Performing Arts
Opera Australia dominates Helpmann Awards
King & I and Ring Cycle rule, Sydney Theatre Company performers win Best Actor and Actress, Belvoir wins Best Play.
Nora
It’s not surprising that this opening night started with a full house and ended with a significant reduction of patrons.
Is it already too late for the Godzilla festivals?
With arts festival programs becoming monstrously large, perhaps it’s time to step back and consider the beauty of a smaller…
What’s past is prologue – arts leadership today
The changing face of arts leadership calls for a fresh approach towards finding common ground among new audiences.
Australia Council Strategic Plan: where is the detail?
There is precious little detail in the Australia Council's new Strategic Plan, and big questions remain.
The days the city stood still
A mobile app will take users on an immersive journey into one of Sydney’s greatest social disasters of the 20th…
Australian anxieties explored in French play
A winning writer-director partnership will debut a production of an unconventional social more on the Australian stage.
Emerging Writers Festival expands to Adelaide
Firmly focused on writers instead of readers, this hands-on festival aims to energise Adelaide’s already active literary culture.
Synaesthesia+
A two-day sensory wonderland overtook MONA during Synaesthesia+.
Australia Council has turned its Grants Program on its head
They said they’d listened; and yesterday they delivered. The AusCo’s restructured Grants Program is less convoluted but lacks detail. How…