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Staying home? Grab those new Dine and Discover vouchers and use our critics’ picks of the best entertainment in Sydney this summer.

Staying home? Grab those new Dine and Discover vouchers and use our critics’ picks of the best entertainment in Sydney this summer.

Fresh from a regional development and incredible reaction to its performance in Harvey, JULIA heads to the State Theatre Centre of WA for its world premiere season from 20 to 29 May 2021. This powerful and gripping solo dance theatre work by one of Australia's leading contemporary dancers, Natalie Allen, is co-created in partnership with and directed by Sally Richardson. As the ten-year anniversary of her iconic misogyny speech in parliament approaches, JULIA is a response to Julia Gillard's experience as Prime Minister and her legacy, to the wider culture of #metoo, and the frustration we fe...

Review: Slow Burn, Together, choreographed by Emma Fishwick. Emma Fishwick and Performing Lines for Perth Festival. It goes against the very core of Slow Burn, Together to respond to it so quickly in print. In the program, choreographer Emma Fishwick quotes art historian Ernst Gombrich: “the reading of a picture needs a very long time.” Slow Burn, Together encourages a dream-like reflection on our relationship with time, especially history and progress, how it shapes us, how we work with it and against it. Moving through the cavernous stage of Perth’s Her Majesty’s Theatre — on foo...

Review: Black Brass, written and performed by Mararo Wangai; directed by Matt Edgerton. Performing Lines WA for Perth Festival. The scene opens into a messy music studio, used bottles and pizza boxes littered everywhere. A young man of sub-Saharan African descent appears, exhausted, entering the room late at night. As the young janitor starts cleaning, he is distracted by the music playing in the background. Suddenly, the security alarm goes off: he has forgotten the code and immediately calls his manager to request assistance. Over the phone, we hear his manager reprimand him, but he sound...