Performing Arts
Animal
A team of unstoppable women have crafted a piece of vital, brute-force theatre.
Tremor
A contemporary dance work loosely inspired by Christchurch earthquakes.
Summer Rain
A wonderfully evocative revival of this rarely seen Australian musical.
David Helfgott in Recital
Now 69 years old: the fingers are as nimble as ever.
Artists building barricades against Trump
In difficult times, artists have more power than we think to influence the direction of politics and society.
Vale Russell Kiefel
The much admired actor, whose work embraced film, stage and television, passed away on Sunday.
A third of performing arts orgs are in financial strife
One third of performing arts organisations are in financial difficulties and less than 20% are financially healthy.
You've got (art) mail
Stop bemoaning the loss of elegant letter writing. There are ways to make art out of email and text messages.
The arts could revive our still-born national identity
We need the arts if Australian identity is to be anything more than pallid myths of self sacrifice and chest-thumping…
Blaque Showgirls interrogates Indigenous authenticity
A short, intelligently written and directed work that points the finger at cultural clichés and the complications around identity and…