Performing Arts
Opportunities and awards
Callouts for 2024 exhibition programming, composer-in-residence program, plus winners of Brisbane Portrait Prize, finalists for emerging playwright commission and more.
How a year-round festival programming plan aims to offer arts workers greater job security
By rolling out a range of special projects year-round, Perth Festival aims to provide more secure longer-term contracts for staff…
Theatre review: Shadow Boxing, Emerging Artists’ Sharehouse, Sydney Fringe
A raw and vivid production exploring the crossover between masculinity, sexuality, violence and identity.
Musical review: The Little Mermaid, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, WA
Better than Broadway, this production was perfectly cast, exquisitely choreographed and aesthetically executed.
Performing and creating for children
How creating work for children can enrich not only a performer's repertoire, but also their own personal growth.
Dance Review:Â Strictly Gershwin, QPAC
A welcome return tribute offers a sparkling production and splendid dancing from Queensland Ballet.
Theatre review: Wolves are Coming for You, Emerging Artist Sharehouse, Sydney Fringe
An adult fable from an exciting new theatre company about a town under threat.
Theatre review: The Dictionary of Lost Words, Adelaide Festival Centre
Adapted from the bestselling novel, Verity Naughton's play is a celebration of the power of language and the importance of…
Groundhog Day musical in a Melbourne exclusive
Another big musical is heading to Melbourne in 2024.
How ‘mental health’ has been reimagined in the workplace
Good mental health in the arts won’t happen until we see people with lived experienced enabled and included as leaders…