Performing Arts

Zena Ladner
The script is heavy with intricate ideas, but Zena Ladner refuses to offer a bold, clear take on the issues…

Defying piracy: a Wicked campaign
The Broadway composer of touring musical Wicked, has begun a campaign against the digital distribution of his stolen sheet music.

Photography Centre quits Queensland for LA
The Queensland Centre for Photography shuts its doors this week in the wake of funding cuts but it intends to…

Gergiev protests threatened as London Symphony tour announced
Gay rights protests are likely to meet the LSO's principal conductor when the Orchestra comes to Australia later this year.

Coppélia
Choreographer Greg Horsman has whisked Coppélia away from late eighteenth-century Galicia to Harndorf, South Australia.

Touring gives Australian performing arts a foot in the door
Three Melbourne performing arts companies are preparing for new international tours to Ireland, the UK, Europe and Korea.

Head On Photo Festival celebrates five-year milestone
Head On, Australia’s largest photography festival, is back for a fifth installment in 2014.

Lifetime achievement award for arts elder
The Green Room Awards has given a sneak preview, naming winners in lifetime achievement, industry and technical categories.

4000 blue butterflies to swarm a street near you
A swarm of 4000 handcrafted magnetic butterflies will travel across the globe in an ambitious street art project that will…

Living like a refugee for art
A Vietnamese-Australian will put himself through a shadow of his parent's boat journey in the name of art and human…