Performing Arts
Arts news watch: this week's trending topics
We report it – you read it. Keep your eye on this week's top arts news stories.
Small is beautiful, but can small-scale programming survive within growth markets?
As blockbuster shows fill up arts calendars everywhere, the value of smaller scale arts projects is being neglected to the…
Performance review: Evolution Revolution, State Theatre Centre of WA
An interactive game show that uses the audience themselves as the raw materials.
Performance review: La Dolce Vita Down Under – Ileana Pipitone in cabaret, Claire's Kitchen
The performer tracks her journey from Italy to Australia.
Performance review: Yummy: Joy Machine, FRINGE WORLD
High-voltage drag cabaret.
Walking tour review: Stories from Here, Sydney Festival
An audio walking tour that explored the hidden worlds of Bankstown's youth.
Performance review: Adore Händel’s Little Black Book, FRINGE WORLD
High art, high camp and hijinks.
Mogwai’s new album 'The Bad Fire' transforms trauma into art
Stuart Braithwaite, co-founder of post-rock titans Mogwai, reflects on the personal pain that helped shape the Scottish band’s 11th studio…
Opportunities and awards
$130,000 portrait prize open for entries, plus winners of the Sydney Theatre Awards, finalists of the Novel Prize, and more!
Profits or losses for state theatre companies five years on from COVID?
What do the balance sheets of some of our flagship theatre companies tell us about how they are building back?