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    Grand divas unite

    Two of Australia’s greatest exports, Barry Humphries and Meow Meow, will unite for a one-of-a-kind tour of Australia in April and May. Together they’ll embark on a shared passion: performing the songs of the Weimar Republic, a...

    • Posted 100 days ago
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    All you need is love

    This Sunday’s Love Me fundraising concert may well be the first – and last – event ever to see beardy indie-folk troubadour Steve Smyth share the bill alongside with Sydney’s reigning drag princess Courtney Act.  New York-based...

    • Posted 121 days ago
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    Life’s no drag for Rhubarb

    It’s been a long journey to the Sydney Opera House stage for performer Ricky Beirao, AKA drag queen Rhubarb Rouge: from humble beginnings in his home country of Brazil, to a tough stint as a bullied teen...

    • Posted 121 days ago
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    Le Party Time

    Melbourne’s hottest, new all-male cabaret review, Le Male kicks off on Friday, February 8 at Love Machine. The new show is set to tantalise and tease audiences with its troupe of talented lads. Hosted by Melbourne socialite...

    • Posted 139 days ago
  • Jessie Ware: ‘I try to be a classy bird’

    It’s been just under a year since UK soul singer Jessie Ware first hit the scene with her stunning, Sade-esque debut single Running, and since that time – in subsequent singles, videos, and across her phenomenal debut...

    • Posted 141 days ago
  • Get a whiff of SydFest

    The Sydney Festival is now well and truly in full swing. Don’t forget to check out queer highlight Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) at the Famous Spiegeltent on January 26 and 27. His second album, 2012’s Put Your...

    • Posted 161 days ago
  • There’s something about Henry

    Henry is on a mission to tell Midsumma audiences something they didn’t already know and he only has 70 minutes to do so. Curious? You should be. Award-winning playwright Daniel MacIvor’s cult one-man play, Here Lies Henry,...

    • Posted 161 days ago
  • Midsumma has arrived

    Midsumma is finally here. It’s been a long time coming and 2013 is an exciting year for the festival as it notches up its 25th year; it’s silver jubilee. That’s 25 years of presenting shocking, dazzling, heart-warming...

    • Posted 163 days ago
  • These chicks mean business

    The multi-talented German group, Chicks on Speed, are coming to Australia this month to share their hybrid, explosive DIY aesthetic to everything they touch. COS is much more than an electroclash act, they present installations, videos and...

    • Posted 163 days ago
  • Surf, sex and schizophrenia

    Meet Chicklet: a 16-year-old finding herself sexually in 1960s America. Life was tough enough for a teenage girl of the time as everyday ideals of women and status were flipped on their heads. But add schizophrenia and the fact...

    • Posted 168 days ago