In the Heights review – Broadway behemoth’s scrappiest show is full of heart
This breakout work from Lin-Manuel Miranda doubles as a study of an artist on the rise: big feelings, boisterous raps, and a ragtag gang bonded by love and fire
June 2024
Australian arts in focus
Play it Safe: Sydney Opera House short film wins Grand Prix award at Cannes Lions festival
Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo and Juliet Suite review – a surprising, often thrilling experience
May 2024
Spunk Records goes out on a high: ‘Like a mixtape from your coolest friend’
After 25 years and almost 700 albums, the tastemaker who brought Belle and Sebastian and Arcade Fire to Australia are shutting up shop
Air at Sydney Opera House review – space-age pop as exquisite as its venue
The French duo celebrated the 25th anniversary of their masterful debut by playing it in full. It was majestic – even if it dwarfed the rest of their discography
Benjamin Millepied on queering Romeo and Juliet: ‘In France they called me woke’
The Black Swan choreographer is bringing his unique take on Shakespeare to Sydney – involving cameras and dancers running outside the Opera House
April 2024
No Pay? No Way! review – this 50-year-old cost-of-living satire is perfect for today’s Australia
Drama theatre, Sydney Opera House Set in the aftermath of a riot in a supermarket over skyrocketing prices, Marieke Hardy’s adaptation of Dario Fo is marvellously funny
March 2024
Walk with ...
Tara Rae Moss: ‘So many doctors in different continents told me that I would never recover’
Eight years ago, the international bestselling author was diagnosed with a debilitating pain condition. Now able to walk again, she talks about women, medicine and pushing into the unknown
February 2024
House music
Fred Again at Sydney Opera House review – a record-breaking, turbocharged night
About 125,000 people tried to get tickets for this surprise show, announced by the savvy British DJ on the day – and the result was a direct hit to the brain’s pleasure centres
Explain it to me quickly
Fred Again: who is the DJ who has thousands queuing for a ‘secret rave’ at the Sydney Opera House?
On Tuesday morning the British DJ announced he will play a surprise show in Sydney – tonight. It has already sold out. Who is he and why do his fans love him so much?
Artistic duo in Sydney cannabis laws protest ‘vindicated’ as prosecutors drop charges
Case against Alec Zammitt and Will Stolk, who projected pro-cannabis images onto Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, abandoned after nearly two years
December 2023
‘Like a gothy yoghurt starter’: how Neil Gaiman and an Australian string quartet fell in love
Barry Humphries remembered as an ‘interstellar’ talent at Sydney Opera House memorial service
October 2023
‘A triumph of imagination over prosaic minds’: how the Sydney Opera House delivered Australia to the world
Sail on: 50 years of the Sydney Opera House – in pictures
'No one likes a show-off': Tim Minchin leads satirical clip for Sydney Opera House's 50th – video
Impossible made perfect: builders of the Sydney Opera House look back in wonder
Camp Cope review – a joyous farewell to the trailblazers’ music and message
Sydney Opera House at 50: the stories behind the superstitions, sleepovers and scene-stealing moments
September 2023
From pop to classical to avant-garde: the 15 best Sydney Opera House shows to stream for free
The venue is releasing 50 archival films across the next two months, to celebrate its 50th year. Our editors and critics have selected the top picks
