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The art of adaptation
Adapting a critically acclaimed, non-linear, sci-fi-infused anti-war novel is no easy task. Playwright Fleur Kilpatrick explains how she tackled the…

Book Review: Zealot by Jo Thornely
Jo Thornely details the history and practices of ten cults, with particular emphasis on their leaders.

Applause: latest funding and awards announced
2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award winners revealed, Australian Publishers Association's Hall of Fame recipients revealed and more.

A new Anzac for the arts
As Anzac Day approaches, New Zealand’s Big Idea CEO Annie Ackerman and Australia’s ArtsHub Content Director George Dunford consider the…

Book Review: #Me Too: Stories from the Australian movement
#MeToo is not one thing ‘owned’ by one group of women, as this new collection of personal essays, fiction, and…

Six ways you can get better at receiving feedback
Kathryn Burnett has some great advice on making yourself vulnerable, taking on strong opinions, blunt people and clumsy criticism. Here’s…

Review: A Little Piece of Ash, Kings Cross Theatre
Megan Wilding’s first full-length play delivers piercing, effortless emotion.

Review: 2019 Four Winds Easter Festival – Soundshell Saturday and Sunday
From the very start this Festival’s engagement with the Indigenous community has been genuine and true, sensitive to the connection…

Review: Alice in Slasherland, Old Fitz Theatre
Replete with pop culture references, Qui Nguyen’s bloody comedy pays loving homage to the horror genre.

Finding funny women: a career in comedy shaped by icons
Finding her female comedy icons then her way onto the stand-up stage was no joke for comedian Joanne Brookfield.