Performing Arts
Jazz losing time to capitalism's bebop
A great festival success deserves stability. Instead Wangaratta Jazz has lost both triennial funding and visionary leadership.
How to manage intelligent workers
Creative workers need to know that they are understood and valued as a whole person and not an expendable unit…
Why 'The Play that Goes Wrong' is wrong about theatre
The assumptions that makes amateur theatre an old joke are really a power play that creates a fall guy for…
Not lost in translation
Funding programs such as Catalyst encourage cross-cultural collaboration, but there’s more than language barriers to consider when embarking on such…
Beyond the mid-life crisis
Growing older doesn’t have to mean abandoning a career but when your body is your instrument, it does require adjustment.
Aida Garifullina
Rarely does a new voice as good as this come along.
Sun Rising: The Songs That Made Memphis
The Songs That Made Memphis is a thoroughly entertaining musical journey.
Succession planning grows from restructure
Arts organisations need to be flexible and responsive, as do the people who work in them, if they are to…
Firebird Trio – Tango Salon
An omnibus program seeming to entirely miss the point, though featuring some exquisite dancing.
The allure of monsters in an age of horror
Trump, terrorism, murder: nightmares dominate the news. So why do we turn to fictionalised villains for entertainment?