Fish,family and friends:Young Archie winners on show

Fish,family and friends:Young Archie winners on show

This year’s winners,including Anh Do’s 14-year-old son Leon,painted siblings,parents and best friends.

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This comedian once thought she’d been kidnapped. She’s now a viral hit.

This comedian once thought she’d been kidnapped. She’s now a viral hit.

Atsuko Okatsuka is one of the fastest rising names in comedy – thanks to her grandma and the Drop Challenge.

  • byLenny Ann Low
Eloquent and beguiling:Operatic Hamlet is a triumph
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Eloquent and beguiling:Operatic Hamlet is a triumph

Our critics deliver verdicts on the latest shows around town.

  • byMillie Muroi,Cassie Tongue,Shamim Razavi,Harriet Cunningham andJohn Shand
Sister Act to Julia to Gilgamesh:Your mid-year guide to Sydney shows

Sister Act to Julia to Gilgamesh:Your mid-year guide to Sydney shows

With epics,toe-tappers,classics and fresh imaginings of every size and flavour,Sydney’s stages are bursting with entertainment

  • byLenny Ann Low
This quiet Australian horror has style in spades but not enough guts

This quiet Australian horror has style in spades but not enough guts

Birdeater uses the seclusion of the landscape to build and sustain a deep psychological unease,but struggles with characterisation and pacing.

  • byGiselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Why a playwright who updates the classics thinks it’s mostly unnecessary

Why a playwright who updates the classics thinks it’s mostly unnecessary

Adapting Uncle Vanya,Joanna Murray-Smith was desperate to stay true to the playwright’s intentions.

  • byJohn Shand
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A musical Little Women brings Jo’s lurid imagination to life

A musical Little Women brings Jo’s lurid imagination to life

Our critics deliver their verdict on the latest shows around town.

  • byJoyce Morgan,Daniel Herborn,Bernard Zuel,Chantal Nguyen andHarriet Cunningham
Emma Stone returns for another wacky film,but sadly this is no Poor Things
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Emma Stone returns for another wacky film,but sadly this is no Poor Things

If the filmmaker’s much-praised,award-winning Poor Things was the main meal,Kinds of Kindness is the offcuts.

  • byRobert Moran
Sorry,but Kevin Costner’s new western is both incomplete and dull
★★½
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Sorry,but Kevin Costner’s new western is both incomplete and dull

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.

  • byJake Wilson
A wildly entertaining play to get you excited about Australian theatre again

A wildly entertaining play to get you excited about Australian theatre again

Our critics deliver their verdict on the latest shows around town.

  • byJohn Shand,Michael Ruffles andShamim Razavi
Do we care about the Archibald Prize too much?
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Do we care about the Archibald Prize too much?

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.

  • byJohn McDonald