.
You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah is now streaming on Netflix and stars Adam Sandler.
With idk, Force Majeure opens a more nuanced conversation about consent – all while making us laugh.
After making an eight-hour drive across the country, Jerry arrives at Tammy's house on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
Excited by the news her boyfriend is finally visiting, Tammy reveals her one worry about his arrival on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
In a one-night-only semi-staged performance, conductor Simone Young will bring Richard Strauss’s wistful Capriccio to life.
When a re-recording of a six-year-old song is deemed the most important item in your campaign for a new TV series, something strange is afoot.
Stanley, 31, dedicates eight hours a day to role playing as a toddler on My Crazy Obsession on Stan.
Stanley converted his own twin bed to custom make his own crib on My Crazy Obsession on Stan.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been urged to just be their “rich, authentic” selves as they try to revive their media empire.
Michelle Ryan was told that Restless Dance Theatre performers wouldn’t be able to do everything other dancers can. She proved the naysayers wrong.
This sensationalised thriller about the battle against child sex traffickers, starring Jim Caviezel, is the simplest kind of exploitation.
In 2016, Anna O’Byrne was hand-picked by Julie Andrews to play Eliza Doolittle – now, she’s returning to the stage with a show that gives a peek behind the curtain.
The feature debut of Celine Song follows a pair of childhood friends over three time periods, with 12 years passing between each.
Briohny Doyle’s novel bears similarities to The Friend, Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 much-loved novel.
Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn is a blow-by-blow exploration of how the Nissan and Renault boss ended up being smuggled out of Japan to Lebanon beyond the reach of extradition.
Author Maxine Beneba Clarke talks about The Age Essay Prize for young writers, of which she is the guest judge.
Amber Heard was charged after bringing her two dogs into the country without declaring them in 2015.
About 400 writers have signed up to support the Yes campaign in the upcoming referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament.
Ita Buttrose was among many “captain’s picks” for ABC chair. She was a good pick, but next time the prime minister should leave it to an independent panel.
After 23 years, Hashmot finally worked up the courage to visit the site of his horrific incident on Body Bizarre on 9Now.
A Bangladeshi man has been in hiding for 23 years after a tiger mauled his face on Body Bizarre on 9Now.
The breakout viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” is taking over the internet (and the charts) and has triggered a response - in song - from Billy Bragg. But is there something sinister about it?
Farnham said he was “the luckiest man I know right now” and planned to celebrate one year since his surgery with a pizza.
The new federal government agency Music Australia opens its door on Thursday with the aim of making Australia a hit-making music capital of the world.
Bert LaBonte joins the cast of the acclaimed stage musical in its encore season – and he’s blown away by its energy and acrobatic prowess.
Australian composer Samantha Wolf has taken the structure of a Bachelor season and translated it into a work of classical music, for Ensemble Offspring.
Despite fears the hit Broadway show would skip Sydney due to lack of theatre space, & Juliet will arrive at the Lyric Theatre early next year.
Tim Ballard, who estimates he has gone on “several dozen” missions to rescue sex-trafficked children, has become the face of the surprise box office hit Sound of Freedom.
Grant said he left the broadcaster weeks ago to join Monash University’s Constructive Institute Asia Pacific.
Novelist Kate Atkinson obeys her own title by breaking the rules in her mesmeric new collection of stories
I first watched the original Sex and the City in my early 20s. This behemoth of a franchise has served as a way to reflect on my own relationships, choices and shoes.
Franchises may be the equivalent of crack cocaine for small children, but parents need to resist the marketing machine.
The genie is out of the bottle: After a long absence from our shores, Aguilera will perform in Australia, under the Victorian government’s Always Live program.
The identical twins live under the same room as their identical twin husbands in a quaternary marriage on Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
Brittany and Briana and their husbands Josh and Jeremy brainstorm the best wardrobe design on Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
The veteran American crime writer is showing no signs of slowing down as he heads into his late 80s.
From furniture shaped like luxury cars to houses built from your wildest imaginings, artificial intelligence is changing the way we live.
A new dance theatre work for three performers and four giant teddy bears, idk by Force Majeure, dives into difficult conversations about navigating boundaries.
The gripping grand final between England and Spain capped off a stellar week for women’s sport and soccer – and for free-to-air television, as it demonstrated its fundamental role.
Yuliana hopes Dr Dubrow and Dr Nassif can correct the botched butt implants that are putting a strain on her marriage on Botched on 9Now.
The Ghanian-Australian rapper dropped second album Struggler on Friday and celebrated by treating his Sydney fans to an intimate set the following night.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Body Type at the Corner Hotel, Luke Combs at Rod Laver Arena, and an in-depth look at the work of Franz Liszt.
The Dismissal turns Australia’s greatest constitutional crisis into an all-singing and all-dancing affair – and it’s told by Norman Gunston.
Artificial intelligence expert Dr Catriona Wallace says the technology can be applied to every business pitching on the new series of Shark Tank.
Sunny Leone got her start in the adult film business before joining the mainstream of Indian cinema a decade ago. Now on a visit to Melbourne to promote the thriller Kennedy, she thinks she may have finally arrived.
The author and podcaster says she has never set out to court controversy, but her recent book, Welcome to Sex, provided little relief from the pile-ons.
Australia’s richest film prize was awarded on Saturday night at the festival’s closing gala along with five other awards.
Director Daniel Goldhaber has made a gripping movie about activists who decide to blow up a Texas oil pipeline.
Looking over PS’s lifetime the roll call of featured names is many and varied from the Packers and Murdochs to Nicole Kidman and Elle Macpherson, and yet all of their stories have shared something in common: genuine, unscripted intrigue.
The reboot of the beloved Australian sitcom arrives next week bearing the weight of nostalgia.
Hip hop group The 046 have cancelled shows in Sydney and Wollongong after police advised venues to arrange additional security and extra police officers.
Catherine Lacey’s novel about an author writing a biography of her wife reveals more about the writer and the genre than the subject.
According to Jesse Fink’s new book, those who have accused Dick Ellis of spying for the Nazis and then the Soviet Union are plain wrong.
Life in the shadow of husband George Johnston was frustrating for the Australian writer, but it seems now is her moment with books being republished and new work appearing.
Sir Michael Parkinson will be remembered for his air of the everyman who went everywhere and met everyone.
There’s a reason graphic novels are the ‘most stolen books’ from libraries, according to author Tom Taylor. In a first for the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards, his has taken top prize.
It’s the case that’s gripped the nation, but could the small-town tragedy be turned into a TV series - and should it?
The White Rabbit exhibition cuts deep as it delves into the tension between the public and private.
If everyone shared a single city, we might just solve climate change, says Australian-born “world builder” Liam Young.
Opera Australia’s Miss Saigon has opened in Sydney. While it has not been without detractors, its Asian-Australian cast defends the show as “about survival”.
Raquel Leviss became one of reality TV’s most notorious villains on Vanderpump Rules then went off the grid. Now she’s telling her side of the story.
Vicky McClure (Line of Duty) and Johnny Harris’ brutal confrontation in This Is England ’86 was unforgettable; the pair are no less compelling in this four-part whodunit.
The actor, who portrays the legendary American composer, has been defended by Bernstein’s family.
Amy hopes that Tammy meeting her nephew will finally give her the motivation to get her weight loss on track on 1000 Lb Sisters on 9Now.
The clash with England drew a record average audience of 7.13 million, the highest recorded since ratings agency OzTam was launched in 2001.
This Aussie foursome can be rude and downright vulgar – and Jennifer Aniston is among their biggest fans.
The smell coming from Scott's back condition is so "awful" his wife is forced to leave the room on Bad Skin Clinic on 9Now.
The subtly charming suburban lawyer is just the latest homegrown character to find a global audience.
The Killers were booed at their concert in Georgia after referring to a Russian fan as a ‘brother’.
Taking a leaf from The Big Short, this biopic is a tale of hubris and betrayals, large and small, but it also depicts a world strangely devoid of female characters.
A dominatrix and her client struggle for power in Sanctuary, starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott.
Godland is a bone-chilling, eye-dazzling, heart-wrenching film – both an epic saga of landscape cinema and a terrifying philosophical voyage.
The family portrayed in the film about the life of former USA NFL player Michael Oher have rejected his claims that he was tricked and exploited.
Death of an Author was written by AI. Some have welcomed the development, others are horrified.
Bluey might be feel-good, but encouraging our kids to watch nonsensical thrillers is what will really benefit them in the long run.
A meat cleaver was taken to the 1968 documentary, which detailed the cost-cutting and compromises that led to the resignation of Danish architect Jørn Utzon, in the basement of the BBC.
The baker hopes Dr Nassif and Dr Dubrow will help him with his body modification journey on Botched on 9Now.
The US TV writer for Will & Grace and Family Guy has become an Instagram celebrity, but he’s not as misanthropic as his social media profile would have you believe.
Don’t expect to see 007 driving a Toyota. When it comes to product placement, nothing is accidental.
Angela O’Keeffe follows up her novel about Blue poles by giving voice to Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, the wife of the great impressionist painter.
Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2024 season includes a Scottish guitarist wunderkind, a Sydney Dance Company collaboration, and a tour of their award-winning score.
The prolific creator of Yellowstone and its various spin-offs seems more interested in action than exploring thorny topics in Special Ops: Lioness, starring Zoe Saldana and Nicole Kidman.
A reliable trope of teen romance, the love triangle is back with crackle and pop in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Never Have I Ever and Heartstopper.
Australian session musicians are taking their quest for an overhaul of the copyright system to the Labor Party conference in Brisbane.
I Love My Dad stars Patton Oswalt, James Morosini, Claudia Sulewski, Lil Rel Howery, Amy Landecker, Ricky Velez, and Rachel Dratch.
The final season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is now streaming on Disney+.
Silk, Metal, Wood by Musica Viva featured a new commission by a young Australian composer, brought to life by superstar French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras.
Enjoy 30% off the retail price of Liam Mannix’s book about the new science offering hope to people with chronic back pain.
After welcoming baby Jax, Briana considers twin sister Brittany to also be his mum on Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
The feel-good movie about a well-to-do white family adopting a black teenager is now the subject of a court petition by former US NFL player Michael Oher.
With a few basic prompts, AI can fill our world with any sound we ask for – but not everyone will call it music.
A stubborn priest pits himself against the Icelandic elements in Hlynur Palmason’s riveting new film.
From stories of religious fervour gone horribly wrong to a quiet tale of an alien invasion, horror is having a well-deserved moment.
Bananaland is the latest project from the husband-and-wife team who wrote the songs for Muriel’s Wedding the Musical, and opens at Brisbane Festival next month.
One can’t sum up Australia’s cinema history in 50 films, but SBS On Demand’s Homegrown Cinema collection is like finding a new path.
After retiring in 2020 to focus on his health, the playwright behind Don’s Party and Emerald City will make his return to the theatre in 2024.
In 2018, the musical comedy based on Tim Burton’s 1988 movie opened in Washington before moving to New York. Finally, it is making its way Down Under.
A fully restored steam train, live music and a big dose of community spirit are coming together to boost tourism in regional Victoria.
A new US documentary is a cautionary tale about the risks involved when filmmakers invite real people to participate in documentaries about events that are of public interest.
The film producer on his famous dad, working with Wes Anderson and his plans to visit Luna Park when he’s in Melbourne later this month.
A look at Ivory Glaze's final runway look before she was sadly eliminated on RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.
Denmark’s Count Nikolai of Monpezat’s arrival in Sydney sees the continuation of a peculiar tradition of young European blue bloods escaping gilded cages and fluttering to Australia to taste life without the unimaginable privilege.
“I was always that girl in my circle of friends, the one who made sure people were entertained and having a good time.”
At the annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards in Darwin, memory and the process of making sense of the past emerges as a key theme.
The Aussie rock frontman’s five-decade musical career was as uncompromising as the man himself.
Melbourne Theatre Company’s double bill of short plays typify playwright Caryl Churchill’s probing, six-decade career.
I have been on Twitter for an embarrassingly long time. Its downfall is bad news for me – and people like me.
Facial recognition and tracking technology help bring to life Mexican Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s exhibition Atmospheric Memory at the Powerhouse.
Shakespeare would have loved the opportunity to write about the likes of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
Caroline Craig has seen the emotional toll police suffer when looking for some of the 50,0000 Australians who go missing each year.
A family of philanthropists in the Blue Mountains has donated a $600,000 painting to the National Gallery of Australia.
This week, fans of Lil Tay were rocked when a post on her Instagram page announced her passing.
Five years ago, Christian O’Connell turned his back on Britain’s top radio show, uprooted his family and moved to Australia to begin again. Somehow, it worked.
Hollywood’s strike continues to have far-reaching impacts across the TV and film industry.
The secretive film star makes high-wattage red carpet appearances to promote his new films, but rarely gives in-depth interviews. Nobody even knows where he lives. Or do they?
Tim Carroll and Oscar Dawson are being inspired by a fresh crop of Australian musicians.
The local version of The Traitors has taken a leaf out of the US playbook and recruited reality stars and an actor to play the game.
Adapted from Casey McQuiston’s 2019 New York Times best-selling novel, Red White and Royal Blue has the kind of ready-to-go fan base that streamers and studios dream of.
It’s been eight years since the ABC journalist came knocking for the foodie political series, and while some things have changed, a lot is still the same.
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro are using Lego to explore the strange things people believe in – from the paranormal to conspiracy theories.
In fact, romance is streaming episodically into our lounge room. Who needs to go out for date night?
The Melbourne International Film Festival’s virtual reality program explores the cutting edge of experimental cinema.
ABC radio producer Ann Jones has embarked on an entertaining and fact-filled mission to capture Australia’s unique sounds in The Soundtrack of Australia.
The medical drama RFDS returns, with a new recruit and lively adventures in the Australian outback.
Who to believe in this drama about the fraught relationship between a tennis coach and young champion, especially when both are telling lies?
In the hands of stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building has become one of the great stayers of the streaming era.
The Detroit singer-songwriter was championed decades after his 1970 debut album by fans in Australia and South Africa, and became the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary.
Reviews of all the best shows in Sydney this week, including The Weekend at Belvoir, and Opera Australia’s La Gioconda in Concert.
Tammy needs to get something off her chest and hopes boyfriend Jerry will accept 'the real her' on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
From football to boxing, these films are (almost) as awe-inspiring as Australia’s performance in the Women’s World Cup.
When Kanye West appeared, 60,000 fans jumped and some locals panicked, thinking an earthquake was occurring.
Comments Sandilands made during a segment about the outbreak of monkeypox were offensive to gay men and not in line with the Commercial Radio Code of Practice, the media authority has found.
The comedian worked 12-hour days on set, while undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of cancer. “I was thinking, I don’t want to shut this whole production down.”
Robertson, who left his Toronto home at age 16 to pursue his rock’n’roll dreams, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, aged 80, after a long illness.
Despite Wes Anderson’s rich imagination, I couldn’t help looking back on simpler times when he was more interested in telling a story.
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is the technicolour tropical joy we all missed out on.
Gran Turismo is the latest in an avalanche of toy or game-based movies hitting screens this year.
Based on true events, Painkiller does a lot more than simply detail the public health disaster of OxyContin.
Jaq Grantford’s portrait of Noni Hazlehurst is a nod to the long-running children’s TV show.
Australian authors and others in the publishing industry say the website is just another example of AI’s encroachment into the arts.
The Australian music industry is pushing for the removal of a cap on royalty payments for sound recordings played on radio.
The identical twin sisters married identical twin brothers Jeremy and Josh and all four live under one roof on Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
Megan Thee Stallion testified that rapper Tory Lanez fired the gun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from a car, after leaving a pool party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home.
HBO’s new docuseries, produced by the Safdie brothers, is a gritty hero’s quest in the guise of a telemarketing expose.
Artificial Intelligence is just the latest tool with which artists explore their ideas. So why is everyone getting so het up?
Great Australian Walks, a new travel show on SBS hosted by Julia Zemiro, covers not only the scenic, it also gets political.
Putting a beloved novel on stage risks raising the ire of both readers and theatre fans. But when it’s done well it’s worth it.
Paul McCartney’s candid photographs, published in a new book, record the time when the Beatles captured the hearts, minds and musical souls of millions.
The Canadian novelist lost a large chunk of his new novel when he was last in Australia. It turned out to be a blessing.
The band is willing to perform for Melbourne one last time and leave the crowd gobsmacked, but says the AFL is yet to reach out.
The Matildas’ 2-0 win over Denmark in the FIFA Women’s World Cup was the most-watched broadcast event of the year, bettering the 2022 AFL grand final.
Inspired by the Hollywood strike, performers on massively popular reality TV shows are starting to organise and demand better pay and conditions.
The horrific details of the most sinister case in Canada's history are laid bare in Ken and Barbie Killers: The Lost Murder Tapes on 9Now.
Season two of the brilliantly realised adaptation of Alice Oseman’s graphic novel has plenty of new teen issues left to explore.
The photographer who captures the famous as we’ve never seen them before is on his way to Australia.
The Trouble With KanYe investigates how Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, one of America’s most celebrated artists, became a megaphone for hate and division.
“There was no CGI then. There was no way to fake it. I just put the pedal to the metal, and we went 90 miles an hour in city traffic” the director said of creating one of cinemas most thrilling chase scenes.
For its 12th year, Bleach has designed a festival for locals, which includes them in the process of making art.
Angus Trumble’s account of Helena Rubinstein’s years in Australia reveals the foundation of her beauty empire.
Actor Zoe Terakes, best known for Wentworth and Nine Perfect Strangers, has responded to the film’s banning in Kuwait.
Since the age of eight, Elise, now 25, has suffered with a "debilitating" condition known as hidradenitis suppurativa and explains her diagnosis on The Bad Skin Clinic on 9Now.
Max Cooper’s immersive electro-science show is at the heart of the city’s Now or Never festival.
Some of Australia’s historic vineyards are under threat from mining and residential development, but can’t become heritage listed due to conflicting regulations.
“She thought I’d grow out of this phase but she became my collaborator and started making my clothes. She could copy patterns by famous designers to perfection.”
“Instafamous” darling Nadia Fairfax was the reigning queen of the luxury fashion set, showered in expensive baubles and significant sums of money. But every party comes to an end.
She’s best known for her work on Russian Doll, Girls and The Morning Show. But it’s her latest performance in the much-hyped film Past Lives that’s turning heads.
The prolific actor, whose simmering air of menace as the fearsome former drug lord Hector Salamanca transformed the innocent ding of a bellhop bell into a harbinger of doom, has died.
Which productions have shut down, why are some actors still working, and why are some reality stars ‘lawyering up’?
The standout sounds like something Barbie might throw on in the car after sharing a spliff with friends.
Logies gatecrasher Suzan Mutesi said she felt like Cinderella going to the ball but “now it appears I have really upset the ugly sisters”.
The city is reborn in colour-rich symmetry as locals mimic a “beautiful way of seeing”.
Alycia Debnam-Carey and Sigourney Weaver headline a challenging but rewarding drama about the legacy of abuse and the chances of escaping it.
Is there still life left in album covers? A MIFF documentary traces their golden legacy.
The veteran journalist’s account of the investigation into Ben Roberts-Smith shows the crucial need for truth and perspective.
The round of 16 gets under way this weekend, but only four out of eight games will be available to watch on free-to-air television, prompting criticism from fans.
The talent show may be as old as TV itself, but the blind auditions of The Voice are a reminder of why singing competitions are so hard to resist.
Barbie has kept the doors open at smaller cinemas, where for some the last financial year was tougher than the previous two.
Miss Peony tells the story of Chinese-Australian women grappling with cultural identity in 21st century Australia.
The long-running game show, which has given away more than $90 million over its lifespan, will be no more from January 2024.
Soon-to-be-mum Amy’s nerves are at an all time high as she undergoes a C-section on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
Despite the stigma of polydactyly, the De Silvas have proved their "burden" is actually an advantage on Body Bizarre on 9Now.
What, no Bluey? The creators of Crazy Fun Park were just as shocked as the rest of the country when they won the Logie for Most Outstanding Children’s program.
Director Paul Goldman spills the beans on the troubled journey to screen of a documentary about Mushroom group founder and Oz rock pioneer Michael Gudinski.
Three of the Grammy winner’s former backup dancers made numerous allegations including sexual, religious and racial harassment, disability discrimination, assault and false imprisonment.
Taylor Swift’s generosity is admirable. But it is truly sad that sharing profits with staff is so extraordinary.
Whether it’s Jaws or The Meg, there are four essential elements all shark films need to reel in viewers.
The success of Mr Bailey’s Minder at Ensemble Theatre rests on the chemistry between actors playing the elderly Leo and his carer Therese.
Barbie and Oppenheimer are revitalising cinema, smashing box office records, and creating a cultural phenomenon. Explore our collection of stories.
Karen Derrico reveals the astonishing amount the family spend on their monthly groceries for their 11 children on Doubling Down with the Derricos on 9Now.
Jazz Money is one of the headliners for a month-long celebration of the best in Australian verse, as an official poet laureate looms on the horizon.
Based on the New York Times bestseller, Red, White & Royal Blue centers around Alex, the president’s son, and Britain’s Prince Henry whose long-running feud threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations. When the rivals are forced into a staged truce, their icy relationship begins to thaw and the friction between them sparks something deeper than they ever expected.
Scott Cam returns to host another season of The Block. This time expect 5 new couples and 5 no-so-new houses stuck in the retro age.
Nick, Charlie and the gang return as they journey through the next chapter of life, love and friendship on Heartstopper Season 2 now streaming on Netflix.
More explosive than Scandoval? Who is Randall Emmett, really and what don’t you know about his relationship with Lala Kent of Vanderpump Rules? Stream the ABC News Studios and LA Times documentary The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump.
Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston – the cast of Asteroid City is another star-studded outing in which Wes Anderson left nothing to chance.
Byrne’s Sheila Rubin is a deeply unfulfilled graduate of the counter-culture who is just trying to move forward in this under-rated show.
Bernadette Robinson channels 10 powerhouse female performers, including Miley Cyrus and Judy Garland, in her new show Divas.
Noora Niasari’s Shayda is a stunning debut, a deeply personal film about a mother and daughter trying to spark joy inside a women’s refuge.
Rachel’s Farm is a hugely valuable adventure infused with the actor’s insatiable curiosity and staunch refusal to give up, no matter what.
This unfairly neglected episode in Black history has been criticised by musical purists - but you can also just sit back and enjoy it.
Gabbi Bolt first found fame with her song for the unofficial Ratatouille musical and TikToks about Australian politics. Now she’s taking on a new challenge.
Australian Gretel Vella, 29, is a showrunner of her own drama series Totally Completely Fine. She’s also its creator, writer and executive producer.
From Trent Dalton to Melissa Lucashenko, Brisbane is blessed with a host of Australia’s best writers.
Sam Kerr, Ellie Carpenter and Mary Fowler talk about their journey to the World Cup in this revealing and surprisingly frank series.
Identical twins Anna and Lucy DeCinque visit the fertility doctor after revealing plans to fall pregnant at the same time in 'Extreme Sisters' on 9Now.
Accusations within the lawsuit include sexual harassment, creation of a hostile work environment, interference with prospective economic advantage and false imprisonment.
The TV adaptation of Holly Ringland’s acclaimed novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a passion project for the seven-time Logie-winning actress.
For seven weeks we’ve been glued to Apple’s airborne adventure series Hijack, yet its brilliance harks back to the stars and movies of decades past.
This Is Going To Be Big is a high school coming of age movie with a difference, and it’s an absolute delight.
I want entertainment that gives me an escape from the news cycle, not a rehashing of it.
Euphoria fans are mourning the death of promising actor Angus Cloud, whose portrayal of Fez was one of the show’s highlights.
Yes, Barbie the movie has heard of feminism. (And thinks it sounds awesome!) But how patriarchy-toppling is it really?
Actor John reveals what life is like with “big nose syndrome” on The Bad Skin Clinic on 9Now.
Choreographer Antony Hamilton says the latest Chunky Move work is the hardest many of the company’s dancers have ever experienced.
Six years since his last Australian tour, McCartney will sing in a virtual duet with his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon.
You’ll hear classically trained Tina Guo on films such as Dune and Top Gun: Maverick, and she’s played with Adele and Stevie Wonder, but it wasn’t until after she joined a circus that her parents accepted her musical path.
Documentary maker Laurie Critchley is used to difficult topics; her latest series, Missing Persons Investigation, wades into challenging personal and ethical terrain.
This month: Dance floor mavens from a range of eras, a great band with a dodgy name, a folk doctor, and a rapper who’s probably way more into the movie Titanic than most.
Jonathan Eig’s new look at the life of the African-American activist argues he was no saint, but a man of courage with a moral vision.
The actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows has died after a private struggle with cancer.
Something shifted in the universe, and the bizarre cultural phenomenon that is Barbenheimer got me back in front of the big screen.
Phillips says the decision to quit was entirely her own, but cited changing personal circumstances and the ABC’s digital transformation.
The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal found Kruger had vilified Muslims after comments she made on air. It didn’t stop her winning TV’s biggest prize.
Shreya finds herself at the centre of a medical mystery as more than 1000 ants emerge from he ear on Body Bizarre on 9Now.
Sam Pang brought the goods as host and the Logies provided the numbers as Seven hosted TV’s night of nights for the first time in 28 years.
Monday night’s do-or-die clash between Australia and Canada is also a last gasp for the few Women’s World Cup group matches on free-to-air television.
Mark Rubbo has been at the heart of the Australian book business for nearly 50 years, nurturing Australian writers and writing.
There were hits and misses, shocks and surprises, and a solid debut from Sam Pang as host. But none of that could stop the Logies running off the rails in the end.
Their friendship started with a phone call out of the blue. It grew into a year of laughter, matching buzz cuts and the best week in Louise Woolcock’s short life.
The 63rd annual Logie Awards are just getting started. Follow our live coverage of the fashion as celebrities arrive, and later this evening all the awards.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes 2:22 A Ghost Story at Her Majesty’s Theatre, jazz group Trichotomy, Caroline Lee in offbeat monodrama June, and Werribee Park Mansion’s long-running production of What Was That?
This year the media is banned from attending the awards and after parties, relegated to only covering the red carpet parade of wannabe soapie stars and reality TV try-hards. Yawn.
A six-part series produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman is best described as hype, and only a handful of movies made outside Tinseltown earn a mention.
Six people at the forefront of a revolutionary creative frontier reveal (some of) their secrets.
While the Hollywood actors strike could upset the schedule, there are plenty of appealing movies on the way to cinemas, including another one starring Margot Robbie.
Danny and Michael Philippou, aka RackaRacka, have long promised big things. With their debut feature, Talk To Me, the internet sensations have finally delivered.
Steph and Gian Ottavio are the youngest couple to ever appear in the reality show, but Steph’s qualifications proved a blessing and a curse.
From Del Kathryn Barton and Patricia Piccinini, there are many Australian artists who have been influenced by Surrealism.
Claims of designer bags costing several thousand dollars arriving with suspicious odour and labelling have created a public relations nightmare for the store.
Oppenheimer is a brilliant historical thriller, but it fails to tell the full story - and one Australian’s crucial part in it.
The 75th Emmy Awards are the latest production to be put on pause due to the Hollywood strikes and will not air as planned in September.
The petite, polite acting veteran unleashes hellish visions in her MTC double bill with Alison Bell.
She wanted to rescue God from the church; she sang of healing and compassion and spoke for the voiceless. I loved her.
In Sally Young’s second volume of her history of Australian media, she focuses on newspapers and the coming of television.
Martin Flanagan’s memoir is possibly the most insightful book to so far emerge from the mangled mess of child sexual abuse in Catholic institutions.
Margaret Hickey’s third book Broken Bay takes the reader to the SA coastal fringe littered with dangerous sinkholes and caves.
The young protagonist in Brandi’s fourth novel Southern Aurora grabs an unusual chance of improving his fortunes.
Jacqueline Bouvier was well on her way to becoming a skilled photojournalist when up-and-coming senator John Kennedy crossed her line of vision.
Nervous that her unborn child will experience complications as a result of her weight, Amy seeks the help of a psychic on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
For Chunky Move's newest work 4/4, choreographer Antony Hamilton worked his dancers like a sports team.
Barbie is a global smash. But it’s not just for her starring role that Margot Robbie should be earning raves.
With an astonishing vocal range, he was also “the sweetest man in the music business”, according former bandmate Don Felder.
Both nominated for most popular actress award, the stars of Fisk say they have wanted to work together since they were about 25.
Alistair Baldwin’s new play, Telethon Kid, is inspired by his experience growing up with a rare neuromuscular disorder
Sharpe won the Sulman Prize when she was fresh out of art school, and she reckons that fate intervened on her behalf.
The thriller, a surprise hit that has taken more than $US130 million in the US, will open next month.
From diet fads to “respectful behaviour” workshops, the latest season of Working Dog’s comedy delivers refreshing insights into the contemporary world.
Command Z, available on Soderbergh’s website, is inspired by journalist and broadcaster Kurt Andersen’s 2020 non-fiction book, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America.
Redevelopment plans for the Powerhouse Museum may be scaled back under options being considered by the NSW government.
How a New York City art form found its way to Australia and evolved into one of our most significant cultural forces.
Based on the long-running Playstation game franchise, this adaptation is totally bonkers.
Under the guise of being a pop star performing a song, O’Connor held court for three minutes on the miseries of discrimination and abuses of power.
Writer-director Richard Hilliar adapts classic horror novella The Turn of the Screw into stage show with stellar performances and production values.
When Julian Cress and David Barbour came up with the idea of a show where contestants would renovate and live together for 120 days, they had no idea it would turn into a juggernaut.
You were unfiltered, unapologetic. The news of your death this morning had me weeping in bed.
Jerry moves his new girlfriend Kayee into the house he shares with his ex-wife Jessica in episode 1 of You, Me & My Ex on 9Now.
How a teen drama about a misunderstood kid from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the most important cultural artefacts of the 2000s.
Teenagers are possessed by ghosts, with help from a ceramic, embalmed hand, in the debut feature from twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, aka RackaRacka.
The Nazi-fighting, gold-digging hero at the heart of the Finnish film Sisu is so compelling, I couldn’t do anything but cheer him on.
Set in rural Spain, Alcarras is a beautiful, sad and authentic depiction of one extended family facing a kind of oblivion.
The third, and final, season of cult docuseries How To with John Wilson is its most remarkable yet.
The Irish singer was known as much for her shaved head and outspoken views on religion, sex, feminism and war as for her music.
The 64-year-old actor was found not guilty by a jury at a London court of committing historical sex offences against four men.
Once influencers build a following around their crafted persona, it can quickly become a beast they are no longer in control of. Just ask Nikokado Avocado.
Barbie smashed box office records, but there are two places in Australia where it is not the number one film.
The board of the APY Lands Art Centre Collective has hit out at allegations of unethical practices and backed its under siege art administrator.
Identical twins Anna and Lucy Decinque share everything, including their boyfriend who we meet in Episode 1 of Extreme Sisters on 9Now.
In City Primeval, Raylan Givens, his cowboy hat and teenage daughter travel to Detroit to deliver a fugitive.
In a market flooded with hot young hopefuls, The Golden Bachelor will offer a new generation of contestants looking for love in their sunset years.
“What the heck is Melbourne Rectangular Stadium?” is a fair question Matildas fans might be asking this World Cup.
Steeltown Murders, The Pembrokeshire Murders and Manhunt are a far cry from the cosy crime shows that tend to populate free TV.
Choreographer Adam Linder’s new commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art asks questions about how social media mediates our experience of the gallery.
Thousands have already subscribed to The Paris End, which treats Melbourne with the same reverence (and irreverence) that New York and London have long enjoyed.
The churn and burn strategy adopted by streaming giants means we’ll never see shows like The Wire, Six Feet Under or Breaking Bad on screens again.
Never judge a book by its cover. That’s certainly true about Shankari Chandran’s award-winning novel.
The NYT bestselling YA author has long been fascinated by the “golden age” of serial killers.
Hundreds of thousands of Australians poured into cinemas this weekend, creating significant logistical challenges for both theatre owners and moviegoers.
As Mel searches for her dream wedding dress, maid of honour Sara speaks her mind and leaves bridal stylist Gok speechless on Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire on 9Now.
Melbourne and Sydney Theatre companies have improved their balance sheets but warn a rebound in audience numbers may stall due to cost of living pressures.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs deliver a deliriously overstuffed set of crowd-pleasers, led by powerhouse frontwoman Karen O, at their Sydney Splendour sideshow.
Australian artists including Tracey Moffatt, Kaylene Whiskey and William Yang lead the first line-up announcement for the 24th Biennale of Sydney.
The Perth-born BBC Indian-Australian actress says she is excited at the prospect of helping to bring more diverse stories to life.
Playwrights get paid very little and never get to see each other. Playwright, director and restaurant owner Wendy Beckett says they deserve to be celebrated.
This year’s Splendour was a redemption story, the rebirth and reset of a vital piece of Australia’s live music scene.
A first glimpse at The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live which follows fan-favourite characters Rick and Michonne, coming 2024 on Stan.
Watch the brand new trailer for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon premiering September 11, only on Stan.
Lizzo’s Sydney Splendour sideshow was for the fans – featuring Sasha Flute, her tiny bag, a shoey, and lots and lots of sequins.
She’s turned her hand to writing, standup, acting and reality TV - now the talented all-rounder is about to host the reboot of Thank God You’re Here.
Director Carla Simon focuses on a family of peach farmers in rural Catalonia who are condemned to lose both their livelihood and a way of life.
Love Island's Molly-Mae Hague is engaged to Tommy Fury, with whom she shares six-month-old daughter Bambi.
The Hollywood strike meant Comic-Con had to go ahead without A-list stars, but there were still some surprises, such as the hot Australian horror film Talk To Me.
