Performing Arts
ICYMI: The week's top news in the arts
Plans for Fed Square, new Blak Design initiative, actors with disability in conversation, the first trans love story on stage,…
Review: Ben Folds with The Queensland Symphony Orchestra, QPAC (QLD)
Folds travels the geography of the piano at high speed, contributing convincing grabs of colour, spidery finger flurries and gliss
Review: Penelope Sleeps, Carriageworks (NSW)
An intriguing, highly elliptical account of Penelope's experience of waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to return from the Trojan War.
We're here for the show: 60 years of Adelaide Festival
While attending Adelaide Festival, Jared Thomas saw something that made him question years of racism and set him on the…
Review: Samsara, Arts Centre Melbourne/Asia TOPA (VIC)
Both sumptuous and ascetic, Samsara is a contemporary dance duet that embodies the best elements of India and China’s special…
Sidney Myer Award winners announced
Winners of the Sidney Myer Award have been announced at the home of Sidney and Merlyn Myer including Barrie Kosky…
Review: Mouthpiece, Adelaide Festival (SA)
Kieran Hurley’s thrilling drama interrogates poverty porn clichés, the rules of playwriting, and asks who has the right to tell…
2020 Australia Council Awards recipients announced
Eight artists have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to their art forms and to the cultural life of the…
Conquering common mistakes to produce compelling theatre
It’s sometimes difficult to unravel why a play might not work: it could be a script problem, the acting, or…
Review: The Hitmen, Theatre Works (VIC)
The Hitmen is a grotesque comedy with a quirky Australian flavour.