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  • @stephenheathphotography WAAPA’s final Verge is a triumph laced with nostalgia
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    WAAPA’s final Verge is a triumph laced with nostalgia

    18 November 2025

    In its final season inside the Geoff Gibbs Theatre, WAAPA’s Verge presents a beautifully crafted evening of ballet and contemporary works. From ghostly Romantic classics to Antarctic-inspired landscapes and a playful, history-rich finale, the 2025 showcase is both a farewell and a celebration of the school’s evolving legacy. Nina Levy writes.

    Reading time • 6 minutesDance
  • Reading time • 6 minutesDance
  • @stephenheathphotography A musician wearing a bright red hat and colourful patterned shirt looks intently at his guitar as he plays. This is jazz fusion legend Frank Gambale. Master leads apprentices in style
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    Master leads apprentices in style

    7 May 2023

    Having conquered the world stage, legendary jazz guitarist Frank Gambale brings out the best in some of WAAPA’s rising stars, writes Garry Lee. 

    Reading time • 5 minutesMusic
  • @stephenheathphotography A curly-haired man with a murderous expression on his face stares into the camera. He is holding what looks like a blade. Behind him a dark-haired woman in a white top pleads with him. This is a scene from WAAPA's production of Sweeney Todd WAAPA cooks up a killer finish
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    WAAPA cooks up a killer finish

    4 April 2023

    Dark and demonic, Sweeney Todd is also hugely entertaining. The musical rounds out the first season from WAAPA’s graduating classes in terrific style, writes an enthralled David Zampatti.

    Reading time • 6 minutesMusical Theatre
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  • Reading time • 7 minutesOpera
  • Barney McAll WAAPA Jazz in the Theatre series. A bearded man at the piano looks toward fellow musicians who are playing a keyboard and harp. WAAPA serves up a slice of NYC jazz
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    WAAPA serves up a slice of NYC jazz

    9 May 2022

    In a retrospective performance, jazz virtuoso Barney McAll draws on the traditions of his genre while pointing the way to the future, writes Garry Lee

    Reading time • 5 minutesMusic
  • Two performers in blonde wigs and pink dresses are surrounded by a group of people in dark coats and hats, some are holding cameras and some have pencils and pads Young performers prove the main event
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    Young performers prove the main event

    5 April 2022

    WAAPA’s third year musical theatre students make the best of a bad lot in this revival of Side Show, a musical David Zampatti thinks we could have done without.

    Reading time • 5 minutesMusical Theatre
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