Craig Reucassel returns for series three of the hit ABC show and says it’s now up to governments to make a real difference when it comes to recycling.
A damning audit found Heritage NSW had taken between three months and 17 years to assess properties for protection, and its records were inadequate for 90 per cent of the properties under its care.
Two cinematic titans are facing off through their respective blockbuster movies. For me, there’s only one winner.
According to new research, a quarter of people now stream television at a higher playback speed at least some of the time.
When they involve vast fortunes, marriage breakdowns frequently end up in protracted, bitter litigation, the pain only compounded by the inevitable media coverage.
Architectural historian David Brand leads a walking tour of St Kilda in which he describes Melbourne’s experimental building laboratory.
In an industry where quadruple threats sometimes seem commonplace, female producer-director-writer-actors remain a rare phenomenon.
We caught a glimpse of the artist fully flexing her powers at Little Simz’ Splendour in the Grass sideshow in Sydney.
Influential shoegaze band Slowdive played a near-deafening set of songs from across their long career in Sydney on Friday.
J Balvin has topped the charts, racked up billions of streams and counts Beyonce’s daughter as one of his biggest fans.
The actors’ union chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland says the actors’ strike might last until next year, and explains the key issues.
Oppenheimer features a recreation of the world’s first nuclear blast in the New Mexico desert. Australian Oscar-winner Andrew Jackson helped make it happen.
Bob Iger was brought out of retirement to steer Disney through a difficult time - and until this interview, he hadn’t put a foot wrong.
If our demands aren’t met, I’m not sure I’ll have a career that I can afford to return to.
Pub Choir has achieved cult status, with thousands of people attending sold-out shows. Ahead of an overseas tour, we speak to founder Astrid Jorgensen to find out why.
For four years Gareth Reeves played one of the most high-profile theatre roles in the world. Now he’s back in a position depressingly familiar to all actors.
Famous for her yellow Lamborghini and expensive labels, the wife of a wanted property developer is about to film an adventure reality TV special.
Developments in tech are moving at a rapid pace and that poses serious human rights issues, says journalist Tracey Spicer.
The veteran commentator has called big matches all over the world - now he’s thrilled to get the chance to call the Women’s World Cup on home soil.
Why don’t we know more about the Australian women who defied the image of the soldier-poets of the conflict?
How is Splendour going to redeem themselves this year, and more importantly, will the patrons forgive them for the 2022 debacle?
As Amy prepares for her wedding day she is left in tears after receiving a phone call on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
Bruce Wolpe delves into the impact on Australia of Trump’s term in office and what a second coming could mean.
The multi-instrumentalist may be in the biggest spotlight of their career, but what they’re really worried about is whether Collingwood will make the finals.
Gaurab’s parents must decide whether or not to remove their son’s third arm at the risk of leaving him paralysed in an episode of Body Bizarre.
As the Australian women’s soccer team kicked off their World Cup campaign in Sydney, Australians tuned in to watch in big numbers.
US film and TV production has come to a standstill as Hollywood’s actors and writers go on strike. They say this is a moment of truth. What do they want?
While Michael Zavros is coy about the content of his works, eX de Medici almost buries the viewer with information
The album tie-in to the hyped movie is intriguing enough, mainly thanks to Ryan Gosling’s power ballad.
George Dreyfus has waited more than 50 years to have his opera performed. This weekend, it’s finally happening.
It’s been an unofficial year of Sondheim in Sydney this year, with his musicals Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music all on the menu.
Welcome to Sex was pulled from Big W after becoming the target of a conservative backlash, but the furore has led to skyrocketing sales.
Ian Buruma sorts truth from illusion in his account of three collaborators during World War II.
Galactic chaos looms in season two of Apple TV’s ambitious series based on Isaac Asimov’s celebrated sci-fi short stories.
The American actor, author and Instagram star is reliably entertaining in this 2021 series in which he explores his Italian heritage.
Parsons’ decision to quit due to changes in her personal life comes amid concern over the future of ABC local radio.
Ms. Nicole Remy is introduced to her potential suitors at the welcome ball during the first episode of The Courtship on 9Now.
Sound of Freedom, which has been championed by the likes of Steve Bannon and My Pillow founder Mike Lindell, will crack the $US100 million mark soon.
Performing at the Forum on Wednesday night, the Swedish electropop singer delivered a high-energy gig filled with campy fun.
Netflix has released a brand new trailer for At Home With the Furys, following the lives of brothers Tyson and Tommy Fury and their partners Paris and Molly Mae-Hague.
Described as the greatest voice of our time, this new bio-pic on Whitney Houston tells an even greater story. Discover the Whitney Houston you never knew in I Wanna Dance with Somebody.
In what one writers’ guild director described as a union-busting tactic, NBCUniversal pruned a line of trees that had been providing shade. Local authorities are investigating.
Despite its historical reputation as a soap opera driven by teen storylines, one of the central tenets of Home and Away is the way it tells the stories of older women.
The artist left the country his 1000-hectare property Bundanon in 1993. Now it’s the site of a gallery, where much of the work responds directly to the site.
The new British drama, starring Poldark’s Aidan Turner and newcomer Ella Lily Hyland, walks straight into the emotional minefield of a male tennis coach’s relationship with a skyrocketing 16-year-old female player.
Supporters of the Metro-Minerva Theatre at Potts Point have applauded the surprising deferral of a planned boutique hotel redevelopment.
The cinema release of the Eric Bana crime thriller Force of Nature: The Dry 2 is being postponed.
New HBO docuseries Angel City follows the actor and activist’s efforts to supersize the US women’s soccer league.
The actor plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist behind the development of the nuclear bomb, in Christopher Nolan’s political thriller.
The year’s most anticipated release tries to faithfully service the history of Barbie, while grappling with modern gender politics.
A holiday has opened my eyes to the gems you can discover channel surfing - such as Allison Janney’s challenging sitcom Mom.
Ophelia Lovibond’s Joyce discovers hidden aspects of her personality in the second season of Minx.
You Have Been Told a Lie is the untold story of the Nadesalingam family, Tamil refugees who were detained for four years despite public protests.
Australia’s Samara Weaving has joined famous faces including David Duchovny and Olivia Wilde on the picket lines as the Hollywood strike drags on.
Flamenco is steeped in history and superstition. Pepa Molina honed her craft in the caves at Sacromonte and is smashing tradition with her new show.
Anna McGahan follows in the footsteps of her late uncle Andrew McGahan by winning the Vogel Award with her first novel.
After years of Americanisms, the language exchange has finally been reversed, partly thanks to Logan Roy.
One of the world’s greatest performers is back in Melbourne with the wildly wholesome stadium show she should have been doing all along.
The Crown and Fleabag actress is the essential element of this new Dickens adaptation by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight.
Creator of the hit West End play 2:22 Danny Robins discusses his personal journey into the supernatural.
Off the back of his sell-out adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe, playwright Tim McGarry takes on another much-loved Australian novel: Colleen McCullough’s Tim.
Newcastle-born Zac Garred has been an actor for 20 years, the past 10 of them in Hollywood. He’s busy, but making ends meet is still a stretch.
We’ve seen a massive pink pool and an ancient, graffitied ruin. Now prepare for an enormous sphere that seems to inhale and exhale.
Tinseltown is in darkness as actors join writers on the picket lines. But the strike reminds us that AI could devalue almost everyone’s economic position.
Norman Reedus returns as the iconic protagonist in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, coming September 11, only on Stan.
You might not think much about background actors, but how different is their role to yours? In the grand scheme, most of us are background players.
I consider myself a feminist yet I’m rooting for the blonde bimbo girl. How could this be?
After years of scandal, writers block and personal tragedy, author and influencer Caroline Calloway has published her debut memoir and reclaimed her narrative.
Existential hand-wringing has always been part of Hollywood’s personality. But the crisis in which the entertainment capital now finds itself is different.
Sports fans are spoilt for choice this month with a smorgasbord of gripping competition on free-to-air television.
Now 80, the former Bond girl talks about a lifetime in the spotlight, including her tumultuous relationships with Peter Sellers and Rod Stewart.
“It was heartbreaking to end our marriage, but we both thought it was the right choice,” says the Packed to the Rafters actor of his ex-wife, Kirby Burgess.
For Sydney-born actor Alycia Debnam-Carey, her lead role in the much-hyped adaptation of best-selling novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart was “divine timing”.
Barbie has already created a diplomatic row over a nine-dash line on a map, highlighting the minefield that awaits films with global aspirations, especially when it comes to anything to do with China.
The cost to the city of Los Angeles in non-production losses to retail and other services is around $44 million every day.
Amy Shark says going to number one helped build her career, but there are growing concerns it’s becoming almost impossible for Australian artists to replicate her success.
The proppaNOW collective at the National Art School Gallery and Tennant Creek Brio at Delmar Gallery showcase different skills.
From Heartbreak High to Foundation and Bay of Fires, Rachel House is a woman in demand.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach has turned the foodie comedy drama’s most abrasive person into its best.
Rupert Murdoch and his extended family have been spied on a vintage vessel in the azure waters off Positano. But one family member was noticeably absent.
With her second album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, the pop world has bent to Sudan Archives’ will. Her Splendour in the Grass visit follows a spectacular Glastonbury debut.
The most-watched comedy of the past two years on Channel 4, The Curse has spawned a second season in which the bumbling crooks decamp to Spain’s “Costa del Crime”.
Melanie Tait’s hit stage play, The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, is now a telemovie starring Claire van der Boom, Tiriel Mora and Robyn Nevin.
The Nobel laureate and double Booker winner J.M. Coetzee’s latest fictions are saved from dry intellectualism by his unerring prose.
Libby Angel’s unsettling second novel Where I Slept is laced with biting humour and a poetic quality.
Amy, a 400-pound woman, learns her life is about to change forever after a visit to urgent care on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
Arun contemplates whether to have his extra limbs removed or to continue life as he knows it on Body Bizarre.
Our coverage of film and TV will look a bit different for the foreseeable future. Here’s why.
Author and broadcaster Linda Marigliano didn’t want to tell personal stories on air, but she’s crossed that line with her memoir.
Strike action in Hollywood will bring film and television production to a standstill. But what will it mean for shows shooting, or about to shoot, here?
The Hollywood actor has given an emotional - and at times joking - testimony in nearly three hours in the witness box.
As screenwriters prepare to strike, Fran Drescher makes a fiery speech at a press conference.
In his new book Sam Twyford-Moore says he is trying to mount a cultural history of Australian cinema through the experiences of four actors.
They want my name, age, address, favourite teacher, first pet and an eight-character password. Anything else?
At 79, synth pioneer and transgender activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland suddenly finds himself in the spotlight.
There is a long history of artists second-guessing lyrics, but the reasons behind it and the way they manage it has evolved.
The Super Mario Bros Movie has been much more successful than anyone predicted – and has shown audiences are going to the movies for the right release.
In Who the Bloody Hell Are We? John Safran, Cal Wilson and Adam Liaw go digging for forgotten stories of our multicultural history
A stellar cast including Toby Leonard Moore and Kerry Fox features in this Tassie noir comedy thriller about a city family dumped in a town that time forgot.
The first season of the kitchen fire comic drama was about survival - the second dishes up new insight, telling history, and unexpected paths forward.
Journalist Nick McKenzie tells the story of the investigation into Australia’s most recent winner of the Victoria Cross, Ben Roberts-Smith.
Sydney Dance Company alumna Holly Doyle was co-choreographer of Carmen, the feature debut of Benjamin Millepied, who choreographed Black Swan.
Another day, another accusation. But what is really going on in the scandal engulfing one of the BBC’s most high-profile presenters?
From The White Lotus to House of the Dragon, there is fierce competition for this year’s best drama. Even Logan Roy would agree, these are serious shows.
Amid the slew of new TV shows, it’s inevitable that gems from only several years back are overlooked; here’s a selection for midwinter binges.
TikTok’s new trend finds women posting food plates prepared for one. But there’s a dark side to the digital mischief.
Dave Butterworth, a friend to many in the Melbourne music scene, hung up his guitar more than a decade ago. Now the band’s back together.
Ben Kingsley plays the famous surrealist, who was torn between his transgender muse and the love of his life.
But there may be trouble looming for the 75th annual Emmy Awards, as Hollywood sits on the brink of an actor’s strike.
The author of the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being died in his Paris apartment on Tuesday after a long illness.
Rebecca Kuang’s thriller Yellowface is about an author who passes herself off as something she isn’t in order to get a book published.
The Good Wife launched in 2009 with the topical story of politics and infidelity. Its sequel upped the ante to portray the disquiet of contemporary America.
The pair have been co-hosting the Drive show on Triple J since 2020, but are eager to pass the baton to a new generation.
In an industry where plays disappear all too quickly, Away enchants us into accepting the fragility, and the preciousness, of life and art.
The Tales of Hoffmann is an enormous challenge for a soprano, who takes on four roles. Australian opera singer Jessica Pratt makes it look easy.
The late George Michael was the star of ’80s UK pop supergroup WHAM!, but a new doco shines a light on his humble and delightful mate and collaborator.
Each episode of The Afterparty explores a different character’s account of one fateful evening, all told through the lens of popular film genres and unique visuals to match the storyteller’s perspective.
Everything is connected. From director Steven Soderbergh, the new limited series Full Circle premieres July 13 on Binge.
The Horror of Dolores Roach is one of the more unhinged shows we’ve seen lately, but it’s also one of the most fascinating.
Don't let the big yacht fool you - the hottest reality dating show is back! Can LANA tame another batch of sizzling singles? Can they abstain from sexual contact to win a big cash prize? Find out on July 14th.
Two films premiering at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival celebrate a very specific moment in time.
In its first visit to Australia, The Tokyo Ballet breathes new life into the ethereal and ghost-filled story of Giselle.
A new exhibition of memorabilia that opened this month in Sydney is the latest homage to the iconic sex symbol.
Barangaroo’s latest proposed harbourside addition would be more fitting at Sydney’s new international airport terminal.
The Rooster came from a very dark place, but actor-turned director Mark Leonard Winter and actress-producer Geraldine Hakewill have made a film full of joy.
Former police sniper Craig Harwood has spoken out about the spiking of a controversial new book by an author who falsely claimed to have been at Port Arthur.
The fourth radio ratings survey of the year has seen a slight recovery for ABC Melbourne.
Broadcaster Ray Hadley notched up a significant milestone while KIIS and 2GB traded places once more.
“Thank you for your positive energy, prayers and words of healing and encouragement. I have felt your love,” she wrote.
After starring in 500 performances of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, 25-year-old Ben Walter wants to inspire others to present plays with sharp edges.
Composer Louis Vierne lived a storied – and at times tortured – life. Organist Joseph Nolan heads to Melbourne this month to take on one of Vierne’s most challenging works.
The star-studded cast strutted their Barbie stuff down the pink catwalk at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles to celebrate the release of the long-awaited film.
The former member of the Victorian Police Special Operations Group said he was involved in the resolution of the Port Arthur massacre, a claim denied by police.
Artist Alex Seton’s concept to build a moat around the Hyde Park Barracks next year has been cancelled.
Frida Kahlo is one of the most admired of all artists, and a new exhibition featuring her work is coming to Australia.
Australian opera singer Jessica Pratt will play all four women leads in The Tales of Hoffmann for Opera Australia.
Nevil Shute’s classic novel On the Beach imagined a world wiped out by nuclear warfare, but playwright Tommy Murphy sees love.
Tom Cruise could not have been more obliging when he spent his 61st birthday eagerly turning up to the red carpet at a chilly and drizzly Darling Harbour.
Themed movie nights, nightclub events and merchandise are bringing the “summer of Barbie” to the antipodean winter.
The actor’s career didn’t go to plan after her breakout role in Looking for Alibrandi, but now aged 50, she’s back on top.
Twenty years since The Mighty Boosh became a cult TV hit around the world, Noel Fielding has gone from absurdist comedian to host of a prime-time cooking show.
It’s a Knockout host Fiona MacDonald was an undisputed star of primetime television, and now she’s taking on her biggest challenge yet.
The big-budget saga that filled a space left by Game of Thrones has presented huge challenges for the actor in her first major role.
NSW could miss out as the new state government points to mounting debt and reorients its arts and culture policy toward growing local talent rather than big, one-off events.
Deborah Levy’s August Blue is about a woman troubled by the presence of a mysterious doppelganger.
Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy is so out of the ordinary that usual standards of judgment scarcely apply.
If you’ve seen an Australian TV show recently, chances are you’ve seen the Apple Isle. How, and why, did Tasmania finally get on the map?
Comedian Josh Glanc plays everyone from the guy from Aqua to a person flogging Christmas carols on TV.
Marcel, a 1-inch-tall shell, lives with his grandmother, Connie, the only residents of their town after their neighbors' sudden, mysterious disappearance. When discovered by a guest amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans and a new hope of reuniting with his long-lost family.
A rag-tag group of women hitting the road and finding themselves along the way. The girls’ trip movie has proven itself a tale for any time and any place.
The studio says the line was a “child-like” drawing not intended to make any kind of political statement.
In the latest Insidious film we return to a world of ghosts and other nasties that noisily menace the living but seem oddly reluctant to inflict actual physical harm.
The Football Writers Festival celebrates all sides of the beautiful game as Australia prepares to host the World Cup.
After taking out the Jane Lombard Prize last year, Indigenous art collective proppaNOW are exhibiting their work together in Sydney for the first time.
Destination NSW has been instructed to focus its vast $400 million annual budget on arts and entertainment as the Minns government goes on the road to develop its landmark new cultural policy.
A botched kidnapping connects multiple characters from Guyana to New York in the new six-part thriller.
As an author, I have a small taste of what celebrities experience. When I meet my readers it can be kind of weird; there is a simultaneous familiarity and disconnect.
A new musical making its Australian premiere this month demonstrates director Dean Drieberg’s commitment to diverse on the stage and behind the scenes.
Live audiences will see Yorta Yorta composer, soprano and playwright Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s ‘Parrwang Lifts the Sky’ for the first time.
It was 90 years ago, but given the events at the Ashes this past week, what could be more timely?
Led by Ashley Park and Stephanie Hsu, this comedy is intent on proving Asian women can behave as badly as any of the messed-up characters in Bridesmaids.
Graeme Hill, the host of Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly says owners should follow the same advice he gives their beloved troublesome pets.
Charlie Brooker’s boredom shows in the latest season’s pivot to the supernatural and horror.
Other People’s Children tells the story of Rachel, a teacher who is happy with her life, until she realises what she doesn’t have.
Simon Winchester’s latest book looks at how nobody seems to need to know anything anymore and what the consequences of that are
Famously eccentric Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki didn’t do interviews for his new film Fallen Leaves – he left that to his actors, who reveal how he works behind the scenes.
A new short film by director Peter Strickland has been co-produced by an Australian film collective, and debuts this month.
The MCG and SCG are among several stadiums that collect patrons’ biometric data but little is known about how or why it’s gathered.
A star of films such as I, Tonya and Richard Jewell, the actor jumped at the chance to be in the genre-spanning series.
Adele, Pink and Bebe Rexha are just some of the artists who have copped bad fan behaviour at their shows, prompting experts to weigh in on the cause.
It’s long been a challenge for visiting comedians to make their humour work here, but Catherine Tate has nailed it.
Which side of the Barbie divide are you on? As the famous doll gets an update thanks to a movie version, it’s a question some are pondering.
The Flash’s controversial lead, Ezra Miller, is playing Salvador Dali in an upcoming biopic prompting a discussion about all the times Hollywood has gotten it very wrong.
Ahead of their first Australian tour in a decade, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman looks back on 20 years of being a rock icon.
The seething personality clashes in a Danish symphony orchestra display a very Scandinavian sense of humour.
TikTok’s 24-hour book club, comprised mostly of younger readers, has changed the face of modern publishing.
Six teams of warrior women engage in tactical attacks and hand-to-hand combat in this inspiring but crazy show.
Dem Mob made their international debut at Primavera Sound in Barcelona earlier this year, taking their English and Pitjantjantjara hip hop to a global audience.
He’s played Marvel superheroes and dangerous drug-dealers but in this seven-hour real-time drama there’s Elba’s character is more talk than action
Anna Funder’s new book goes in search of the woman, Eileen Blair, who played such a huge part in Orwell’s life before her premature death.
Suzie Miller returns to the stage with a new work, Jailbaby, aiming to stir our consciences over an Australian “state-sanctioned torture”.
It may have been his 61st birthday, but Tom Cruise graced Australia with his presence at the star-studded premiere of his latest Mission: Impossible film.
Does the show’s edginess point to a growing trend in contemporary TV where controversy is prioritised over quality?
A tense conversation with Tom Cruise before he rides a motorcycle off a cliff? All in a day’s work for Mission Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie.
The energetic alt-dance trio have shared a bill with Lizzo, Diplo and Haim, but the three women are just getting started.
Dodgy wigs and a tsunami of social media outrage aside, the greatest revelation about the Warnie series was how little there was left to reveal about the cricketer.
Since the departure of David Koch from Sunrise, Natalie Barr has become breakfast TV’s longest-reigning star. A thick skin and a ‘no-fuss’ attitude may have something to do with it.
Sydney’s Brendan Xavier draws on his childhood and kilograms of prosthetics to play Disney’s famous horned anti-hero.
Sometimes women are attacked for not doing feminism “the right way”, but I say Taylor Swift represents generations of feminists.
Free and ad-supported? The next generation of streaming TV looks awfully like the ghost of TV past.
Spare me the elitist sneering - Swift is the biggest star in the world right now, and there’s something delightful about getting swept up in a cultural juggernaut.
Action stars like Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Harrison Ford have become the face of some of the most successful action franchises. But could that era of Hollywood action men be behind us?
Sydney’s meditation guru to the stars, Tim Brown, has died suddenly, leaving his many devotees shocked.
The wry character actor demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama across more than a hundred television and feature films.
This wrap of shows includes George Balanchine’s Jewels performed by The Australian Ballet and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Winter Gala.
Fans have snapped up nearly all the available tickets to Taylor Swift’s Sydney and Melbourne shows in Friday’s final ticket sale.
Pip Finkemeyer’s first novel is all about a young woman who wants to write her first novel.
Lorrie Moore has a reputation for idiosyncrasy that is reinforced in her first novel for 14 years.
Miranda Sings was one of the video sharing platform’s earliest and biggest stars. But now some former fans have accused her of wildly inappropriate behaviour.
When Rory Jeffes graduated from Oxford, he had a music degree and a pilot’s licence. He is now heading the Sydney International Piano Competition.
The plot is basic and the suspense is minimal, but at least Belle and Sebastian: Next Generation is no Hollywood tale.
For the past two decades she’s had to live with the fact her family’s trauma was documented. Now she wants to make sure others don’t go through the same.
The same portrait submitted to the present-day prize would almost certainly not be selected.
Growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne Simon Coronel only had a passing interest in magic. Last year he took out the art’s biggest award. Here’s how he got there.
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets is coming to Australia to take audiences back to a time before The Dark Side of the Moon.
This month: a home-grown pop star in the making, shoegaze comeback kids, NYC indie icons, the world’s most famous flautist and the Weeknd’s mate.
Richard Ford’s fourth novel about Frank Bascombe is a masterpiece written with an extraordinary imaginative spirit.
The Australian star is also producing a Hollywood blockbuster she calls “a very big and exciting and scary exciting opportunity”.
They’re the hottest tickets in town right now and the next tranche goes on sale Friday, so here’s our how-to, myth-busting guide to getting hold of them.
Like several million others, on Wednesday I had my hopes dashed. But for me, the fault doesn’t lie with Ticketek. I see it more as a nightclub bouncer doing its burly duty.
Millions of Australians are gunning for tickets, so to nab your own you need military-precision, speed, cooperation and plenty of positive manifestation.
Celebrities are suddenly blaming Saturn for upending their lives. Please, leave Saturn alone.
Pop superstar Madonna has postponed the start of her upcoming tour after being hospitalised in intensive care for a serious bacterial infection, her manager said on Wednesday.
Australian fans will have a better chance to snap up Taylor Swift tickets after the American pop superstar added two extra shows in Sydney and Melbourne.
First introduction to the spectacular new cast of queens appearing in the brand new season of the Stan Original Series RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, premiering Friday July 28, only on Stan.
A more mellow hero emerges in The Dial Of Destiny, the final outing for the archaeology professor. Harrison Ford’s moving performance is the perfect send-off.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s indictment for mishandling boxes of classified documents, the harsh truth at the core of Reality hits even harder.
A friend in Croatia, and an incorrect CVV. Our dreams came true today, but it nearly ended in disaster.
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, but it’s perhaps not as well understood as it should be.
The critically acclaimed comic features in a star-studded new period sitcom Gold Diggers that pokes fun at the colonial days
Like Justified or Slow Horses, this is one of those crime series that keeps winking at you while it’s telling a story
The model and seasoned globetrotter makes the most of his love of adventure presenting a new reality series
Sofia Helin, best known as the chilly cop Saga Noren in The Bridge, is among the cast of this intense drama that explores the aftermath of an accident involving the teenage children of a close-knit group of friends.
Millions of eager fans across the country tried to buy tickets in the second pre-sale for the pop star’s highly anticipated Eras Tour.
The chart-topping Scottish singer has cancelled all upcoming tour dates, including six sold-out Australian shows, to manage his mental health.
The best of the genre capture a book’s voice. To distil and amplify that voice in outlining the book’s appeal.
A wrap of the week’s live reviews, including City of Angels at Hayes Theatre and Live at the Great: 8 Seasons.
NSW Premier Chris Minns says consumer agencies are on the watch for scalpers exploiting big demand for Taylor Swift, FIFA World Cup and league State of Origin tickets.
A year after the worst weather in its two decade history, Splendour In The Grass has been hit by tumbling ticket sales and artists pulling out.
The acclaimed actress still has a bit of the “what’s she been in?” vibe about her, which seems at odds with her success so far.
In Michelle Law’s Miss Peony, a woman enters a beauty pageant to save her grandmother’s soul. The writer explains why pageants have intrigued her for so long.
Peak bodies representing the nation’s artists and performance industry have called for a reversal of the ABC’s plans to dissolve a dedicated arts news team.
John Foy, Ben Brown, Glenn “Glenno” Smith and Simon Day are behind some of rock’s most well-known poster art. Now they’re getting together to fight piracy.
The Victorian state government has declared Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour a major event, bringing it under the umbrella of anti-scalping legislation.
The popular TV star may be wowing on Dancing with the Stars, but it’s the memories of childhood bullying, and recent online trolling, that keeps her going.
Nine’s two-part Shane Warne drama took a mauling at the hands of critics and social media, but how did it do with viewers?
Cate Blanchett, starring in Warwick Thornton’s new film The New Boy, says for her, acting has never been about the role. “For me, it’s about the conversation.”
The Melbourne playwright is known for his often-controversial indie queer theatre-making, but now he’s written a five-act dramatic play.
It’s the height of rudeness. And, while we’re at it, let’s address the general devolving of how to behave in shared spaces.
Los Angeles-based Michael Idato has been honoured for his work writing about film and television.
Lessons in Chemistry has sold about 4 million copies around the world and is being turned into an Apple TV series.
The Scottish star of comedy-thriller Guilt knows his character is appalling, but he loves him.
Paramount Plus is the latest streamer to announce it is removing shows from its platform, leaving creators, confused, frustrated and concerned for the future.
“We have so much to learn from this stuff right now: about its failure to compute,” the Weeknd collaborator says.
The computers says no: ticketing systems crashed for early sales of tickets for the pop star.
Striking writers, the rise of artificial intelligence and shifts in the television economy have captured streaming TV in a perfect storm.
Artbank allows collectors to hang works by the nation’s masters and emerging artists for as little as $165 a year, but management has been slammed by the Audit Office.
An influx of well-produced local content has encouraged millions of Australians to tune into podcasts more frequently than ever.
Alex Williams not only looks the part to play Shane Warne in this two-part series on his colourful career, but his passion for cricket gave him a deep connection.
The arts capital of Australia has a ridiculous array of work on display at any one time, so we asked five experts to help you find the must-see works of the moment.
The most interesting work isn’t always found in a gallery. Excellent art is in our suburbs, under our feet and above our heads. Here are few works to look out for.
From works printed in blood to intricate watercolours blooming with symbolism, artist eX de Medici doesn’t shy away from using her art to spark change.
When Rupert Murdoch joined the Australian newspaper industry in 1953 after the death of his father, he learnt lessons from two canny and ruthless men.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes two five-star performances – one theatrical and one musical.
The national broadcaster’s axing of 120 jobs last week came as a shock, but it points to challenges the organisation can’t avoid.
Racing NSW chairman Peter V’landys will head to London this weekend alongside the great and the good of Sydney racing.
The National Gallery of Australia is loaning its collection out to suburban and regional galleries across the country, with a $174 million Monet first on the list.
In Tara Calaby’s novel, the heroine suddenly finds herself locked up in a 19th-century lunatic asylum.
Antony Loewenstein accuses Israel of not only running an apartheid state but profiting from the tools used to oppress millions.
What is it about the celebrity memoir that keeps them churning them out and us reading them?
Books by Richard King and Guillaume Pitron examine the many downsides of technological advances.
GOMA’s largest-ever survey of the prize-winning Brisbane artist’s work includes a Mercedes-Benz filled with water and an enormous painting of the Parthenon.
For the first time, a comprehensive collection of works by the Mexican painter, her husband, and their contemporaries is being shown in Australia.
In an industry where trends come and go, some music legends have defied time and continue to grace the stage, captivating audiences around the world.
Described in the music industry as heritage or legacy acts, these elder statesmen and women of rock and pop are still touring (almost) like it’s 1989.
Musical theatre up-and-comer Andrew Barth Feldman stars alongside JLaw in her risque new sex comedy, No Hard Feelings – including THAT explicit scene.
To examine his work is to risk falling into a deep reverie as one explores the imaginative world of one of the great innovators.
When it came to creating the intricate costumes for The Australian Ballet’s new production of Jewels, a small army of volunteers came to the rescue
Influencer watchdogs have become the unofficial eyes and ears of ordinary folk on social media, monitoring the behaviour and comments of “untouchables” and reminding them no one is outside the social law.
Gillian Cosgriff’s return to comedy after five years and a stint in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has seen her win prestigious awards and critical acclaim.
The prime minister claims to be a Taylor Swift superfan - is this just covert narcissism disguised as altruism?
Actor and writer Adam DeVine insists that Danny McBride’s acclaimed black comedy isn’t making fun of religion but the hypocrites who exploit good people.
The Whitlam Government sparked outcry when it bought Jackson Pollock’s famous drip painting in 1973. What would our shopping list look like in 2023?
Twenty-five years after the original film, Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy felt now was the moment to revisit the northern steelmaking town that has once again fallen on hard times.
It’s a predictable horror story, but it has evolved into a global cult phenomenon. Now Australian stars are taking it to the stage.
Thinking of booking an Airbnb for the night of the concert? Think again. Planning on going with four other friends? Ditch one.
The London show is Snook’s first significant stage project after Succession, the juggernaut series that made her a household name.
Crown’s partnership with the pop mega-star is with its hotel arm, but Tim Costello is concerned that it could encourage more gambling.
“It was great and we created magic together on screen and off screen. We’re still good friends.”
The broadcaster will have a whole month of coverage of the world’s greatest men’s and women’s cycling races in July.
Unfolding across seven hours on board a hijacked airplane, this is one of the best thrillers of the streaming era.
Exotic locations, pulsating cultural events and exhilarating challenges are just a few of the things coming to Rush 2023.
The Walking Dead: Dead City kicks off three brand new The Walking Dead spin off series coming to Stan.
And Just Like That writer/producer Michael Patrick King and star Kristin Davis on the show’s divisive first season, and the highly anticipated return of Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones.
The actor’s account of his transition in the face of Hollywood hostility is unapologetic in its queerness.
Nods to anime, dystopia and the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi make the local brother-sister duo’s new album fascinatingly unique.
Century by century, a movement found its margins, its own noir palette, and flourished, from old Rome all the way to creepy Tasmania.
In a rare move, dancers at the country’s leading ballet company will take a stand on Friday night as an ongoing dispute over pay escalates.
Red, White and Brass tells the true story of an amateur band who bluffed their way on to the field at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
In No Hard Feelings Jennifer Lawrence plays an “older woman” pursuing a younger man, in a film that raises big questions that feel of the moment.
French stars Line Renaud and Dany Boon reunite for Driving Madeleine, the story of a nostalgic older woman and a grumpy cab driver.
Former actors guild boss Melissa Gilbert was speaking at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, where Australian drama series Ten Pound Poms scooped the awards.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the star of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, talks about the heartbreak of saying goodbye to the legendary character.
In a social media post on Wednesday morning, Swift unveiled international dates for The Eras Tour.
In a collection of the American writer’s essays she gives many leading feminists the briefest of glances, but shows she is on the side of the intellect.
The acclaimed artist’s work features in The Favourite, an exhibition that looks back over the past 25 years of his career.
The acclaimed actor found making a documentary about North Queensland’s Calabrian mafia a deeply personal experience.
Vivid Sydney received its best visitor numbers in its 13 years, off the back of seven hugely popular drone shows.
The popular US comic on her disastrous marriage proposal, Australia and queer representation.
It’s more of the same in Dead City as Maggie and Negan venture into Manhattan, but this self-contained series is surprisingly satisfying all the same.
Isabel Allende’s 21st novel focuses on separated families and the political catastrophes that force their splits.
The acclaimed actor has a personal stake in the ABC’s new three-part documentary series about the history of the Mafia in Australia.
Lili Wilkinson’s first fantasy novel starts with a deceptively cosy ambience, but things soon change.
References to female pop stars are sprinkled everywhere in HBO’s new drama, but the revelations are not as shocking as what those musicians have already told us.
