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On the job learning accelerates artistic careers
From coast to coast, early and mid-career artists are benefitting from attaching themselves to festivals and arts organisations.
Review: The Great War at Adelaide Festival
The horrors of the Western Front are evoked in miniature and to haunting effect, in this uneven but technically striking…
Review: Thyestes at Adelaide Festival
Simon Stone’s breakthrough production now feels like something of a museum piece.
Review: In The Club at Adelaide Festival
STCSA commissioned Patricia Cornelius to write about football and sexual misconduct. The result is a powerful piece of theatre.
Additional $1 million a year promised for South Australian artists
A bipartisan promise to increase grants funding for artists has been made by the major parties in the lead up…
Choreographic competition is about more than just awards
The Keir Choreographic Award features public programs as well as a choreographic competition, and provides a snapshot of the contemporary…
Tracey Spicer and Sue Maslin discuss where next for #metoo in Australia
Screen producer Sue Maslin and journalist Tracey Spicer discuss the #metoo and #timesup campaigns, and where next for the fight…
Eight artists receive 2018 Australia Council Awards
Eight recipients have been recognised by the peer-nominated Awards, which recognise and celebrate significant contributions to the artistic and cultural…
Cross-border collaboration encourages art song evolution
A regional conservatorium and a capital city theatre have joined forces to bring the art song tradition into the 21st…
Choose your own hybrid Japanese adventure
Immerse yourself in experimental dance and theatre direct from Japan; experience Sydney through fresh eyes and from a bold new…