Performing Arts

What a Swell Festival
SWELL SCULPTURE FESTIVAL: Last Saturday at Currumbin in Queensland was ‘just gorgeous’. The sun was shining the entire day, the…

Brisbane Festival – Past to present
The Brisbane Festival has come a long way since its very early days in the 60s when it was the…

Bare Witness
FORTYFIVE DOWNSTAIRS: As in a flipbook, fragments of a life are animated, moving through the war-zones of Bosnia, East Timor…

Australian Business Arts Foundation Awards (Vic)
AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS ARTS FOUNDATION: On Monday night at the Sofitel Grand Ballroom in Melbourne the eight Victorian winners of the…

Australian Premiere Continuum: The Killing Fields
THE ART CENTRE: Finally after ten years, this week 'The Continuum: The Killing Fields' has its Australian premiere at the…

Class Clowns 2010
THE MALTHOUSE: A blend of nerves and sophisticated comedic material invaded The Malthouse at this year’s 'Class Clowns National Grand…
Macbeth vs the Amphitheatre
BRISBANE FESTIVAL: Full of horror, violence, sex, murder and madness the story of Macbeth has all the grandeur and scale…

CHUNKY MOVE: Mix Tape
Choreographer Stephanie Lake has created an impressive, poundingly vital elegy to the vicissitudes of love in her first full length…

Melbourne Writers Festival Day 10 Crims and Creepy
MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL: The last day of the Melbourne Writers Festival, 10 days of talking, listening, and word related creativity…

Melbourne Writers Festival: Journalism Conference
MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL: New News was a two-day conference on the ‘Future of Journalism’ being held as part of the…