His memoir was turned into a much-loved film, tracing his ballet career from a small town in China to the biggest stages in the world. Now, Li Cunxin has announced his retirement.
The high-profile sci-fi series from Mr Robot creator Sam Esmail has fallen victim to delays, an uncertain economy and the writers’ strike.
Voting for the TV WEEK Gold Logie Award is now open, and much like last year, Hamish Blake will be hard to beat.
Volume, the city’s newest cultural event, kicks off in September and is to be Sydney’s answer to Tasmania’s Dark Mofo.
Kgshak Akec, 26, has been shortlisted for Australia’s most significant fiction-writing prize along with five other authors.
Small towns, big laughs. These headliners are taking comedy on a blindingly funny tour.
Sales, who helmed the current affairs program 7.30 for over a decade and currently hosts Australian Story, said redundancies were difficult, but an unfortunate reality.
George McEncroe, once fired on April Fool’s Day, is back on air – and she’ll be giving her old networks a run for their money.
Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir helped her father painstakingly build a mini neighbourhood populated by small figurines to make The Mother Of All Lies.
The cultural icon is fielding dozens of requests each year to light its sails. Some of those rejected are by loved-up members of the public.
Eight years in the making, the new Australian musical Midnight reimagines Disney’s put-upon heroine.
Australia has long been the dumping ground of Britain’s unwanted, but few, if any, exiles are as obnoxious as Princess Georgiana in Queen of Oz.
Before accepting the coveted role in the upcoming miniseries, the 29-year-old-actor says her top priority was ensuring the family’s integrity.
Between radio and TV, Mikey Robins has been through more stations than the 7.15am train from Gosford to Central. Now he’s a published author.
It’s been a quarter of a century since Sex and the City first aired, and male romantic leads have evolved.
Mattel has sold around a billion Barbie dolls, though the Barbies of today – which now include the range’s first transgender Barbie – have evolved since the bombshell original dolls hit the market.
“She wanted to prove she could do the role of Sandy,” recalls actor Barry Pearl. “John Travolta really helped her with that because he wanted her for the part.”
After delaying his 2022 tour, the singer offered up a wholesome and slightly naughty evening that felt a little bit like a cheesy karaoke night – in the best of ways.
Herald photographer Flavio Brancaleone takes a look behind the scenes as Opera Australia prepare for a spectacular performance of the beloved Verdi classic.
Rising is “a festival that you do, in a city that does it best: music, food, art and culture under moonlight”. That’s not a purpose, it’s a hopelessly vague marketing slogan.
From Survivor to Alone, The Summit to Million Dollar Island, our screens are awash with people doing it rough in the wild. What’s behind the fascination?
Facebook Marketplace is the 2023 equivalent of taking a sneaky peek in someone’s bathroom medicine cabinet.
From intimate family studies to an entertainer who beat the odds, these portraits nail the essence of their subjects.
Roseanne Park has more than 70 million Instagram followers, is one of the world’s most downloaded artists, and by the time she flies out of Sydney this weekend, she will have performed for more than 50,000 people.
Author Bruce Pascoe’s original bestselling book challenged thinking about Indigenous history – and sparked a fierce culture war.
The University of Melbourne student precinct, Nightingale Village in Brunswick and Warrnambool Library have won major gongs in this year’s Victorian Architecture Awards.
There are plenty of gritty teen TV shows, is that a sign that we’re losing touch with the reality of adolescence?
The national broadcaster has been criticised for making its most senior arts journalists redundant.
As she talks about her new film You Hurt My Feelings, the actor reveals her iconic characters from Seinfeld and Veep are ever present.
Spinifex Gum, a collaboration between a Cairns-based girls’ choir and two members of The Cat Empire, will join the Sydney Symphony Orchestra later this month.
Union leaders have said the plans made as much sense as knocking down and rebuilding the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The first Extraction film was one of Netflix’s big hits. The second one is as dumb as a box of rocks.
British comedian Catherine Tate’s new comedy opens with her vomiting on a small child - and that’s not even the worst scene.
T.J. Newman has followed up her debut novel with another thriller about a plane disaster.
It is one of those rarest works of non-fiction when the reader knows the ending before they begin.
New Yorker writer David Grann’s latest epic of research tells a remarkable story of shipwreck and survival in the 18th century.
Jordie Albiston has taken Frank Hurley’s diaries and turned them into documentary poetry.
The 13,000 items in the City of Melbourne’s art and heritage collection used to be locked away. Not any more.
We’re all dancing to Padam Padam, but no one is more hyped about the song’s meteoric success than the Aussie pop icon herself.
Even the beauty of the animation can’t compensate for this muddled mess, which is saddled with witless dialogue and in desperate need of a villain.
Creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker says it was time to “reset” the tech-focused anthology series.
When Mary Coustas created her alter-ego Effie in the late 1980s, she was part of the movement changing ethnic visibility - but Effie also represented our working class.
From streetwise poetry to tales of a brave matriarch, The University of Queensland Press has identified the classic texts by Indigenous writers.
All these new additions to the dictionary are enough to give traditionalists a menty-b.
Between tabloid scrutiny and critical raves for her performance in new film Reality, Sydney Sweeney is the name on everyone’s lips.
A fire, the 1956 Summer Olympics, redevelopment plot and a Hillsong purchase: How Festival Hall bounced back.
With The Flash, starring Ezra Miller and Michael Keaton as Batman, DC follows Marvel into the multiverse – seemingly proving their dearth of fresh ideas.
On the eve of a new season of Gruen, host Wil Anderson believes the marketing discussion show has become more pertinent than ever.
Starring Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin, So Help Me Todd is a breezy throwback to detective dramedies of yesteryear.
The great American novelist has died at the age of 89. Here are five of his books that are vital to his huge reputation.
Opera Australia has remounted a production of Verdi’s Rigoletto by the late director Elijah Moshinsky, and it feels more like opera’s past than its future.
In this movie populated by familiar faces, characters in almost every scene are forced to make the awful choice between kindness and honesty.
He was Australia’s favourite sportsman, but does the Shane Warne miniseries tell it like it was? Star Alex Williams spills the (baked) beans.
Two upcoming films in Marvel’s multibillion-dollar Avengers franchise will be delayed, along with the third instalment of Avatar.
There’s something about these tidy towns that makes you convinced they’re keeping a bunch of corpses in a deli fridge under the stairs.
Rough Diamonds is an Israeli-Belgian drama set within Antwerp’s Hasidic community; and like Succession, it deals with questions of power, influence and inheritance.
Created by Australian Craig Rosenberg, Based On A True Story is a satirical take on the commercialisation of the true-crime genre.
The Pulitzer prize-winning author of ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘The Road’ died at home in Santa Fe.
Michael Ware discovered a culture of secrecy not unlike the Taliban as he investigated the disappearance of a father and son in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Sydney Fringe contributed more than $36 million to the local economy in 2022, according to a new report. And organisers are expanding what they do for artists and audiences in 2023.
Known for stories featuring madcap antics, the best-selling author will bring playfulness to schoolrooms and tens of thousands of kids across Victoria this week.
I’m about as amateur a singer as you can get, but that didn’t stop me joining ChorusOz, an annual event by the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, on the long weekend.
Elizabeth Gilbert says she has received a “massive outpouring” of responses from Ukrainian readers, angry and sad that she would release a book set in Russia.
RVG’s third album is their finest – and riskiest – yet. ‘The best-case scenario is we make a great record, the worst case is we have a very expensive holiday.’
Arlo Parks, who is touring Australia in July, has crafted a new album that’s even more intimate and revealing than her acclaimed debut.
London-based, New York-raised artist Alvaro Barrington has flown to Sydney to collaborate with Worimi man and emerging artist Dean Cross on a new exhibition.
Jodie Comer has been recognised for her role in the one-woman play, written by Australian playwright Suzie Miller.
A leading independent producer claims Screen Australia is incorrectly allowing BBC and NBC to apply for hotly contested public funding.
The West Australian writer is honoured with AO for his books and environmental activity.
The Emmy winner opened up on how to combat self-doubt, make it as an actress, and stay sexy in front of 8000 fans on Saturday night as part of Vivid.
Melburnians are flocking to see Pierre Bonnard’s peculiarly charming Le Chat Blanc – with one visitor already having spent three hours gazing at the painting.
The TikTok generation has made Kylie Minogue go viral, which in the digital download era of modern pop music is what counts the most.
Adam Spencer’s wrapping his big brain around digital disruption, so he can enlighten the rest of us.
“Mothers are expected to be perfect and fathers are allowed to be tricky,” says the actor, reflecting on Lady Caroline, her bulldozer ex Logan Roy and their bratty children.
Jennifer Coolidge opens up about her late nights in Sydney and the possibility of a White Lotus prequel series set in Australia.
Think a backflip is hard? Try doing it on ice, as Cirque du Soleil brings its toughest show to Australia.
The Canadian singer is finally performing the Australian shows he abruptly postponed last year, and did enough to earn our forgiveness.
Twenty-five years on from the release of Sex and the City, a timely documentary looks whether sitcoms are getting better at reflecting society.
Fact and fiction get blurred in this part-parody, part-bizarrely real series from the director of the Borat sequel.
Of all the young faces in the new high school drama Year Of, one stands out. And it’s not just because of her surname.
The oldest winner in Oscars history, famous for a string of Merchant Ivory costume dramas, is looking back at a trip to Afghanistan in 1960.
The story of Kathleen Folbigg has reached around the globe, and now some of the world’s biggest TV names could be set to interview the newly freed woman.
This history of the ongoing war shows the many mistakes that the Russian leader has made and the transformation of Ukraine’s president Zelensky.
The co-commission between Ten and NITV shines a light on pre-colonial Australia and the achievements of the world’s longest surviving culture.
The performer discusses his relationship with his body and what makes him proud – and not – about Australia.
Subscribers of The Herald get 10% off every order at The Store as well as subscriber exclusive discounts.
Watch an explosive scene from the upcoming season Twisted Metal starring Anthony Mackie, coming to Stan on July 27.
Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi at the NGV is a jewel box of an exhibition that has been more than five years in the making.
Charlie Chan has developed a program to play exactly as they do, and is putting it to good use in a 24-hour concert this month.
After 21 years on-air, David Koch has left Sunrise. His co-hosts, the Seven team, and even Dame Julie Andrews gave him an emotional farewell.
The prize, open to artists up to the age of 40, offers an overview of emerging talent from all over Australia.
The world may have embraced gender fluidity, but the children’s section at Target hasn’t received the memo.
A podcast from the writer of Tokyo Vice tackles the question of how and why 80,000 Japanese people a year disappear without trace.
Playwright and screenwriter Anchuli Felicia King has turned to what is believed to be the first Chinese Australian novel, released in 1909, as the basis of her latest work.
The inaugural winner of Australia’s newest art prize has warned it is now or never to save the world’s marine environment.
Pianist and composer Charlie Chan has developed an artificial intelligence that is learning to play in precisely their style.
There are growing calls for the Australian War Memorial to remove or amend its Roberts-Smith display, and now the artist behind two major works has weighed in.
This wrap of shows across the Rising festival includes a theatrical gig by Weyes Blood and Tracker at Arts House.
Watch the full trailer for the two-part drama series Warnie coming soon to Channel 9 and 9Now.
Gadsby simply can’t be bothered, or lacks the skills, to present a thorough and illuminating explanation of Picasso’s shortcomings as an artist and person.
Bangarra’s first new artistic director in more than three decades is preparing to stage her debut work for the company.
We have reached a point in Western society where performative onerousness is celebrated.
The Great Australian Bake Off returns with a complete overhaul of its winning set of ingredients: out go Maggie Beer and Matt Moran and in come Rachel Khoo and Darren Purchese.
No Time to Die star Lea Seydoux plays a woman simultaneously caught in the throes of love and grief in One Fine Morning.
The estate of Dada pioneer and surrealist artist Hans Arp has given 24 sculptures to the NGV as part of a plan to bring a worldwide network of galleries together.
Acting is like a dinner party, says Brendan Cowell. “If I get invited, I’m just so happy and I’m very grateful that you thought of me”
The drama Transatlantic and the documentary series The US And The Holocaust take very different approaches to reveal America’s mixed response to the rise of Nazi Germany.
The pop icon’s new release is Janelle Monae as slick Lothario, luxuriating in her sexuality.
Despite the difficulties it posed, Whelan Browne found an invitation to appear on Dancing with the Stars was too good to pass up.
The Gallery’s major show, Ngura Pulka – Epic Country, featuring artists from the APY Art Centre Collective, has been postponed indefinitely.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a feelgood fable as twee as its title. The problem isn’t the premise, however – it’s the execution.
The short series Appetite follows three food-delivery cyclists who take on a multinational corporation after an unknown rider has a fatal road accident.
Perennial near-star Josh Lucas plays a compromised oil executive in The Black Demon, which is light on shark, heavy on allegory.
Deborah Cheetham, founder of the Short Black Opera Company, candidly shares her experience of applying for the highly coveted position of Artistic Director at Opera Australia.
Disabled performer Dan Daw, who performs at RISING Festival this month, says the two places he feels truly free are in the bedroom and on stage as a dancer.
Gilberto influenced singers from Sade to Lana Del Rey, after singing what became one of the most recorded songs in history.
Former refugee Hakeem al-Araibi hopes a new documentary about his jailing can protect him from the Bahraini government.
The impulsive and impatient Cat (Cassandra Helmot) is on a mission to fix the mistakes of technology in the return season of this engaging series.
In the heart of the city, brothers Efrain and Pablo Del Hierro have created a vibrant, art-filled world to bring about “a colourful stain on grey reality”.
Victoria Falconer and Catherine van-Davies lead two of Sydney’s most boundary-pushing theatre companies, where they challenge ideas of what makes good theatre.
Co-starring Amanda Seyfried, Emmy Rossum and Sasha Lane, this 10-part thriller follows the misadventures of a man who is arrested after a shooting in New York City in 1979.
It was supposed to be the new Succession, but The Idol is what you get when a director goes from being self-aware to patronisingly obvious.
As a rule, it’s a bad sign when multiple documentaries and podcasts about you come out simultaneously.
Melbourne’s radio ratings remain relatively steady, but ABC Melbourne failed to make gains at a time when it could matter most.
The first results of radio’s long-awaited new ratings system are here, showing a boost for breakfast hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O.
From life on Manus Island to a sunny swimming session, the acclaimed musician puts spoken words to music on his intriguing new album.
Based on a True Story is an upcoming American comedy thriller created by Craig Rosenberg and Jason Bateman and stars Kaley Cuoco. The new series is streaming on Binge.
Adapted from the eponymous novel by Frank Schätzing, the series depicts the struggle of humankind against an unknown swarm intelligence that lives in the depths of the sea. The Swarm is streaming on Binge.
He was best known for his fiction, but it is a mistake to ignore the British writer’s two collections of essays and articles.
This provocative-sounding show escalates the dating shows you’ve seen in the past ... but in a good way.
A captivating documentary showcasing the inspiring journey of a determined farmer and her pursuit of sustainable agriculture.
Thundercat’s Vivid Live set on Sunday night eschewed crowd pleasers in favour of jazzy jam-outs, but still showed his incredible virtuosity.
David Koch has revealed who will replace him as Sunrise host after he leaves the show this week.
The Smiths were planning a northern beaches “mansion”. After realising their rundown home with a great view had been built by a famous Australian architect, they changed their minds.
In taking on the role, “It excited me and scared me to death at the same time, which I know from my own personal experience is when I should say yes to something.”
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes a gig by Sleaford Mods, Climbers at fortyfivedownstairs and Garrick Ohlsson’s welcome return to Melbourne
From Kate Ceberano to Dami Im: 10 women on their favourite book, the lessons it imparted and why it holds a special place on their bookshelf.
The thorough pessimism with which the hit show treated its women was bleak, but felt right. In the world of Succession, no woman can hold power in her own right
From a stylish thriller to an engrossing family saga, here are the latest page-turners for a literary feast.
“Tracey and I come from different cultural backgrounds, but it’s these differences that are the wellspring of love and support.”
According to the various stocktakes of wealth that have been published recently around the world, it’s been a tough 12 months at the pointy end.
As a world authority on the Bard – and a long-time fanboy of the American singer, Jonathan Bate compares her (favourably) to the greats of poetry and prose.
It’s not often you see marsupials in the heart of Melbourne, but now’s your chance, thanks to artist Matthew Clarke and the Rising Festival.
Their debut was a post-punk salvo tackling industry chauvinists and sexual power. Their new follow-up is even better.
A new ABC documentary shines a light on a group of women code breakers who worked in a Brisbane shed.
THIS is an absurdist work staged in a sea of mud in a former power station that skewers the cosy relationship between politics, real estate and big business.
The Old Treasury Building is a reminder of Melbourne’s importance in the gold rush era, but it still has plenty of 21st century relevance.
Former Sydney socialite Roxy Jacenko has relocated to Singapore and says she is loving the quiet life.
From the team behind Bump comes Year Of, a drama series that steers a course between Heartbreak High and Euphoria to somewhere surprisingly real.
Sarah Krasnostein’s essay on Peter Carey celebrates a literary figure whose stamina is to be admired.
Helen Elliott’s memoir comes in the form of letters written to significant people from her early life.
From Cate Blanchett as a renegade nun to the culture wars surrounding Bruce Pascoe, the 70th instalment of one of the city’s great cultural events has plenty of highlights to choose from.
Dennis Lehane’s brilliant novel is set during a period of racial tension in Boston in the 1970s.
A wrap of the weekend’s live reviews, including Weyes Blood at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Live, and the premiere of Australian musical The Lucky Country.
Late Night with Devil has captivated the world’s biggest horror writer - now it’s selling out at the Sydney Film Festival.
Elwin Bell says the travelling carnival business is good again – cash preferred – after fires, floods and the pandemic.
Kimberley Moulton comes from a long line of local Indigenous leaders and her work at Melbourne Museum and the Rising Festival continues that activism.
She grew up on the sets of her mother Jane Campion’s films, before falling into a successful acting career. Now she has her debut feature Bad Behaviour premiering at the Sydney Film Festival.
A writer takes on one of his music idols in a game filled with tough moves and life lessons. GZA, one of hip-hop’s lyrical masters, doesn’t disappoint.
The band’s album, their first since the death of Taylor Hawkins, comes with a loud and clear message about the healing power of music.
Roger Waters’ provocative performance of The Wall has been displayed on-stage for decades, so why has it suddenly attracted protests and a police investigation?
What you should have watched, listened to, read and clicked on in the first half of the year.
Was Marthe Bonnard a jealous, obsessive wife, or an artist in her own right? On the eve of the NGV’s winter blockbuster, we uncover the woman behind the canvas.
Kim Cattrall will reprise her role as Samantha Jones in the next season of And Just Like That, despite her rift with Sarah Jessica Parker.
Drawing will always be present because it captures the vital creative impulse that links the eye, the mind and the hand.
Whenever a car chase scene begins, I let out a bored sigh so strong it blows my dogs across the room.
The third season of Jason Sudeikis’ fish-out-of-water comedy has come to an end, but there are many ways the acclaimed ensemble show could return.
As a teen, Nyul Nyul and Yawuru director Jub Clerc went on a trip with other at-risk kids. It’s the basis of her debut feature.
A hypothetical bad idea was suddenly transformed into an ongoing mistake. I’d joined a half-marathon.
Data rules our lives, numbers and percentages. Every reason to preserve the guesstimates.
This month you can catch K-pop behemoths Blackpink, booming beats, beautiful Blood and a man bigger than Bach.
When the actor-director and his Working Dog colleagues think of a joke, the Nation Building Authority is still the best place to express it
In-demand actor Mark Coles Smith has returned to his home in WA, where he says his relationship to time and space changes.
Based on events in the tiny Swedish town of Knutby in 2004, The Congregation is a story of sex, murder, religion and manipulation.
In her latest role, Gemma Arterton, who is used to playing “cold, hard-assed bitches”, shows her talent for comedy.
A wrap of the week’s live reviews, including Matt Corby at Enmore Theatre, and Hiatus Kaiyote, and The Necks for Vivid Live at Sydney Opera House.
Electro-punk duo Sleaford Mods are kicking against the status quo in their UK, and bringing their searing sound to Australia this week.
If you’re only going to watch one movie about a karaoke-singing Lancashire businessman on a mission, you should make it this one.
The best way to disguise the banality of the plot is to sing it in a language no one understands.
‘Because We Have Each Other’ follows the Barnes/Sharrock family as they find belonging and acceptance in a neurodiverse family that thrives on their differences.
Brent Draper’s first foray in the MasterChef kitchen didn’t go to plan. He’s back, and has an important message that we can all learn from.
In Run Rabbit Run, the actor plays a divorced fertility doctor whose daughter Mia becomes obsessed with a white rabbit
Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney created this comically charged murder mystery. It is, like its authors, a double act in perfect sync.
Euphoria creator Sam Levinson brings shock and awe to his dark satire of the music industry The Idol, starring Lily-Rose Depp and Canadian musician The Weeknd.
Deena Lynch, better known by her stage name Jaguar Jonze, has spoken out about abuse in the music industry since 2020. But her activism has come at a cost.
Now that David Koch has left Sunrise, who will fill his shoes? And will the show remain the heavy-hitter of breakfast television?
What did Jeremy Strong, who plays Kendall, do after “cut” was called? Did he really drink that meal fit for a king? What great news did Sarah Snook share?
The Boogeyman is a familiar horror set-up, with bloodless set pieces and flashing lights to distract us from the fact not much is going on.
After Succession’s finale, viewers are divided over one topic: Shiv Roy’s massive move. But how things ultimately played out should come as no surprise.
Life is tough for 16-year-old Murra in Sweet As. But that changes the day someone puts a camera in her hand.
It was the day five became four: official confirmation that Geri Halliwell - otherwise known as Ginger Spice - had left the Spice Girls.
Succession’s ultimate endgame served up a breathtaking surprise and final proof it belongs in the pantheon of great TV shows.
The theatre director and writer will write his first play in 10 years as STC’s new Patrick White Fellow, as he continues to advocate for the Yes vote in the Voice referendum.
After five years, four seasons and 39 superbly crafted episodes, one of TV’s most acclaimed dramas has finally come to an end.
A who’s who of Australian media, arts and politics turned out in honour of John Olsen at a state memorial held at the Art Gallery of NSW following his death at age 95.
Ahead of today’s final episode, Alan Ruck, who plays the eldest sibling, Connor Roy, warns fans not to expect a happy ending.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Jason Donovan in The Rocky Horror Show, Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho, Vidya Rajan’s Crocodiles and more.
Ranking your most loved - and loathed - characters in the show is tricky, but we asked an array of public figures to tell us theirs, with some surprising answers.
Vivid Sydney features three major ticketed events this year – and none of them have managed to sell out.
The trend for jazzing up period pieces - I’m looking at you, Bridgerton - has actually made them less appealing.
It’s time to stop talking about the individuals caught in the eye of an internet pile-on and train our attention on the mob.
Octogenarian Martha Stewart’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot reveals the exhausting lengths older celebs go to in bid to maintain a youthful look.
A wrap of the best live shows from the weekend, including Jose Gonzalez at Vivid Live, Mamma Mia! The Musical and Do Not Go Gentle at Sydney Theatre Company.
In the harshest conditions, there was nothing of the diva about Tina Turner when she shot Beyond Thunderdome.
The broadcaster’s exit from the ABC has forced an internal reckoning. Now other ABC journalists are sharing their experiences of racism and demanding change.
Melbourne Holocaust Museum creates a sense of calmness while confronting the atrocities of the Second World War.
The flashbulbs, celebrities and red-carpet mayhem at the Cannes Film Festival is a universe away from Aswan Reid’s outback life in Alice Springs.
Omar Kholeif seems to have a perfect track record to write this survey, but sometimes his overall tone is of the poacher turned gamekeeper.
As we bid farewell to the Roy family, there’s plenty more TV to fill that capitalist-shaped hole in your heart.
The English writer discusses body-shaming, transphobia and what makes a bad literary sex scene.
Rush, the process of assigning college sorority places, is described as a “social stratification ritual”, a form of “competitive femininity”. A new documentary follows young women willing to do whatever it takes.
One of the truly great artists of the late 20th century, the artist managed to alienate friends and admirers with a single exhibition.
The fabric and wallpaper designs of Australia’s First Lady of wallpaper, Florence Broadhurst, as well as Collette Dinnigan and Carla Zampatti, will be painted on Custom House for Vivid.
Legendary comic Barry Humphries will be honoured with a state funeral in Sydney, after his family declined an offer from the Victorian government.
“Rock and roll is like T20 cricket and opera is like a full-blown test match,” says heavy-metal performer-turned opera singer Shanul Sharma
Ben Mingay, star of Shrek the Musical and ABC TV’s Frayed, is the latest actor to take on Sweeney Todd – the murderous barber whose victims are baked into pies.
The US megastar kicks off her World Renaissance tour in Stockholm this week, but closer to home the fight has begun over which stadium she should play if and when she arrives in Sydney.
A classic Succession party episode delivers breakups, breakdowns and a Swedish gatecrasher.
A case brought against Ed Sheeran raised some difficult questions around what we understand as inspiration and influence, and what we may hear as theft.
Left to choose between the Melbourne and the Bendigo writers festivals, the author took the road less travelled. And that made for a rollicking difference.
Millions of Australians spent Saturday night watching coverage of the coronation, but it wasn’t enough to surpass the ratings of the Queen’s funeral last year.
Darkfield: Seance and Flight – the sensory deprivation theatre experience inside shipping containers outside Powerhouse Ultimo – verges on the deeply uncomfortable.
Fatboy Slim had the crowd once again living for the weekend of trippy lights and techno house beats that propel EDM lovers into one sweaty, ecstatic all-night group hug.
More than 20,000 people packed the lawns of Windsor Castle to watch the first-ever coronation concert. What were the best moments?
A tearful Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Michelin-starred chef Marco Pierre White joined an hour-long tribute to the Scottish chef whose death shocked the industry.
For Perth rockers Voyager – Australia’s entry for Eurovision – the mix of Aussie heavy metal and the eccentric, enduring Euro-pop contest couldn’t be a more harmonious coupling.
The Australian actor opens up about her father’s Alzheimer’s, cancer, and sex scenes with Hugo Weaving.
Jules Francois Archibald wooed Rosa Frankenstein in London. But he was not what he seemed.
Fifty years after they transformed it into a pop-art palace, the Friends of Luna Park, who have long fought to save the site from the wrecking ball, have been recognised.
In the cold commercial reality of network television, the impact of the host’s death is fast becoming abundantly clear.
The Guardians of the Galaxy star was initially hampered by her “foreignness” and encountered an unease with casting directors that stemmed from her French accent.
From Woody Allen to R. Kelly, a creator’s behaviour stains the films, songs and artworks we once loved. But is cancellation the only answer?
In Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, Judith Lucy plays Winnie, a woman who despite finding herself buried deeper and deeper in sand, continues going about her normal routine.
From Dame Edna’s sequined gowns to Sir Les Patterson’ s artfully stained suits, what the future holds for much of Humphries’s memorabilia remains unclear.
Kids Sing is a musical project inspired by renowned First Nations artists that aims to empower a new generation.
From football to acting, boxing to writing, and now, directing, Matt Nable’s long defied stereotypes. And now he’s ready to smash some more.
One-half of the electronic pop duo Electric Fields, Zaachariaha Fielding, said he was humbled and honoured to be awarded the Wynne Prize.
The man who recorded Mick Jagger, gave the world a winking kangaroo in 1982 and put pink submarines in the Brisbane River for World Expo has another Olympics on his mind.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that the American actor’s first novel is all about the making of a film.
It’s clear the organisers are more determined than ever to market the Archibald and Wynne Prizes as cutting-edge contemporary events.
Ellen van Neerven’s latest work blends poetry, autobiographical writing, interview, history and sporting advice.
Jessica Dettmann’s heroine may publish romcoms, but her friends say she’s the least romantic person ever.
Whether your mum likes to laugh out loud or lean back and learn, there’s something here to suit all tastes.
The streaming service is blamed for introducing practices that have made a profession that was always precarious completely unsustainable.
It’s arguably the biggest day on the arts calendar in Australia and this year’s pool of finalists is suitably impressive. Stay tuned here for live coverage of the big announcement.
Our favourite shows from the weekend include comedian and Project host Michael Hing and the Australian Ballet’s Jewels.
Subtract strips back the flamboyance, leans into vulnerability and shines the spotlight on Sheeran’s vocals.
Small Metal Objects offers up the chance to see a subversive work by a home-grown theatre company which last year won the “Nobel Prize for theatre”.
Drug dealer turned comedian Andrew Hamilton tours his MICF Best Newcomer-nominated show to the Sydney Comedy Festival.
Ed Sheeran has won a lawsuit that saw him accused of plagiarising Marvin Gaye’s classic song Let’s Get It On for his Grammy Award-winning single Thinking Out Loud.
Inspired by his grandfather’s stories, Robbie Arnott’s Limberlost has won the prize for fiction. Kim Mahood has won the non-fiction award for her essay collection, Wandering with Intent.
In the universe of the Grease films, no one was cooler than the Pink Ladies. One of the “OG” Pink Ladies, Lorna Luft, recalls the transformative power of the iconic pink jacket.
The British TV cook, appearing in Melbourne this month, loves talking to her fans, especially the Australian ones.
While Bridgerton is first and foremost a sexy period drama, this new series in its expanded universe cuts a bit closer to real life.
From the Packing Room to the portrait that will tug at your heart, read all of our Archibald 2023 coverage.
Based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name, the Broadway musical hit is finally returning to Melbourne.
In her memoir, Everything and Nothing, acclaimed Australian actor Heather Mitchell looks to the past to shine light on the present.
We’re not exactly sure what Cavalcade is about, but William Henderson’s theatrical pedigree makes it hard to look away.
On this day in 1958 Spike Milligan arrived in Melbourne on his first trip to Australia. Over the years he returned so often that he became known as Woy Woy’s most famous adopted son.
On her way to the Melbourne and Sydney writers festivals, the British writer doesn’t have a moment to spare.
With his talent for reinvention, the much-loved actor is perfectly cast as a metrosexual James Bond in Citadel.
Characters played by Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo and Rebecca Ferguson all shed light on the puzzle at the heart of this series
With country music having a chart-topping moment at home, Jindabyne-born Brad Cox is primed to lead the local charge.
Network 10 has announced it will put the new season of its flagship cooking show to air from Sunday night.
Citadel, with a reported, eye-watering budget of $300 million, along with The Recruit, The Night Agent and Rabbit Hole are upping the ante of the espionage thriller genre.
While comparisons with the 1994 Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt film are inevitable, this remake of Interview with the Vampire harks back to Anne Rice’s 1976 source novel.
Irish actress Sinead Keenan steps into the shoes of the beloved character played by Nicola Walker in season five of Unforgotten
Khalida thought she just had stomach pains - but she was actually suffering with a cyst weighing the same size as a 'six-year-old child' on Body Bizarre.
Born of pandemic restrictions, The Survival of Kindness features no intelligible dialogue and was written to suit its locations rather than the other way around.
The latest Guardians of the Galaxy movie opens with the gang led by Chris Pratt as Peter Quill in a bit of a funk – not unlike the Marvel franchise.
Zia Ahmed squirms at even an innocuous question, but he writes with dazzling clarity. His play, I Wanna Be Yours, navigates love and racial fault lines.
It might not have the celebrity factor of its flashier cousin, but the slow-burn impact of the Wynne Prize can have a more profound result for artists and the public.
David Rasche and Peter Friedman play two of Succession’s iconic graybeards. Can their characters pull off the ultimate survival act?
Zonfrillo, an award-winning restaurateur, was found dead at 2am on Monday after Victoria Police conducted a welfare check at a Lygon Street hotel.
Read the room? Read a book. The history of worthwhile art was made by dogged individuals who followed the promptings of their own talents.
The former Saturday Night Live Star parlays his life into an eight-part comedy series that’s bigger on sad-sack aimlessness than laughs.
Director Elegance Bratton uses his experiences as a black, gay marine recruit in this moving drama about rejection and acceptance.
SBS’s drama Safe Home is a passion project for stars Aisha Dee, Mabel Li and a bunch of emerging women in front of and behind the camera.
Film and TV screenwriters have walked off the job, slamming “gig economy” like conditions, in a shutdown that threatens the production of future projects.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story tells the journey of the romance that started it all. Streaming May 4 only on Netflix.
The shock death of one of the show’s three hosts casts an enormous shadow over the latest season of Ten’s most valuable franchise.
If you missed the London Symphony Orchestra’s show at the Opera House on Monday night, we have good news for you: they’re also playing tonight and tomorrow.
Pressure is growing on the NSW government to halt plans for the Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo, effectively sending the redevelopment back to the drawing board.
“Revisiting your work is always challenging. But what’s been exciting ... is that it’s like a call and response between the ’90s and now,” says Christos Tsiolkas.
The women of Australian history are too often overlooked, but writers including Sue Williams and Jessica North are elevating them to their rightful place.
The acclaimed novelist gets up close and personal with creatures of the deep in a stunning three-part documentary out this month.
For nearly a decade, one man dominated Australian daytime television. The Herald visited Nine Studios to meet the housewives’ favourite, Mike Walsh.
The problem with consistently being the best show on TV is that even the slightest dip in form feels like a failure.
The restaurant and entertainment industries are reeling following the sudden death of MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo.
Zonfrillo was known to Australians as a chef, bestselling author, philanthropist and MasterChef judge. He died on Sunday, according to Network Ten.
Watch the teaser trailer for Twisted Metal starring Anthony Mackie, coming to Stan on July 27.
British diva Jessie Ware follows up her all-timer What’s Your Pleasure? with another euphoric crowd-pleaser.
Catch a ’90s electronic music icon, two acts that changed hip-hop forever on the same bill, and a Grammy-nominated Australian band who impressed Prince.
