Victoria

New winter festival to replace White Night and Melbourne Festival
How will the combined festival – with its added focus on tourism and business – impact artists?

Future-proofing the arts in unsettled times
Speakers and participants at the 2019 Creative State Summit will discuss the future of the creative industries and the role…

Review: Daddy, Yirramboi Festival
There’s plenty to get your teeth into in this ambitious and confronting work from Joel Bray.

Review: Four Dogs and a Bone, Q44 Theatre (VIC)
Q44’s production is an intelligent, witty account of sabotage and arrogance in the professional arena.

From Taiwan to Melbourne: First Nations exchanges that decentre the West
How can we carry the past into the future? Collaborations between Yirramboi Festival and Pulima Art Festival offer a fresh…

Review: Matriarch, Yirramboi Festival
Sandy Greenwood’s masterful performance brings four generations of women to life in precise, dazzling detail.

Review: Così, MTC
Mental health is a tricky topic but Così is a big-hearted if not particularly sophisticated play.

Review: Love Child by Aksuna
A heartfelt and mesmerising story told in piano.

Review: Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, NGV International
A well-designed exhibition that artfully captures Calder’s humour and joy of creating.

Review: Revolutions: Rebels and Records, Melbourne Museum
A retro exhibition brings the Sixties back but with detail you’ve never seen before.