Music
Summer festival season heats up as programs launch nationwide
Adelaide, Perth and Sydney Festivals launched their 2024 programs this week, with Mona Foma waiting eagerly in the wings.
Music review: Cécile McLorin Salvant, QPAC
Award-winning jazz performer, Cécile McLorin Salvant, wows the audience.
Music review: Angel Strings and K Mak, Scienceworks Planetarium, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A successful marriage of cosmic imagery and ethereal music.
Opera review: The Visitors, Arts Centre Melbourne
Victorian Opera's adaptation of Jane Harrison's novel and play leads audiences to new ways of thinking about opera and Australia’s…
Arts organisations say they want to be ‘cultural leaders’ – but are they living up to their goals?
Should our leading arts companies take a stand more often?
Musician returns Order Of Australia medal over Voice referendum result
Shane Howard, the singer-songwriter of ‘Solid Rock, Sacred Ground’, has returned his Order of Australia medal in protest at the…
World of WearableArt goes beyond imagination
2023 World of WearableArt: BEYOND was an exploration into a boundless realm where artistry, innovation and imagination intertwined.
Performance Reviews: HIGH PONY, LOOPS, Black Widow, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Four Melbourne Fringe Festival works show the range on offer, from comedy to circus, cabaret and street tours.
Phantom’s Sarah Brightman to star in new Australian production of Sunset Boulevard
‘All right Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up’: Brightman to play deranged silent picture star Norma Desmond in lavish…
Vale Jacqueline Dark
The 'indefatigably upbeat' Australian mezzo-soprano died this week, aged just 55.