Performing Arts
Review: ’night, Mother, Chapel Off Chapel (VIC)
Iron Lung’s all-female production foregrounds Marsha Norman’s taut script and impressive performances from the cast.
Review: A Midnight Visit, Broad Encounters (VIC)
The Poe-inspired immersive adventure is more campy than creepy – and it’s all the better for it.
Review: NOISE, North Australian Festival of Arts (Townsville QLD)
Dancenorth’s vibrant collaboration combines a dance troupe with 100 drums.
Getting the best results out of an arts journalist
Writing about the arts is changing at an exponential rate with constant disruption in the media landscape. Gina Fairley shares…
What Australians can learn from Smithsonian’s Accessibility Director
30-years of shaping disability access programming for America's largest cultural institutions brings lessons for change and a strong read on…
The neon installation festival luring community out after dark
A festival in Melbourne’s inner suburbs is bringing the community together after-dark to experience installations in an enchanted neon-lit garden.
How to survive a film festival
Film festivals are an endurance test but there are techniques to ensure you get the most out of the opportunity.
Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
Blak Douglas wins the Kilgour Portrait Prize, Liminal Fiction Prize announces its longlist, finalists announced for Arthur Guy Memorial Painting…
National Ausdance to close after defunding
After 42 years advocating for the dance sector, National Ausdance has announced its closure. While state organisations will remain, there…
Bringing the world home
Hyperlocal, decolonial, diasporic, idiosyncratic – how Australia’s international arts programming is changing.