Performing Arts
Bluesfest axed after 2025, ending its 36-year run
News of Bluesfest's closure shocked some while others see it as inevitable due to shift in demand.
First Nations choir Marliya to take ‘Spinifex Gum’ to London
Making their international debut, the Cairns-based choir Marliya will perform the critically acclaimed ‘Spinifex Gum’ at the Barbican in October.
Powerful women creators sweep the 2024 Art Music Awards
This year's Art Music Awards offered a nod towards the lived experience of women creators, celebrating their strength and stewardship…
Music review: Silence & Rapture, Adelaide Town Hall
A sumptuous exploration of the divine in the human condition explored through a fusion of music from across the centuries…
Festival review: It's the Economy, Stupid!, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Unpacking capitalism and the economy, thanks, in part, to the use of mould and Monopoly.
Festival review: Ni Ni Madre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Arturo LuÃz Soria channels his feisty Brazilian mother to explore the complexity of love and trauma.
Regional and Remote Music Summit headed to NSW in 2025
Following its successful Darwin debut this month, the Summit’s second iteration will be held in regional NSW next year.
Opportunities and awards
Grants for professional development, fringe festival call-out, plus winners of Australian Wearable Art Festival, and finalists of Woollahra Small Sculpture…
Banksy inspires innovative new dance work
A decade-long collaboration sees Chris Dyke, a choreographer and dancer with Down syndrome, building a new work inspired by world-famous…
Festival review: A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
An absurdist two-hander that moves from childhood games of war to actual battlefields.