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IRL. Image is a boy in a pink shirt with a boy in a koala onesie wrapping his arms around him.
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Theatre review: IRL, Roundhouse Theatre, Brisbane

A cosplay meet-cute where the ordinary meets the extroverted.

The Dream. image is of a large group of ballerinas in green tutus playing Shakespearean fairies.
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Dance review: The Dream/Marguerite and Armand, Sydney Opera House

As part of its 60th anniversary programming, The Australian Ballet shows its range with two tonally different productions.

Unfinished Woman. Image is two side by side shots of a woman in a black jumper with shoulder length blonde hair. She is smiling in both. On the left is a colour shot of her leaning on her elbow with her cheek on her fist, and on the right is a black and white book cover with the title in cursive white font at the bottom.
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Book review: Unfinished Woman, Robyn Davidson

A memoir by the best-selling author of 'Tracks', revisits an eventful life, including the death of her mother and the…

New Reality. Image is a woman dancing in front of a fence like structure
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Performance review: New Reality, Immigration Museum

Multidisciplinary performance that paid homage to Chinese roots while exploring themes of identity, belonging and self-worth.

The Unconformity. Image is of performance participants sitting in kayaks on a lake.
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Festival review: The Unconformity, Queenstown

The Unconformity is a festival that interacts with the Queenstown landscape in unexpected ways.

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Dance review: CEASE/FIRE, C Shed, Fremantle, WA

A dance work which sharpens our eyes to difficult themes of war and its consequences, choreographed by May Greenberg and…

kandinsky. image is the back of a woman in long dark skirt and grey top with bag over her shoulder and a dark ponytail standing to the left of a modernist painting full of squiggles and a large dark sun-like circle in the top left corner.
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Exhibition review: Kandinsky, AGNSW

No Kandinsky painting is held in an Australia public collection, so this largest ever exhibition of the iconic modernist is…

Nighttime Righttime. Image is three women dressed in light gold shimmering one-pieces with sashes, gyrating in a large empty room.
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Performance review: Nighttime Righttime, Carriageworks

Presented as part of Performance Spaceā€™s Liveworks Festival, ā€˜Nighttime Righttimeā€™ was a syncopated medley of the wonderfully odd.

In the Club. Image is a theatre set of a dark smoky club with a black and red striped bench seat and a young man sitting with a young woman on his knee.
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Theatre review: In the Club, Theatre Works

Patricia Cornelius' play tackles consent, coercion and sexual violence in the AFL.

Defoe. Image is a man in 18th century garb, with a white wig, sitting in an armchair and holding up his arms in a querying stance.
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Theatre review: Defoe's Plague, La Mama

A befuddled but promising exploration of the life and work of Daniel Defoe.

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