Performing Arts

Review: Caroline, or Change, Hayes Theatre (NSW)
Veteran playwright Tony Kushner’s musical theatre debut is a little perplexing.

Powerhouse Museum collaborates with creative industries
Powerhouse Museum launches inaugural residency program to inspire more collaborations with the creative industries.

ICYMI: A wrap of this week’s arts news
Victoria lands Netflix’s Clickbait, Indigenous Jewellery Project holds survey exhibition, AGWA celebrates 40 years of brutalism, 2020 programs announced and…

Review: ARCO – New Constellations, City Recital Hall (NSW/national)
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s lush concert offers glorious music on 19th century instruments.

Review: Hair, His Majesty’s Theatre (WA/national)
This revival of the classic 1960s musical absolutely lets the sunshine in.

Review: Sunday in the Park with George, Southbank Theatre (VIC)
A gorgeous production from Watch This with a cracking cast, beautiful costumes and a sublime performance of the score.

Finding new audiences starts with centring the margins
Revolutionary change was the theme of Bryan Joseph Lee’s keynote at Performing Arts Connections Australia’s conference this week.

Arts criticism of disabled artists needs to get smarter
Artists with disability believe it is their right to be reviewed in the same way as abled artists; that the…

Kate Mulvany scoops the AWGIES
The Sydney Theatre Company’s The Harp in the South sweeps up the big prizes in the Australian Writers Guild awards.

Theatre that fights our inertia on the climate crisis
In their new immersive eco-horror, Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen of Deep Soulful Sweats craft a dark, hopeful and irreverent…