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Omicron shortages create 'new precariousness' for performing arts
Short supplies of RATs and workers under pressure are part of the new normal for theatre and musical productions.
Omicron hits the performing arts
As the Omicron variant spreads, major performing arts productions are struggling with cast outbreaks and hesitant audiences.
On the move: Latest sector appointments
New Executive Director of QPAC starts this month, and several major arts organisations appoint new board chairs.
Four ways to achieve your work goals
Back at work with fresh eyes for the year? Here's how to take your career to new places in 2022.
Time to learn how to stop (working)
Timely reminders of why rest is vital to our best creative work.
Theatres band together on no vax no entry
A group of Sydney theatres has decided on their own COVID policies in the interest of safety.
Exit interview: Shelagh Magadza, Chamber of Arts and Culture WA
A turbulent three years working in arts advocacy has given Shelagh Magadza unique perspectives on where the sector can go…
Music industry’s me too reckoning
The music industry is now beginning its largest ever review of workplace discrimination.
Arts podcasts we’ve escaped to in 2021
After another big year of ups and downs, we can find refuge and entertainment in arts podcasts from 2021.
Theatre review: The Bleeding Tree, Blue Room Theatre
A play about domestic violence given new perspective through an all female, all Indigenous cast.