Liam Neeson becomes as a famous detective and Nicolas Cage is hungry for blood and The Book Club is back with Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda.
The award-winning producer of Jack Irish, Colin From Accounts, Rake and The Twelve shares some insights in our weekly Quick Q column.
The actor didn’t have to reach far to work out how to play a young post-war mother. “The character reminded me of my grandma, Mavis,” she says.
Kerrie-Anne Kennerley has bid a teary – and early farewell – to I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! after a foray into the “celebrity humiliation television” sub-genre of reality TV.
The daughter of Greek immigrants learnt early that nothing was going to be handed to her, and harnessed that knowledge to forge a decades-long career in journalism.
Melbourne art dealer and gallerist William Mora, son of the late artist Mirka Mora, died on Friday afternoon after a battle with lung cancer.
Chan Lok Tim takes on everything from his don’t-talk-too-much upbringing to an (accidentally) cannabis-fuelled work Zoom.
With the Melbourne Writers Festival kicking off next week, here are some of the events that should not be missed.
Studio A, the social enterprise for artists with intellectual disabilities, has scooped four places in the Archibald finals for the second year running.
It’s a case of having friends in high places for the radio shock-jock Kyle Sandilands who is marrying his former assistant on Saturday.
Many horror films depict mothers as evil, rotting, abusive creatures, determined to consume the child’s potential. Why is horror so terrified of mothers?
The Real Housewives of Sydney is set to return after a five-year hiatus. Will it be enough to salvage the franchise’s previous attempts down under?
It was a film that launched a thousand boiled bunnies, now Fatal Attraction the TV series is trying to do right by its troubled villain.
Marine Vacth is a goddess and a devil in Masquerade, which is a perceptive depiction of a set of characters on the make.
Had Warhol been alive today he would enjoy one of the biggest social media followings on the planet and be the star of a popular reality TV show.
From the ruins of her former life, Nora Ephron extracted insights that continue to strike people as enduringly true.
Anthony Albanese and Chris Minns will be at the wedding of Kyle Sandilands, whose wedding party includes Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim, for starters.
To boost ratings, Springer focused on “regular folks of no fame, little if any wealth and very little influence”. Here’s how it worked.
Bob Morley haunts his best mate in the ABC’s supernatural comedy, Aisha Dee stars in a confronting new SBS drama and Tommy Little delivers a stand-up special.
No Context Succession has built an enormous following by posting screenshots of Succession alongside subtitles that lack context.
At its peak, The Jerry Springer Show was a ratings powerhouse and a US cultural pariah, synonymous with lurid drama.
Beatles legend Ringo Starr paid tribute to Colin Hay, who won the Ted Albert award for outstanding services to Australian music at the APRA awards.
The Idol focuses on Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), an aspiring pop idol who, after having a nervous breakdown that causes her last tour to be canceled, resolves to reclaim her title as the sexiest pop star in America. Lily-Rose Depp and Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye star.
Bupkis is a heightened, fictionalized version of Pete Davidson’s real life. The series combines grounded storytelling with absurd elements from the unfiltered and completely original worldview for which Pete is well known.
Restless in her marriage, Slip follows Mae (Zoe Lister-Jones) through a surreal journey of parallel universes, married to different people, trying to find a way back to her partner, and ultimately, herself.
Sarah Holland-Batt has won this year’s $60,000 Stella Prize for her third poetry collection, The Jaguar.
Platonic is a film telling the story of friends who don’t let friends have mid-life crises alone. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne star in Platonic, streaming May 24 on Apple TV+.
This was a huge literary event, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the heady days of Harry Potter. But what were people so eager to buy at midnight?
Sharik Tovar falls asleep for weeks at a time due to suffering from a rare illness on Body Bizarre.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Mudhoney at Northcote Social Club and Selling Kabul at Red Stitch.
After a protracted copyright dispute, De La Soul’s classics are released at last. Like hip-hop itself, it’s a victory cut with tragedy.
The celebrated songwriter spent years wandering the globe before returning home to a new musical incarnation.
The 2023 Archibald finalists have been revealed and for the first time in the prize’s 102-year history, there are more female painters than men.
Spurred by her popularity on the social media platform, the Sydney artist has become the most-talked about pop act in the country.
Julia Robertson and Zara Stanton have breathed new life into the characters from the classic silent film, Metropolis.
The British chef isn’t the only surprise in the new season of the cooking reality show, which this year includes lamington towers and exploding mystery boxes.
I have the emotional depth of a kiddie pool. There isn’t a lot going on in here. It’s a shame, really. I’ve always wanted to be brooding and mysterious.
Once an appliance has been around for 20 years, maybe 30, I may be willing to consider its purchase.
I am fairly confident I hold the record for the quickest self-maiming in the show’s history.
Actor Skarsgard and director Brandon Cronenberg talk about Infinity Pool, a film that rapidly descends into sci-fi, horror and questions about the soul.
The firefighter turned filmmaker set out to find out why 9/11 happened. The result is the year’s most controversial documentary.
The broadcasting authority ruled against Sky News’ conservative current affairs program after former PM Kevin Rudd made more than 80 complaints.
Peter Pan & Wendy is a live-action reimagining of the J.M. Barrie novel and the 1953 animated classic, will begin streaming April 28, 2023 on Disney+.
Based on the beloved DC comics, from executive producers Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey, comes season 2 of the hit series Sweet Tooth.
Nacho is a young man from a crisis-hit family who manages to make his life all about parties. In the quest to find his purpose in life, he stumbles upon the world of adult film stardom.
Run The World chronicles the euphoric highs and heartbreaking lows that Whitney, Renee and Sondi must endure in their pursuit of world domination.
Drag favourites are back for the brand new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars streaming on Stan.
Is it OK that we identify with ethically repugnant men and their ethically repugnant pastimes?
Immersing himself in risky situations has become second nature to interviewer Louis Theroux, but sitting down with celebrities requires hard work
Filmmakers from around the world have captured the living hell families face when a loved one disappears.
From Soviet espionage in The Americans, the actor has graduated to playing a slightly messy US Ambassador in Diplomat.
After comparing themselves for years to their much-younger pop star brother, Chase Dreams, who is now a full adult, and their talk show host mother, who's now more powerful than she could have ever imagined, Brooke and Cary are finally standing on their own two feet – fully "successful" in their own right.
The National Gallery of Australia has announced an inquiry into the authorship of Indigenous artworks due to be hung for an upcoming major exhibition.
A long-hidden report has recommended state heritage listing of parts of the museum now slated for demolition later this year.
Thomasin McKenzie plays a twentysomething who inherits her grandfather’s home - and with it, an important mission.
Playing the title role in Queen Charlotte, a spin-off set 30 years before the events of the dayglo Regency drama, was a daunting task for India Amarteifio.
Heirs of a musician who co-wrote the soul classic Let’s Get It On say the British pop star knew how similar it is to his Thinking Out Loud.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s next work is on its way to Sydney.
This immersive work of opera invites you to stay for as long – or as briefly – as you like, lasting either 20 minutes or six hours.
The artist and Academy Award winner is known for conjuring up surreal worlds and fantastical creatures. This week the largest exhibition of his work will open in Brunswick.
Before his death, the one-of-a-kind entertainer explored his family tree for an episode of the SBS genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?
Belafonte, the Black American artist who sang the much-loved Banana Boat Song (Day-O), stood as the model and the epitome of the celebrity activist.
The story of two sisters, Polite Society is good feminist fun, with some spectacularly choreographed stunt work and a well-chosen gallery of supporting characters.
Even the combined charms of screen legends Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno can’t save 80 For Brady.
How would you like to be remembered after you have gone from the world? Back in 1981, Age editors asked Barry Humphries, then a columnist for the paper, to write his own obituary. He knew how to make an exit.
Despite a proliferation of cameras, our tradition of sending an official artist to capture conflict endures because, as one notes: “The point is not to do an accurate drawing of an aircraft carrier”.
Released in 1983, I Was Only 19 is one of this country’s most significant songs about war, and it’s about to get a whole new audience - again.
Allow me now to attempt the impossible by defending both Humphries and the festival in 800 words or less without being cancelled myself.
Director Susan Provan has defended the festival’s decision not to pay an official tribute to the late comedian, and says: “We have not cancelled Barry Humphries, we did not snub him”.
The Brodsky Quartet evokes a shining other-worldly presence in a performance to celebrate the Sydney Opera House’s 50th year.
Will Gluck, the director of Easy A and Friends With Benefits, has been doing something rare for a Hollywood film - shooting Sydney as Sydney.
Barry Humphries’ death on Saturday has prompted an international outpouring of love, and some revisiting of old skirmishes too.
Popular kids’ cartoon Bluey has sparked criticism online after an episode featured Bluey’s dad Bandit discussing his weight. But aren’t these the conversations we should be having?
Barry Humphries was a key figure in establishing the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, but relations soured in recent years.
Often described as the “nicest man on television,” Larry also seems to be the busiest, spending his mornings hosting Channel Seven’s The Morning Show, and his evenings as host of The Chase.
Barry Humphries’ legendary character Dame Edna Everage was Australia’s greatest comic creation and had us looking inward and laughing at ourselves for decades.
The legendary entertainer who embodied some of Australia’s most loved characters died on Saturday at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital.
In his dual homelands of England and Australia, Humphries was never entirely absent from the limelight.
Comedians and politicians are among many who have paid tribute to comedy great Barry Humphries after his death on Saturday.
In his dual homelands of England and Australia, Barry Humphries was never entirely absent from the limelight.
Barry Humphries, the man responsible for some of Australia’s most loved characters, has exited stage left for the last time.
In true comedic style, the winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s major award described receiving the honour as “sort of like a nightmare”.
Ruva Ngwenya first performed River Deep, Mountain High at a school concert. Now she’s playing the chart-topping singer in Tina - the Tina Turner Musical.
In a packed gig at Margaret Court Arena, young Australian singer-songwirter Ruel offered up a crowd-pleasing hour of entertainment.
Our reviewers check out two musical comedy offerings - Tick, tick BOOM and La Cage aux Folles - playing in Sydney.
I have always loved Archie season and its stick-the-finger-up-at-the-art-world approach, which is why I agreed to be painted.
Australians donate many strange things to op-shops and customers love to buy them. Why are we drawn to these weird and wonderful items?
The comic’s wife Lizzie Spender and his family gathered by the 89-year-old’s Sydney hospital bedside this week.
Zoya Patel’s first novel revolves around a daughter learning that her estranged mother is dying.
The Demon Dog of American crime writing may have calmed down a bit, but he’s still threatening more of his unique crime fiction.
Perhaps the 3D printer that made the puppets should have also been put to work on UFO’s story.
City of Dreams, the second instalment in an urban gangster trilogy, confirms Don Winslow as the rarest of literary creatures.
You don’t need to break the bank to stay cultured in Melbourne. There are bargains galore – you just have to know where to look.
Landmark director Rolf de Heer wrote The Survival of Kindness for a man. Then he met the refugee who spent eight years in a camp in Tanzania.
Sydney Festival director Olivia Ansell will have her contract extended for another year on the back of attendance numbers that doubled in 2023 on the previous year.
The newly refurbished Harold Park Hotel sets the stage for the return of Opera in the pub next month.
ABC Melbourne has made a slight recovery from its record-low ratings in the last survey, but 3AW is still holding top place.
Rachel Weisz plays twin gynaecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle in this new series, in a role reversal of the 1988 movie starring Jeremy Irons.
A new documentary celebrates the young adult author who dared to write the unspeakable.
After losing three of the people he was closest to, the writer, director and actor created a poignant exploration of grief starring his ex, Florence Pugh.
There was little joy for the national broadcaster as Radio National, NewsRadio, Triple J and Classic also went backwards.
The makers of Big Bang Theory and Watchmen team up for an epic battle between artificial intelligence and a nun in Mrs Davis.
The ABC News Breakfast co-host reflects on the bubble that became morning television during the COVID pandemic.
There’s always been one story closer to home that the award-winning journalist didn’t feel ready to investigate until now.
Not one for understatement, Zach Braff returns to familiar themes of guilt, redemption and drug addiction in A Good Person.
After more than three decades in the public eye, the woman behind Elle McFeast is seizing the chance to reinvent herself.
Sexologist Chantelle Otten’s new show features real patients talking about everything from opening up their relationship to premature ejaculation.
I was a contestant on the ABC’s comedy quiz show this week. If you’re up for being roasted on TV, as well as having your knowledge tested, here’s what to do.
After decades in the limelight, HG Nelson (Greig Pickhaver) and Rampaging Roy Slaven (John Doyle) are still bringing their unique spin on Australian sport to ABC’s Grandstand.
The new version of David Cronenberg’s thriller flips the genders, with Weisz playing the twins portrayed by Jeremy Irons in the original.
David West Read delivers a dark parable about envy, ambition and happiness in the new Apple TV+ series The Big Door Prize.
The suspenseful eight-part Norwegian crime thriller combines spectacular scenery with a meaty plot about refugees and paranoia.
Two secret agents race against time to stop a group of wealthy families wreaking havoc in Anthony and Joe Russo’s Citadel.
One of the stars of Netflix’s recent hit show, Beef, has been heavily criticised after comments they made admitting to ‘rapey behaviour’ resurfaced.
A third-generation builder turned artist has scooped the 2023 Gallipoli Art Prize with a poignant picture of his war veteran uncle’s bedroom.
There is nothing to fear in this three hour “nightmare comedy” by horror master Ari Aster.
Reports claim F. Murray Abraham, who won an Oscar for his role in Amadeus, was stood down from the comedy Mythic Quest over allegations of inappropriate conduct.
The comedian, best known for his character Dame Edna Everage, has been rushed to a Sydney hospital where he is seeing doctors.
Jenny Odell’s book Saving Time suggests that doing nothing is, for those who can afford it, an act of rebellion.
The Kiss Heard Round The World was the highlight of my month, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
Wimbledon champion at 17 to prison inmate at 54. Boris Becker’s life seems stranger than fiction.
La Cage aux Folles - the film and stage show which was first a hit in the 70s - still resonates with audiences in today’s climate.
Neighbours producers hope Mischa Barton will breathe new life into its next chapter, but will her guest appearance just leave us cringing?
The families of the Holocaust survivors saved by Oskar Schindler paid tribute to the Schindler’s Ark author this week.
Herald subscribers can enjoy exclusive 2-for-1 tickets to Australia’s most engaging art event.
Margaret Sutherland battled sexist assumptions and other obstacles to have her compositions played and appreciated.
Amidst performative grief and fish tacos, Succession guides us to our final destination: a coronation demolition derby.
Netflix’s live broadcast of the Love Is Blind reunion was delayed by over 90 minutes, exposing the service’s teething problems with livestreaming.
Comedian Dylan Moran wrote comedy Stuck during lockdown. Now he’s keen to get out and be with the world.
The dance troupe said a Yes vote would respect the truth of the past and value a future vision of equity and fairness.
The sun shone on the Madama Butterfly set on Sydney Harbour on Sunday, as the show’s producer married Opera Australia’s head of music in a real life drama.
Musician Danny Voyager opens up about his early musical beginnings, marrying his best friend, and being surrounded by feminine energy.
Breakfast television is a juggernaut into which one does not step lightly. For Syrian-born Abo, an unwavering focus on the audience – and its ability to spot insincerity – is serving her well.
According to a Canadian study, we are 30 times more likely to laugh with others than to laugh alone in the privacy of our own homes.
Dr Will Flanary, better known as Dr Glaucomflecken, uses humour and social media – and sometimes a unicorn headband – to confront challenging issues in the medical profession.
Scratch the surface of the world of pop culture and there is a long list of forgotten figures who ought to be a little better known given their incredible proximity to celebrity.
This breathtaking documentary mixes animation with real-life wilderness as it tells the story of the former Greens leader who still has much to give.
Lead singer Matty Healy hits the stage with spirits and cigarettes at the ICC while across town at the Opera House the Sydney Symphony Orchestra played Brahms 2 with delightful precision under the helm of Donald Runnicles.
Making (very early) Academy Award predictions this year reveals the volume of leading directors with promising films on the way.
Lawyers for the model-turned-novelist were locked in a high-stakes mediation session on Friday.
Susan Johnson struggled to complete Aphrodite’s Breath but in grief, she found a deeper truth.
From Edinburgh Fringe Festival winner Sam Campbell, to the kookiness of Emma Holland and cult favourite Daniel Kitson, there’s plenty to laugh at this year’s festival.
Judges have shortlisted a diverse array of 12 books for the two $10,000 prizes, for fiction and non-fiction.
Reports of bad behaviour at the theatre, musicals and live shows have gone next level overseas. Have audiences forgotten how to behave post the pandemic?
John Olsen was not scared of death and created art until the end. Before his passing, the celebrated painter shared a pot of tea, his views on the Third Act of Life, and why the work of older artists looks so free.
Long-time advocate against domestic violence Jess Hill turns her forensic lens towards two new issues: consent and her own cancer.
After 35 years of doing stand-up, the comedian is, literally, up to her neck with her next role in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days.
No writing is perfect, but on rereading one of Katherine Mansfield’s stories, I’m convinced it’s about as perfect as a short story can be.
Madelaine Lucas’ Thirst for Salt deftly explores a relationship between an unnamed 24-year-old narrator and a former actor 18 years her senior.
A new investigation by Vanity Fair reveals hidden truths about the media mogul, his warring family and just how similar they are to that TV show.
The alt-pop superstar makes songs that can make you laugh and swoon at once. Just don’t insult Dido.
If you wanted to get a movie made in Hollywood right now, you’d probably start with the phrase “it’s the 1980s”. But why?
The award-winning stage and screen actor is philosophical about the celebrated period comedy reaching its final season
Up-and-coming Australian actress Tanzyn Crawford found plenty to relate to in the new Disney series Tiny Beautiful Things.
When animator Richard Jeffery and his team first started working on a children’s series about a dog, they could tell it had something special.
In the limited series The Last Thing He Told Me, her character’s life is turned upside down when her widowed father disappears.
The enigmatic figure at the heart of this film agreed to be interviewed on the condition that his face wasn’t shown.
The investigative journalist’s new documentary series is sobering, but must-watch viewing.
The lighting of the Sydney Opera House sails next month will act as a posthumous tribute to John Olsen – a rare artist who straddled commercial and fine art.
Cool mums, Rupert Murdoch’s jowls, and a 1920s dinner party – these shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival have something for everyone. Here are the latest reviews.
Louis Garrel keeps writing himself into his movies. In this part comedy, part drama, he plays a widower asking himself whether to protect his mother from bad men he must become a bad man.
Between Succession and this strange little show, we’re in the golden age of shocking final seasons.
It’s weathered summers blighted by bushfires, pandemic lockdowns and La Nina, but Australia’s most famous beach is back on TV.
Strap yourself in and hang on because The Last Thing He Told Me will take you on a wild ride.
It’s become a common quip, but where exactly did the word come from and what’s the backstory?
Fans are so devastated over Taylor Swift’s breakup that you’d think someone had died. What drives our need to grieve the end of relationships we viewed from afar?
From Wednesday to The Power, these shows overturn the unequal power balance and play out a fantasy of female autonomy.
When you’re intensely competitive – like Logan Roy – ambition is not quelled by achievement, and much must be forsaken to feed its demands.
Regarded as one of Australia’s greatest artists, John Olsen is best known for his oils and watercolours but had a talent for everything from tapestry design to ceramics.
Everyone’s talking about the big moment in Succession’s latest episode. But should they be? When is too early to discuss a big plot twist in the age of social media?
This gripping limited series follows a woman who must forge a relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter in order to find the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.
Long billed as a Shakespearean drama, Succession delivers a masterstroke that will define the season.
Swift fans are grieving the breakdown of her relationship with Joe Alwyn as if it were their own relationship. Credit: TikTok
Despite a sterile mood away from the live music, high-quality shows were a winner with the fans. The festival will return next Easter according to organisers.
Drawing on dialogue and characters from Alice in Wonderland, Pear-Shaped takes on the prevalance of – and stigma surrounding – anorexia nervosa.
Julia Robertson and Zara Stanton have dared to adapt Fritz Lang’s epic silent film Metropolis into a musical.
It’s rightly hailed as one of the best TV shows ever made, but this week’s episode ripped up the rule book and gave us a season-ending cliffhanger just three episodes in.
Despite being wound up in 2021, the pioneering circus company is back with a new board and a new show.
The Opera House, Bondi Beach and Sydney Harbour will have to share the tourism limelight with the city’s cultural life under the Minns government.
It’s been a rocky road to this year’s festival at Byron Bay – but at least the sun is shining for a change.
“I had bad dating experiences up until meeting my fiancé, John,” says the lead singer of Amyl and the Sniffers.
Rupert Murdoch was engaged to former dental hygienist turned country music singer and right-wing evangelist Ann Lesley Smith for only two weeks.
Chloe Dallimore ensures that while the actors are comfortable, have fully consented and all is within the law, the action still sizzles and doesn’t fizzle.
The climate-controlled voids of Jeff’s Shed seem an unlikely venue for the city’s inaugural Bluesfest, but at least it’s not muddy.
Hugh Jackman helped discover her, and she’s been dubbed one of Britain’s “brightest screen talents”, but the British-Australian actor says she’s just a “good egg”.
When the Bard wrote ‘brevity is the soul of wit’, he could hardly have imagined how this would be applied to his own voluminous output.
Featuring a game made famous by The Fonz, halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide an unassuming-looking motel is home to a glittering and ever-changing museum of pinball.
The singer of the late 90s group died just weeks after the band announced a reunion tour.
Green roofs are taking off in Australia, and many architect designed projects are demonstrating the benefits.
Representatives for Candice Warner have been trying to get media outlets not to focus too much on her infamous encounter with Sonny Bill Williams.
Joking about religion or politics has always been sensitive in India. But under the current government, comics risk jail time for offending the wrong people.
The Sri Lankan Booker Prize winner remains optimistic that there is the chance of redemption for his characters and for his country.
The actor, who sustained more than 30 broken bones when a six-tonne plough ran him over in January, described his arduous recovery in a TV interview.
Stephanie Bishop’s latest novel examines the passionate relationship between a young writer and an older professor.
Set over the course of a few hours, Max Porter’s new novella Shy is a wildly experimental interrogation of fledgling masculinity.
A blank stare in the face of a famous movie moment revealed the desperate need for a film quote primer.
Fans of the brilliant Bad Sisters are back on familiar ground with Dreamland, which focuses on a slightly dysfunctional family of four sisters.
Corgan, a lifelong wrestling fan, now combines his two great passions in one guitar-licking, leg-locking festival, heading to Australia.
The existence of the orders was revealed in a hearing at the Byron Bay court, where the celebrity chef’s ex-partner, Madeleine West, unsuccessfully challenged a restraining order filed against her on behalf of Bennett’s father.
In a preview ahead of NGV's Triennial, Agnieszka Pilat demonstrates two of the robot dogs that she will be training to paint autonomously for the exhibition.
It’s time to give some respect to the most terrifying and brilliantly self-referential slasher universe the world has ever known.
Cousin Greg has long been a fan favourite on Succession, so saying goodbye isn’t easy. But for Nicholas Braun, if it is to be said, so it be — so it is.
Like that photo of Greg Norman at the beach, I’m about to unleash something unwanted and unsightly upon the world. My golfing hot take.
From podcasts to TikTok and YouTube, gory murders are interrogated by the group most often targeted. Is it fear tourism or a training exercise?
Food is hard to source in the wilds of Tasmania. But have you tried to hunt down a ham and cheese toastie for anything less than $12.95 in central Sydney?
Bundanon’s new show proves Merric Boyd was more than just the progenitor of an iconic painter.
Museums and galleries have begun dusting off shelved programs following the federal government’s half-a-billion funding package.
In The Claremont Murders, veteran director Peter Andrikidis brings a dark, dramatic edge to the true story of a homicide investigation.
Known for his days on the hit series 24, Kiefer Sutherland says his new series is a classic thriller with a strong contemporary twist.
Absurdist sketches and madcap material have been their calling cards, but the comedy trio is breaking new ground.
You’re never quite sure what’s coming next in this revenge comedy about two people who meet through car park road rage
At 64, Adrian Dunbar is riding high; he ain’t half bad as a singer in detective series Ridley and, courtesy of LoD, the ‘gaffer’ Ted Hastings is a global phenomenon.
From frostbite to waiting weeks for an animal that won’t reveal itself, marine biologist Alex Vail has witnessed first-hand the challenges of making a world-class nature series.
Ted Lasso, Spin City and now Shrinking are among the beloved comedies created by this ‘Anonymous Mogul’.
The new season of Lego Masters sees a mix of former winners, finalists and wildcards taking on crazy challenges.
NGV’s Triennial is returning – and one of the highlights will be an artwork created in collaboration between artist Agnieszka Pilat and a trio of robotic canines.
Dame Judi Dench and Jennifer Saunders are among the cast in a new film about Britain’s aged care system.
Sex ed, superheroes and saying goodbye to a beloved grandparent - these shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival have something for everyone. Here are the latest reviews.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes a recital by Pinchgut Opera, an intimate performance by Beck, and a soldout show by Black Midi.
With 600 shows and more than 140 stages, this year’s laugh-fest has started. And this is what our reviewers think of them.
Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski has produced a story about an innocent done in a style that doesn’t always have the same innocence.
NSW Police and the Sydney Royal Easter Show have banned hip-hop music, arguing that it has been used to lure young people into a life of crime.
Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith takes us behind the scenes in the lead-up to the former PM’s epic misogyny speech.
There are few reasons for the Super Mario Bros movie to exist other than commercial ones.
The federal government’s funding injection is the most important investment in the NGA since its opening in 1982, the museum’s director says.
Rising costs and pandemic ripples are forcing venue owners to pull the plug on live music.
The Federal Government announced it would license three special FM radio stations in each capital under a new policy to formalise the status of public broadcasting.
New musical series takes place in 1954, four years before the original Grease, four years before rock ‘n’ roll ruled and four years before the T-Birds were the coolest in the school.
Inspired by the work of world renowned ethologist and conservationist, Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, comes a new series for the whole family.
First look at the second part of our beautiful Melbourne love story, featuring Bojana Novakovic, Bob Morley, Heather Mitchell, Hugo Weaving, Will Lodder and more.
The story follows 20-something Vivian Cunningham (McKenzie) whose life, already something of a train wreck, is upended when her grandfather passes away and leaves her his home, a sprawling old house on a clifftop.
An absurd comedy guest-starring Richard Roxburgh and Pia Miranda, the most hardcore reality show in the world, and women trapped in their highschool reunion are among the local offerings.
Up next: we have Logan Roy performing a cover of the Elton John classic, ‘Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word’.
Allelujah features a who’s-who of venerable British actors and a shocking turn of events.
The life of one of Australia’s most influential entertainment pioneers has been celebrated in a moving ceremony.
Suzie Miller’s play about a lawyer who represents men accused of sexual assault has been a big winner at the UK’s 2023 Olivier awards.
Iceland had an unprecedented tourism boom that helped lift it from recession. But there was a downside for the local ecologies - and it’s happening in Australia too.
Growing up with not one but two legendary acting Dames, the 22-year-old Leave No Trace star has always been aware of how lucky she is.
Celebrity and privacy have always been uncomfortable bedfellows. When a person attains one, the other soon becomes a casualty.
One of our best known painters explains how his optimism and love of colour reflect the country of his birth. And how Australia needs to take better care of its great artworks.
Debra Lawrance has appeared in Please Like Me and Fisk, but the veteran actor says the gross-out reality show is “the best bit of entertainment I’ve seen”.
While she should be a household name, up there with Streeton and McCubbin, Clarice Beckett’s brilliance will ensure she will find her rightful place.
The nation’s best-loved portrait prize - the Archibald - has been described as Australia’s artistic equivalent to Melbourne Cup. Why is it so perennially popular?
The woman who was second-in-command at one of Sydney’s key nightlife venues is opening her own venue on Saturday night.
Tom Rob Smith is part of a wave of bestselling writers making the literary jump from the page to the screen – and back again.
Check out all the best festivals, gigs, shows and special events in Melbourne this month.
After undergoing major surgery last year, John Farnham is back in hospital being treated for a respiratory infection.
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy contains a formidable vision of Australia’s future, but there are moments of exhilaration and epiphany.
The opening pages of Gregory Day’s The Bell of the World are glorious; its final stretch among its finest pages.
Australian Abstract chronicles the lives and practices of 41 artists working in abstraction today.
Tinder, yoga, “squat challenging”, botox alternatives and Harry Styles all feature in Monica Heisey’s novel Really Good, Actually.
Today is the final day for entries in Australia’s best loved portrait prize, the Archibald exhibition.
Doug Mulray was a beloved radio host, but the half-hour he spent on Channel Nine before he was sacked has gone down in history.
Doug Mulray’s ability as a broadcaster was to get right to the edge of saying something that would have him taken off the air, and never blinking. And we loved him for it.
Our reviewers cast a critical eye on the biggest performances around town, including Sydney Theatre Company’s latest production and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s psych-rock extravaganza.
The multi-award-winning actor discusses what he’s learnt while living apart from his partner, dealing with grief – and whether he’d be cast in Priscilla today.
Veteran rock ‘n’ rollers AC/DC are returning for their first show since 2016, and with frontman Brian Johnson back in the fold.
The local music scene is filled with up-and-coming artists doing interesting things. Meet six of the most exciting.
A raft of New Zealand comedians are making their name internationally – and looking to Australia instead of Edinburgh for their big breaks.
Unremarkable scaffolding at the new Footscray Hospital construction site has been transformed into something more significant, highlighting diversity in the western suburbs.
Mandy Nolan came close to an unlikely win at the last federal election. Now she’s turned it into a comedy show, but don’t rule out a second tilt at Canberra.
Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus of boygenius have crafted an album that’s more than the sum of its parts.
Dame Quentin Bryce has joined leading artists to call for a fix to the financial troubles engulfing the National Gallery of Australia.
Jane Grealy has won the Dobell Prize for Drawing with a poignant image of her neighbour’s garden.
With 600 shows and more than 140 stages, this year’s laugh-fest welcomes a host of fresh faces from home and abroad. We meet nine who will have you in stitches.
A hit BBC war drama lands Down Under, comedy trio Aunty Donna head to the ABC and a warrior nun wages war with artificial intelligence.
It began as a way to fill in the downtime between paying gigs, but now Letterboxd has 8 million members and it’s growing fast.
Teenage girls can suddenly electrocute people at will in the riveting adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s speculative fiction novel The Power.
Often described as the “Joni Mitchell of her generation”, Natalie Mering hopes her music provides a salve for her fans.
Fungi have copped a bad rep, but Underground Lovers reveals that ’shrooms are perhaps too cool for their own good.
TikTok’s chief executive testified before US Congress last week as the push to ban the platform nationwide gains momentum. But TikTok users refuse to go down easy... or quietly.
One comedian is staying at Poseidon Sands, ‘the jewel of the inner coast’, while another prepares for Christmas Day. The fun has started at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Inspired by true events, Air chronicles the origin of the Air Jordan shoe line and stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Marlon Wayans, Viola David and Jason Bateman
TikTok users are using the app to post parody videos of the hearing and to express support for TikTok's CEO. Credit: @engineer2educator, @rachelhannahh, @cnetdotcom, @officialclamchowder
TikTok's CEO, Shou Chew, posted a personal video to TikTok's main account after the hearing with Congress to thank the platform's supporters and to reassure them of the app's safety. Credit: @TikTok
Some TikTok users have admitted they find the platform's CEO attractive, creating comedic content in support of Chew. Credit: @fragilebaggage, @chuutery, @marketinginmiami
After 16 years on the stage hosting her cult late night variety show, cabaret star Ali McGregor has seen it all when it comes to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
There’s no better time to soak up Melbourne than during its international comedy festival.
The trademark raspy tenor was in full service as the 78-year-old singer-songwriter charmed Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena.
Also in the running for the prize this year are two works of non-fiction, a graphic memoir, a book of poetry, and another novel.
“And I wonder if that’s a personal failing or just bad luck,” says the New Zealand-raised actor as he releases his memoir.
The contestants suffer just the right amount of solitude and deprivation: enough to make them change their minds without losing them.
This year’s Archibald includes portraits of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, alongside the better-known suspects.
New images reveal the National Gallery of Australia has fallen into such a state of neglect that buckets and towels are needed during downpours.
Chris Pine continues to bridge the jock-nerd divide, while Hugh Grant is stopped from stealing the show in this adaptation of the role-playing board game.
Taron Edgerton may be the star, but the actual hero behind this real-life story is the man who designed the video game that went on to captivate the world.
Sydney Sweeney having fun in Sydney is the best thing to happen to this city since the 2000 Olympics.
The FM radio pair’s coverage of the Paralympics has come in for criticism from the broadcasting regulator.
In the faux “behind the music” story of Daisy Jones and the Six, internal conflict both drives the band’s music and eventually tears them apart.
One of Australia’s best choreographers has created a massive new work that shakes up the dancer/audience equation and celebrates 21 years in the business.
There are signs the raging appetite for banning books in the US could be gaining a foothold in Australia.
It’s the beginning of the end as the Roy siblings abandon their hopes and dreams to take one last shot at destroying Daddy.
Sydney Symphony Orchestra welcomes one of the world’s greatest conductors to make music that inspires.
The self-deprecatory way the debonair actor writes about himself makes it seem as if he’s deliberately set out to dismantle his screen persona.
There’s a resurgence of live music winning over fans in some of Victoria’s newest, and surprising places.
Lana Del Rey has long divided listeners and critics, but her ninth studio album is a perfect encapsulation of the singer’s artistic project.
WA Opera’s superb production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1987 masterpiece Into the Woods is as challenging as it is charming.
She’s on Nova in Melbourne and Sydney and cultural correspondent for The Cheap Seats and now she’s in the Media Q&A hot seat.
