Performing Arts
Opportunities and awards
Financial barriers removed for National Portrait Gallery prizes, plus winners of Design Fringe, dual champions of poetry slam and more!
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…
Performance reviews: The Hotline, Poet No.7 and Zaffé, Melbourne Fringe Festival
An on-demand pregnancy hotline, post-apocalyptic Melbourne and reimagining of a traditional Lebanese wedding at Melbourne Fringe 2023.
National summit aims to strengthen Australian circus sector
Next week 200 delegates will attend the Australian Circus Summit at NICA, which will also be the venue for a…
Performance review: Elvis: A Musical Revolution, Athenaeum Theatre
With two rock and pop musicals opening in Melbourne on the same night, a show about the King manages to…
Comedy review: Tight Mums, Loose Units, Trades Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Hysterical tongue-in-cheek Tight Mums dishing the dirt on married life and divorce.Â
Vale Jacqueline Dark
The 'indefatigably upbeat' Australian mezzo-soprano died this week, aged just 55.
Performance review: Tender, the Vault, Sydney Fringe Festival
This circus cabaret hybrid explores a disassembling of gender constructs in its fluid meld of bodies.
Shining a spotlight on South Asian Australian theatre
Why you should care about South Asian Australian theatre companies and their futures.
Patrick Gunasekera and Georgi Ivers: two artists and their journeys in crip time
Care can come in the form of time, patience, flexibility and community engagement in a world that still poses so…