Richard Watts
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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…
Holding the Man
STATE THEATRE COMPANY OF SA: Based on the best-selling book by Timothy Conigrave, Tommy Murphy's play is a heartfelt, hilarious…
Namatjira - 2011
MALTHOUSE: Theatre at its most moving, storytelling at its best; this Big hART production is the must-see show of the…
Hamlet
MTC: For all its strengths, there’s something of the air of a Hollywood sequel about this new production of Shakespeare’s…