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Shadows, puppets and a goldfish: The unusual play tackling a very big question

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Cher Tan |Andrew Fuhrmann

By Cher Tan and Andrew Fuhrmann February 27, 2025 — 2.11pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Key pointsTHEATRE: Goldfish as part of Asia TOPA tells a story of hopePERFORMANCE ART: Melati Suryodarmo performs at DancehouseTHEATRE | ASIA TOPAGoldfish ★★★★★Arts House, until March 1It is a time of crisis, and it has been for some time.
Shadows, puppets and a goldfish: The unusual play tackling a very big question

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Cher Tan |Andrew Fuhrmann

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This ballet about legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky enthrals, enchants and exhausts

2 months ago | theage.com.au | Andrew Fuhrmann |Cher Tan

By Andrew Fuhrmann and Cher Tan February 22, 2025 — 2.08pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. DANCENijinsky ★★★★Regent Theatre, until March 1John Neumeier’s ambitious homage to the legendary Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky is almost too much to bear.
First you arrive at the secret location – then the mysteries begin

Oct 15, 2024 | theage.com.au | Sonia Nair |Cher Tan

By Sonia Nair and Cher Tan October 16, 2024 — 1.10pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This year’s festival has kicked off, with almost 500 shows on offer across Melbourne and greater Victoria. Here, our writers take a closer look.See all 8 stories. It’s the final week of the Melbourne Fringe, but for some shows things are just getting started.
A blacksmith forge and a return to the Tamagotchi era? This festival has it all

Oct 3, 2024 | theage.com.au | Andrew Fuhrmann |Cher Tan |Donna Demaio |Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

By Andrew Fuhrmann, Cameron Woodhead, Cher Tan, Donna Demaio, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Guy Webster, Hannah Francis and Vyshnavee Wijekumar October 3, 2024 — 3.53pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Melbourne Fringe has kicked off! Here you can find a collection of reviews covering performances by some of the 2500 artists in the festival this year.
Desire Under Capitalism - Kill Your Darlings

Sep 25, 2024 | killyourdarlings.com.au | Cher Tan

When Australian critic Shannon Burns was a teenager in the 90s, he worked as a sorter at an Adelaide recycling centre. As per his memoir Childhood, it begins as a weekend job, but he ends up working there full-time for the rest of his adolescence.
Debut Spotlight: 5 Questions with Cher Tan — Kill Your Darlings

May 8, 2024 | killyourdarlings.com.au | Cher Tan

Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings Debut Spotlight feature. For May that debut is Peripathetic by Cher Tan (NewSouth Books), a collection of luminous and inventive essays that look beyond the performance of everyday life, seeking answers that continually elude.
Their housing estate was demolished. Here’s what happened to the final residents

May 8, 2024 | theage.com.au | Cher Tan

By Cher Tan May 9, 2024 — 5.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 2020 the Walker Street public housing estate in Northcote was demolished. Most of the land – the parts that look out over the Merri Creek – was handed over to developers to be sold, with a section retained for social housing.
Catch up on the shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize with our reading guide

Apr 3, 2024 | abc.net.au | Sarah L'Estrange |Nicola Heath |Declan Fry |Katherine Smyrk |Cher Tan

For more than 10 years, the Stella Prize has showcased the best writing by women and non-binary writers in Australia. In 2023, Sarah Holland-Batt took out the $60,000 prize for The Jaguar, an elegiac poetry collection inspired by her late father's dispiriting experience in the aged care system after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Other past winners include Evelyn Araluen (Dropbear, 2023), Alexis Wright (Tracker, 2018) and Charlotte Wood (The Natural Way of Things, 2016).
Cam Venn; John Glover; Opening Night Comedy All-Stars Supershow; Noah Szto; A Succulent Comedy Showcase

Mar 27, 2024 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Hannah Francis |Cher Tan |Mikey Cahill |Sonia Nair

By Hannah Francis, Cher Tan, Mikey Cahill, Sonia Nair and Vyshnavee Wijekumar March 28, 2024 — 11.47am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. From a heist (and some escalating nudity) to a first-time performer who has proven himself one to watch, this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival has gotten off to a roaring start. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.