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Artist’s home and $40m collection almost destroyed by bushfire. Now a new sustainable gallery has risen, hoping to turn Shoalhaven into an art destination

With plucky Brits and thick Germans, Powell and Pressburger's One of Our Aircraft Is Missing was exactly what the public needed in 1942

Arthur and Yvonne Boyd’s south coast property finally reopens to the public with a stunning new art museum and creative centre.

Almost 30 years after Arthur and Yvonne Boyd bequested their south coast property to the public, Bundanon reopens to the public with a stunning new art museum and creative centre.

Let the National Library entertain you when On Stage: Spotlight on Our Performing Arts opens in Autumn. There’s no business like show business, and this exhibition brings Australia’s performing arts history into the limelight.   The Australian stage has seen it all, from theatre, opera and dance to musicals, magic and hip hop, featuring household names like Sir Robert Helpmann, Dame Nellie Melba, Peter Allen, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Tim Minchin and the Hilltop Hoods. 

Sally Ann Howes, who played Truly Scrumptious died on Tuesday aged 91 after a regal career. Femail looks at how her co-stars - including two child stars who would turn their backs on fame, fared.

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From the Archives, 1961: Vivien Leigh’s star shines in Melbourne We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Staff writer Normal text size Vivien Leigh Here for Old Vic Opening The Old Vic’s Melbourne season. Credit:The Age Archives MISS VIVIEN LEIGH, leading lady in the Old Vic’s touring company — and perhaps the entire theatre’s leading lady — dispensed with dramatics when she arrived in Melbourne yesterday. Miss Leigh, 47, was tired. S...

A new home for Robin Lovejoy’s papers Pictures Librarian Linda Groom describes the process of acquiring the archive of theatre designer and director Robin Lovejoy. Anne Fraser,  , performed by the Victorian State Opera, 1980, nla.pic-vn3060965 Drew Forsythe chasing chooks was not enough. I vividly remembered those moments at the Parade Theatre in 1972. To anchor a scene in rural Australia, the director had given two lordly roosters a brief strut on stage, and Drew was only just managing t...