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Ten comedians to keep your eyes on
Our comedy festival tips for those of you who like your humour fresh as well as funny.
Kids' stories finding new adult audiences
Harry Potter to War Horse: Why have the boundaries separating children’s entertainment from more adult art forms have become so…
Castlemaine State Festival: performing arts
From bands, ensembles and choral groups to Indigenous pantomime and cabaret, this festival has the performing arts covered.
Acting, auditioning, and the audience: lessons from John Bell
With five decades experience behind him, actor and director John Bell has plenty of advice for up and coming thespians.
Hate
Written for the 1988 Australian Bicentenary, Stephen Sewell’s play about a wealthy political family and their monstrous and manipulative patriarch…
The Other Place
Sharr White’s acclaimed drama, part mystery, part domestic tragedy, opens the MTC’s 2013 season.
Vieux Carré
Named after the French Quarter in New Orleans, this overtly autobiographical Tennessee Williams play is rarely performed – with good…
OVO
Cirque du Soleil’s latest spectacle is technically proficient but strangely passionless, a garish spectacle over-produced to within an inch of…
How to be a good audience
Performers train for years and rehearse for weeks. Is it too much to expect a little effort from audiences? Share…
10 productions to book for in 2013
No doubt it’s going to be a brilliant year in the performing arts. Here are 10 of the many productions…