Performing Arts

On the Move: Latest appointments and departures
New Board members at Queensland Theatre, Melbourne Writers Festival’s new CEO, Arts House announces new GM, and more.

#justnotthatmany campaign spreads across social media
The #justnotthatmany campaign addresses the lack of diversity on Australian stages and screens by flipping the existing narrative in a…

Review: Wellness at The Butterfly Club
As part of The Butterfly Club's inaugural 1 Act Play Festival, this play is a series of semi-autobiographical vignettes from…

Review: The Australian Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet has been radically re-set in all manner of eras and communities, but this production’s simple shift of…

Review: Two, Riverside Theatres
An acting tour-de-force from Brian Meegan and Kate Raison as they take on 14 characters.

Facing the truth: ‘We remain a colonised country’
In her keynote speech at the Fair Play Symposium, First Nations curator Genevieve Grieves analyses what it means when we…

An Aboriginal perspective on political correctness
It’s not funny to us – First Nations writer Angelina Hurley takes an Aboriginal perspective on political correctness and humour.

Applause: Latest awards and arts success stories
Winner of Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship announced, Good Design Awards addresses gender imbalance within industry, Inky Awards announces longlist, and…

Artists celebrated at Australia Council Awards & Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards
Artists from across Australia have been honoured at awards ceremonies in Sydney and Adelaide on Monday.

Review: Counting and Cracking, Adelaide Festival
A marvellous production of an epic, exhilarating and deeply moving play.