Australia
The best of performing arts in 2017
From opera and contemporary dance to comedy and drama, here are the productions that thrilled and impressed us this year.
2017: the headlines
As the year draws to a close, we look back on some of the major news stories of 2017.
Regional Arts Fund get $1.17M boost
Themes around mental health, youth access, and mentorships and partnerships were rewarded with Regional Arts Funding.
Major Aboriginal artwork commissioned for Sydney Airport
A new installation will place Aboriginal cultures at the forefront of national and international visitors to Sydney.
To those we lost in 2017, vale
We salute the lives and careers of the artists, performers and patrons who took their final curtain call in 2017.
An international Baroque Christmas with the Marais Project
A striking Christmas program and a CD launch which saw the ensemble play joyously as one, demonstrating intense rapport.
$700,000 awarded in inaugural Creator's Fund round
The Victorian Government has named the individuals and groups who have collectively received over $700,000 to develop their projects as…
The most popular stories of 2017
We look back over the most-read stories of the year and ask what they say about the zeitgeist across the…
Black Arm Band plays its final song
Established in late 2005, the much-lauded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary music company will cease operations this month.
Festivals and the familiar: tradition vs innovation
How do festival directors navigate the tensions between honouring a festival’s past versus celebrating the innovative and the new?