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April 19, 2026 / Features

Nancye Hayes: 65 years of doing what she loves

As a five-year-old, Nancye Hayes had an epiphany when she saw the musical Annie Get Your Gun. “I knew then exactly what I wanted to do,” she says. “I kept saying to my mother, ‘When I grow up, I’m going on the stage’. She’d just sigh and say, ‘Oh, that’ll…

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April 17, 2026 / Theatre Reviews

THE RIVER

Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera Huse April 7 7/10 When I was about eight, I became lost in a forest, and found it the most exhilarating feeling I’d known. I suspect British playwright Jez Butterworth sought to give his audiences a similar sense of disorientation with The River. Time bends, characters…

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April 11, 2026 / Album Reviews

Young/Cheviet/Lelievre

Breath (Newmarket) 8/10 Christopher Young is something of a maverick on Melbourne’s jazz scene, only occasionally releasing albums, but always having something worth saying. He’d known Dom Cheviet, a fellow reeds player from France, for 25 years before they finally got around to collaborating, and what a project it is.…

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