Australia
Mark Dreyfus QC announced as Shadow Minister for the Arts
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten announced his new Shadow Cabinet today, with the arts portfolio awarded to the Member for Isaacs.
Trampoline
An exuberant, bouncingly joyful play about finding love, life and letting go of dreams.
Sun
Hofesh Shechter's Sun is full of wit and surprises
Melbourne Festival Haydn for Everyone Series: Attacca Quartet
This year the sunset series of chamber music concerts makes a welcome return to the Melbourne Festival.
The Shadow King
This mix of Shakespearean tragedy and Aboriginal history makes for a compelling piece of theatre.
Hamlet
Director Simon Stone strips the Dane back to essentials in Sydney's Belvoir Theatre production.
Teenage Riot
The 2013 Melbourne Festival presents Belgian theatre company Ontoerend Goed's Teenage Riot
Don’t you know who I am?
Arts industry prejudice favours the young, the big city-based, the childless, the schmoozer and the male.
Asylum seeker tragedy prompts Biennale installation
Alex Seton’s moving marble lifejackets will call viewers to confront their own humanity.
Booker Prize announces youngest winner ever
The second New Zealander to ever win the top fiction prize is also the youngest person to do so.