Performing Arts

2013 in review: a rollercoaster ride
It’s been a year of great promise and considerable disappointment in Australia’s cultural sector with the best news in a…

Green Room Awards seek new sponsors
Melbourne’s professional performing arts awards body has launched a campaign intended to broaden its sponsorship base.

7th Peninsula Summer Music Festival
Peninsula Summer Music Festival is set to host an array of renowned Australian and international musicians.

Bangarra to make Netherlands debut
Australia’s leading Indigenous dance company have been invited to perform at the 2014 Holland Dance Festival.

Happy Dagger's big win at Blue Room Theatre Awards
Perth's independent theatre celebrates an outstanding year of performances.

Inaugural Digital Writers' Festival
With reading moving online the digital space is getting its own writers festival.

Coping with retrenchment
Hundreds of arts workers have been retrenched this year. They face practical and emotional challenges but some have stories of…

Coranderrk
Coranderrk is a must see; a painful reminder of ‘what could have been’ in terms of Aboriginal self-determination.

Actor Peter O’Toole dies aged 81
Best known for his starring role in Lawrence of Arabia, the Irish actor passed away in a London hospital after…

New job opportunities for arts development
New positions in arts organisations are being created through Creative Partnerships Australia's matched funding grants.