Performing Arts
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.
Circus training centre to open up for sector
One Fell Swoop and Na Djinang among those circus companies looking forward to the appointment of a new site operator.
Musical review: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Princess Theatre
This musical, while not simply the best, is still pretty good.
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.