Australia
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.
Book review: The Buried Life, Andrea Goldsmith
Three people form an unlikely bond in this tale about messy relationships across generations.
Book review: Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts
A road trip that meanders around love and loss.
Australian Greens launch new arts policy, make explosive allegations regarding Creative Australia’s CEO
Creative Australia’s CEO Adrian Collette "misled" the Senate Estimates hearing last Tuesday according to the Greens’ arts spokesperson Senator Sarah…
Ballet review: Relâche: The Last Dance on Earth, Odeon Theatre, Hobart
A fusion of dance, Dadaist performance art and silent film.
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Glass art speaks to fragile past - major commission at Australian War Memorial
Over 1800 glass eucalypt leaves created by Annette Blair evoke memories and the Australian landscape as a first encounter in…