This triumphant Madama Butterfly is the most meaningful and compelling of Opera Australia’s harbour productions.
“We have enjoyed so many wonderful years together and are moving forward with deep love, kindness and mutual respect for everything we have created together,” the pair said.
More than 10 per cent of all staff positions at the National Gallery of Australia are funded from the purses of philanthropists, as budget cuts bite.
Some recent incidents have put the former Countdown host, and the people caring for him, in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
Inside the world of Sir Cameron Mackintosh, the name behind many of the world’s biggest musicals, from Mary Poppins to Phantom of the Opera.
A properly funded - and protected - national gallery really shouldn’t even be up for debate. We must fix the National Gallery of Australia.
The actor’s new memoir details his falling out – albeit unwitting – with the co-star who helped propel his career into the showbiz stratosphere.
Tom Crewe’s debut takes two pioneering figures in the history of gay liberation for its inspiration.
Jacinta Halloran’s latest novel continues her interest in the contemporary woman negotiating the tensions of troubled times.
Christina Kenneally’s investigations unveiled long-held secrets and changed the way she looked at the world.
Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You leads our wrap of reviews of new fiction and non-fiction books.
The National Gallery of Australia faces a looming crisis after years of financial attrition that has impacted programs and exhibitions and delayed urgent and necessary repairs and maintenance.
In this episode of Good Weekend Talks, the British troubadour discusses the Voice to parliament, the Australian flag and his old mate Albo.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes reviews of NEWRETRO; The Three Seas; Melbourne, Cheremushki; Yiddish Divas and the Comedy Festival gala.
Kate Morton has sold more than 16 million novels around the world. Her latest is inspired by personal experience.
The rules of the Packing Room Prize are changing and women will get a say for the first time since the competition began in 1991.
The power of the Kardashians has always been their ability to predict and set trends. But a mounting series of events has many wondering if they’ve still got it.
It is difficult to overstate just how persuasive a storyteller Pip Williams is after reading The Bookbinder of Jericho.
Her quick and loose answers on Have You Been Paying Attention? have made her a favourite, but no one is more surprised than Hoo herself.
As the fourth and final season of Succession fires up, stars Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin lay odds on which of Logan Roy’s children will claim his empire.
He is arguably the richest and most influential person on Earth, but this three-part series argues his ambitions go far beyond this planet.
‘It’s the biggest thing you can undertake in the performing arts’: Four years in the making, Wagner’s Ring Cycle is about to kick off in Bendigo.
Puccini’s masterwork is loved the world over, yet like so many operas it reeks of misogyny and exploitation.
The young cast shines in Turn Up the Volume, a lively 10-part drama that has wit and flair and hits all the right notes without being preachy or earnest.
From unnerving pale blue skies to piles of gravel that resemble pyramids - these are the small gallery exhibitions not to miss.
In the era of sweeping saga TV series “The Thorn Birds” kept Americans glued to their TV sets in 1983. Ron and Nancy Regan thought it was wonderful. It became the United States’ second highest-rated miniseries of all time behind “Roots”. In Australia, not so much.
Commentators said Rupert Murdoch’s shock engagement announcement sounded like something out of, well, Succession. This is how the cast of the HBO smash hit reacted.
The Australian dog park. A place where humans can go to watch their dogs have more fun being alive than them.
A ChatBot hatched from reality TV and a hot-pink gown made from recycled plastic bottles are among the very contemporary artworks that speak to our time and place.
Director Eamon Flack has unlocked the beating heart of Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods
After surviving a stroke, America’s greatest songwriter is back with a memoir, a new album and an Australian tour.
After a tough couple of years, the festival is returning to the Town Hall with a gala opening night.
The Indigenous singer’s daughter reveals the harsh backstory of a man who was to become a great singer-songwriter.
When my partner and I adopted this cat, he was 13, and the most striking thing about him was his missing eye.
He sold 90,000 tickets in Australia within a couple of hours. Superstar Luke Combs is single-handedly making country music cool again.
Once viewed as an over-budget catastrophe in the making, the $US200 million film Titanic became the biggest box office draw in movie history and won 11 Academy Awards.
The fourth and final season of Succession is must-see TV: the mood grows more tense, the stakes are higher, and the possible outcomes plainly definitive.
The shows don’t just delight dedicated sports fans, they capture absorbing human drama we can all relate to.
An expertly crafted series that dines out on cannibalism, the horror-charged thriller Yellowjackets is an enthralling, emotionally knotty watch.
Between cruising America’s highways in Sue Perkins’ Big American Road Trip and wrangling trans-Tasman comics in Patriot Brains, the English broadcaster is rarely at home.
The actor-turned-politician-turned-actor, who has died aged 92, will be remembered for his commitment to social justice as much as his vast body of screen work.
The multiple Grammy winner is one of popular music’s true chameleons – and in April he’s heading to Australia.
Margo Lewers, the subject of the 1967 Archibald winning portrait, was a Modernist trailblazer way ahead of her time, a new exhibition and book show.
It shouldn’t be this easy to take a Soviet-era operetta about a housing crisis and set it in modern-day Melbourne, but that’s what Constantine Costi has done.
From “underwater torture” to “the best player we’ve ever seen”: past players break down the moments that have made this season so great.
Ellis Dragon (Rob Lowe) is a universally admired, eccentric, narcissist-adjacent biotech entrepreneur working to make the world a better place. He's also in emotional free-fall. His son Jackson Dragon (John Owen Lowe) is… none of those things. Can Jackson save Ellis and his company and salvage their estranged relationship while also doing what may actually be impossible: escaping the shadow of his larger-than-life father?
When human tornado and food critic Liv is diagnosed with ‘catastrophic health’ – trapping her in Australia and jeopardising her dream job in New York – she throws herself body-first into a radical wellness journey, hell-bent on getting well to return home.
Sam and Dean Winchester were trained by their father to hunt the creatures of the supernatural. Now, their father has mysteriously disappeared while hunting a demon.
Taylor Swift’s first tour in five years kicked off over the weekend, and for fans lucky enough to get into the stadium show getting tickets was like an arms race.
Australian nurse Valerie Browning is a reluctant subject. But for Kirsty Neilson, who holds the brush: “It is an artist’s dream to have a face like that to paint”.
Fresh from starring in two of the hottest TV shows, the classic “oh, her” actor talks beating bullies, trading places with Kate Winslet and White Lotus.
The actor, who has won rave reviews for her stage performances, is getting ready for her next starring role in the STC’s Julia.
When a hotel concierge emerged, begging for an end to an impromptu concert by WOMADelaide performers, the session moved to the street.
Until the zeitgeist is realigned more favourably toward liberty and permissiveness and not NIMBY neighbours, Sydney’s nightlife and music scene still struggle.
The actor’s pre-Oscars interview saw him taken to task on social media, but does he deserve a bit of thanks on behalf of the beleaguered masses?
The writers of Love Me might not realise it, but the Belgrade-born, Sydney-raised actor brings much of her own experience to playing Clara in the Melbourne-set series.
The character actor specialised in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including The Wire, Fringe and the John Wick franchise.
Audio content pitched at kids is a rapidly growing area, with the ABC and other Australian production companies producing a plethora of entertaining and educational shows.
In this episode of Good Weekend Talks, the Australian musicals producer discusses his next great leap forward.
For the Aussie theatre producer, his Almost Famous panning proves the point that in showbiz, it’s not if but when you fail – and how you respond.
A close family friend of Nicole Kidman is making his own mark in Hollywood, but he’s doing it without help from the Australian A-lister.
Of An Age renders ’90s suburbia into a site of romance and longing and offers Australia its own entry to a potent sub-genre of queer cinema.
The Dictionary of Lost Words won prizes galore and was a Reese Witherspoon book club pick. Now it’s time for the anticipated follow-up.
After two novels set in the US, the Booker-shortlisted novelist is back on familiar territory with a novel that touches on the dark stain on Ireland’s soul
Viola Di Grado’s Blue Hunger mixes carnal lasciviousness and tenderness in its tale of a young woman embarking on a feverish love affair in Shanghai.
Jackie Dent’s captivating, deeply personal yet refreshingly light-handed exploration of the human body, dead or alive, is worth a good look.
The actor and producer describes how her world has changed over recent decades, her ideal funeral – and what makes for good sex.
The Brit-pop revivalists’ follow-up to their breakthrough The Glow finds them ramping up their stadium-ready sound. But it proved a challenge.
One of the most influential Seattle grunge bands, Mudhoney, is embarking on a new tour, with a new album, and memories of the Australian groups who shaped their sound.
The bestselling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz is coming to the screen. And the woman adapting it expects controversy to follow.
Featuring the debut of Errol Flynn, In the Wake of the Bounty was also notable for director Charles Chauvel’s struggle to release his film uncut in Australian cinemas.
Fremantle will once again pay tribute to late, great rock legend and hometown hero Bon Scott with big name acts performing on trucks and stages around the city.
Drawing from historical religious iconographies, the Sydney artist creates vibrantly coloured ceramic and bronze works.
Alt-country up-and-comer Imogen Grist has spent the past three years crafting something special, patterned after one of the genre’s legends.
This wrap of reviews across Frame includes a work that pulls no punches, a show about challenging constraints, and the story of mythological seductress Mohini.
The stage adaptation of the iconic 1973 film requires some tweaks and tugs before it runs smoothly.
An exhibition of Australiana at Bendigo Art Gallery views our culture through fresh eyes.
It might not be a changing of the guard, but KIIS toppling 2GB in Sydney for the first time in 18 years will raise eyebrows.
The first radio survey results of the year are in, and for ABC Melbourne it’s more of the same, only worse.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods plays like a junior variation on Deadpool, with goofiness standing in for the obscenities and gallows humour.
Australian dealers often find it too expensive to participate in overseas art fairs and are rejected when they apply for flagship events.
The documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom examines the New York rock revival, but it’s about so much more.
Staged in a more intimate setting, Antony Hamilton’s dance work Forever and Ever is a revelation.
While we celebrate the wonderful moments of male vulnerability in the show, let’s also allow the people who facilitate them to invoice us.
When a group of young women attending a high-school reunion become stranded by floods, the stage is set for an energetic comedy about climate change and the scars of youth.
The departure of Ellen Pompeo’s titular character on the US medical drama was anti-climactic. Yet, the door for her return is still open.
While audiences in lockdown were rewatching his 2011 feature Contagion, Scott Burns was planning an elaborate anthology about another looming disaster.
Bob Odenkirk plays a sardonic and dissatisfied literature professor in this adaptation of Richard Russo’s novel Straight Man.
BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs archive brings eight decades of castaways to a global audience.
Gibney gets to exercise her comic chops as a Sydney socialite who inherits a winery – or so she thinks – in the warm-hearted six-part series Under the Vines.
Ambiguity haunts this gruesome horror tale set in rural Texas, with nods to Cinderella and The Wizard of Oz.
Australian actress Michala Banas has spoken about what she has learned from teenagers in a new ABC show and as an intimacy co-ordinator in films.
The BBC documentary maker argues anyone with trouble sleeping needs to retrain their brain about bedtime.
It’s part of the human experience. Your apparatus is kaput. Baffled, you hail a guru, only for the fault to vanish.
We’re practically drowning in treacle as the new season of Apple’s hit soccer dramedy opens. It all feels slightly misjudged.
With big acts and even bigger crowds, the carefree, relaxed spirit normally associated with WOMADelaide was harder to find this year.
In a sold-out show at the Forum, the Canadian pop star had the room jumping in an upbeat and energetic performance.
This year’s winter light fest will shine a light on Sydney’s restaurants and one of our most beloved artists, John Olsen.
When Mick Molloy first pitched the AFL comedy panel show, the network executives said it was either the best or worst idea they’d heard.
Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins has won this year’s La Prairie Art Award, with portraits of three generations of her relatives including her grandfather Charles Perkins.
The Oscar-winning actress has had a long and distinguished career. But does she owe it all to Australia?
Power Slap is promoted by the UFC president and involves more than 30 “strikers”, including Vern “The Mechanic” Cathey and Mike “Slap Jesus” Smith.
Lorde, Florence + The Machine and Bikini Kill create the perfect storm of feminist energy.
Vivid Sydney 2023 will see lights shining not just on city buildings but also on the city’s food culture.
I felt I was talking to an extraordinary 12-year-old as I read, but the famed society heiress is right when she says she’s no longer a cartoon character.
One of Melbourne’s most famous locations will become home to the largest commission of contemporary First Nations art in Victoria’s history.
Western Sydney has always felt like the city’s poor cousin, but the announcement to bring the global music and talks festival South By South West to the inner suburbs has sparked criticism of a geographic funding divide.
The technology that made The Mandalorian possible has revolutionised filmmaking, and Australia is now leading the way.
It’s tempting when programming a festival to go with the ‘sure thing’ – which is why this lineup of risky and daring shows was especially exciting.
There was apprehension as Jimmy Kimmel took the stage, but the veteran TV host broke the ice with good humour.
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s surreal film won seven Oscars, including best film and director.
Adelaide Writers’ Week stood up for strong opinions to be heard, but in Australia writers, journalists and publishers are being inhibited by defamation laws.
Featuring interviews with performers, activists and past employees, this documentary offers a deep dive into the successes and scandals of Pornhub.
The 95th Academy Awards are being held in Los Angeles today. Our coverage begins with a close look at what everyone there is wearing.
The story behind the disappearance and re-emergence of the so-called ‘Mozart clarinet’ is a tale of intrigue - and carelessness.
A request for planning approval for the controversial Barangaroo Cutaway was lodged a day before the caretaker period began in NSW.
Melbourne/Naarm band Camp Cope have played their last hometown gig, going out the same way they started and built their careers: on their own terms.
While Cate Blanchett has slipped out of favouritism, Catherine Martin and Mandy Walker are well in contention at the 95th Academy Awards.
From reaching stardom at 16, then knocking back big auditions, the Melbourne-born actor has etched out a career without the trappings of fame.
By any measure, Sydney has got its mojo back. But after years of COVID restrictions, can our city keep the momentum going? And, more pressingly, what comes next?
Only two songwriters, Lennon and McCartney, have had more No.1 songs than Max Martin. But the softly spoken Swede still sweats it every time.
Sasha Kutabah Sarago is a former model who has seen how the machine works and how the game is played - and she’s adamant it must change.
A court ruling this week has brought to a close a two-decade family feud over one of Australia’s great farming fortunes.
On May 6, Camilla, the Queen Consort, will be crowned alongside her husband King Charles III, and her rehabilitation will be complete.
Shirley Le’s Funny Ethnics is a coming-of-age story set in the Vietnamese community in western Sydney.
It’s hard not to be swept up by My Father’s House, Joseph O’Connor’s mesmerising story set in Rome during the German occupation.
Eleanor Catton’s long-awaited third novel, Birnam Wood, is a conspiracy thriller that recommends itself as a screen-ready fiction.
The multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer talks about growing up around music, losing weight and the role of religion in his life.
I’ve spent years decrying how disappointing the Academy Awards are – but maybe, just maybe, things are about to change.
The plot of & Juliet unfurls as a battle of quills between Shakespeare and his wife, via the Backstreet Boys for starters. It’s a joyous, hilarious, face-palming adventure.
Trying to pick an Oscar winner? Like horseracing, the best place to start is with the form guide: awards season.
Come up and see the Dutch master’s etchings – his lesser-known works will blow you away.
Chaim Topol, once described as one of Israel’s most famous exports, earned an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Fiddler.
Martin Compston and Tony Curran are extraordinary as lifelong friends facing an unexpected end to their friendship.
ACMI celebrates the horror movie creature that shuffled into popular culture more than 50 years ago.
When Academy members (fictional ones, even) are given anonymity to speak, the revelations can be remarkable.
Unlike most of the characters, the flip yet gruesome series has stayed alive longer than anyone could have anticipated.
Andy Cohen, the man behind one of reality TV’s biggest franchises, shares his thoughts on the show’s ‘dark’ moments and what was too difficult to air.
Brett Goldstein tells why lovers of the hit comedy may not get the ending they want, and how appearing on Sesame Street was “truly the best day of my life”.
The much-hyped TV series Ted Lasso is to comedy what being slapped in the face with a wet newspaper is to boxing.
Elements of Alone, Bear Grylls: The Island, Survivor and The Hunger Games come together in this addictive and slightly appalling new show.
“There are a lot of people who are paralysed by the market. They don’t know what to expect,” says the show’s interior design expert Wendy Moore.
The much-loved British actor gives the performance of his career as a terminally ill bureaucrat in Living.
Forty-years ago Joni Mitchell touched down in Sydney for the first time. The Herald reviewed “the high priestess of the arts” at her first Sydney concert.
In Our Blood tells the story of the government and gay community’s battle against the AIDS virus.
Daisy May Cooper owes her sense of humour to a working-class upbringing. Oh, and a famous Australian convict ancestor.
The comedy legend is barely seen in this eight-episode sequel to 1981’s History of the World, but his inventive, screwball sensibility looms large.
The comedian has said relatively little about Will Smith’s infamous slap at last year’s Oscars. He addresses it with meticulous control in this Netflix special.
The veteran broadcaster is the new host of the ABC’s long-running program that contemplates life’s big questions
Luke Sheppard was a pop novice when he signed on to help turn Max Martin’s chart toppers into a stage musical. But the director of & Juliet soon came around.
Bill Nighy is up for an Oscar for playing a terminally ill, middle-ranking bureaucrat in Living.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Bikini Kill at the Forum, and a performance by Kronos Quartet that brought the house down.
After being targeted on social media for what she wore on ABC's breakfast program, Lisa Miller has spoken out saying she was "violently abused" by bullies, and it's not the first time, making her wonder what progress is being made for women.
This latest re-telling of the life and brutal death of Emmett Till distinguishes itself with its intimate approach.
The ABC News Breakfast presenter called the personal abuse upsetting but also criticised news sites that chose to republish hurtful comments.
This Is Us was fated to become a fashion victim, but its bravura two-part finale underlines what the show does so well.
Lesley Paterson is a five-time world champion who fell in love with a book she read in high school. Turning it into a film took 16 years and a broken arm.
Champions has only a fraction of the comic verve of the Farrelly brothers at their best, but it retains the goodwill that was their secret weapon all along.
The Bloodbath Nation author says the belief that owning guns is essential to the American way of life “serves no other purpose than to kill people”.
Archibald Packing Room Prize 2021 winner Kathrin Longhurst is seeking “kick ass” women to sit for a show about female empowerment.
It would be a travesty if the Academy Awards voters had not recognised British actress Andrea Riseborough’s high-wire act in To Leslie.
A trove of memorabilia about Mina Wylie, Australia’s first female Olympic silver medallist, unearthed under a suburban home forms the basis of a new book.
On March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar. When the 239 people on board went missing, a global investigation into the greatest mystery of the modern age ensued. Despite official reports, countless theories, and tireless searches for evidence, one central question remained: What are we missing?
In Living – an adaptation of a classic Japanese film centred on a doomed bureaucrat – the award-winning novelist has turned his hand to screenwriting.
With an Oscar within his grasp, the breakout star of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis explains why the icon is always on his mind, and how he deals with fame.
“I have become the supreme Gandhi bore.” The Herald met Sir Richard Attenborough, who had spent 21 years bringing his vision of the life of the Indian revolutionary to the big screen.
Having written across film, TV and theatre, playwright David Hare says his work must challenge people - and often the status quo.
In Our Blood is a new show that traces an underreported part of Australia's gay history.
The comedian admits he might be a “stirrer” and says “there are some benefits to being a pariah”, but he’s also just an old-fashioned song-and-dance man.
Emma Heming Willis, the Hollywood star’s wife, has made an emotional appeal to raise awareness about dementia.
Having written across film, TV and theatre, playwright Sir David Hare reveals his secret superpower, favourite collaborations and turning his attention to men.
It’s every theatre kid’s dream to star in a big stage show in their hometown and for Yashith Fernando, that long-held ambition is about to become reality.
When the TV miniseries The Dismissal first aired, memories of the events it depicted were still fresh.
One of Japan’s great filmmakers returns with a sublime new drama, Olivia Colman falls in love and Bill Nighy gives us what is possibly his best work yet.
Chris Rock has finally spoken at length about being slapped by Will Smith during his first stand-up comedy show since last year’s incident.
Poet Mohammed El-Kurd has slammed “simple-minded” critics, accusing them of smearing him as he made his debut at Adelaide Writers’ Week.
Icelandic musical adventurer Bjork had the audience in raptures at the opening of her Perth Festival residency at Langley Park, but she failed to communicate much beyond its own visual splendour.
The queer activist and author opens up about their parent’s love story, their early fashion obsession and past relationships.
Did Gleeson winning the Gold Logie destroy the legitimacy of the way the whole voting system works?
“It’s our last show in Australia, so it only felt right to do something a little bit special,” Styles told his fans.
Pop icon Harry Styles invited Australian legend Daryl Braithwaite onstage to sing The Horses together in Sydney.
There are very few places the award-winning stand-up comedian won’t go – and audiences love her for it.
Rather than rewriting the classics, why not embrace current local authors - and create new favourites.
If you believe in freedom of expression, you believe in freedom of expression. It’s intellectually moribund to criticise those seeking to censor books you like, while calling for censorship yourself.
He is this decade’s all-purpose, all-ages British showman. The fun time to be had by all.
The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney has criticised the program’s apology for a controversial joke about Jesus, and invited the boss of Channel 10 to Easter mass.
Paul Ashford Harris’ ambitious historical novel sets off with three strong characters but lacks narrative direction.
Lisa Hannett’s book about Viking women is a hybrid affair somewhere between fiction, travel, the essay and an academic article.
Laura McPhee-Browne’s Little Plum never lets us forget that pregnancy is an inside-out transformation.
Old Babes in the Wood is marked by shocking flashes and jolts of horrifying imagery that point to the brutality of a darker truth.
Simon Armitage on the class dynamics behind writing – and one poet’s “beautiful euphemism” for sex.
In an attempt to kick-off their weight loss journey, Tammy and Amy try to hit the pools for some exercise on 1000-Lb Sisters.
The battles in the powerful All Quiet on the Western Front are full of confusion, terror and deadly luck.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Made in China 2.0 at Malthouse Theatre, and The Crucible on National Theatre Live.
Check out all the best festivals, gigs, shows and special events in Melbourne this month.
Our list of some of two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett's greatest performances.
Ahead of the Academy Awards, where she is widely tipped to win a third Oscar, here’s a rundown of her finest roles.
“I was wishing, hoping and praying Australia would like me,” the singer-songwriter told the packed crowd on Thursday night. “This is really what dreams are made of.”
Though best known for his paintings, a new exhibition shows Andy Warhol was a prolific photographer, capturing his celebrity friends in candid detail.
The singer-songwriter’s fifth album is unapologetically political, a remarkable celebration of queerness and culture.
Manekha Balgobin is a true Harry Styles fan. So much so that she has been travelling interstate to attend all his concerts.
Mixing big name acts with unexpected and eclectic works, the joy of a festival like Mona Foma is that it gives the world you’ve built for yourself a shake.
I’m Glad My Mom Died has topped the New York Times bestseller list for 28 weeks and has sold more than two million copies.
Hazem Shammas’ interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s greatest monsters is quite unlike any other.
We feel these paintings and drawings are meaningful in the deepest sense, in a way the artist himself can’t explain
Virtuoso Bela Fleck wants you to know there is way more to the history of the banjo than a bunch of dumb jokes.
Netflix show Sex/Life promises “more sex than ever” in its second season, but is that what audiences are really after?
When Elinor Frey performs in Melbourne this week she will be playing a violoncello piccolo, an instrument that is rarely seen and even more rarely heard.
Imagine the Succession theme song as a Nanny-style singalong. That’s the kind of thing prestige TV’s been missing.
These edits are hardly thought-control in action – they’re the careful refreshing of a commercial product.
There are new releases from Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry and Eleanor Catton, a biography of Tanya Plibersek and a 650-page whopper about our changing world.
In the ninth and final series of Endeavour, the young, inexperienced and mercurial detective played by Shaun Evans merges into the Inspector Morse legacy.
The latest season of Netflix’s Formula One series has usual plotting, swearing and backstabbing, but the format is starting to feel a bit tired.
Based on a novel by the Jamaican-born lawyer Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton uses history as the starting point for a complex cross-genre tale.
The cliches and tropes of many history shows has given license to some brilliantly foolish comics to reveal a few actual truths about the world.
Running a local cornershop from the 1850s to modern times gave the plucky Ferrone family fresh insights into the value of community.
The Gold Logie winner and host of Taskmaster Australia and Hard Quiz recalls going head-to-head with Greg Davies at the Montreal Comedy Festival.
Michael B. Jordan does a solid job with Creed III, but without its original hero, this ninth chapter in the long-running boxing saga is a challenge.
The legendary Collingwood hotel needs to “broaden its business model” to survive, according to its current owners.
A heartfelt account of unconventional lives on the fringes of London, Rain Dogs is eye-popping, bittersweet and sometimes tragic.
We keep hearing about sensitivity readers and the changes they’ve made to works by Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming’s James Bond and even Enid Blyton’s characters, but what exactly do they do?
The Crown star has won a Golden Globe nomination for her brilliant work in Empire of Light.
I pre-gamed for Mardi Gras, by attending a four-hour Bridgerton-themed ball that included life drawing.
Ed Sheeran has thrilled young fans with a pop-up show at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital.
“Don’t ever say that raising your voice is futile,” says Heartbreak High actor Chloe Hayden, who met with management to discuss the issue on Monday.
The hype is real. Physical: 100 is the second most popular show on Netflix, both in Australia and around the world, right now.
Nan Goldin once fantasised about being a drug addict. Then the world-renowned artist became hooked on OxyContin.
Another sponsor has withdrawn its support for the festival following criticism of two Palestinian authors who are set to appear.
This month: a couple of modern female icons, a hip-hop superstar party, an ARIA winner who does pretty much everything, and a veteran poet from east London.
Penguin Bloom tells the true story of Sam Bloom a young mother whose world is turned upside down after a near-fatal accident leaves her paralyzed. Sam's family struggle to adjust to their new situation when an unlikely ally enters their world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin. The bird’s arrival is a welcome distraction for the Bloom family, eventually making a profound difference in the family's life.
This loose – very loose – homage to Australian Idol offers its own celebrity judges, backup singers and some pretty wild trophies to compete for.
“What are we exposing our children and young people to, like this is a quick hookup and ‘oh, can we go for a chat?’ That’s not how we should see relationships.”
Eternal vigilance in safeguarding the minds of our children must be the responsibility of every parent.
Delta Goodrem, John Travolta and Paul Hogan will help farewell Olivia Newton-John at her state memorial today.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, MSO’s Season Opening Gala, Anything You Can Do, and Ballet Under the Stars.
All of Ian Fleming’s espionage thrillers featuring 007, from Casino Royale to Octopussy, are to be reissued this northern spring to mark 70 years since the British spy first appeared on the page.
The TV presenter opens up about her parent’s divorce, the influence of her year 6 teacher, and her second marriage.
As a parent, it’s becoming harder and harder to have a watchful eye on every single internet trend your child follows.
On the tough times she faced when starting out as an actor, Blanchett says: “To be frank, I wouldn’t be here now if that sort of thing hadn’t happened.”
At a time when it’s difficult to discern what is real and what is not, should artistic authenticity - even when the artist is an ‘absolute sod’ - not be seen as a virtue?
Fleur Thiemeyer’s friendship with Olivia Newton-John spanned half a century, and was the spark for a story that has never really been told.
For song after song, Jacklin stood centre stage in a red neo-Little House On The Prairie dress, brightly lit but semi-obscured.
Publisher Penguin Random House has since announced it will publish “classic” versions of Dahl’s children’s novels to meet demand.
Mojean Aria has starred in feature films alongside Hollywood stars. Yet in Australia, where he hails from, he’s almost unknown.
He danced, he flirted, he bantered and dazzled adoring fans with charm. But one moment at Styles’ first Melbourne gig made the crowd boo.
Five years after he last visited Australia, the pop-rock sensation is back with a performance you’ll have no trouble committing to memory.
A shortage of theatres in east coast cities has created logjams for major productions that would otherwise be bringing in tourists and big money.
Just days out from the March 3 start of the election campaign, the Coalition has announced it is willing to purchase the Roxy Theatre from its owner and reopen it as an arts and cultural centre.
It’s a tribute to Elba’s command of the screen that I could just about go along with the wildly implausible events in this follow-up to the popular TV series.
“When I watch the show back, I feel for this version of myself who’s being suspected at every turn,” the writer says on the latest episode of Good Weekend Talks.
Max Lane tells the story of Pramoedya Anannta Toer’s seminal books and his own role in bringing them to the attention of the wider world.
Pulitzer winner Paul Harding’s third novel tells of the mixed-race inhabitants of an island off the US coast over the course of 100 years.
Eleanor Catton’s gripping new novel, Birnam Wood, kicks off when a bunch of savvy green activists cross paths with a tech billionaire.
From using his political muscle to help the band tour overseas to playing their music at DJ gigs, Anthony Albanese has a long history with Sticky Fingers.
Rainbow luggage tags, in-flight YMCA dancing and eyeshadow touch-ups before landing: don’t expect much sleep on Qantas’ Pride Flight to Sydney from LA.
There aren’t just one or two perpetrators of violence in Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s psychological thriller – there’s an army.
Once she backs a writer, she is fiercely protective. But she has been known to let a paneer tikka slip under her guard.
The National Library’s remarkable search engine needs government funding, or it will disappear completely.
Infamous cyberweapon Pegasus is so powerful that it makes every person on the planet with a mobile phone potentially vulnerable.
Many of our state libraries’ historic collections are stacked towards male writers. Two Melbourne women are determined to correct that imbalance.
A new exhibition showcasing the STC’s costumes delves into the stories behind the sequins and feathers, and the garters and the girdles.
For his tour de force performance as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, Robert De Niro took his character immersion to uncomfortable extremes.
The Star’s 4000-seat event centre would be converted into a two-level 1550-seat arch theatre and a 1000-seat contemporary live room.
There’s no justification for Puffin tinkering with the magic of Roald Dahl’s writing, which has entertained generations.
By sending up TV shows, We Interrupt This Broadcast is hoping to emulate the success of old-school comedy staples Fast Forward and Full Frontal.
Jason Edwards spends much of the year in some of the world’s most exotic destinations, on a quest to find the world’s most incredible landscape and most revered animals.
The 75-year-old star of Schitt’s Creek and the American Pie movies hosts a travel show for people who don’t want to travel.
Popular indie rockers Wet Leg are back in Australia to support Harry Styles. They share the secrets behind their Grammys success.
The owner of Black Inc and The Saturday Paper has called for the Adelaide Writers’ Week director to quit after a row over two Palestinian authors.
“My biggest fear was that instead of building bridges, we’d blow them up,” admits the creator of SBS’s bold new social experiment.
Olivia Colman evokes director Sam Mendes’ troubled childhood in Empire of Light. But the real star is a young man on the rise.
Pavement ruled the indie rock scene but were never commercially popular. So how did they inspire a film, a musical, a museum and a TikTok dance?
I’d put In Search of Lost Time back on the shelf plenty of times. But three years ago, I kept going.
Pakistani writer Fatima Bhutto discusses her life after her father’s death, why women bear the brunt of climate change, and her resolve to never enter politics.
With voting for the 95th Academy Awards starting soon, some surprising contenders are threatening to shake up the favourites.
Traditional depictions of motherhood failed in the face of the baffling new reality I faced once I became a mother.
No cliché is left unexploited in this film tracking the further adventures of Fisherman’s Friends, the Cornish band who put the sea shanty on the pop charts.
The best I can say about this campy horror-comedy is if you’re keen to put down your money to see an awful movie, you’ll get what you paid for.
Tension between South Australia’s biggest arts festival and News Corp owned The Advertiser has raised concerns about the future of criticism in the festival state.
The streets of Balmain were brought to a standstill during a spectacular send-off for jazz legend Gary Walford.
The more the Schitt’s Creek star explained why he shouldn’t be presenting a travel show, the more Apple TV+ producers loved the idea.
Mastermind host Marc Fennell is looking forward to another year quizzing contestants who are sincerely passionate about their special subjects
With Beyond Paradise, the creators of the hugely successful police drama have transplanted Kris Marshall to England’s West Country.
Iconic characters in pop culture like Bugs Bunny, Batman and Superman, will soon follow Winnie the Pooh and pass into the public domain.
In the three-part documentary series Queerstralia, comedian Zoe Coombs Marr brings a little levity to the Australian gay community’s complex journey.
From The Crown to Fight Club, the English actor has displayed a knack for playing against type. Her latest series, Nolly, turns in yet another direction.
The annual Byron Bay music festival continues to be rocked by controversy and cancellations.
Piano legend Gary Walford, who died last week, has been given a fitting farewell by his jazz musician colleagues.
As former lovers turned adversaries, Eva Green and Vincent Cassel share a magnetic connection in the British-set thriller Liaison.
From teenage hackers to TaskRabbit recruits, this “screen-life” thriller has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.
From Bluesfest to the Adelaide Writers’ Week, it’s easy to describe any debate within the arts as “cancel culture”, but there’s too much at stake to keep throwing it all in the same bucket.
The departures of Carrie Bickmore, Pete Helliar and Lisa Wilkinson have left a gaping void of star-power in Ten’s current affairs show.
After five years of soloists and power ballads, Australia is sending Perth synth-metal quintet Voyager to the Eurovision Song Contest.
At the request of president Erdogan, the country has had an international rebrand. Welcome to the world of exonym and endonym.
There’s more than enough truth in the opening paragraph of Infidelity and Other Affairs for an entire novel. But who gets to tell the damned truth?
Bluesfest has lost King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, but festival director Peter Noble says more is at stake.
