Performing Arts
Vale Efterpi Soropos
The lighting designer, multimodal artist and mental health recovery coach died earlier this month, aged 61.
Theatre review: As You Like It, Queensland Theatre
Queensland Theatre’s 'As You Like It' plays to its comic humour at the expense of narrative and Shakespeare’s language.
Opportunities and awards
VACS $100,000 grants and 2024 Carclew Fellowships now open, plus winners of 2023 Gallipoli Art Prize and finalists of ABIA…
Comedy review: Akau Jambo, Looking for a Visa, The Rubber Chicken, MICF
A South Sudanese comedian makes his Australian debut.
Music Review: Wild, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Series 2
The world premiere performance of a new Australian violin concerto was a wild and wonderful orchestral highlight.
Comedy review: Dylan Moran, We Got This, Hamer Hall, MICF
A shambolic and disappointing show from a cult favourite.
Opera review: Ferruccio Furlanetto In Concert, Melbourne Recital Centre
A world-class performance that is a bitter reminder of Opera Australia’s slim pickings in Melbourne this year.
Theatre review: True West, fortyfivedownstairs
Sibling rivalry resurfaces in this classic Sam Shepard play.
Musical review: La Cage Aux Folles, State Theatre
Pretty and energetic, but dated.
Vale Barry Humphries
Humphries, whose reputation was tarnished in later years, is nonetheless remembered as a comic genius.