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Tharnicaa Nadesalingam (2nd left) arrives for her fifth birthday party with her parents Priya and Nades and sister Kopika after their safe return to Biloela.

‘David v Goliath’: Biloela family’s immigration ordeal hits the stage

The Murrugappans will be guests of honour at the Brisbane premiere of Back to Bilo, which depicts their immigration battle and the town that rallied around them.

  • Nick Dent

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Actor Janet Anderson will star in the new production of Orlando.

Virginia Woolf’s Orlando with skates, fire and a gender-fluid journey

The cast of Belvoir’s new show will appear as rollerskating Elizabethans.

  • Nicole Elphick
Andrea Battistoni will be Opera Australia’s new music director.

Opera Australia names new leaders after 12 months of turmoil

The national opera company has appointed a new CEO, music director and board chairman just months after posting a $10 million operating deficit.

  • Nick Galvin
ARia Song Unseen artists Catherine Gough-Brady, W. Tse Sang and Cassandra Tyler in Hyde Park.

The Perth artists using technology to give a new perspective on the city’s shot-hole borer toll

The shot-hole borer plague is one of the subjects of an innovative immersive art project leading to a $75,000 commission.

  • Mark Naglazas
Patrick Phillips and Timothy Springs in Foam.

Gay man and hate-filled Neo-Nazi: Decoding the tortured life of Nicky Crane

Our reviewers give their verdict on all the latest shows around Sydney.

  • John Shand, Cassie Tongue and Peter McCallum
Jana Castillo and Lloyd Allison-Young star in Beetle by Legs on the Wall at The Joan Penrith in Sydney.

How a treasured childhood memory inspired this adventure about the search for a beetle

The family-friendly show Beetle, by the acclaimed Legs on the Wall, features giant puppets and delivers a message of hope.

  • Chris Hook
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first trimester for Melb Fringe Festival 2025

This first date could lead to a baby down the track. And it’s in front of a live audience

We’ve all heard stories about turkey basters, but this show shines a light on an alternative, ahem, route to making babies.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
David Williamson

David Williamson skewered greedy Sydney - and bought the Harbour view anyway

Williamson fled what he thought were the worst aspects of Melbourne for the greener grass and emerald harbour of Sydney - but two decades proved enough.

  • John Shand
Jessie Bracewell with Ozzy Osbourne when she was his children’s nanny.

‘Genuine love’: The Osbournes’ Aussie nanny on life with the famous family

When Jessie Breakwell was backpacking in London she applied to a nanny agency – and ended up working for Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Novelist Max Porter.

The ‘unpublishable’ book that conquered the world

Max Porter’s bestselling novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers will now take flight on a Sydney stage.

  • Nicole Elphick