Australia

Exit interview: Jenny Ryssenbeek, ex-Executive Director, VAPAC
After 15 years as Executive Director of the Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres, Ryssenbeek has stepped across into a…

Innovation and the art of collaboration
The digital space needs generalists and collaborators for innovative projects to succeed.

ArtKeeper program puts artists on payroll
An arts organisation trialing an employment scheme for artists hopes it gives stability and new directions in uncertain times.

Theatre review: Prayer Machine, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre
A two-hander about navigating memory, trust and love.

Theatre review: Eureka Day, State Theatre Company SA
A prescient, timely show about viral outbreaks that predates COVID.

Digital Concert Hall goes national
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall gains a new name and a new national focus.

Theatre review: As You Like It, MTC
A big cast, a lavish set, and a legacy of high Renaissance pastoral comedy animate MTC's lockdown return.

Book review: The Stoning, Peter Papathanasiou
Outback noir debut follows and diverges from the dusty trail set by Jane Harper's The Dry.

Immersive art is the much needed IRL fix
IMMERSE festival is on point as audiences hunger for IRL (in real life) experiences and Victorians return to embrace art…

Theatre review: Highway of Lost Hearts, Lingua Franca and BMEC
A truly exceptional production that is winsome, lyrical and at times even transcendent.