Performing Arts
Next Wave celebrates 40 years with All School Lab
Next Wave traces its history with artists who have grown throughout its programs and festivals.
Theatre review: Peacemongers, Darebin Arts Speakeasy
An experimental think piece that played with the concept of a perfect world.
This week's arts news and trending topics
We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
Performance review: I Wish..., Theatre Royal
Children's circus in a collaborative effort that gently introduced young visitors to physical theatre.
Theatre review: The King's Player, Alex Theatre
A one-man comedy show inspired by 'Hamlet', and told from the perspective of a lowly minstrel desperate for promotion.
Actors lose out in self-taped auditions
Self-taped auditions have become the norm for screen and theatre in Australia, but actors nation-wide say the practice is unreasonable.
Opportunities and awards
Fifty Squared Art Prize open for entries, plus winner of Calibre Essay Prize and finalists of wearable art, and more!
Alarming cost increases for arts organisations not in line with funding levels
How many more arts organisations will have to cancel or reduce their programming under the weight of rising costs?
Hate transmuted into theatrical gold in new staged reading of The Laramie Project
A Sydney reading of the verbatim play about Matthew Shepard’s murder will feature Shepard’s father, Dennis, reading his courtroom statement.
Performance review: Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, Riverside Theatres
Poetry-based work about being a Samoan woman performed by a multi-skilled ensemble.