Melbourne
How an indie company is working to engage new audiences
Pairing with local businesses with an established customer base can help transform unengaged audiences into cabaret fans.
Review: MTC’s The Lady in the Van, and Malthouse's Barbara and the Camp Dogs
Melbourne’s two major theatre companies open significant productions a night apart, and never has the contrast between the companies been…
Review: Zebra and Other Stories, by Debra Adelaide
Adelaide’s sharp, casual, to-the-point sentences are both silently aesthetic on the page and a pleasure to read aloud.
Review: Become the One at Gasworks, Midsumma Festival
A tragedy representative not only of queer athletes and their partners but of the Australian Football League's persistence in modelling…
Stories of the Stolen Generations: How the arts told a hidden history
Music can help bring people onside before they even realise they are onside, says Aboriginal songwriter and survivor of the…
Melbourne Writers Festival to call State Library Victoria home
After 10 years at Federation Square, Melbourne Writers Festival will now call the redeveloped State Library Victoria home.
Review: Underground Railroad Game, Malthouse Theatre
Arresting and unmissable production ripe for our times.
$2 million gift for children’s space at State Library Victoria
The donation through Gandel Philanthropy is earmarked for youth literacy programs and a new space dedicated to books and programming…
Review: Gender Euphoria, Midsumma Festival
Goodbye gender dysphoria, hello Gender Euphoria! A highlight of the Midsumma Festival.
Review: Wednesdays with Bob by Derek Rielly
From his balcony overlooking Sydney Harbour, Hawke sits down with Rielly to talk love, politics, friends, foes, and death.