Performing Arts

Performance review: Night Night, State Theatre Centre WA, Perth Festival
A magical-realist show about the origins of life on earth.

Opportunities and awards
A $60,000 moving image commission opens, plus the winner of the MECCA x NGV Women in Design and finalists of…

Performance review: Björn Again, West Gippsland Arts Centre
The ABBA tribute band are back on a country-wide tour.

A Narrow Strip Along A Steep Edge
A Narrow Strip Along A Steep Edge
 A Narrow Strip Along a Steep Edge invites eight contemporary artists to inhabit the lingering structures of Fort Lytton in an…

Turning 60 in style: Australian Dance Theatre leaps from the stage to the gallery wall
AD Daniel Riley describes the birth of ADT and an accompanying exhibition documenting the company’s six decades of dance-making.

Theatre review: Shellshocked, Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide Fringe Festival
The psychological ravages of war laid bare in unexpected ways.Â

Performance reviews: Hope and Gluttony, Adelaide Fringe Festival
A choir full of hope and other assorted goodies in this year's Adelaide Fringe.

Theatre review: Berlin, The Stables Meat Market, North Melbourne
Secrets and lies, the past and the present: Joanna Murray-Smith's play returns for a short season.

Theatre review: Krapp’s Last Tape with Stephen Rea, Adelaide Festival 2025
A masterful actor performs Beckett’s masterpiece about the inevitable march of time: an unmissable production.

Dance review: A Quiet Language, Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide Festival 2025
A complex, compelling production, by turns anguished and joyous, angry and elegiac, honouring six decades of radical dance history.