Best of performing arts 2014

From around the nation, here are our picks for the ten best performances, productions and concerts of the year.
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Barking Gecko’s ONEFIVEZEROSEVEN. Photo: Cameron Etchells 

With hundreds of productions and performances to choose from, it’s no easy task to select the year’s most memorable productions. That said, there are always those rare and special shows that stand head and shoulders above the rest – productions that leave one breathless, exhilarated and reawakened to the power and impact of live performance.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts