Performing Arts
Busking Beauty
ARTS HUB AUSTRALIA — Karla Dondio interviews a range of buskers to find out what's in it for the people…
Peter Gelb Stages a Worthy Debut at the Metropolitan Opera
Major cultural institutions are not noted for their agility with change. Board structures, subscribers’ tastes, administrative ballast, and the sheer…
Holding the Man: from Book to Play and Beyond
ARTS HUB AUSTRALIA — David Berthold tells Arts Hub how he and playwright Tommy Murphy helped bring Timothy Conigrave's 1995…
Rupert Myer - Art teacher as hero
Arts patron, philanthropist and Chairman of the National Gallery of Australia, Rupert Myer recently opened an exhibition at Melbourne Grammar.…
One way to a paid gig: become a musical director
Life as a musician: creatively satisfying but itinerant, underpaid and only lucrative for the lucky few? That's certainly the cliché…
Second Front: Performance Art in Second Life
Second Front is a groundbreaking performance art collective who meet, rehearse and create work in the popular online virtual universe,…
Why are Swedish bands so great?
ARTS HUB UK — The Knife, The Sounds, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Jose Gonzalez, Crazy Frog, the list goes on.…
A degree of talent: studying for a life in the theatre
Flicking through American Theatre magazine, one’s eye is assaulted with a glossy panoply of advertisements for various theatre degrees. One…
Trip report: The Future of Electronic Literature Symposium
"Electronic Literature? Is that like e-books?" you ask. Well, yes and no — in a sense, electronic writing has been…
Why I chose suburbia instead of bohemia
To be an artist do you really have to starve? Ralph Grayden tells us about his own experiences juggling art…