Vanessa Francesca
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![A man and a woman are sitting on the ground holding each other. She is crying.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/8.-David-Whiteley-and-Kat-Stewart-WAOVW_Photo_EugeneHyland1.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Comedy Theatre
Edward Albee's excoriating exploration of an embattled marriage returns for a modern spin.
![Poetry. Image is a sheet of paper with some lines written across it and a fountain pen with the lid off.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/alvaro-serrano-hjwKMkehBco-unsplash.jpg?w=310)
Is poetry really 'the tyrannical discipline'?
This is how Sylvia Plath described the art form, but three contemporary poets have very different views.
![Image is a conceptual artwork that is a frame of 64 rectangular shapes laid out in eight rows with a black bold framework around and between them. Characters.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Mia-Salsjo1.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Characters, Hayden's Gallery
Six contemporary women artists using conceptual art to explore change, process and the philosophy of art.
![Image is a dark gallery with a shiny wooden floor and a white box seat. On the walls are two 3D pieces, one a cupboard like work and the other comprising abstract faces.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Odalala-1_Tiffany-Garvie1.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Odalala, nireekshane and Uyirvu, Arts House
Australian and international artists examine histories of caste, migration, gender and sexuality.
![Andy Balloch. Image is a head and shoulders shot of a quizzical/concerned looking white man with bleached blond hair, a green jacket over a white open necked shirt and a plastic skeletal hand on his shoulder.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/andy.jpg?w=310)
Comedy Review: Andy Balloch, The Motley Bauhaus, MICF 2024
Welcome to the madcap games in Andy Balloch's lounge room. Who will he be next?
![The PR.omised Land. Exhibition photo shows a blue painted woman with words written across her body lying on a golden egg-like sculpture.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Angiolina-Viora-515-of-751.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: The PR.omised Land, Museo Italiano
Photographic exhibition that displays the Italian migration experience.
![Surfacing. Image is a neon artwork placed on a gallery floor that says My... Sight with the middle word Soul not lit up.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Rielly-Bennie-Surfacing-31.01.2024-18.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Surfacing, Trocadero Projects
New and experimental photographic work and related writing from emerging artists.
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Theatre review: Yentl, Malthouse Theatre
'Yentl' returns after two years in a new venue and with a new lead performer.
![Close up of artwork of a white female chest, with eyes in the place of nipples.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Heather-B-Swan-The-Three-Sisters-2023-detail-ACCA.-Photograph-Andrew-Curtis.jpg.jpg-2.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: From The Other Side, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Local and international works focus on the fear of the monstrous-feminine.
![A Very Jewish Christmas Carol. Image is two people standing on stage in a spotlight in front of a red curtain. One is dressed as a present, the other as a Christmas tree.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/3.-MTC-A-Verry-Jewish-Christmas-Carol.-Photo-by-Pia-Johnson.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: A Very Jewish Christmas Carol, Southbank Theatre
A repurposing of Dickens' classic tale with a gingerbread golem and a miser called Scroogavitz.