The Adelaide Writers Week director says she’s disappointed that law firm MinterEllison has decided to cut ties with the festival.
Bands have one job: play music and give people a good time. They’re not a moral benchmark, nor should they be.
It’s a disgusting tradition, but it’s our tradition. So, how should we feel about forcing touring artists to drink booze from their shoes?
Seventy years on, this tale of female friendship made famous by Marilyn Monroe has stood the test of time.
Post Malone sculls beer from a shoe while supporting The Red Hot Chilli Peppers during an Australian tour.
Harry Styles does a shoey during his concert in Perth describing the tradition as disgusting.
The first ever Mickey Mouse cartoon, called Steamboat Willie, will pass into the public domain on January 1 next year.
Sally Noonan might not be a familiar face around Melbourne, but she brings two decades of experience and a passion for getting new stories out into the world.
Harry Styles kicked off the Australian leg of his tour in Perth by imbibing in an Aussie tradition, whipping off one of his Adidas superstars to do a shoey.
It’s not the first time favourites in children’s literature have come under attack, but the latest changes to Roald Dahl’s work are polarising.
The Melbourne band have pulled out of Bluesfest, citing a clash of values with the organisers.
The First Nations artist will bring Australian repertoire to the fore at the music school.
But rather than rushing to blame or cancel the author, we should congratulate Dahl on creating such truly memorable characters and stories that we’re still reading his books today.
Eugene Levy normally hates traveling. In this 8-part globetrotting series the Emmy Award-winning actor steps out of his comfort zone and takes us to some of the world’s most beautiful locations.
Recent changes in Dahl’s children’s books were a joint effort by the publisher and the Roald Dahl Story Company, which manages the works’ copyright and trademarks.
Asked to quantify their needs ahead of the federal budget, two national arts institutions have outlined costs they say are essential to protect collections.
Forty years ago, the Herald met Basia Bonkowski, host of Channel 0/28’s Rock Around the World.
Sling on your grins, gird your laughing gear and dive into the shows we’re most excited about.
After years of heartbreak, the former Australian Idol winner set her search to ‘women only’ and met her new partner.
Though he was destined always to be known as “the other George Miller”, he was one of this country’s most commercially successful filmmakers.
Having turned 50 and with kids ready to fly the nest, the actor is doing something she hasn’t done in 24 years - returning to the theatre in a play designed to shock.
Lady Sings It Better creator Maeve Marsden opens up about growing up with two mothers, her coming out story and why marriage isn’t meaningful to her.
Australia’s film and TV production boom has created a shortage of crews and studio space. But fixing this is more complicated than you might imagine.
It just doesn’t make sense that Justin Vernon and Bon Iver are selling out two nights at this 9000-seater auditorium, but here we are.
Lloyd Devereux Richards spent 14 years writing a book no one read. But a 16-second TikTok posted by his daughter turned the crime thriller into a global sensation.
St Kilda can still pull a crowd, especially with the sun shining and plenty of live music to enjoy. But can it resurrect it’s once-thriving music scene?
Robert Bevan’s new book argues that historical truth is as much under threat from the statue-savers as it is from bolshie woke students, if not more so.
Australian crime fiction has left the city and headed into some very dark places in two cracking novels.
There’s some confusion about precisely what an Australian poet laureate will do, let alone who will get the gig.
The Safe Harbour actor talks about live performance as a religious experience, honouring the business side of showbiz, and the physical impact of acting.
With spiky hot takes on rentier capitalism, cancel culture, fake news and much more, this play based on an unfinished short story by Dostoevsky is filled with delightfully absurd satire – and it’s guillotine sharp.
From TikTok sensation Lloyd Devereux Richards comes the heart-pounding story of FBI agent Christine Prusik as she attempts to unmask a serial killer who leaves a calling card with a terrifying connection to her own haunted past.
While seeking professional help to lose weight the pair stun a dietitian with their admission on 1000-Lb Sisters.
Sunshine and Disco Faith Choir performs a cover of Clivilles and Cole's 1991 house classic 'A Deeper Love'. Video credit: Sunshine and Disco Faith Choir
The public broadcaster’s policy of interrupting feature films with paid advertisements every 20 minutes despoils creative works and ruins the viewing experience.
Dumb Ways to Die is going viral again – this time on TikTok. The original creators reflect on the wild evolution of their “weird little song”.
The Die Hard star’s family says while his condition has progressed, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis.
The comeback film for Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Pathaan, has taken more than many higher-profile Hollywood releases.
From singing in her Mildura living room to performing in Europe’s leading opera houses, Siobhan Stagg’s story is far from conventional. Now, she’s coming home.
As tribute to both loving and fighting, this exhibition pays homage to the LGBTQ community’s path to pride.
The latest movie from There’s Something About Mary director Peter Farrelly has brought Zac Efron and John Cena to Australia – and they couldn’t be happier.
Whenever Albanian singer Ermonela Jaho steps on stage she holds nothing back, sometimes to the point of tears.
The musical satirist takes his trademark parody to a new extreme with the release of a sort-of-true-but-not-really biopic, starring Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe.
Three years after he first attended the parade, the popular News Breakfast meteorologist is now co-hosting the broadcast of the Oxford Street event.
Civic and Brekky Boy are among 30 Australian bands and solo artists aiming to be heard overseas, starting with next month’s South By Southwest music festival.
The song which was first used for a public safety campaign on train safety from 11 years ago, has found a new life with young fans on social media.
Her “sellout album” was a smash success, but Charli XCX is thinking about marriage and babies.
New play Blessed Union charts the unravelling of a rainbow family years after the marriage equality plebiscite.
A psycho-killer take on the loveable bear is just the beginning of the crazy plans for a cinematic franchise its writer-director has in mind.
Why is one of the fraternal twin plumbers in one of the most famous video games ever more “super” than the other?
There was a time when it wasn’t hard for a young rock snob to dislike Sting. That time, it quickly transpires on this night, is long gone.
Prominent musicians say they are “disgusted and sickened” to see the group being glamorised.
A little over four years ago writer, director and performer Maeve Marsden sealed her own fate.
This Swedish black comedy follows Alice, who, having just been cleared of life-threatening cancer, finds her life falling apart.
With or without the grungy charm of the Gershwin Room at St Kilda’s iconic Esplanade Hotel, a revival of the crowd-pleasing music quiz-show is likely to hit the right tone.
Netflix’s tradition of good spooky young adult dramas continues with Lockwood & Co, which serves up malevolent spirits and otherworldly conspiracies.
Crafted meticulously from equal parts nostalgia and subcutaneous menace, the final season of Picard is Star Trek’s Mandalorian moment.
I find it impossible to throw away my old novels, no matter how much dust and grit they bring to the shelves.
Surprising romantic comedy The Matchmaker follows the fortunes of a 33-year old professional matchmaker who is single and has never married.
Watching the three-part drama Nolly, you’ll be frozen in place and hypnotised by its masterfully campy fever dream.
OK Motels is on this weekend in Charlton, featuring Julia Jacklin, Frente and more, plus a pool party and barefoot bowls. Oh, and the CWA are catering.
How did a leading British artist - and his brilliant work - come to be on show outside the major galleries?
“I just feel a lot of pride and responsibility to make sure that I bring my A-game,” says hip-hop artist NOMAD, “because I know that this orchestra is going to bring their A-game.”
Errors sting, believe me. I wish there was none. Mistakes matter, just as much as my beloved solvers who take pains to tell me.
Backing up his charisma with a searing intensity, the British actor confirms that he’s got what it takes to pick up the 007 baton from Daniel Craig.
David Helfgott and Yantra de Vilder improvise on the community piano she keeps in the driveway of her Avoca Beach home.
ABC boss David Anderson has conceded a radio report on the unrest in Alice Springs should not have gone to air, as the ombudsman found it breached editorial standards.
If you don’t know what’s going on in the final reel of Sharper, which is about a series of cons, you’re not paying attention.
The Play School presenter is co-directing the Australian premiere of Choir Boy at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres.
There’s high drama and fine performances in Sarah Polley’s film, which is based on a best-selling book inspired by sexual assaults in a religious colony.
TV sometimes feels like homework, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here is our selection for low-stakes, minimum-commitment fun.
Record levels of film and TV production could soon grind to a halt without new studios and revised subsidies, a major new report claims.
Melbourne will be home to a new 360-degree video spectacular from German artist Julian Rosefeldt featuring Cate Blanchett as a talking tiger.
Hollywood actor Paul Rudd is in Australia talking about the new Marvel film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Today’s audiences are looking for an instant hit, not a slowly unfolding epic. In an age of communications we are swiftly becoming illiterate.
Fans of Logan Paul and KSI camped overnight to see the international stars outside the Channel Nine offices in Sydney on Monday morning.
The risk of loneliness and isolation in the ageing LGBTQ population is being combated with dance parties open to all.
This unflinching look at the legal system starred Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer in the UK – but the version now on at Melbourne Theatre Company outshines it by far.
This Melbourne music festival was once adventurous and unconventional. But at a time when the local music industry is still picking up the pieces, it’s difficult to pardon Laneway for programming so few Australian artists.
In name, the Powerhouse Museum is no more – after a rebrand, museum and its capital “M” have been dropped from all external publicity.
The Phantom of the Opera star opens up about performing for the royals, her father’s Crocodile Dundee connection, and starting her own production company.
Live music is back, in a big way. But you don’t have to limit yourself to the big-name acts to find a reason to venture out and enjoy some great sounds.
We asked 10 well-known Australians to divulge their favourite romcoms. Some are classics, some might surprise you – and Love Actually remains as divisive as ever.
The Riverside Theatres on the Parramatta River are to be partly demolished and rebuilt, but the Perrottet government has yet to decide the fate of the Roxy Theatre.
His show ‘From Scratch’ is indeed just that – a vulnerable and at times uncomfortable hour of a man describing his downfall from the highest of comedic peaks.
How do you start a fringe festival when no-one has heard of you? The Mornington Peninsula community of Flinders is about to find out.
Strippers, vampires, peaches and cream: to celebrate the release of Magic Mike’s Last Dance we pick the sexiest scenes on screen.
After Hamilton helped reinvent musical theatre, a new play imagines what happens if Juliet survived her tragic romance with Romeo... and sang Britney Spears.
How do you do justice to a living legend? That’s the million-dollar question for this Melbourne performer, but she’s up for the task.
With this year’s best picture nominees including blockbuster films people actually flock to, maybe 2023 will be when audiences start caring about the Oscars again.
For newcomer Louis Leterrier, taking over one of the world’s most successful cinema franchises means taking no days off, and spending late night’s with Vin Diesel.
Britain’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees proposes dozens of creative solutions to our current mess in his provocative new book.
Ronnie Scott’s second novel is set in that hazy period between the Black Summer bushfires and the first lockdown in 2020.
The narrator of Paul Dalgarno’s second novel revisits her life from her spot in the great beyond.
In Alison Bashford’s biography of the Huxley family, she brilliantly illuminates an intimate struggle between inspiration and circumstance.
The ARIA-winning musician discusses the ‘weird’ aspect of live performance, what her Catholic school taught her – and the need to talk about death.
With the help of her sister Amy, the 600-pound woman achieves a milestone in her weight loss journey on 1000-Lb Sisters on 9Now.
If the chemistry was any hotter with this first-time pairing, you could boil an egg ... in about 36 hours.
Kurdish-Iranian author Behrouz Boochani, the man Peter Dutton said would never set foot in Australia, has spent the past few months here.
American composer Burt Bacharach, who wrote some of the best-loved pop songs of all time over a career that spanned 70-years, has died at the age of 94.
The story of reign and fall of Noele Gordon, who was a mainstay long-running ITV soap opera star.
This new production will pull you in head-first with its comedy, music and running themes of inclusivity and tolerance.
This new ground-breaking series follows ten brave and determined Australian couples and singles on their heartwarming and often heartbreaking journey to becoming parents.
The changes the streaming giant flagged last April have begun to roll out around the world. Here’s what Australian users can expect.
There are more queer love stories than ever before. But, as the stars of new film Spoiler Alert say, representation is still a complicated business.
The Baywatch star’s memoir makes it clear that she’s a misunderstood woman and has reminded me how wonderful and surprising life is.
The musician composed more than 500 songs during his career and was behind hits including “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”.
Romesh Ranganathan and Katherine Ryan star in this fast-paced comedy-thriller about a heist gone wrong.
With recent projects including The Handmaid’s Tale, GLOW and Run, Australian Kate Dennis is one of Hollywood’s most in-demand directors.
Here’s how to get (film) fit for Hollywood’s night of nights. Your boot camp starts now.
Ben Macintyre’s most recent book reveals hidden insights into World War II’s Colditz POW camp.
“So, Margaret Court ... F--- that stupid ass, dumb ass bitch,” said the music superstar, before leading the crowd through a chant decrying the namesake of the venue.
“This is where this thing’s either gonna kill us, or we’re gonna survive,” director Steven Soderbergh told his leading man.
After a long hiatus, I’ve rediscovered the joys of this classic video game and feel more people should get on board too.
Some executives call it “cynical” and “undemocratic”; others say it just brings cinemas in line with flights, concerts and sporting events.
30 years ago, customs agents raided music stores across Sydney, seizing death metal albums that had been banned for their “revolting and abhorrent” lyrics.
Despite New Season Suspicion Syndrome going into overdrive, surely we have reason to be hopeful about a Fawlty Towers reboot.
It may take brawn, bone and unbreakable will to win a gold medal at the Olympics, but it takes cutting-edge technology to deliver it to a billion homes.
After five years as a foreign correspondent in London and the US, the respected journalist takes on one of the most high-profile jobs in TV journalism.
You don’t have to be a high-flying doctor in stilettos with a Swedish lover and an unsettling amount of neon signage in your house to relate to this British drama.
The sometimes-brutal nature of girls’ relationships drives this local production, which is already winning international acclaim.
Toni Collette and Anna Faris loved playing sisters scheming for a slice of their dying aunt’s fortune.
Buried among so many streaming options, excellent nine-part Japanese drama The Makanai has not got the recognition it deserves.
While the long-running series wound down three years ago, all it has taken is one incredibly dramatic killing spree to bring the team back together in Criminal Minds: Evolution
Brisbane artist Archie Moore will be only the second solo Indigenous artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale since 1954.
Philomena Cunk has already presented series about Britain and Shakespeare. Now she’s tackling the history of the world in five half-hour episodes.
Is it a work of genius or madness? John Cleese is planning to star in a sequel to Fawlty Towers, a show he once said could never be rebooted.
The former Police frontman is headed to Australia for the first time in seven years with his back catalogue of much-loved songs.
Fearing for my next payslip, I devised the Marmalade Test to gauge ChatGPT’s capacity for the elegant invention of cryptic crossword clues.
It’s the most-watched reality show on Australian television, but this season of MAFS appears to have swapped Cupid for chaos.
Independent festivals are appealing to punters to buy tickets early or – as with Mornington Peninsula’s NinchFest – lose the event forever.
TV revivals are a powerful reminder of the fact that no matter how hard streaming executives try, comedy will never be a sausage roll.
Beyonce made history as the most awarded artist in Grammys history after picking up another four awards at this year’s ceremony.
This year’s Grammy Awards will include performances from Lizzo, Steve Lacy, and Sam Smith, as well as a 50-years-of-hip-hop tribute, curated by Questlove.
Viola Davis’ Grammy win on Monday makes her the 18th person, and third black woman, to claim an Emmy, an Oscar, a Tony and a Grammy.
When he started his footy career, Eddie Betts could barely read or write. Now he’s a published author - and will soon be a TV producer too.
This wrap of shows includes the not-to-be-missed Trophy Boys at Midsumma, Darren Hayes and an energetic performance by violinist Ilya Gringolts.
As appealing as Wicked, and with as many tricks up its sleeve as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Mary Poppins has a showstopper in nearly every scene.
Lincoln Younes plays the Sydney nightclub boss in a splashy new series that’s billed as “dramatisation” of Ibrahim’s colourful life.
Vicky Krieps gives a spectacular performance as Sisi, the rebellious wife of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, in this entertaining but unreliable biopic.
Liz Kingsman’s show is a splendid journey through ludicrous rom-com locations, earnest performance poetry, and rich self-awareness.
Ocean pools were first built in NSW in the 1800s and remain sacred spaces for Sydneysiders.
In a new documentary, former Baywatch bombshell Pamela Anderson wants to set the record straight.
For the last century, Australian music has been pretty much absent in cultural policy. That may now be changing.
The Hollywood actor is in Australia talking about new movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
At 69, Mick Cummins has won the Victorian Premier’s unpublished manuscript award and that could herald big things.
The Austrian writer overcame the double impediment of ethnic and religious minority to become one of the foremost novelists of the 20th century.
James Patterson and Haruki Murakami are disciplined at their writing, but also disciplined at their play
Philip Salom continues his fruitful love affair with the novel in a book about the establishment of communal bonds.
Anne Buist’s fourth novel to feature her character Natalie King is a murder mystery set in a hospital.
The characters in Kevin Jared Hosein’s Hungry Ghosts highlight human dignity in the face of desperation.
Joshua Kurlantzick’s book about how China uses the media fits neatly into the ever-expanding China threat genre.
In a wide-ranging chat for Good Weekend Talks, the legendary British musical producer describes learning as much from his failures as his successes.
Welcome to A24, the independent production company that has inspired cult-like fandom while quietly conquering Hollywood.
A few years ago, the reclusive Australian writer was struggling to make ends meet. Now, the world can’t get enough of his cult suburban crime series.
Sydneysider George Nicholas was shocked to find out last year he would join the likes of Beyonce and Adele on the Grammy Awards red carpet this Monday.
Hugh Jackman is back on the big screen, the acclaimed Aftersun finally arrives, Magic Mike strips again and a bear eats a bunch of cocaine.
The Chili Peppers’ set list featured classics from the late 80s through to seven less established cuts from last year’s albums, thrilling and disappointing pretty much everyone.
The Melbourne writer has won this year’s $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her novella Cold Enough for Snow.
Critics have called it “the single best episode of TV this year”. But almost 30,000 negative (and often outright homophobic) user reviews say otherwise.
There’s certainly no shortage of extramarital relations in Elizabeth Coleman’s satisfying murder mystery A Routine Infidelity.
The acclaimed director made a name for himself with serious, intellectually curious projects ... and the much-loved musical adaptation of Mary Poppins.
The award-winning stand-up comedian is preparing to tackle a new challenge - as a regular on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.
The practically perfect nanny is back as a new production of the stage musical that wowed audiences 12 years ago sweeps into Melbourne.
Reese Witherspoon is back with a new rom-com, cult comedy Party Down returns after 13 years and Helena Bonham Carter plays a legendary British soap star.
Beyonce has announced her Renaissance world tour, but there is an Australian-shaped hole in the schedule.
Since 1952, there’s been a mystery playing out in theatres around the world. One is Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap – the second is how no one has spoiled the ending.
I could relate to the specific uncoolness that comes with the performing arts when you’re in high school.
The indie phenomenon brings her heart-wrenching anthems, self-lacerating wit and ever-expanding public profile to Australia for her biggest tour so far.
The ex-Black Sabbath frontman said the news was “probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to share with my loyal fans”.
One of the more idiosyncratic pieces comes from a Sydney Girls High School student, whose work is a collection of objects crocheted from toilet paper.
Northern Europe has Nordic-noir shows like The Killing and The Bridge, South Korea has K-dramas like Squid Game and Sky Castle, and the Brits have their BBC crime dramas. But Australian television seems to lack its own distinctive genre.
Starring Australia’s Murray Bartlett, the latest instalment of The Last of Us has been called “the single best episode of TV that will be broadcast all year”.
The Australian star chased hard for a role in French director Florian Zeller’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning drama The Father.
The creator of Friday Night Lights and Parenthood turns his skills to the fallout from an air crash disaster that leaves one survivor – a 12-year-old boy
Natasha Lyonne’s new series Poker Face sprang from a shared love of noir cinema, and an obsession with 1970s-era TV detective Lt Columbo.
Fifty years after a notorious bank robbery in Sweden, three dramas consider the complex relationship between captors and their hostages.
No matter how outlandish the premise, there’s something irresistible about tales of death and destruction such as The Last of Us.
Baldwin’s roles were drying up long before the Rust shooting, but that doesn’t make him un-castable.
Narrating the series about couples trying to have a baby, the four-time Gold Logie winner can’t help getting wrapped up in their stories
Check out all the best festivals, gigs, shows and special events in Melbourne this month.
Wholesome and tailored for the American market, True Spirit recounts the then 16-year-old’s record-breaking attempt to sail around the world solo, unassisted and non-stop.
From musicals to festivals, international headliners to homegrown artists, there is a wide range of events on offer this month.
Stars like Kathleen Turner, Toni Collette, David Duchovny and more can’t quite make this comedy of greed shine as it should.
An expression of fatigue, embarrassment... even flirting. The rise and rise (and drip) of the single face capturing our many moods.
After 14 years, the iconic TV competition returns to our screens. But the new range of Idol judges will be scrutinised for language and appraisal boundaries.
Despite hints that it might, Labor’s new National Cultural Policy does not back a minimum basic income for performers.
Mitu Bhowmick Lange has helped popularise Indian cinema for Australian audiences. Now she’s been recognised for it.
Director Olivia Ansell says there was an “insatiable thirst” among Sydneysiders and visitors for this year’s event after the disruption of COVID-19 lockdowns and La Nina downpours.
Married at First Sight, Survivor and the rebooted Australian Idol are all going head-to-head this week, and viewers have made their alliances clear.
It’s not cheering stuff, but The Walk-In is masterful in its account of one man’s campaign to stop a fascist group plotting to murder British MPs.
Despite Brendan Fraser’s strong and sweet-natured performance, The Whale is mired in predictability - and only saved by one scene.
Cindy Williams, who was one of America’s most recognisable actors in the 1970s and ’80s, passed away on Wednesday after a brief illness.
75,000 eager fans braved extreme heat and drenching rain to see Guns N’ Roses perform at Calder Park in Melbourne. Inadequate public transport and toilet facilities, over-priced food and drink and overall site failures would bring about a Victorian Ombudsman investigation into the event.
Twenty years ago, 17 of the Hottest 100’s top 20 songs were rock anthems. This year, just seven rockers made the top 20.
Labor has made it clear a local content quota is coming for Netflix and co. Now the real work begins.
Get ready for new books from the award-winning Salman Rushdie and Tom Rob Smith, plus a look at Australian prime ministers and their biographers.
After an Australian top-10 single in 2000 and 20 years spent penning hits for pop royalty, singer-songwriter Leah Haywood is finally flying solo again.
New rules for companies like Netflix, an injection in funding for the arts and a focus on workers’ rights form part of the federal government’s new arts policy.
A new book on the National Art School housed in the old Darlinghurst Gaol reveals some intriguing stories from Sydney’s criminal past.
Former Today co-host Ally Langdon has spoken to Karl and Sarah about her A Current Affair hosting debut tonight.
Thanks to an obscure Instagram page, real estate agent Fraser Lack has gone from social media punching bag to starring on a reality TV series.
Haven’t watched since Richard Hatch was roaming the beach naked in 2000? Never watched it at all? It’s not too late to catch up.
The most publicly derided acquisition in modern Australian art history has proved to be one of the nation’s bargains of the century.
Australian music’s next big names will be given a leg-up on the international stage as the federal government promises to strip the elitism from arts funding.
Dozens of protesters angry about the beating death of Tyre Nichols by Memphis, Tennessee, police officers marched through the city's downtown (Jan. 28)(AP video: Mike Householder)
The Memphis police chief has disbanded the city's so-called Scorpion unit after some of its officers beat to death Tyre Nichols. (Jan. 28)
Sting, Ed Sheeran and Red Hot Chili Peppers are standouts, but there are plenty of home-grown performers to see at a range of venues.
She’s lived an extraordinary life, so it comes as no surprise that Jemima Khan is mining her experiences for a new movie.
The Australian actor opens up about why she doesn’t see a relationship ending as a failure and her crush on Heartbreak High’s Drazic.
What are this year’s must-see shows around the country? Those in the know reveal their hot tips.
Ever since it began nearly a century ago, Hollywood’s awards season has been about celebrity creation and managing some of the biggest egos imaginable.
An internationally acclaimed play called “seven methods of killing kylie jenner” has been showing in Melbourne, but The Age couldn’t review it.
It’s the second time the DJ and music producer has won the countdown, a feat that has previously only been done by Australian rock band Powderfinger.
Justin Bieber sold his music rights for $280 million this week, following the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and even Australian rapper Iggy Azalea. But why are they doing it?
The Sun-Herald apologises unreservedly to Mr Bell for the hurt and suffering an article has caused him, his family and friends.
Once considered Australia’s foremost royalist, the Sydney social identity and former television personality died on Thursday evening.
Her remarkable around-the-world journey was destined for the movies, but it’s been more powerful than the 29-year-old expected.
Burly bodyguards shadowed the seventh-richest man in the world as he visited the city’s powerbrokers and tourist attractions.
A year ago this week, The Wiggles made history winning Triple J’s Hottest 100. But things got much more surreal from there.
Conductors have entered the zeitgeist with two new films. But what exactly do they do? Australia’s greatest living maestro, Simone Young, tries to explain.
For the first time, authors will be compensated for ebooks and audiobooks loaned out by public libraries under expanded funding in the May budget.
In an age when most old reality TV stalwarts are struggling for both ratings and relevance, this 26-year-old global franchise is still surprisingly fresh.
Dinuka McKenzie’s second novel has her female detective battling post-natal depression, sexism, and the case of a missing baby.
He lost his best friend and Go-Betweens co-founder in 2006. Now the love of his life has cancer. Their creative response has produced his riskiest album yet.
The surprise nod for English actress Andrea Riseborough came after influential supporters gushed about her performance in To Leslie.
Kamilaroi woman Rhonda Sampson’s artwork Diyan Warrane will be projected on the sails of the Sydney Opera House to honour First Nations women.
Poker Face will be both a hit on its own terms and a huge hit for the Russian Doll star.
Australia holds a special place in the sisters’ hearts as it’s where they finished their debut album.
A 26-year-old Brisbane filmmaker, who took up animation when he missed out on a live-action film course at university, is off to the Academy Awards.
The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards are an intriguing mix of Hollywood blockbusters, smaller-scale hits and acclaimed art-house films.
The Welcome to Chippendales star on playing a stripping mogul, his Oscar-nominated romcom, and the backlash to his Marvel body transformation.
You Can Go Now is a powerful piece of work, with all the anger, recrimination and hurt that we see in his art.
In an age where the left and right have grown further apart, they have united in their loathing of Mindy Kaling’s Scooby-Doo spin-off.
The series, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes, examines money, ambition and the stressful role that marriage plays in social advancement.
Just don’t expect the actor and model, who spends large portions of the year in the City of Lights, to be a Parisian authority.
Some truly marry a cultural moment with artistic excellence, others have left us fearful of a country plagued by young people with terrible taste.
Cabinet minister Jason Clare said those with similar anti-Semitic views have been rejected when applying for visas to enter Australia in the past.
As long as publishers keep commissioning books from people who have no idea how to write them, the art of ghostwriting will thrive.
Turning the lens on herself and a foray into sculpture has revitalised this rock star photographer.
The Perrottet government’s Museums of History has been hit by two early board departures.
Opera Australia’s plan to stage Miss Saigon, a production with a track record of controversy and offence, has attracted a local backlash.
Right now in Australia, there are more statues of farmyard animals than there are of women.
Married at First Sight’s relationship expert says his job is to hold up a mirror to the participants.
Never heard of international consulting company McKinsey? Well, unless you’re rich and gullible that’s just the way they like it.
Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis has been nominated for eight Oscars including best picture, cinematography and costume design at the 95th Academy Awards.
George Mladenov hopes “the king can deliver” as the new season of Australian Survivor pits heroes against villains.
Blanchett has already won a Golden Globe for immersing herself in every aspect of her character, and deserves the award success.
A morbidly obese English professor is determined to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
While this may not be a full-blown subversion like My Best Friend’s Wedding, the possibility is at least broached that a time-tested approach to finding a life partner might have its merits.
From the new Real Girlfriends to Below Deck, recently launched TV channel 7Bravo offers a menu of familiar, but awfully addictive programs.
In a pair of shows that evoke the golden era of music halls, cabaret and burlesque, Follies Girl and Ziegfeld Boy promise to be a Midsumma Festival highlight.
Rian Johnson, the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and two Knives Out films, describes Poker Face as a throwback to classic series like Columbo and Magnum P.I.
Actor Heather Mitchell and Belvoir’s The Jungle and the Sea were winners at the prestigious Sydney Theatre Awards on Monday night.
Australian actor and writer Liz Kingsman has become a rising star with her comedic One Woman Show.
Buzz Aldrin is looking good for a man of his vintage. Perhaps it’s the rarefied atmosphere he was in.
Under grey skies in Memphis, admirers including Australia’s Baz Luhrmann paid tribute to Lisa Marie Presley, the singer-songwriter and only child of Elvis Presley, who died on January 12.
Elvis is widely tipped to join the two huge hits alongside The Fabelmans, Everything Everywhere All At Once and The Banshees of Inisherin in contending for the biggest award in film.
A television show depicting the Hollywood action star taking part in an Indigenous ceremony has divided local First Nations groups in northern NSW.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes the premiere of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Sunday and a gig by californian musician Ty Segall.
Superyachts, multimillion-dollar mansions and a parade of glamorous partners: welcome to the world of Michael Clarke and his mates.
A motorbike accident left Rodney Bell paralysed from the chest down. It was then that he was given a vehicle for dance.
Lion dances are one of the most visible parts of Lunar New Year celebrations. For performers, however, it’s not a fleeting commitment – it’s a big part of their everyday life.
There was a palpable sense of relief from the festival’s leadership team at being in-person again after going virtual for the past two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A ‘revisionist history’ of Judith Wright’s family story has been turned into a short film that premieres this weekend at Flickerfest.
The Telegraph reportedly paid less than $10,000 for the footage of a fight with his girlfriend, but the incident could cost Clarke sponsors and deals worth more than that.
From marriage bust-ups to courtroom showdowns, Michael Clarke and his best mate have endured plenty of stormy seas.
Elaine Crombie has invented the figure of bold, brassy, sassy character in Janet’s Vagrant Love.
We analysed every Hottest 100 winner by age, gender, location and genre to help determine the secret to chart success.
The American writer has a new novel that he calls a mash-up, and despite approaching 60 remains as spiky as ever.
Jan Morris made her name as an intrepid male journalist and stunned the world when she changed sexes in the early 1970s.
Books can be a consolation to people in all sorts of circumstances. The wonder and mystery lie not in how they found those books, but in how those books found them.
Tom Lee’s short novel is an example of design fiction, telling a story through imagined objects rather than characters.
The makers of Better Date Than Never hope for a perfect match when the show launches this month.
Amita Parikh’s novel begins in a circus but broadens out to enter a world beset by danger.
The novelist tries to link two great cultural figures in his new book, but it feels more like an overgrown Twitter essay.
American rock legend David Crosby has died aged 81, the musician’s representatives confirmed on Friday.
We asked three of our experts to nominate what they’re most looking forward to, from independent productions to global blockbusters.
For a simple disagreement to become a much-discussed public scuffle, it must meet a very specific set of criteria.
My Old School uncovers the real story of a student who was hiding a puzzling secret when he started at a Glasgow school in the early ’90s.
Who Killed The KLF? charts the rise and fall of the mysterious band that baffled the music industry and became the biggest-selling singles act in the world.
We asked three of our experts to nominate what they’re most looking forward to, from independent productions to global blockbusters.
Prince Harry’s memoir Spare has delighted its publisher with first-week sales, breaking records around the world.
The ‘pirate ship’ that is the London Symphony Orchestra has had to learn to lighten its six-tonne load.
A biopic detailing the life of pop-star Michael Jackson is in the works, to be produced by Graham King who worked on the Academy-Award winning Bohemian Rhapsody.
It's noisy, acrobatic and crowd-pleasing, but a lot goes into a traditional chinese lion dance.
The Artist reveals and revels in the sense of play that is involved in the art of creation.
Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme were groundbreaking artists at a time when women found it difficult to make an impression on the art scene.
In his first major musical since the Hedwig storm, the much-loved performer plays a man who died too soon in “tick, tick…BOOM!“.
Drag queen Hanna Conda has some advice for people accused of doing the wrong thing in the past.
Across the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, Sunday and John Reed opened their home to some of Australia’s most promising modernist artists. The result has become legendary.
The Age has asked prominent Victorians to reveal their favourite places and activities of the summer holiday season. Today, Lawrence Leung talks Triceratops and icy poles (and tells one lie).
Miley Cyrus’ new single Flowers is going viral for its apparent Easter eggs about Liam Hemsworth. But she’s not the first to take aim at an ex.
The former Australian cricket captain has been caught on video in a public altercation where his partner accuses him of cheating on her and appears to slap him.
TikTok and YouTube content creator Hannah-Rae Meegan talks about finding an audience for her micro-series about a high-school formal.
1899 fans are up in arms that the mind-bending sci-fi series won’t be back for Season 2. But how many of them finished Season 1?
With his many roles - and he likes cooking dinner - the on-screen tough guy is quite the Renaissance man
The three-part documentary Australia’s Wild Odyssey shows the connections between our continent’s diverse natural environments.
With its geeky lead, the series drily mocks everything from the Scream franchise to Gossip Girl.
This brilliant and profound documentary based on pre-WWII footage found in Florida offers a glimpse of a Polish Jewish community about to be shattered.
The actor is widely tipped to win an Oscar for her portrayal of musician Lydia Tar; her coach says the transformation was a gruelling one.
From tragedy to black farce with scatological lowlights, Babylon is a failed and frantic three-hour attempt at controlled chaos.
With triple the soul-searching, this new season of The Bachelor(s) is sillier and more reckless than ever.
