Performing Arts

Constellations
For those who enjoy the feeling of déjà vu.

Applause: recent winners
Awards and shortlists this week celebrate dance, theatre and visual art, including Australia’s richest landscape art prize.

MSO Plays Mozart 40
A performance that promised more than was delivered.

Dancing with the Orchestra: Alina in the Spotlight
American conductor James Gaffigan leads a colourful program of dance-inspired classics.

Freeing the arts from the yoke of neoliberalism
A pervasive ideology has encouraged us to see individuals, not a society; to think of competition as natural and emphasise…

Noises Off
Michael Frayn's classic backstage comedy returns... and seems to never leave.

Studying arts for the love of it
The growing number of mature age students often return to study out of intellectual curiosity.

The Plant
A quirky play about family relationships , depression, grief and loss, and more.

Is it time to digitise your portfolio?
Online portfolios, and artist’s social media accounts; are you getting left behind?

On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
New Chair for ICE, new CEO for National Trust, and new Patron in Chief for Opera Australia.