Melbourne

Review: Swell 4.0 – Music as Medicine
A live-music experience that puts you front and centre of making, listening, sharing and reminiscing about music that moves.

Review: I'm Not Running, National Theatre Live
David Hare's latest is flat and disappointing.

How a new generation is preserving culture for the future
The University of Melbourne’s Master of Cultural Materials Conservation equips students with high-level technical skills and trains them in cultural…

Acknowledging past trauma through healing art practices
A new exhibition asks how we can regain control over the residues of past trauma through personal memories and local…

Review: Don't Be a C***: This is How, The Butterfly Club
A troubling piece of theatre that struggles to deliver.

Review: Beside Myself by Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Beside Myself is fiction at its highest purpose – a debut novel that comes straight from the gates like a…

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…