Add Jacob Rajan’s name to the list of exceptional recent one-actor performances - although this time there’s also a vulture.
Flume, Gang of Youths, Ball Park Music, Spacey Jane plus Fred again.. – who will win this year’s Triple J Hottest 100?
The superstar may have been born in Middlesex, England, but Elton John is an honorary Australian.
On the cusp of releasing her fourth album, the singer-songwriter talks about conflict, sacrifice, and the fiery rage she’s been fighting to tame.
The Sydney lawyer’s first Elton John concert was at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 1990. His performance at Allianz on Tuesday night will be her 127th, and one of her last.
As news breaks of the death of soul singer Renee Geyer, we revisit this early interview conducted in her Vaucluse home on the eve of an American tour.
Choreographer Meryl Tankard has joined composer Elena Kats-Chernin to create an ambitious new dance composition called Kairos.
The celebrated blues and soul singer has died from complications following hip surgery.
When Bill Lawrence needed someone to play a senior doctor in his comedy-drama about grief, he knew who to call.
Just after Christmas, novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi suddenly collapsed. Now, he’s captivating readers with vivid stories of his recovery.
Just in time for the Australian Open, here is a wordsmith’s guide to the shiftiest of verbs.
Hamer Hall is almost unparalleled among the world’s leading concert halls in not having an organ – and musicians are tired of this significant deficiency.
After two decades in front of the camera, Lollobrigida embarked on a multifaceted second career as artist and filmmaker.
Music is returning to the opulent surroundings and beautiful acoustic of the Great Synagogue.
After 50 years at the helm of the beloved independent theatre, La Mama’s artistic director is saying goodbye – but not completely.
Kanye West has started the new year by diving head first into another definitely-real-can’t-possibly-be-fake relationship.
“[We should] stop the televised horse race of it all,” the Australian actress said, accepting an award for her performance in Tar.
Taungurung artist Cassie Leatham will host three book readings for kids at the NGV this month, with a bird that can speak her Indigenous language.
Peter Mills and Bruce Harvey started out by doodling on paper tablecloths – five decades on they’re still drawing together and capturing the city, sketch by sketch.
Content creator Angelo Marasigan is part of a new wave of young adults making TikTok their job and seeing it as a viable career option.
How does a filmmaker balance creative licence and the responsibility of accurately telling a story that is billed as factual?
Before she became an overnight celebrity following reports of her “marriage” to rapper Kanye West, Bianca Censori was an impressive young designer making waves in Melbourne’s architecture community.
This poignant one-woman show interweaves Debra Keenahan’s own story with a history of dwarfism.
As the musical superstar serenaded a packed AAMI Park, his long-time friend Molly Meldrum put on a show of his own.
Rapper Kanye West has married Australian architect Bianca Censori, according to a report on US gossip site TMZ.
Friday night was more than alright: from a stage invasion by Molly Meldrum to an emotional new spin on Rocket Man, Elton John farewelled Melbourne with flair.
From Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese to Cocaine Bear: the new year is stacked with new films to get excited about. Here are our top picks.
James and Gretel Packer’s cousin Francis lives a quiet life down the coast, but that could all change if his planned book comes to fruition.
Could our growing disinterest in reading be the spark for the end of civilisation? Read on ...
The king of rock ‘n’ roll’s only daughter established her own career as a singer-songwriter but acknowledged he always influenced her.
A broken plank on opening night of Sydney Festival’s highest energy show demonstrates the risky business of being an acrobat.
Her appearance on the Golden Globes’ red carpet was the last public sighting of the singer before her death on Friday.
Tom Keneally’s latest novel is about the controversial Irish nationalist John Mitchel, who was transported to Van Diemen’s Land.
Amy Thunig’s memoir prompts questions of why people recount confronting incidents and what we do with the stories they become.
Alan Atkinson has written a history of John and Elizabeth Macarthur in a manner not simply accessible, but poetic and abidingly pleasurable.
Anne Proulx spent the pandemic writing a lament about vanishing wetlands and what that means for the environment.
Raina MacIntyre’s research suggests the possibility of an unnatural pandemic is far greater than of a natural one.
Meg Foster’s book brings back to life some of the diverse bushrangers whom Australia’s history has overlooked.
The Duke of Sussex has been accused of many errors in Spare, but the journalist who wrote the book says memory can be blurry.
The Duke of Sussex has mentioned his “todger” in more than one interview this week. But why does he keep talking about it? And why are people so curious?
Five couples at breaking point in their relationships head to a tropical island in the hopes of mending their relationship on 9Now.
Three polygamous families date and transition a new sister wife into their lives on 9Now.
What if this new generation of tennis players isn’t quite as captivating as its members think they are?
Paramedics were reportedly able to regain a pulse before taking Elvis Presley’s daughter, 54, to a hospital in California.
Amazon’s fly-on-the-wall cricket documentary takes us inside the changing of the guard with the Australian men’s Test team.
Usman Khawaja is one of Australia’s top cricketers, but for most of his youth he refused to support the team he’s now a member of.
Prince Harry’s tell all book has ignited interest in the art of the celebrity memoirs. Here’s a list of our dirty dozen favourites.
Best known as Succession’s Tom, the English actor stars in this based-on-fact story of a British MP who faked his own death.
Like Queen Elizabeth II before him, the artist formerly known as Andrew G represents constancy for us all.
Singer Indy Yelich says she is not concerned about comparisons with her famous relative.
While there was no luck for Baz Luhrmann, Margot Robbie, Elizabeth Debicki or Hugh Jackman, the two-time Oscar winner won best actress in a drama film.
This wrap of performances includes Rina Sawayama, Joey Bada$$, Madagascar the Musical, Much Ado About Nothing, MOTHERLOD_^E, the Arctic Monkeys and more.
Sporting a bouffant, contact lenses and dreadful fake teeth, the star of Succession plays the politician who was found in Melbourne
Attempts by the new heist series Kaleidoscope to shake up story-telling feel like a throwback.
Having worked at SBS, Ten and 60 Minutes, Sarah Abo knows that the breakfast gig five days a week won’t be a walk in the park.
It starts with gameplay, but this end-of-the-world drama is vast, intimate and bittersweet.
Sam Corlett, who plays the Norse hero Leif Erikson in Vikings: Valhalla, says his character’s journey is powered by grief and rage.
The TV presenter best known for Man v. Food sets out to explore a decade’s culinary delights in Adam Eats the ’80s.
Guy Ritchie and his team go about serving up the same old silliness in the ineptly titled Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.
Bump avoids cliches in its third season as the Australian comedy-drama develops characters blessed with charm, vitality and substance.
Despite breaking sales records in the UK, Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir hasn’t lived up to the high sales expectations in Australia on its release day.
Follow the rollercoaster journey of couples going through IVF to become parents on Nine in 2023.
On the eve of his visit to Australia, the culinary guru says we need to be more playful with food.
The first big movie of 2023 is M3GAN: a highly memeable horror flick about a dancing killer doll that looks like a 12-year-old girl.
After originally studying photography in secret, Ayman Kaake takes aim at the criminalisation of homosexuality in his new exhibition, 99 Names.
How can I speak English, you wonder, yet not this English? Is this a dialect or a practical joke?
If we forget how tarnished Hollywood’s second-biggest awards are for a second, it could be a good year for Australia’s nominees.
Scary dolls have been freaking people out since the dawn of cinema, but they might have reached their terrifying apex.
Some past technologies deserve revival, but not every piece of old technology was a boon.
The American author published four of the top ten most popular books in Australia last year.
The Amazing Maurice is a clever take on the Pied Piper legend with a stellar voice cast led by Emilia Clarke and Hugh Laurie.
The 80th Golden Globes will be held on Wednesday following a huge year for film and television, and lingering negative headlines about the gala’s organisers.
The acclaimed actor fights for survival in HBO’s The Last of Us, but think more Raging Bull and less Buffy.
Dutch composer Louis Andriessen brings together Amsterdam’s Asko|Schönberg Ensemble and Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring.
Luke Grimes reveals why the Stan Original Series' conclusion is being kept quiet on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Don’t expect any controversy or crime in the wholesome Ralph & Katie, but it has a fine sense of comic timing.
The actor explores his fascination with ageing in both the cabaret show he’s touring around Australia and a new stranger-than-fiction documentary.
The multidiscipline performer is back in Australia, wanting to make audiences celebrate the chaos of COVID-19 in his new show, Room.
Tennis players are by their nature self-absorbed and solitary, yet also ensconced in retinues of coaches, managers and relatives. It’s a tough ask for this documentary to achieve what others have.
The Duke of Sussex did not hold back during the first televised interviews promoting his upcoming memoir, Spare.
The Gucci Garden Archetypes exhibition in Sydney celebrating the house’s pulsating creative energy is open till January 15.
Artist Brenda L Croft honours warrior woman Barangaroo in a series of portraits scattered around the Sydney Harbour foreshore.
The Duke of Sussex’s much-anticipated memoir will build celebrity in the United States, the best launch pad for the social activism he and the duchess want to pursue.
The 80th awards return after two years of damaging headlines, and Australia has skin in the game with nominations for Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth Debicki, Baz Luhrmann and more.
The lead actors in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet allege they were sexually exploited by the famous director. It seems many of my favourite teen films were riddled with problematic content.
Work by more than 25 artists and 15 scientists drawing on climate research and First Nations knowledge form part of a conversation around the environment, sustainability, and planetary care.
King Charles III and “The Firm” are in the midst of one of their greatest public relations battles in decades.
Opera Australia will stage its first bespoke opera – combining great arias with high camp cabaret – when global LGBTQ event WorldPride comes to town.
Created for a YouTube series, the shell with shoes now stars in a charming feature-length movie
Triangle of Sadness is the latest in a series of movies and shows satirising the super-rich. But while we laugh, we’re also drooling over the trappings of wealth.
AI is getting good – perhaps too good – at writing. So, are our novelists at risk of becoming obsolete? And why are we using it for fun rather than work?
Three bachelors from last year’s show are in the mansion, and this time a lot of the women seem to be turning down the roses.
When Elton John first came to Australia, the future icon got a chilly reception from customs officials at Sydney Airport.
Writing and directing have always been part of the plan for the Australian actor. It’s just taken a little longer than expected.
Secret artworks are all around us – you only have to look. Public art expert Barbara Flynn offers a do-it-yourself guide and the stories behind some of Sydney’s newest public art.
Prince Harry’s 416-page memoir is hitting the headlines before its release, but what makes a good biography, and why do Australians love them so much?
Singer Montaigne, also renowned as a Twitch streamer, is tackling a new challenge as part of this year’s Sydney Festival.
Here are the fresh faces on the arts scene to keep an eye out for this year (though we doubt if you’ll be able to avoid them).
The designer who helped shape Australian fashion pays tribute to her influential aunties as part of this year’s Sydney Festival.
In his soon-to-be-released memoir, Spare, Prince Harry claims his brother, William, grabbed him by the collar and wrestled him to the ground.
Since 2005, the annual Australia Day campaign for lamb has centred on the idea of unAustralianness. This year’s offering puts the whole idea on the grill.
Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) trek across post-pandemic America and are forced to endure a multitude of dangers and hardships.
For the legendary singer-songwriter and master of subversion there are no solutions, just process.
UK playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones’s debut play, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, is a drama about colourism, race, white supremacy and modern anti-Blackness.
These are the top 10 books that have never seen the light of day - not the most important but definitely the most intriguing.
This supernatural thriller set on a remote oil rig features an A-list cast and is directed by Line of Duty’s John Strickland.
One of the few hats lucky enough to share its name with a disease, the Legionnaire cap with flaps and back is the ideal accessory.
The actor turned to writing as a “sort of therapy, a safety blanket” during a tough time in his life.
The “beach” is the setting for this week’s Australian premiere of an acclaimed contemporary opera and one of the landmark events of Sydney Festival.
In this nuanced debut, director Matt Nable explores the question: what do men trained in violence do once they’re no longer allowed to use their training?
Lush, loaded with symbolism, and rampant with colours of hallucinogenic brightness – this unique exhibition is an immersion in the life of the late Mexican painter.
The buzzy new series claims viewers will watch its eight episodes in ‘different orders’. But is that really so, and is there a perfect order to watch it?
Fans have waited six long years for the third and final season of the award-winning crime drama.
Historian and filmmaker Alex Bescoby has recreated a famous 1950s expedition by road from London to Singapore using one of the Land Rovers that made the trek.
Antarctica, a new opera by Australian composer Mary Finsterer, is about to receive its Australian premiere.
The story of John Stonehouse, an MP for the British Labour Party who faked his own death in Florida in 1974 and managed to survive all of five weeks in Australia before being caught, has been retold in the series Stonehouse.
In The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg takes his own story and puts it on the screen, with a thin veneer of fiction to separate it from real life.
The Avengers star was trying to help a stranded car outside his home on the side of a snowy mountain when he was run over by his own vehicle, his friend, the mayor of Reno, has said.
The Sydney Festival begins this week. Here is our hand-picked list of the best free, family and big-ticket events - plus director Olivia Ansell’s personal recommendations.
All good satire has a levelling effect, and nothing is more deflating to human self-regard than a serious gastric emergency.
After 10 years of not painting, a perfect storm of events inspired Hop Dac to take the leap into working as an artist full time.
Bangarra’s Jacob Nash, Sydney Festival’s first creative artist in residence, asks us to listen to all Indigenous voices, ahead of a referendum on the voice.
We’ve tried this before, and we’ll try it again. Here’s what we’re 100 per cent certain will happen in pop culture in 2023.
My So-Called Life is often cited as the best-ever show about teenage life. Barely noticed when it first aired in 1994, it now streams on 7Plus.
Episodes of this slick thriller can be watched in any order. It may be a gimmick, but it’s also a chance to reframe perceptions of the thievery taking place.
We all binged the big hits like The White Lotus, The Bear and Severance. But here are a few more great shows you might have missed completely.
In the first full year of cinema since the pandemic, the Australian box office has come up well short of 2019, the pre-COVID benchmark.
“You can’t beat dancing on an expressway with the world’s most beautiful harbour at your feet.” Elevate Sydney opens this week.
The Australian actor’s role as an ex-spy has offered her the opportunity to talk shop with Al Pacino and recreate one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.
Check out all the best festivals, gigs, shows and special events in Melbourne this month.
87-year old adventurer Tim Slessor sets out to recreate his own 1955 record-breaking drive from London to Singapore - in the same badly-behaved old Land Rover.
The year is off to a cracking start with Kate Mulvany on Al Pacino’s Hunters, Harrison Ford in a comedy about a grieving therapist, and Russian Dolls’ Natasha Lyonne in Poker Face.
Emma Sullivan thought she was making a movie about a Danish inventor. Instead, she inadvertently recorded a portrait of a killer.
Bands are forming again and punters looking to rock out in Australia’s live music capital. But venues say they still face existential threats.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes The Wiggles at Falls Festival, The Wind in the Willows, and the surreal beauty of Slava’s Snowshow.
A western only in the same way that Game of Thrones is a fantasy series rather than a political thriller, once you sweep the western trappings away, 1923 is a huge family soap opera. But not in the sudsy sense.
The Sydney icon will reinstate an old favourite food destination to celebrate its 50th anniversary with seafood by the water.
PS takes a glimpse into the crystal ball to see what may lay ahead in 2023 for some of Sydney’s movers and shakers.
After some disastrous New Year’s Eve telecasts, the ABC managed to successfully tap-dance its way into 2023.
From juggling grasshoppers to the Spanish queen of flamenco, from burlesque with mimosas to bin chickens, there’s something for everyone at this year’s festival.
From sampling new theatre to rediscovering old books and “working from home” in a gallery, here are 16 ideas to refresh your new year calendar.
Martin Sheen is a captivating Salieri, but his co-protagonists can’t match his firepower or conviction in Amadeus.
This year has been like no other in my decades in the news business, much of it dedicated to reporting on the great theatre of life – warts and all – as it is played out on these pages week after week.
The 2023 Sydney Festival hub at the Commercial Travellers Association opens a door into a forgotten Sydney from next week.
There are surprising discoveries to be made when a disillusioned chaplain starts at work in a hospital.
Gail Jones’ latest novel Salonika Burning is a carefully structured act of imagination featuring real-life characters caught in the chaos of the First World War.
Jim Davidson’s book examines the founders and long-term editors of Meanjin and Overland.
A new city venue, no sleeping over and The Wiggles covering Lil Nas X? Falls Festival are doing things a little differently this year. But does it work?
Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, has died.
Since poet Robert Burns noted it down from an old man in the 1700s, the song has been covered by artists from Beethoven to Bruce Springsteen.
There’s more that connect Alan Rickman, Paul Newman and Richard E. Grant than celebrity and acting, as their memoirs reveal.
You’ll hear the installation before you see it, and when you see it you won’t know where to look.
It may be the silliest show on television, but it’s also the most watched on Netflix, and capable of offering us some valuable insights. Sort of.
Even as 2020 dealt a crushing blow to the theatre industry, Nikki Shiels still managed to headline two major productions.
The new year is a time for reflection and resolutions, and an opportune moment to ask: what do you want most in the year ahead?
A murder mystery set in North Queensland, this six-parter lifts the lid on a dark chapter in Australia’s past.
The legendary Hollywood director has gone bone-deep for The Fabelmans, a film about his own family life.
If painters have their Archibald, and actors their Oscars, then it’s time to applaud clues of the year.
Oscar buzz builds for Cate Blanchett, while Steven Spielberg and La La Land director Damien Chazelle give us new films about making films.
In the sequel to the smash hit Knives Out, murder and mayhem unfold against a backdrop of remote island beauty ... and the now-familiar setting of lockdown.
Trouble haunts the Dutton family in 1923, the latest spin-off of one of the most successful franchises in television history.
A presence on Australian TV screens for decades, Sally-Anne Upton’s latest role is in the supernatural adventure series Crazy Fun Park.
Created by Piper and Succession’s Lucy Prebble, this sardonic and deeply compelling comedy should be a late addition to the Best-of-2022 TV lists.
There were several notable dramas about big-business disruptors and their problematic leaders in 2022; this leaves the best to last.
A documentary looking back at 50 years of UK movies identifies one standout for its mainstream yet subversive appeal.
From the story of pop girlband Bardot, to a biopic about cricketer Shane Warne, TV’s 2023 slate is a mix of the good, the bold and the wild.
He was the world’s leading male model before becoming an in-demand leading man. But the Black Snow star would rather be at home on the farm.
The creator of Crazy Fun Park drew on personal experience to explore adolescent grief, and then he added a supernatural twist.
The new film based on Tim Winton’s novel highlights the urgent need to save the marine world from climate change and over-fishing.
Wolfgang Buckley grew up at music festivals. Now his band, Stiff Richards – which has Iggy Pop’s tick of approval – is coming back to perform at Meredith.
Based on the Swedish bestseller, this US adaptation threatens to tip into melancholy, but Hanks makes sure you are always on his character’s side.
Elton John and Arctic Monkeys are standouts, but sprinkled in between are a handful of intimate and innovative live performances.
Following a disappointing debut for her latest movie, Babylon, questions are being asked about Margot Robbie’s box office clout. But is that fair?
A video of a small Melbourne party has found its way into TikTok feeds across the world.
Videos of the so-called ‘Fitzroy Garage Party’ have been watched millions times on TikTok across the English-speaking world, from rural England to snowy Canada.
A Gold Coast man has been given the name "captain undies" after fending off car thieves in his jocks.
From Elon Musk ruining Twitter to Tom Cruise saving cinema, don’t worry darling, we’ve got you sorted.
From blockbuster musicals to low-key quiet achievers, after a chaotic few years in live performance, Melbourne is starting to feel like itself again.
Siteworks, an annual festival of art and environment at Bundanon, makes climate a focus for art.
Between upcoming Australian concerts with his Freedom Band, the singer-songwriter is hoping to hit the beach and catch some waves this summer.
It is much-loved and much-maligned. Either way, Love Actually embodies pop culture at its most profound.
G-Flip, Camp Cope, DMA’s and more: Here are 10 Australian musicians on their favourite Christmas songs, and the stories behind them.
Your guide to the essential podcasts for the year ahead, plus some tips on what to catch up with over summer.
The great Christmas homecoming has delivered a bumper crop of big names to town this week, while some of the locals are splashing out on decorations.
The Sydney Festival show Sun & Sea has been described as “one of the greatest achievements in performance of the last 10 years”.
The great Australian writer lived most of her life overseas and had an ambivalent relationship with the country of her birth.
Paulie Stewart, the singer with Painters & Dockers, has much more than music to write about.
Alex Miller’s latest novel begins with a coup de foudre that an Australian academic finds impossible to resist.
From first chapter books to graphic novels, fantasy and contemporary realism, plenty of fine books were released this year for younger readers.
We’ve got your New Year’s Eve playlist sorted with our countdown of the songs of the year. And yes, arguments are encouraged.
By the time she was 20, Mia Wasikowska was one of Hollywood’s freshest stars. But it was, she says, a strange and lonely time.
From the polarising depiction of Marilyn Monroe in Blonde to the ‘exhilarating vulgarity’ of Elvis, it’s been an interesting year in Australian film.
Not sure what to pick from the rash of new releases? There’s a surprising lack of blockbuster action this year, so here’s our guide to what you should see.
The identical twin doctors whose jobs include making immature fart jokes are bringing their latest live show to Australia.
After 13 years and 11 seasons, Peter Maddison is leaving Foxtel’s flagship design show - and the show is leaving Foxtel.
Academy Award® nominee Antonio Banderas returns as the voice of the notorious Puss in Boots as he embarks on an epic journey into the Black Forest to find the mythical Wishing Star and restore his lost lives.
When the Primm family moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends.
I Wanna Dance with Somebody is a powerful and triumphant celebration of the incomparable Whitney Houston.
The discovery of Richard III’s grave under a carpark in the UK is an extraordinary story.
Just eight of the 50 most-played songs on Australian radio were by Australian artists, as TikTok’s influence on commercial radio playlists continued to grow.
In works that are both humorous and heartfelt, ACMI’s How I See It sets out to change perspectives.
Though paling in comparison to the real thing, these family Christmas favourites offer a taste of what’s to come.
From spiderwebs to shadow puppets, we’ve rounded up the exhibitions you should spend your time and money on this Christmas.
My friend’s kid keeps eating sand, so I don’t think it’s a huge intellectual triumph to convince her Santa is real.
At this point, every musician’s trying to jump on Mariah Carey’s annual money-printing bandwagon. Here’s what to listen to this Christmas.
The digital platform beloved by historians and researchers across the country could cease to operate if new federal funding is not found.
Did TV seem a little rude this year? Yes, male nudity hit the screen in a way we’ve never seen before - and it was often for laughs.
Two weeks after chiding King Charles III’s grammar, I’m still drowning in the feedback.
The Australian promoters of a trouble-plagued tour by the controversial American hip-hop artist are not taking her attacks lying down.
The US rapper has mastered the tightrope of being highly problematic while retaining a loyal fanbase. The question is: How is someone who has made comments that are so hostile to queer people, so popular among the community?
This year’s World Cup attracted huge ratings for SBS, raising questions about the A-League’s inability to draw big audiences.
This breathtaking exhibition explores the full range of a uniquely fertile imagination.
Yellowstone spin-off 1923 has writing so taut it feels like the tension could snap at any moment.
The Rehearsal features Nathan Fielder helping ordinary people rehearse difficult conversations or life events through the use of sets and actors hired to recreate real situations.
Love meets doubt. Fear meets joy. Boy meets boy. HEARTSTOPPER, an eight chapter story about life, love and everything in between. Based on the bestselling graphic novels from Alice Oseman.
A young chef from the world of fine dining comes home to Chicago to run his family's Italian beef sandwich shop after the suicide of his older brother, who left behind debts, a rundown kitchen, and an unruly staff.
Wednesday is Gravy Day, the annual event to celebrate Paul Kelly’s 1996 hit and Australia’s unofficial Christmas anthem. So grab an apron and join the choir.
When A Little Life was staged in Edinburgh earlier this year, an audience member almost fainted at all the blood. Now, the production is heading to Australia.
The decision to revive plans for an Indigenous centre months after the Barangaroo Cutaway was scrapped sent officials scrambling, documents reveal.
They remain masters of their arena-rock craft who perform like the fate of the world depends on them.
Ruben Ostlund’s Palme D’or winning film takes place on a mega-yacht - until disaster strikes.
James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel has dominated the local and global box office, but is unlikely to reach record levels.
Lego Masters star Ryan “The Brickman” McNaught and his team spent 1600 hours creating scale models of real-life shipwrecks for a new exhibition.
Welsh-born Jo Davies has been selected after an international search, to head Australia’s largest performing arts company.
After a week of controversy, the American rapper swaggered on stage in Melbourne and gave fans what they wanted.
Three sections of the US whistleblower’s book, in which she explains her decision to leak classified documents, are blacked out.
Ahead of her 2023 Australian tour with Rod Stewart, superstar Cyndi Lauper talks feminist rallies, activism, and showing her true colours.
New documents paint an age-old tale of Sydney in which politics and power ultimately trumped an Indigenous cultural vision.
The 22-year-old local artist’s distinctive murals welcome visitors to La Mama, the Australia Commission in India and now a landmark building in the CBD.
Within weeks of Paul Keating presenting his alternative idea, one senior bureaucrat declared an Indigenous centre “dead in the water”.
On a blustery Sunday afternoon at The Rocks, friends and strangers gathered at the Hero of Waterloo to celebrate the 95th birthday of its resident saxophonist.
Rufus Du Sol, one of Australia’s biggest electronica exports, unleashed banger after banger on Perth’s Langley Park for their laser-heavy tour-ending show.
There’s an unhappy elephant in the room in the highly anticipated new movie from La La Land director Damien Chazelle.
Director Sean O’Shea has prioritised comedy over magic in his latest production of the William Shakespeare classic.
The musician opens up about being a mamma’s boy, his college sweetheart Kim, and working with Hawaiian singer-songwriter Paula Fuga.
From Bryce Courtenay and Wimpy Kid to a local home cook’s megaseller, the past 20 years of best-selling Christmas books tell the story of our obsessions.
From a position of immense privilege, the Sussexes claim with dubious evidence to be both victims and the champions of victims. It’s enough to turn progressives against them.
It was a hectic, boozy three days of Christmas parties leading up to the radio firebrand’s fall from grace.
From Nell to Nile, from KK to Bob Rogers, here are my highlights from this year’s 46 interviews.
In a sprawling underground exhibition, artist Tomás Saraceno uses spiders and shadows to highlight the hidden connections between us all.
Perth-born Charmaine Bingwa has risen rapidly to the top the American film and television industry, but it is on the back of years of hard work.
Full of simple, joyous wisdom, it’s the perfect book for this moment in time. Now an animated version of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is coming.
A radio award judge has quit in protest after a fellow panellist “gave a perfect 10” to the winner. She is his wife.
Nick Cave delivered an evening of fun, with the audience sent home buoyed rather than buffeted, assured instead of afraid.
Robert Adamson had an unusual early life for a poet but found a distinctive and unique voice.
Dive into imagined worlds and other wonders with this selection of books about all creatures great and small.
Don’t be intimidated by the work of the great French novelist who died 100 years ago. There are plenty of ways to approach his books.
New books by Kim Mahood and Don Watson reflect on the issues of negotiating the space between two worlds.
Joan He has taken a 14th-century Chinese epic and turned it into a fantasy saga for the 21st century with her latest novel Strike the Zither.
The Pakistani-British writer Kamila Shamsie discusses growing up in Pakistan, the premium placed on young writers, and why she loves her indoor clothes.
In his 1998 memoir, Romulus, My Father, Raimond Gaita laid bare his struggles growing up with troubled parents. Now, the philosopher faces another challenge.
The former Bachelor contestant has been announced as the host of FBOY Island: a ‘silly and light-hearted’ new dating show that’s already caused controversy.
Latika Bourke in London and Karl Quinn in Melbourne provide commentary on the final instalment that is being released hours before King Charles and his family gather at Westminster Abbey for a Christmas carol service.
The story of notorious defector Kim Philby has been told before, but this big-budget series focuses on Philby’s betrayal of his best friend.
Reg Mombassa has drawn our landscape in paint and song for five decades. Is it getting darker?
Since migrating to Australia, there are things I don’t miss. My father was loving but incapable of hugging me. So British!
Intimate questions are answered frankly in Ashleigh Wilson’s engrossing account of a year of conversations with the Australian identity.
Australian contemporary artist Lindy Lee’s latest work, showing this week at Woollahra Gallery, looks at immigration policy.
After cancelling her Brisbane performance and vowing not to return to Australia, Azealia Banks will play a re-scheduled Melbourne show on Sunday.
All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I.
"tWitch” Boss, the longtime and beloved DJ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show performs with one of his three children.
“He could do anything and he did it with a joy and grace and some swagger.” Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the beloved dancing DJ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show has died, aged 40.
There were two things I knew about Stacey: she didn’t know my name and she worked in marketing.
In the families of the famous, it seems parents just stand around dropping nuggets of wisdom.
From Leonardo DiCaprio dancing at Coachella to a surfing Santa, six writers share what sums up the season.
After backing out of her Brisbane show, the American rapper has wrapped up a “farewell tour” of Australia in a storm of controversy.
Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future.
Eight-year-old Nelly explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mom, Marion, used to play and built the treehouse she’s heard so much about. One day, her mother abruptly leaves. That’s when Nelly meets a girl her own age in the woods building a treehouse. Her name is Marion.
Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. In this original and gripping supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn.
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding.
A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Two men who meet on a bus and strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.
An ageing Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, in which she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.
A woman from Scotland, while travelling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
Fahrije’s family is struggling financially. To provide for them, Fahrije launches a small agricultural business but her ambition and efforts to empower herself and other women are not seen as positive things.
An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
The Mars Exploration Rover, affectionately dubbed Oppy, was originally expected to live for only 90 days but ultimately explored Mars for nearly 15 years.
Christopher Chung couldn’t get his foot in the door in Australia, but after a lot of legwork in London he landed a dream role in Apple’s hit spy series Slow Horses.
The stand-up comedian and writer says the Compass Christmas Cabaret brings together people from a range of faiths and beliefs with a beautiful message.
Mike Greaney’s new YouTube comedy series The Future of Everything makes the most of the power of animation
Romantic comedies have never been a forte of Australian TV, but with Colin From Accounts, Fisk and Summer Love that seems to have changed.
Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon star in a new drama about the chart-topping, but crisis-laden union of two of country music’s biggest stars.
The Avatar sequel has been called everything from “dizzyingly spectacular” to a “trillion-dollar screensaver”. So, is it worth the trip to IMAX?
The Black Books star wrote and stars in Stuck, a series of dark comedy vignettes about a relationship at a crossroads.
The streaming giant claims the ‘unprecedented’ series is an unprecedented hit with viewers.
Artist Thea Perkins has challenged the myth of Ned Kelly with her life-size mural at Carriageworks, unveiled Wednesday for the Sydney Festival.
Who would be crazy enough to perform Shakespeare’s The Tempest at sea in stormy Sydney? The Come You Spirits theatre troupe.
If ABC Sydney’s broadcasters were looking forward to a tranquil summer break, 2022’s final radio ratings might prove inconvenient.
The last ratings survey of the year shows how much things have changed over the past 12 months for the giants of talk radio.
In 1982, Peter Weir’s newest film ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’ almost lived up to its name during the final stages of shooting in the Philippines. Weir talked to The Age’s Philippa Hawker on the eve of the film’s release.
Crooked teeth have been on the outs for a while already. But while the teeth have always been good, they’ve never been this insane.
There was joy for the winners of the PM Literary Awards, but Australia’s writers are still looking for more meaningful support from the federal government.
The show that follows two teenage parents and their families takes a step into the future, as Oly and Santi confront their new relationship.
Celebrate the female trailblazers who have changed the way women are depicted on screen, from Thelma and Louise to Mae West, at ACMI’s Winter Masterpieces.
Whether you’re a seasoned goer or yet to experience your first Meredith festival, the past three days of music and community show why the event was much missed.
For all the brutality the Iranian refugee exposes and endures, his ultimate act of defiance is the expression of hope in Freedom, Only Freedom.
Baz Luhrmann’s dazzling biopic Elvis has picked up three nominations - best film (drama), best actor in a drama and best film director.
“I live in both the white man’s world and the blackfella’s world.” The Wiradjuri man will take over the role of Aaron Burr when the musical Hamilton opens in Brisbane - and knows change can be a force for good.
Everyone has a theory on who will die in the season two finale, but this beloved TV show is way more interesting than a simple whodunnit.
Kurdish Iranian author Behrouz Boochani is in Australia to promote his book and to talk about refugees still in detention.
The old architectural extensions of Ultimo’s Powerhouse Museum will be demolished to make way for a new four-storey annex.
Arts Minister Tony Burke says all Australia’s cultural institutions are suffering after facing a decade of neglect under the previous government.
Labor says it will support the lively Parramasala Festival over the Logies in future funding decisions if elected in March.
A Sydney exhibition presents the work and life of the tortured artist in an immersive walk-through experience.
The Banshees of Inisherin is a small film that’s earning universally ecstatic reviews, but good luck getting a word in with its two stars.
The Ensemble Theatre’s Boxing Day BBQ, is a brilliant twist on the drama of an Aussie Christmas.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Paul Kelly’s Making Gravy, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, the MSO conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, and Morgana.
The collection of new songs that briefly appeared on Spotify and Apple Music was an “unauthorised” release of stolen music, the incarcerated R&B singer’s attorney said.
From a casual rendition of Waltzing Matilda to a Mick Jagger impression, piano man Billy Joel showed a sold-out crowd just why he’s a showbiz legend.
The seemingly indefatigable formula of cringy nostalgia and yuletide kitsch once again works its magic, emptying the pockets of the adoring masses.
