Performing Arts

Ten dos and don'ts for thinking about arts funding and the NPEA
Artists must take the opportunity to sharpen their minds as well as their rhetoric.

Career spotlight: Stage manager
If you enjoy sticking to schedules, problem-solving, and helping people, this could be the career for you. Four stage managers…

On the Move: latest appointments and resignations
Here's the latest on who is coming and going this week in the arts sector.

Twisted Broadway 2015
Twisted Broadway returned to Melbourne for a spectacular one-night-only charity event at the State Theatre.

The Women
An impressively scaled production with strong ideas on women and marital infidelity in 1930s New York.

The Dead Twin
A chilling onstage experience that combines beautifully distorted imagery with a spectacular soundtrack.

More money for the majors
Seven major performing arts companies have received over $650,000 between them to support international engagement.

Eight radical ways to change arts funding
Were any arts funding bodies or philanthropists brave enough to implement these suggestions from the US they might come close…

Working in Asia: No place for the individual
The artists as individual, innovator or iconoclast are Western archetype unhelpful in working with Asian art.

Brandis's $6000 Venice water taxi
While cutting the grants that take artists to the Venice Biennale, the Minister travelled in style to open the new…