Performing Arts
Chamber music given a modern twist
The Australian Festival of Chamber Music has made a number of new additions to attract audiences to classical music.
The Long Pigs
Familiar yet surprising, borderline ghastly and very funny, this production is slickly performed with sharp, skilled expression.
Overseas experience still a resume assumption for actors
Mark Morrissey shares the career path for actors lucky enough to be represented by him, noting overseas experience is standard…
The Guys
In this story about 9/11, the Australian actor who plays Fire Captain Nick was a real-life ‘first responder’ volunteer medic.
Ganesh Versus the Third Reich
Perfect comic timing meets brutally upfront delivery: these guys are a tight unit.
Kate Miller-Heidke: O Vertigo
The sometimes-opera-singer uses her voice, occasionally with the aid of body percussion, to create unique and adventurous sounds.
Rigoletto
Opera Queensland’s new production, conducted by Johannes Fritzsch, is a feast for the ears.
The Judas Kiss
‘I have always had a low opinion of what people call action,’ Oscar Wilde quips, choosing lunch over exile as…
The Anywhere Festival
From a barber's shop to an old swimming pool Brisbane's Anywhere Festival has released a program that lives up to…
MTC’s Rupert opens in Washington
The first US review of David Williamson’s theatrical biography of Rupert Murdoch describes the play as ‘one-dimensional’.