Western Australia

Theatre, dance and circus highlights 2023: Part 2
Continuing our overview of what’s in store in the coming year for the performing arts, we look at the NT…

2023: a first-class year for Australian symphonic orchestras
An emphasis on sustainable music making, Australian composition, the showcasing of female conductors and composers, plus the voices of First…

What our opera companies have on offer in 2023
Two Wagner Ring Cycles, First Nations and new commissioned works, plus a Gilbert and Sullivan festival, offer some diverse opera…

Theatre review: Enlightenment
A visually stunning masterpiece of rare intelligence, social commentary and razor-sharp wit.

Theatre Review: The Flower that Fell From the Sky, The Blue Room Theatre
A vaguely Chekhovian journey abundant in birds and dysfunctional nostrils.

Exhibition review: I have not loved (enough or worked)
A cleverly curated collection of artwork concerned with the body/mind boundary.Â

Exhibition review: Yeahnahnesia, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Imaginative artefacts from a non-existent world.

New program and personnel prove a gamechanger for Musica Viva
Musica Viva's renewal after COVID offers a tantalising program of collaborations and new directions.

Theatre review: Oil, Black Swan
Directed by Adam Mitchell, Ella Hickson’s theatrical masterpiece is the highlight of Black Swan's 2022 season.

What pipeline partnerships can achieve for the theatre sector
An independent theatre and a State Theatre Company are working together to support and re-stage new Australian works.