Performing Arts

Cultural diversity the focus of new Playwriting Australia initiative
The Lotus Asian-Australian Playwriting Project provides training and mentoring for would-be playwrights.

White Night
Melbourne's White Night lit up the city over the weekend with a program that delighted the senses.

Bach Magnificat
The music both captivates and entrances, building to effervescent crescendos that elicit a physical response.

Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp responds with pantomime surprise and shock to a storm on the tin roof while eating two bananas in an…

Perth Writers Festival: Day One
The ability of writers to change lives, even to change countries, societies and policies, was front stage during this festival.

Perth Writers Festival: Lionel Shriver and Martin Amis
‘Perth looks like Florida without the guns’.

Veneer
An exploration of some blokes’ emotional cracks, carefully hidden beneath smooth veneers.

Two Mortals
A beautifully woven dialogue of stories that approach the subject of mortality from every angle.

Noises Off
Michael Frayn’s thespian affection here is joyous, just as his comic mastery is unbeatable.

The Audreys
Taasha Coates induces the sort of joy you can only find in watching somebody do what they were born to…