Performing Arts
![National Performing Arts Partnership Framework. Image is three blue blocks of varying heights with a performer dressed in blue trousers and white top seemingly stepping off one into thin air.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/performing-lines-joins-framework-e1717554853550.jpg?w=310)
National Performing Arts Partnership Framework expands again
Brisbane’s La Boite Theatre and national touring and production body Performing Lines join the National Performing Arts Partnership Framework from…
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Theatre review: Julia, Southbank Theatre
The life and times of Australia's only female Prime Minister to date.
![Queensland performers on stage.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Love-and-Information-Ensemble-reseized.webp?w=310)
Are Queensland performers still losing out?
It's been a year since unions and communities began pressuring Queensland companies to hire more locals. Has anything changed?
![2024 Generations Western Sydney Music (Early Career) Fellowship recipients (L-R): FRIDAY*, Gemma Navarette and Yellowline. Photo: Create NSW. Recipients standing outside in front of a colourful mural.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/unnamed-12-e1717475959676.png?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Creative Australia calling for peer assessors, plus winners of emerging musicians fellowships and more!
!['Little Murmur' to tour in Australia. Photo: Angela Grabowska. A young woman lies on the stage with a book in her hand and pages flying in the air.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Kallirroi-Vratti-Little-Murmur-Credit-Angela-Grabowska-1-e1717465612566.jpg?w=310)
Dancing through the world of dyslexia
Developed with young audiences in mind, 'Little Murmur' by the UK's Aakash Odedra Company draws on life experiences of dyslexia…
![Perfumes of the East. SXS performers stand on stage with their instruments. A soloist stands in a green dress. Large flowers adorn the side and back of the stage.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/SXS_Perfumes_of_the_East_2-6-24_00141.jpg?w=310)
Music review: Southern Cross Soloists: Perfumes of the East, QPAC
A last-minute program change impacted this carefully crafted concert of the Southern Cross Soloists.Â
![Never Closer. Four student looking types lounge around a shared house set at Christmas time. One woman brandishes a bottle towards a man and a woman sitting at a table. A fourth man leans to the side wearing a Santa hat.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/BELVOIR_NeverCloser_PhotoBrettBoardman_003198_Adam-Sollis-Ariadne-Sgouros-Raj-Labade-Emma-Diaz1.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Never Closer, Belvoir St Theatre
Set against the backdrop of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, this debut play returns for another successful run.
![Three actors in orange hi-vis clothes with a huge oval backdrop showing clouds, stand behind a mass of complicated poles.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/MBT_Scott-Price-Sarah-Mainwaring-Bron-Batten_c-Jeff-Busby1.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Multiple Bad Things, Merlyn Theatre, Malthouse
Back to Back's latest production presents another layered look at the intersectional experience of people with a disability.
![Ghosts. A young woman in a white dress stands on stage in a dark and gloomy house set with a blue/purple light behind where through the window. There is a lonely chair and piles of books near her.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ghosts-Production-Image-11.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Ghosts, Theatre Works
A new iteration of Ibsen's work retains the core, but moves the action from Norway to the Australian outback.
![RISING: A group of three First Peoples and a Caucasian man performing in a rock band with an arch of stage lights behind them. Two are playing guitars, the lead singer is standing on a packing case and one is waving drum sticks.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/BNNB-Rising-Low-Res-38-e1717390017165.jpg?w=310)
Performance reviews: RISING Festival, first weekend
RISING Festival is now off and running. Here is ArtsHub's round-up of the performing arts offerings on the first weekend.