Reviews

Theatre review: Jack Maggs, Adelaide Festival Centre
Based on the novel by Peter Carey, this production is a fine new work in the Australian theatrical canon.

Exhibition review: et al.: epochal, MUMA
Truth and power challenged as Aotearoa New Zealand collective et al. disrupts the MUMA galleries.

Exhibition review: Nature of Nature: Mike Makatron, Backwoods Gallery
Prolific mural artist hosts a rare gallery exhibition with exceptional results.Â

Performance review: Never Mind the Buzzers, Here’s RocKwiz LIVE!, West Gippsland Arts Centre
The original TV show has become a popular touring franchise.

Book review: Mean Streak, Rick Morton
This exhaustive record of the illegal and self-serving behaviour of people in high places is as compelling as it is…

Exhibition review: Glen Downey, Isabella Hayes, Kate Pullen, Dan Go, Nyssa Braid, Off The Kerb Gallery and Studios
Independent Melbourne art gallery again proves its finger is on the pulse.Â

Film review: Welcome to Babel
A fascinating portrait of a man with a mission and the history that inspired it...

Book review: Orbital, Samatha Harvey
This year's Booker Prize-winner has garnered a lot of praise, but does it actually deserve it?

Theatre review: Sweat, Wharf 1 Theatre
A play about hardscrabble small-town Americans by a Pulitzer-winning playwright is grimly prescient.

Exhibition review: Carbon_Dating, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Sunshine CoastÂ
A group exhibition exploring Australian native grasses.