Search News

See all news

Performing Arts

Love owls and mermaids singing in the rainbow pop 2020
News

Arts and disability: the impact of representation on a national platform

Cultural institutions like the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) are working to create more opportunities for artists with disabilities, highlighting…

Features

Lessons learned on the job

Riverland Youth Theatre’s new Creative Director reflects on her role and what she’s learned about young people’s wants and needs…

Features

How an Australian company toured Europe mid-pandemic (plus Tubular Bells!)

Yaron Lifschitz reflects on the challenges of mounting three new works in Europe while half of Australia was in lockdown.

Arts Activated 2021 conference. Image supplied.
Features

Building back better: Disability arts one year on from COVID

A panel of leading arts and disability advocates at this year’s Arts Activated Conference unpacked what we’ve learnt from COVID…

News

Circus and the art of community: The ArtsHubbub episode 16

The circus company that plays together, stays together, according to two of the co-founders of Gravity and Other Myths.

Woman against a two colour background
News

Opera Australia announces new CEO

Fiona Allan has been appointed as Opera Australia’s next Chief Executive Officer. 

News

TextaQueen awarded $80K commission to celebrate queer South Asian diaspora

For over twenty years, TextaQueen has been using fibre-tip markers to draw out complex politics of gender, race, sexuality and…

StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Festival review: Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ 2021), Townsville and surrounding regional towns

The festival's third iteration is the most ambitious yet in this sprawling and collaborative venture across the region.

two actors on stage, one male and one female, looking concerned and upset
Features

20 year milestone shows independent theatre's struggle

An independent remount of a work first staged 20 years ago reveals struggles faced by artists since then.

News

$259K Screenrights Funding propels innovative collaborations

Diversity Arts Australia and Back to Back Theatre are among the latest funding recipients to foster new projects in the…

1 283 284 285 286 287 1,665