Victoria
Politics and plays: telling truths while telling stories
Conversations at the 2014 Victorian Theatre Forum were squarely focused on politically aware theatre-making.
Ten kilos of first world war grief at the Melbourne Museum
A new exhibition at Melbourne Museum explores the experiences of Victorians in the Great War, and the war’s effects on…
Bennetts Lane closure strikes a bum note for Australian jazz
The impending closure of legendary Melbourne jazz club Bennetts Lane has shocked the jazz community.
The lives and sorrows of the war-torn
Opening Saturday, Melbourne Museum's new exhibition tells century-old personal stories of war with 21st-century technology.
Bent: a play with the power to change laws and lives
Martin Sherman's powerful drama about the lives of gay men in Nazi Germany is set for a new Melbourne season.
Finucane & Smith’s Glory Box
This is an astonishing, thought-provoking and gratifying experience. And it’s fun.
Bemusement park
As three US museums join Snapchat, award-winning Museum Victoria rejects suggestions that museums are becoming theme parks.
In this warm jasmine dusk …
Sydney poet Helen Thurloe takes out $7000 literature prize.
The politics of discomfort: the 2014 Victorian Theatre Forum
Delegates at next week’s industry gathering will explore the challenges of making work that provokes and confronts the audience.
Craigieburn library wins international accolade
An Australian library takes out an architectural award initiated by the Danish Agency for Culture.