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Midsummer (A Play With Songs)

Midsummer (A Play With Songs)

Lynne Lancaster | SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE: Warm, wonderful and hilariously witty, this is a superb fantasia on midsummer madness and the meaning of love and life.

 

Pygmalion

Pygmalion

Lynne Lancaster | SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY: A minimalist contemporary version of George Bernard Shaw's famous play, this STC production is analytical and thought-provoking.

 

Flamenco Fire – Gypsy Pathways

Flamenco Fire – Gypsy Pathways

Sally Peters | QPAC: Transporting the theatre to a vast land of ancient cultural wealth, Gypsy Pathways was a stunning show, full of passion.

 

Frisky and Mannish’s Pop Centrelink

Frisky and Mannish’s Pop Centrelink

Nerida Dickinson | FRINGE WORLD: Engaging, clever, and never entirely predictable, Frisky and Mannish find and share more culture in pop music than ever seen on MTV.

 

Any Questions for Ben?

Any Questions for Ben?

Sarah Ward | ROADSHOW: Despite spirited efforts from its cast, Working Dog's latest film Any Questions for Ben? feels flat, forced and false.

 

Josephine Were

Josephine Were

ArtsHub | Josephine Were is an actor and theatre maker from Adelaide, South Australia. She graduated from the acting course at the Adelaide College of the Arts in 2009 and has since also trained with physical acting company SITI in ...

 

Alice Pung

Alice Pung

ArtsHub | Alice Pung is a writer, lawyer and teacher. She is the author of Her Father’s Daughter and Unpolished Gem.

 

Frank Moorhouse

Frank Moorhouse

ArtsHub | Moorhouse has written fiction, non-fiction, screenplays and essays and has edited many collections of writing.

 

Sonya Hartnett

Sonya Hartnett

ArtsHub | Sonya Hartnett is the internationally acclaimed author of several novels, including Thursday's Child.

 

Laura Kroetsch

Laura Kroetsch

ArtsHub | Laura Kroetsch is the Director of Writers Week at the Adelaide Festival.

 

Simply ‘Chick lit’? Forget it.

Simply ‘Chick lit’? Forget it.

Sarah Adams | Women writers are consistently underrepresented by reviews and awards. But lady literary heavyweights are fighting back with the Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading & Reviewing Challenge.

 

Driving Mademoiselle Huppert

Driving Mademoiselle Huppert

Leo Ribeiro | What happens when European theatre’s most notorious 'enfant terrible', Polish director Krzysztof Warlikowski, joins forces with France’s most prestigious actress, Isabelle Huppert, for an adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ ...

 

Joining the dots?

Joining the dots?

Michael Volkerling | The glory days of cultural policy in Australia are over and the Australia Council is now what is referred to as an ‘elite nurturer’ instead of a broadly-based cultural development agency.

 

The streaming revolution

The streaming revolution

Lachlan Bryan | With super-fast broadband and huge bandwidths, could the mp3 be on its way out and streaming on its way in? In this, the age of ‘the cloud’, it seems that anything is possible.

 

Sculpture and Design in Russia's newest snow town

Sculpture and Design in Russia's newest snow town

ArtsHub | Russia’s brand new hyped-up Moroz City (Frost City) comes courtesy of the annual Snow Architecture Festival, which set the challenge of building an entire city made of ice and snow from the ground up to more than 100 ...