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The Laramie Project
Mockingbird Theatre makes a memorable debut with this deeply affecting production about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard.
How to survive festival fatigue
Festivals are the extreme sport of the arts - intense but exhausting. Some of Australia’s most experienced consumers of culture…
An Act of Now
Anouk van Dijk’s first work as Chunky Move’s new Artistic Director is a compelling and visceral exploration of social interaction.
How do your finances affect your arts practice?
We’re all familiar with the myth of the starving artist, but would you make art differently if you had more…
How to work the room
You see them at parties and opening nights, those well-connected people who seem to be able to speak with everyone…
Valtari
EMI: The sixth studio album from Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós is the group’s most introspective and ambient release to…
The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge
NEXT WAVE: A thoughtful, playful, evocative and transformative live art experience centred around and upon Melbourne’s Yarra River.
Justin Hamilton: The Goodbye Guy
MICF: Stand-up comedians are rarely more meta, or better, than Justin Hamilton, who farewells his festival career to date with…
The Importance of Being Earnest
MTC: Wildean wit and wordplay coupled with Geoffrey Rush’s superb turn as Lady Bracknell ensure Simon Phillips’ last production for…
Return to Earth
MTC: A story of returning, reconnecting and belonging, Lally Katz’s hybrid of melodrama and magic realism never quite finds its…