Reviews
Festival review: Essence Festival 2024
An ambitious attempt to stage a two-day music festival within the walls of a local Canberra bar shows promise.
Theatre review: Well-Behaved Women, Belvoir St Theatre
A feminist reckoning of women across history who broke the rules and forged their own way.
Comedy review: Arj Barker: The Mind Field, Gippsland Performing Arts Centre
The comedian is touring around Australia's regional and remote areas.
Performance review: The Dilly Dally of Death and Dying, Trades Hall
An ambitious but slightly confused adventure about being diagnosed with terminal or chronic illness.
Performance and exhibition review: Ground Beneath/Ocean Between, Queen Victoria Museum and Arts Gallery
A dance and video installation of a regional youth dance troupe.
Dance review: Temple of Desire, Malthouse Theatre
This ensemble dance theatre piece from Fringe mainstays Karma Dance summons a visually striking and sensual realm of ethereal beauty.
Musical review: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Princess Theatre
This musical, while not simply the best, is still pretty good.
Sonic and graphic reviews: Black Holes and XYZZY, Scienceworks Planetarium
Planetarium Nights brings two new adults-focused screenings on Fridays in October.
Performance review: Promising Young Mensch, Trades Hall
What does it take to be a good person and how does one prevail when innocence is corrupted?
Performance review: GRRRL Power, Trades Hall
A celebration of girl bands over the past 80 years.