Performing Arts

All ages gigs return to Victoria
After a 20 year absence, all-ages shows are set to make a comeback following changes to Victoria’s Liquor Control Reform…

Calls to review peak body funding
Service organisations and peak bodies are essential to the ecology of the sector but funding is haphazard and opaque.

Rare chance to join the Convent
For an arts organisation in need of studio space this vacancy may be the answer to a fervent prayer.

Idea too dangerous for festival
Sydney Opera House has cancelled a talk by Muslim writer and activist who claims he is the victim of censorship.

Lianna Haroutounian to replace Iveri in Otello
The Armenian soprano will make her debut with Opera Australia in July, in the role of Desdemona.

Brisbane Festival unveils 2014 program
Noel Staunton’s fifth and final Brisbane Festival features circus, theatre and Indigenous arts, bookended by American culture.

Comedian mines dark fare for dramatic debut
The final hours of two fatally entwined lives are explored in comedian turned dramatist Sarah Young’s first play.

A different way to say 'hello'
Sydney's Brown Council aims to involve disabled children in a bright and interactive Museum of Contemporary Art show.

It Cannot Be Stopped
Chunky Move’s Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk’s instincts are sound in her choice of truly interesting choreographers.

Tom Dickins: Meet You Downstairs in the Bar
Dickins' detailed descriptions are simply beautiful and make it easy to forget that the outside world exists.