Performing Arts

Half man half woman
THE TOFF: Right from the beginning this talented musical duo, performing together with drummer Tony Floyd and double bass player…

Proposed new organisation ‘Writing Australia'
AUSTRALIA COUNCIL: Discussions have commenced in the past week between the directors of the Tasmanian, Victorian, New South Wales and…

The Divine Deveny
OPINION: On Wednesday night as part of the Emerging Writers Festival Catherine Deveny, former Age columnist was a special extra…

Sydney Writers' Festival swoons on success
SYDNEY WRITERS' FESTIVAL: Despite rainy weather the Sydney Writers' Festival finished up last Sunday smashing the previous box office taking…

Shining a light on Vivid Sydney
OPINION: When is an arts festival not an arts festival? When it’s a giant advertising campaign.

Exposing children to more of the Arts
OPINION: That which someone else might deem inappropriate for their kids, I might embrace for my children's developmental enrichment.

The last five years
HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE: The Last Five Years is the latest offering that is a musical with absolutely no dialogue that…

The last days of Judas Iscariot
FORTYFIVE DOWNSTAIRS: One of history’s most famous apparent betrayals has been brought to the Melbourne stage in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s…

MOTH
MALTHOUSE: Declan Greene is a playwright that just seems to be getting better and better with every work he creates.

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THEATRE WORKS: '[title of show]' takes a witty look at both the pleasures and perils of the artistic process, the…