A young band of special forces parachuted into Borneo to forge an alliance with the locals to wage a guerilla war.
After seven years and 430 million downloads, My Dad Wrote a Porno is going out with a bang.
The Australian Ballet’s artist director David Hallberg opens up about coming out at 15 and wearing his heart on his sleeve.
I watched volume one of Harry & Meghan and it left me in a state of postmodern confusion.
Dorothy McMullan wasn’t even born when Meredith Music Festival was last held in 2019, but her father Dominic wants her to carry on the family tradition.
“This is complete fun. It’s silly. It’s family-friendly”: Matt Okine and Miranda Tapsell star in the new Australian comedy Christmas Ransom.
Who hasn’t phoned it in at the end of the year? Port Macquarie’s terrible tree was trying its best!
From the doorstep of the Opera House, you’d be forgiven for forgetting the origins of the pop-rock band before you.
The sequel has drawn a surprisingly wide audience who’ve kept going back to watch it again.
Francesca Packer Barham is now the proud owner of some of Melissa Caddick’s sparkling bling.
In this episode, Thomas Mitchell talks to Wil Anderson about life at the ABC, his chronic condition – and why his breakup with Twitter was a long time coming.
Falls Festival organisers have withdrawn from a court-ordered mediation process, delaying a decision on where the three-day event will be held in 2023.
Sammy J was considering pulling the pin on his radio career, until he and an old mate came up with an alternative solution.
Bots deliberately sabotaging the way news is delivered and a work created from censored tweets? This new exhibition focuses on something that concerns us all.
Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Harper and other leading authors tell us what they’ve most enjoyed reading over the past 12 months.
The consequences when a volcano erupted on New Zealand’s White Island three years ago were terrible, but laying blame is a fruitless exercise.
The Sussexes have delivered the first half of their Netflix documentary series. It’s awash with hyperbole and drama, thin on evidence.
Join Latika Bourke in London and Thomas Mitchell in Sydney as they watch the first three episodes of the Netflix documentary series Harry & Meghan and provide expert commentary on what could be the biggest public relations threat to the royal family since the tell-all Oprah interview.
Musician, journalist and activist Paulie Stewart, one of the original members of the infamous Painters and Dockers, reflects on his “kamikaze lifestyle” in an entertaining new memoir.
During a global sustainability crisis, they should be outlawed. And yet, I’m still cuckoo for Christmas crackers.
For those of us who still believe in the quaint, old-fashioned idea that one of the pleasures of the museum is the quiet contemplation of works of art, Sydney Modern’s new, entertainment-plus approach presents a few challenges
Brush and Bubbles, ArtBar, Champainting, Canvas and Cabernet, Picasso and Piss, Botticelli and Booze - they’re popping up everywhere.
For every outraged, ultra-woke millennial, there’s a rabid defender of celebrity misdeeds. It’s almost like cancel culture doesn’t even exist.
The dazzling biopic won 11 awards including best film, best director, best actor for Austin Butler and best supporting actress for Olivia DeJonge.
The NSW government deserves praise for making a major investment but there is work to be done to ensure the whole community can experience the joy of art.
In Irreverent, Chicago Med’s Colin Donnell plays an American criminal hiding behind a reverend’s collar in tropical Queensland
Wednesday Addams is always in control in the new Netflix show named after her, but actress Jenna Ortega says she’s not as confident as her alter-ego.
Forget murder: being made to holiday with people you hate - especially those flushed with sudden wealth - is the genuine horror.
As NITV prepares to celebrate a decade of broadcasting free-to-air, five prominent Australians explain what makes the service special.
David Tennant and Michael Sheen’s delightful interplay in this deceptively simple show recalls the best of Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in The Trip series.
Rapper, musician and activist Briggs is the co-curator of First & Forever, a festival staged at Hanging Rock celebrating indigenous music talent.
Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore celebrates the life and legacy of the legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone in a new film.
Inspired by a true story, one man fights through unthinkable terrors in an attempt to reunite with his family.
For all its silliness, including a soon-to-be-notorious alligator wrestling scene, slave drama Emancipation builds in weight and power.
Grudges and intimacies surface in moody period piece The Road Dance, loosely based on a true story.
The Australian star of The White Lotus has capped off a winning 2022 with new series Welcome to Chippendales.
A stray “realize” in King Charles III’s note to the Governor of Victoria has been met with dismay.
There’s a snobbery towards self-publishing and romantic fiction – but it’s the authors doing both who are dramatically shaking up the industry.
Olivia DeJonge thought the role of Priscella in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis had gone to another actress, then she received an unexpected text from her agent.
Gardening Australia’s Clarence Slockee consulted with Elders as he embarked on the mammoth task of translating the festive classic O Christmas Tree.
The frontman of U2 is self-deprecating and flamboyant in his account of the evolution of himself to a leading celebrity political lobbyist.
The comedic actor, who became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the early 1990s, has died from cancer.
Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore celebrates the life and legacy of the legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone, in a new film.
Kirstie Alley became one of the world’s biggest television stars in the late 80s and early 1990s with the sitcom Cheers and also starred in the Look Who's Talking movies.
Prince Harry has signalled that the Netflix documentary series might be an uncomfortable watch for members of the royal family.
The former US first lady follows her bestselling memoir Becoming with a glimpse inside her “personal toolbox” that reads like a long-form TED talk.
A new documentary on Netflix recounts the harrowing day in December 2019 when an active volcano erupted in New Zealand, killing 22 people.
From the bedrooms to the best place to spy the host reveals it all ahead of Love Island Australia 2022.
Directed by Peter Paige, The Thing About Harry tells the story of high school enemies, uber-jock Harry and out-and-proud Sam, who are forced to share a car ride to their Missouri hometown for a friend’s engagement party on Valentine’s Day.
During the day, Veronica negotiates high school like any average teenage girl. At night, she helps her father's struggling, new private investigator business.
It's Elena's first day back at school since the tragic death of her parents and she is fascinated by the mysterious new kid. What Elena doesn't know is that he is a vampire.
Jack has gone Rogue. John Krasinski returns as the unwavering hero in Season 3 of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.
Set in West Point in 1830, a world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case, a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
Mandy Walker, who shot Elvis, has made history at Australia’s main film and television awards this week.
The enduring power of Handel’s best-loved oratorio always touches the heart of the Sydney Philharmonia conductor.
After some profoundly challenging years for the music industry, gigs are finally back on the calendar. But the costs of just about every element that goes into staging a music event have risen sharply.
Take your pick from politics, Pulitzer winners and Paul Kelly as booksellers fill their shelves with the final releases of 2022.
Is the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan a declaration of war against the Royal Family?
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes a beguiling gig by Khruangbin, Garabari, Little Eyolf, Good Things and a memorably festive performance by the MSO.
More than just another heritage band, the Boston foursome experiment and bring immediacy to their classic recordings.
When US actor Colin Donnell was lured to work in Australia for Irreverent, he wasn’t told about the crocodiles, spiders, jellyfish and falling coconuts.
The film legend discusses the #MeToo movement, why she’s against plastic surgery and the ménage à trois that scandalised 1970s Britain.
The comedian opens up about being an old soul, coming out in the ’80s, and his insecurities around dating.
The musicians behind a musical fundraiser for Ukraine have battled three different timezones, blackouts and air raids to create songs from the heart of Kyiv.
With the unconventional release of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the relationship between cinemas and the streamers may just have reached a new tipping point.
It’s time for dad jokes to stop being viewed as inherently terrible, and instead be celebrated for what they are.
The advent of the Instagram subscription service in recent weeks, where followers are charged to view content from certain Insta-famous accounts which were once free - begs the question - how much are people willing to pay for banality?
From a ’90s holiday documented through a series of bottles, to the world rendered in glowing red lights, this new exhibition looks at ‘air’ in unexpected ways.
With its showy abundance of glass and light and bold artworks arrayed on each of its cascading levels, Sydney Modern was always going to be selfie heaven.
Dubbed “the love child of Bon Scott and Chrissy Amphlett”, Amyl and the Sniffers’ punk feminist singer is rocking the world with her expletive-laden polemics.
These budding authors stand out from the hundreds who send publishers manuscripts every month. Here’s where they come from, and what they are writing about.
Mandy Walker, who is nominated at the AACTA Awards for her work on Elvis, says training is helping limit sexual harassment and bullying.
The Outback Wrangler has vowed to defend criminal charges filed against him, accusing some media outlets of perpetuating a myth he was “somehow on the run”.
The Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council is disappointed that the brand new Sydney Modern will not have an Indigenous name for the building’s public opening.
Watch an extensive and thrilling tour through Sydney Modern, the new expansion of the Art Gallery of NSW.
Don’t let anyone say they don’t make movies like they used to: Carnifex is a textbook monster mash-up.
Louis Nowra’s Sydney: A Biography draws us in close to the sprawling and dynamic life of the entire harbour city.
Federal government support for Australian writers has never been generous, and it’s getting worse.
Felicia Berliner’s hilarious erotic novel leads our wrap of reviews of the latest fiction and non-fiction titles.
The American novelist makes his home in Canada these days, but still casts a critical eye over the US.
The former Savage Garden frontman on why his unfinished work will be buried with him, the cost of coming out, and his respect for today’s young, gay artists.
There are singers, and then there are artists whose voices are so pure and emotive that they have the power to instantaneously crack open the hardest of hearts.
For more than 50 years he was friend to the famous and a champion for Australian movies. Now, Alan Finney says, it’s time to move on.
“While daddy is with you tonight, we’re doing everything we’re not allowed to do when daddy is home, like... try on his Spanx and laugh out loud at Ben Stiller movies.”
The Herald’s dance critic Jill Sykes is presenting her final review for the masthead after 50 years - the Australian Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet.
Art critic John McDonald takes us through Sydney Modern, the new expansion of the Art Gallery of NSW.
Grief, glory, strange bedfellows and stranger revelations: U2’s Bono shares an intimate chat at home with a childhood friend.
Few people in the local industry had realised the role a leading producer played in securing settlements with Harvey Weinstein’s victims - until now.
Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren head to 1923, Emily in Paris returns and a new homegrown Christmas comedy helps usher in the festive season.
With works by Nick Cave, Patricia Piccinini and KAWS, NGV’s new exhibition brings together familiar and rarely seen works to explore what it is to be human.
“No one sees what’s happening behind closed doors,” Prince Harry is heard saying in the trailer.
After 16 years, the studios at the National Trust’s St Kilda mansion will no longer be available to Victorian writers.
Once the novelty wears off, it will be art rather than architecture that keeps people coming to the gallery.
Husband and wife team Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall have created a comedy for romantics and cynics alike.
With so many international acts touring for the summer festival season, deciding which to catch is no easy task. Here are our must-see gigs for December.
Despite lots of love from critics and audiences, She Said has been called “one of the biggest box office flops in history”.
After a painfully long lead-up to our favourite season, six creative locals reveal the works that take them there.
In a lovingly curated exhibition, the trailblazing British designer takes his place in art history.
Here’s your guide to the silly season in Melbourne, stocked with activities, concerts, festivals, and shows.
“Being told to ‘live, laugh, love’ is actually kind of demanding,” says the sweary YouTube sensation, who has written a book about mental health.
The former prince of gloom exuded joy in a tender yet energetic performance that overflowed with elation.
A wide range of activities are on offer for Sydneysiders to enjoy in December, from the opening of Sydney Modern to Christmas Markets spanning the CBD.
Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Christine McVie has died. “She was the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life,” the band said.
The blockbuster director has four Avatar sequels queued up through 2028, starting with Avatar: The Way of Water this month. But will audiences head back to Pandora?
How do you rewrite a masterpiece? Sir Andrew Davis talks about writing his own version of Handel’s Messiah, and finishing the project he was saving for retirement.
I’m not sure how this is even possible and you should know that I’m not entirely comfortable with the idea.
Novelist as a Vocation is a weird delight, but acclaimed Japanese writer Haruki Murakami also delivers some unsettling moments.
The Art Gallery of NSW raised more than $139 million from some of Sydney’s wealthiest families to realise Sydney Modern, but NSW taxpayers deserve credit too.
The social media company is launching a campaign about the dangers of skin cancer over summer.
The stars came out on Wednesday night for the opening of Sydney’s thoroughly modern gallery.
For three decades a debonair British journalist and intelligence agent, played by Guy Pearce, leaked secrets to the Soviets. Until an old MI6 friend paid a visit.
Jessica Brown Findlay plays a skint twenty-something who shares a small London bedsit, including the bed, with a stranger.
The comedian and TV presenter says he’s “never done a show enough times that I felt like I got it completely right”, but his latest, Wilogical, comes closest.
Taylor Sheridan’s hit series Yellowstone is not just an opportunity to bring Native American actors and stories to the fore, it’s about depicting a culture with authenticity and accuracy.
Alfred Molina can anchor an indie film and steal the show in a Hollywood blockbuster. In his latest show, Three Pines, he’s re-inventing the detective genre.
The TV adaptation of Jake Edelstein’s memoir, which lifted the lid on uncomfortable truths of Japanese society, took a long road to the screen.
Gary Oldman’s disgraced spymaster Jackson Lamb delivers one quotable line after another as the insults fly in the corrosively comic Slow Horses.
Most of the judges for the award’s fiction and non-fiction prizes have close links to Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian newspaper, drawing criticism from the literary world.
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams tells the story of Salvatore Ferragamo, who melded fashion with science and practicality in the quest to create the perfect shoe.
Victorian artist Graeme Drendel has won $150,000 in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for his work capturing a fellow artist.
How can you pick when the contenders include spicy cough, Barbiecore, beige flag and bachelor’s handbag? We’d soon find out.
40 years ago, English post-punks New Order performed at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre, with support by poet John Cooper Clarke and local band Pel Mel.
The installation in the subterranean gallery at the new Sydney Modern evokes a science fiction landscape. It’s the brainchild of artist Adrian Villar Rojas.
The Los Angeles saxophonist and composer, who plays the Sydney Opera House next month, says his secret is always to keep it real.
The prolific singer/songwriter says he used a machine-generated signature because of health issues, but has now seen the error of his ways.
Arts and music festival Mona Foma has just announced its 2023 line up, with a packed schedule of iconic musicians and summer festivities.
40 years ago, Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for fiction, for his book ‘Schindler’s Ark’. Keneally was the first Australian winner of the distinguished prize.
Fifty years ago, a computer engineering grad at small tech start-up Atari was handed a simple assignment that unwittingly spawned the gaming industry.
Despite COVID-19 shutdowns, the Australian Museum’s fortunes soared, but visits to the Powerhouse Museum fell to their lowest levels in 20 years.
Proponents of four different heritage proposals will have five minutes to pitch the merits of their case to “win” a $1 million grant.
To some, three hours might have felt too long. To others, as a show they didn’t want to end, it might have been perfect.
It’s a full-circle moment of sorts as Langdon joins the show made famous by her father-in-law Michael Willesee.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes a parody of the TV show Friends, theatre meeting dance in Monsters, and an evening with Esther Perel.
Tributes have poured in for the New York-born star who was behind some of the most joyful, high-energy pop anthems of the early 1980s.
Director Gracie Otto opens up about her actor father, meeting Aaron Carter, and the interesting men she’s dated.
Locked down in her Manhattan apartment, Smith sought solace from the pandemic by sharing her ideas and thoughts in a book of photographs.
Politics and celebrity have never been comfortable bedfellows. Throw in the lure of a fat cheque and free speech seemingly goes out the window, along with sound judgment.
Indigenous artist Karla Dickens has dedicated a glass relief created for the Art Gallery of NSW to Indigenous women, and female artists.
Chris Hammer and Michael Connelly use cold cases, strong characters and a powerful sense of place in their latest novels.
The American cultural commentator Greil Marcus uses seven Dylan songs to understand his life.
Annie Ernaux’s memoir reveals the reality of her affair with the Soviet diplomat that inspired her novel Simple Passion.
Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction including doing lockdown with D.H. lawrence and a history of the battle of Long Tan.
The acclaimed Indigenous actor/writer/director is nominated for eight AACTA awards for her debut feature film that reimagines a classic Australian story through a black, female lens.
Have reports of Twitter’s death been greatly exaggerated? Culture reporters Meg Watson and Thomas Mitchell have entered the Group Chat.
The real-life couple and creators of Colin From Accounts filmed the new comedy while juggling two forces of nature: torrential rain and a four-month-old daughter.
Watching her grandmother battle dementia helped the musician write a song that has made fans emotional for more than 10 years. Now she’s encouraging others to “share a song”.
To create his psychological thriller, Resurrection, writer and director Andrew Semans looked both to his mother and his soon-to-be-born child.
After 17 years hosting A Current Affair and 40 years on television, Tracy Grimshaw has left the building.
With the voices of Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett and Christoph Waltz, this version of Pinocchio is seductive, amusing, dark as pitch and full of metaphor.
Choreographer and dancer Joel Bray’s works don’t look like conventional dance – or sound, smell or taste like other works.
Jenna Ortega stars as Wednesday Addams in this 21st-century update of the classic gothic comedy.
Each year the Grattan Institute recommends a short selection of must-reads for the nation’s top office holder.
The national broadcaster is banking on the return of a classic sitcom and a much-loved host to help shore up its 2023 slate.
An excerpt from an episode of Mother and Son from 1984 (The Money), featuring Ruth Cracknell and Garry McDonald in their roles as Maggie and Arthur.
At 82, the legendary artist still rises at 4am to work on his huge, potent paintings. He can’t do anything else.
From Stranger Things to Barbie, our brightest young voices celebrate the characters who helped them find their way.
Here is a wild work from an enigmatic genius that is ridiculous, over the top and dripping in lyrical and musical excess.
Cashed-up patrons pay around $2000 each to dine at an ornate and exclusive restaurant that can only be reached by boat in Mark Mylod’s film The Menu.
A broken eject button and a stuck Paul Simon tape doesn’t sound like cause for nostalgia - but I think of it often and fondly.
When Alex McKinnon’s brother was struck by a police car and killed at 14, he lost all memories of him. Now he’s trying to get them back.
There’s a world of difference between bopping along to R. Kelly and sobering up in front of Harry Potter.
Do Ho Suh spent nine years working so hard on one of the pieces in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s new exhibition that he wore away his own fingerprints.
This year’s ARIA awards, back live after a three-year absence, offer a handy pulse-check on the state of the local music scene.
A sudden charge by thousands of fans at a Steve Lacy concert on Tuesday night have led to questions over safety and planning for the event.
Latecomers is funny, moving and radical in its portrayal of disabled people looking for romance.
MasterChef legend, Poh Ling Yeow is picky with the projects she chooses, but the second season of Snackmasters instantly appealed
An unofficial sequel to the sumptuous drama Versailles, Marie Antoinette sees 29-year-old Emilia Schule frock up to play the despised queen and wife of Louis XVI.
With a nod to Shameless, this online comedy was made with real residents from Melbourne’s inner-city housing commission flats.
Despite its many twists and narrative falsehoods, the Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini starring dark comedy was always authentically about something bigger.
Sam “the Bandit” and Alise “the Beast” Willoughby met when they were 17 and conquered the world. But their love story has not been without challenges.
Bones and All, an overwrought story of teenage cannibals, proves to be a consciously ridiculous yet sappy film.
From the masters behind the German series Dark comes a mind-bending period drama about a steamship on the Atlantic.
In Margrete: Queen of the North, the strange, real-life 15th-century case of a peasant pretending to be a monarch’s long-lost son is given a fictional twist.
The ARIAs will have a new award encouraging the advertising industry to use Australian music, aiming to help artists diversify revenue after a difficult few years and recognise another creative outlet for music.
George Lucas is something of a lucky charm for Star Wars actor Warwick Davis, who is returning to the wizardly world of Willow Ufgood.
Travis Fimmel stars in the gripping six-part Stan Original series premiering January 1.
The Project has announced Studio 10 host Sarah Harris will be joining the show in 2023.
Sam Fender’s voice - a high tenor laced with a thick Geordie accent - hits you from the opening note and stays long after the crowds spill out singing on the streets.
Tyson Yunkaporta says he doesn’t even like music, yet he still ended up collaborating with the SSO.
There are some spectacular paintings on display in Russell Crowe’s Poker Face, and the writer-director-star claims most of them are real. But how many are his?
Rachel Kwa’s studies at the Australian National Academy of Music had barely begun when COVID shut down in-person classes. What followed was a revelation.
It’s time to dive back into the origins of “goneski”, with a timely assist from the Socceroos.
He joins other high-profile co-hosts Lisa Wilkinson and Carrie Bickmore who have recently announced their departures from the Channel 10 show.
The Oscar winner stepped in to direct this caper at the last minute, but his star power is not enough to save the rather obvious plot.
One in four Australians are from a non-European cultural background. But they represent just one in 16 of the journalists and presenters on our screens.
25 years ago, INXS frontman Michael Hutchence was found dead in a Sydney hotel room. The Herald’s Susan Chenery had recently spent time with the singer.
The US Patent Office may think otherwise, but Mariah Carey has every right to claim that Queen of Christmas tag as her own.
Seriously Red is a joyful, candy-coloured confection with a touch of lemon about the joys and sorrows of show business.
Thirteen children aged between 8-11 have been chosen to create a program of live events for their peers, from the ideas to the logistics and budgets.
Temple of Boom at the NGV is a reimagining of the Parthenon, designed to demonstrate how architecture evolves over time.
Headlong passion is cut with a flinty old timer’s asides in the Nobel Prize winner’s new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song.
Meet the Fitzroy social housing tenants using comedy drawn from reality to provide a glimpse of life in the towers in a new web series.
How to Win the World Cup implies a promise on which author Chris Evans knows he cannot deliver.
25 years ago, Australian rock star, Michael Hutchence, lead singer of INXS, was found dead in a hotel suite in Sydney.
In a major public event, a flotilla of Indigenous canoes will take to the harbour on June 4 – a counterpoint to the arrival of the 11 ships of the First Fleet.
Covering Britney Spears and the Bard, 26-year-old Lorinda May Merrypor will have her debut lead role in & Juliet.
Confidential documents reveal plans for a new live music venue in Melbourne were developed by controversial Saudi-backed Live Nation, raising concerns among local music industry figures.
There are easy laughs and poignant moments but the first episode of the two-parter is unexpectedly flat, delivering what amounts to a clip show.
The presenter, who had sat on The Project desk for five years, will remain with Network 10.
This wrap of Melbourne shows includes a sold-out surprise appearance by TISM, David Wenham in ‘A Christmas Carol’, and ‘The American’ by the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Thelma Plum, Montaigne, Ziggy Ramo, Urthboy and Flume reveal the albums that have rocked their world.
As she prepares for her final episode, the A Current Affair host reflects on her career, how journalism has changed, and why she’s looking forward to clocking off.
The 22-year-old opens up about the motherly figures in his life, listening to Beyonce in secret at night, and his new children’s book.
From Cate Blanchett to Bluey, from Sydney Modern to the coming National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs, the nation’s cultural treasures are captivating the world.
Tim Minchin is one of Australia’s most successful cultural exports, though these days the unkempt hair and heavy eyeliner have been toned down.
RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi has the bestselling cookbook of the year – and it only launched in October.
The filmmaker behind Picnic At Hanging Rock, Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show will be the first Australian director awarded an honorary Oscar this weekend.
Two decades after he started mixing music from a CD found in a cereal box, and six years on from his last show in Sydney, Flume has captivated his home crowd.
If the company is in a hole, artistic director Kip Williams seems a safe pair of hands with the spade.
After back-to-back years of financial losses, Sydney Theatre Company has a new stage hit on its hands and is bracing for the impact of a new COVID wave.
Sydney owner Sam Mustaca pleads not guilty to assault, ex-party planner Mark Cavanagh in court, Anthony Koletti goes back to his roots, and Cartier keeps its grip on the bling.
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prolific novelists working today and Blonde is her masterpiece.
Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida’s demand for action on violence against women leads our wrap-up of new book reviews.
With his novel, Blueback, now a movie, the author reflects on how his love of the sea has evolved – and what he’s prepared to do to protect it.
There may be a handful of truths to Alejandro G. Inarritu’s grandiose Bardo, but the long stretches of tedium take their toll.
Just months after a star-studded farewell, Neighbours is back from the dead. But a return to Ramsay Street may not be such a great idea.
A late bloomer to stand-up, the respectful comic is now a regular on ABC Radio and The Project.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales is celebrating the opening of its new building and art museum campus by hosting an epic one-off concert featuring performances from Grammy-nominated singer Ellie Goulding, award-winning Australian singer Meg Mac, and electronic duo Electric Fields.
In a plot twist worthy of a soap opera, Neighbours has returned from the dead. But can it beat history and economics to pull off a second resurrection?
Like Jimmy Barnes’ memoir Working Class Boy, Childhood is a painfully dignified book about life with a violent and dysfunctional family.
Liesel Badorrek’s Cockatoo Island production of Bizet’s much-loved opera will be hard to ignore.
With a new production of Amadeus, the acclaimed actor returns to the play that made him a star - but this time, he’s playing the bad guy.
Neighbours will be back before the end of 2023 after Fremantle, the Australian production company responsible for the long-running show, struck a deal with Amazon.
Girl Like You, winner of the major award at the 2022 AWGIE Awards, is a love story that follows a couple who start as one thing and become another.
When US Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody is rescued after being help captive in Afghanistan, CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison suspects that Al Qaeda have enlisted him.
Long ago, family helped rescue the Melbourne music advocate. Today she’s all about helping back.
Where Rian Johnson’s murder mystery Glass Onion keeps the tone relatively light, The Menu is the kind of film that aspires to be “deliciously nasty”.
A 30-year friendship that began at a petrol station comes full circle in a celebration of Mandy Martin’s legacy.
Alison Whyte channels the spirit of Orpheus as a woman who climbs into a sinkhole to rescue her sister.
The show was a perfect backdrop to the Trump era and, with the former president’s recently announced comeback, it’s more important than ever.
Timothee Chalamet is cinema’s unlikeliest horror star, but he brings a human touch to the taboo-busting Bones and All.
The former MAFS bride admitted the pair made amends after months of turmoil between them on her Sit With Us podcast.
Natalie Imbruglia will host this year’s ARIA Awards and honour Olivia Newton-John, in a musical tribute directed by Tones and I.
The show’s creator is up for a screenwriting award this week, but she’s “not sure how to feel about” a new phenomenon inspired by her work.
What can a privileged and neurotic Frenchman who’s been dead for a century tell us about what it’s like to be alive today?
If sport is human drama and a pure reflection of life, then it too must embrace the chaos of our times. Enter multiball.
The great Australian filmmaker is getting an honorary Oscar for his “consummate skill and artistry” this weekend.
If The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is good enough for Roxane Gay and Meryl Streep, it’s good enough for you.
The fifth season works, but only just. Is it because we’re creeping towards the present day, where contemporary images of the Royal Family are too familiar?
As controversy reigns over The Crown, Anna Pasternak feels sympathy for its creator Peter Morgan.
Meanwhile, Karl Stefanovic and Allison Langdon circle Tracy Grimshaw’s A Current Affair hot seat, while at Vogue Australia there are shock changes.
Almost until it happened, Mildura had trouble believing it had scored its first concert by a major international act. Here’s how, and why, it came about.
This slick and spectacular revival of Phantom of the Opera has landed at the Arts Centre and is still holding its own.
Underground Melbourne act NO ZU describe themselves as an “Australiana warped nightclub fever dream”.
Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov has written the first important literary work to emerge from the war in his country.
Art will be written in the skies for the opening of the new wing of the Art Gallery of NSW as part of nine days of celebrations planned from December 3.
In everyday life, the actor has been likened to mercury – always in motion and shapeshifting. And her new film, Tár, perfectly showcases this elusiveness.
A joyous ode to cobalt brogues, or a game-changing reflection of society? Nobel Prize-winner Bob Dylan offers a fresh riff on a 1950s standard.
Adam Lindsay learnt early in life that it’s better to make your own decisions and live with the consequences.
Peerless writing acting and directing bring to life one of the great women of our times.
A tragedy early in her life prompted the Tasmanian writer to embrace extreme spiritual experiences.
A collection of essays revisiting that galvanising moment, Not Now, Not Ever leads our wrap of new book reviews.
Their adventurous spirit might be muted, but 25 years into their careers French indie-pop faves Phoenix still write the prettiest bridges.
John Kerr had his doubts about the conviction of Kathleen Folbigg when he wrote an earlier book about murders in the family. Now he is convinced of her innocence.
Tim Minchin’s Upright won her accolades - and brought her home for a second season - but House of the Dragon made Milly Alcock a global sensation.
A town called Alice, a fish named Wanda, a hurricane known as Ian, and now, a Biennale that answers to a name.
The hit drama courts controversy as it moves to the 1990s, when the private lives of the royals were exposed to extreme public scrutiny.
More than a decade after she moved to the US, the Gold Coast actress has a head-turning lead role in a new Aussie horror flick.
Anchored by the peppy charisma of Neil Patrick Harris, romantic comedy Uncoupled zings with Darren Star’s usual snap, crackle and customary pizzazz.
I’ve always been far more comfortable in the bright lights of the souvenir shop than in the hallowed halls of the gallery.
Clarice Beckett seldom signed her canvases and sold few. A new book explains why the tonalist painter is now one of the nation’s most popular.
Oscar buzz ramps up as Jennifer Lawrence, Carey Mulligan and Florence Pugh hit the big screen, along with the latest Black Panther and Knives Out films.
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents the classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver.
Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colourful suspects.
An acclaimed journalist-turned-documentarian goes on an oneiric introspective journey to reconcile with the past, the present and his Mexican identity.
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation. A story that helped launch the #MeToo movement.
High up on the Tibetan plateau, amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys, lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world.
The Australian three-time World Cup winner is excited by the challenge smaller cricketing nations are throwing at the game’s giants
Two new documentaries in the Untold Australia series on SBS shine a light on the lives of remarkable people who are often overlooked.
The presenter’s new series, Stuff the British Stole, travels the world looking into the stories behind artworks and artefacts far from home.
Eight different masters of the horror genre have crafted hour-long macabre tales in Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
Starring in a spooky new British chiller-thriller, the former Dr Who plays a scary man named Gideon with a dark secret.
Kit Connor, the 18-year-old star of Netflix’s Heartstopper, came out as bisexual on Tuesday, reigniting a debate about the pressure on actors in queer roles.
While Hollywood’s second-biggest awards will be televised again in January, there is still a power struggle going on about whether it should be business as usual.
It’s a given that most teenagers don’t listen to their parents, so when Charlotte Friels’ mum told her to be an architect instead of an actor, the answer was a firm no.
Launching his new show in Melbourne the legendary artist says that art’s like a relationship. “You’re not getting everything on the first date, it’s over time.”
Three of Sydney’s leading auction houses are expected to be charged with selling the now presumed dead fraudster’s extraordinary collection of ill-gotten trinkets.
Fiona McFarlane’s mesmerising second novel offers a fresh take on the search for a lost child.
Long Bay Jail’s Boom Gate Gallery, which showcases the artwork of NSW prisoners, celebrates with a 30th anniversary retrospective show.
With each of the characters in her third novel, Kristel Thornell is investigating a new aspect of desire.
Three sisters reunite in an attempt to break a vicious cycle in Peggy Frew’s enigmatic and lyrical new novel.
Sink your teeth into new stories of suspense from Stephen King, Tom Baragwanath and Heidi Sopinka.
The Milwaukee Cannibal revealed what would have happened if he hadn't have been caught on Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks.
After calling his ex a 'psycho', Madi decides to give Daniel a second chance on Stan's Love Triangle.
Lisa is disappointed by her date when he's more cocky than confident on Stan's Love Triangle.
After admitting her match Ben wasn't what she expected the nerves get the better of Ly on Stan's Love Triangle.
From Reese Witherspoon to Lady Gaga and Kevin Bacon, celebrities have been taking part in the viral 'Teenage Dirtbag' meme by sharing photos from their youth.
I’ve no idea why we’d want it, except that Queensland does, and a win here would lessen the pain of that last Origin series.
Tune in to Scat Chat with WWF-Australia, hosted by comedian Carlo Ritchie and featuring a fascinating line up of WWF-Australia conservationists who get to the bottom of all the things that animal scat - or poo - can teach us about the animals that made it.
Act of Oblivion has such velocity that it feels like a sprint to keep up with two desperate fugitives who signed the death warrant for Charles I.
The Japanese-British singer’s remarkable, anthemic new album should cement her pop superstar status.
The recently departed lead singer of The Seekers has been honoured at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall with a night filled with musical performances, video tributes and emotional eulogies.
After more than 17 years, Tracy Grimshaw is stepping down as host of A Current Affair. Here are some of her top interviews from the show.
There’s a reason she’s been running A Current Affair this long. Here are a few of her greatest hits.
More than 26,000 art collectors, buyers and admirers are expected to attend the Sydney Contemporary art fair on its return to Carriageworks after a two-year layover.
Travis Alabanza’s play Overflow is the first Australian main-stage work presented by an all-trans and gender-diverse team.
The departure of Tracy Grimshaw from A Current Affair means one of TV’s most in-demand jobs is up for grabs, and there’s a long list of potential hosts.
Pick from the gore and mayhem of Bodies Bodies Bodies – a murder mystery with Saoirse Ronan – or a new take on music genius David Bowie.
She became a global celebrity after starring in the Netflix hit 13 Reasons Why, but for Australian actress Katherine Langford, home is still where the heart is.
The veteran reporter announced her resignation from the program at the end of Monday night’s show.
Exes find themselves on a shared mission to stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made.
Jimmy is a nihilist with a hilariously bleak view on life. He carries a leather, black doctor’s bag around with him containing the rope he plans to hang himself with.
With a hurricane bearing down, a group of rich 20-somethings hole up in a remote family mansion stocked with food, flashlights, and drugs, ready to party their way through the storm.