Australia

Review: Wellness at The Butterfly Club
As part of The Butterfly Club's inaugural 1 Act Play Festival, this play is a series of semi-autobiographical vignettes from…

Review: The Australian Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet has been radically re-set in all manner of eras and communities, but this production’s simple shift of…

Review: Two, Riverside Theatres
An acting tour-de-force from Brian Meegan and Kate Raison as they take on 14 characters.

Facing the truth: ‘We remain a colonised country’
In her keynote speech at the Fair Play Symposium, First Nations curator Genevieve Grieves analyses what it means when we…

An Aboriginal perspective on political correctness
It’s not funny to us – First Nations writer Angelina Hurley takes an Aboriginal perspective on political correctness and humour.

Review: Quilty, Art Gallery of South Australia
Cutting through hype, AGSA’s take on Ben Quilty’s career is mapped across a less predictable path, encouraging audiences to think…

Book Review: The Time is Now, Monica Sparrow by Matt Howard
Howard traces the development of his characters with a deceptively light touch and a fine sense of humour.

Applause: Latest awards and arts success stories
Winner of Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship announced, Good Design Awards addresses gender imbalance within industry, Inky Awards announces longlist, and…

Artists celebrated at Australia Council Awards & Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards
Artists from across Australia have been honoured at awards ceremonies in Sydney and Adelaide on Monday.

Review: Counting and Cracking, Adelaide Festival
A marvellous production of an epic, exhilarating and deeply moving play.