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Two dancers clad in fetish wear-inspired costumes crouch forward as they jump a woollen rope inside a circle of light on stage. Joshua Doctor and Yilin Kong in ADT's Faraway by Jenni Large at Adelaide Festival 2026.
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ATD’s Faraway review: a writhing, driving techno-primitive delight at Adelaide Festival 2026

Choreographed by Jenni Large, ADT’s Faraway is a rich, erotically charged work, the dance equivalent of howling orgiastically at the…

Jumaadi, Upside-Down Garden, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Lendlease. Image: Mark Pokorny.
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Upside-Down Garden by Jumaadi turns corporate Sydney on its head

The first large-scale public artwork from Indonesian-Australian artist Jumaadi flips the city’s built and natural environment upside-down.

Installation view Yield Strength: 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia with Erica Scott’s work. Image: Gina Fairley.
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Yield Strength: Adelaide Biennial review: grunge rupture and eloquent overlays

Yield Strength: Adelaide Biennial is a bold exhibition that challenges the institution, expectation and materiality in our times.

2charm. Photo: Casey Garnsey.
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Star Scum City review: 2charm’s debut album is an electropop ode to summer

Melbourne’s 2charm delivers a sultry, bold and queered vision of summer love.

The Booster Protocol by pvi collective is a Perth Festival commission. Image: Supplied.
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The Booster Protocol review: playing games with pvi collective at Perth Festival

Participants in The Booster Protocol must complete tasks as they move through a guided tour, but is social justice really…

WA Youth Theatre Company's Scenes from the Climate Era, presented at Perth Festival 2026. Image: Supplied.
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Scenes from the Climate Era review: WA Youth Theatre tackles hope and purpose at Perth Festival

Climate change is a difficult topic to bring to the stage, but the young performers in Scenes from the Climate…

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026: Randa Abdel-Fattah, Evelyn Araluen, Zeno Sworder and Margot McGovern. Photos: James Henry.
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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: the 2026 winners

Evelyn Araluen wins top prize and Randa Abdel-Fattah wins People's Choice as the Wheeler Centre celebrates Victorian literature.

Artist Khaled Sabsabi (right, a middle-aged man wearing all black) and curator Michael Dagostino (left, a middle-aged man with long gray hair wearing all black) for the 2026 Venice Biennale. They are standing at the corner of a graffitied shopfront.
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Khaled Sabsabi: first details of Venice Biennale presentation

Khaled Sabsabi has revealed his work for the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will explore spirituality and migration.

Two actors stand over a miniature walled garden. One actor, bearded and wearing a cap, lets a handful of stage snow rain down as the other actor, who is female-presenting, watches on delightedly. A scene from The Giant's Garden, part of Slingsby's A Concise Compendium of Wonder at Adelaide Festival 2026.
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Slingsby’s last hurrah: a fairy tale triptych in an intimate, custom-built theatre

Adelaide company Slingsby is mounting its final work, A Concise Compendium of Wonder, in a custom-made, environmentally friendly theatre for…

Cover detail from Gisèle Pelicot's memoir A Hymn to Life, published by Penguin Books Australia. Image: Penguin Books Australia.
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Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir is a remarkable tale of survival

In A Hymn to Life, Gisèle Pelicot explores the aftermath of learning about her husband’s heinous sexual crimes against her.

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