Performing Arts

Eight tips to be future ready
Preparing for the future is a challenge facing organisations, institutions and individuals.

Should you discount tickets to fill empty seats?
Discounting fills houses but it can come at a price in future sales and audience perceptions.

Reading, ‘riting and swiping: the creative cost
Digital media now dictates a child's initial experience of literature, art and - most worryingly - often creative discovery.

Presenters reject Indigenous arts
Two thirds of Australian presenters did not program any Indigenous arts last year, a new Australia Council study reveals.

Australian festivals' evolving conversation with Asia
Festival directors from around the country respond to recent criticisms that they have turned their backs on our closest neighbours.

Two Jews walk into a theatre…
It is the haunting presence of the fathers that suggest the primal need of the sons to connect with them.

Ten must see shows at Brisbane Festival
With over 70 productions to choose from, we thought we'd make your program browsing that little bit easier.

5 approaches to innovative marketing in the arts
Arts organisations need to be as creative with marketing as they are with art. An Inside Creative State report.

Kooza
Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza arrives in Sydney: a loud, brash, rock n’ roll show with world-best circus acts.

Disgraced
Not for the faint of heart, this Pulitzer Prize winning play forces audiences to face some difficult realities.