Performing Arts
Theatre Review: Playthings, Black Swan and Blue Room Theatre
Moving from black box to main stage, Playthings delivers an overflowing schoolbag of revelations.
Performance Review: Meat Mirror, Anywhere Festival
This new feminist artwork by Brisbane-based artist Jay Younger and performer/choreographer Lisa O’Neill cleverly lures in the audience with comedy…
Theatre Review: Taming of the Shrew, Queensland Theatre
An exquisitely timed, hilarious version of Shakespeare's classic play.
A budget that risks flatlining our culture?
The arts got a passing reference in the Budget speeches this week but Esther Anatolitis couldn't see a vision for…
Reconciliation Week: Our country, Our future – Our shared responsibility
Embracing Aboriginal wisdom, culture and history, so we can call all work towards a shared future as custodians of this…
ICYMI: NSW $11.9M funding, NT Writers Festival dates and more
Sampa the Great to headline Vivid Live, Yarra Valley Writers Festival program, Bell Shakespeare on tour, plus more arts and…
Musical theatre after the pandemic: imagining its future
Five women who are directing or music directing Australian musical theatre productions share their experiences of COVID, its impact on…
Opera Review: Ernani, Opera Australia
Spectacular voices and a clever production overcome this early Verdi opera’s preposterous plot.
Creating new theatre in the heart of Canberra
The New Works program at Canberra Theatre Centre is offering free access to the Courtyard Studio for either a week’s…
What's Budget 2021-22 got for the arts?
The short answer is not much more. The longer answer looks at flat funding for the Australia Council and previously…