Regional New South Wales

Playing Face, Civic Theatre Newcastle (NSW)
An absurdist piece of metatheatre that touches on relationships, identity, performativity, and the games that people play.

Sorry to Cut You Off, Penny; Civic Theatre Newcastle (NSW)
Tantrum Youth Arts’ play about an election night dinner party speaks with authenticity and verve.

Introducing Sheona White, Penrith Regional Gallery director
With a career spanning the majors and regional galleries, libraries and contemporary art, Penrith Regional Gallery’s new director tells us…

Review: Lyndal Campbell - Blue Five Ways, The Creator Incubator (NSW)
Newcastle artist Lyndal Campbell dealt with her fast-approaching exhibition deadline by moving into the gallery.

Review: Fold: A Domestic Circus, NORPA (NSW)
From dancing with mops to wrestling with a fitted sheet, this new circus production is inventive, warm and quietly distinctive.

Review: Paper and Place, Gosford Art Gallery (NSW)
A sensitive and erudite two-person exhibition that digs deep into history, and yet finds contemporary currency through the medium of…

Review: James Drinkwater, Newcastle Art Gallery (NSW)
From a Kenyan schoolyard, to making art on Berlin's streets, to Newcastle's sea pools, this exhibition reminds us that everything…

Review: The Streeton Trio – Beethoven, Schubert and Arensky, Wentworth Falls (NSW)
Beethoven in the bush proves a concert highlight.

Review: The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Civic Theatre Newcastle (NSW)
They’re like a choral group that does really funny political commentary and jokes about masculinity.

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Charles Sturt University (NSW)
Charles Sturt University’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream revels in the incongruity and farcicality of lovers and couplings.