Australia
Review: Between Appearances: the art of Louise Weaver, Buxton Contemporary (VIC)
Weaver is an artist who looks beyond the surface, who uses materiality and familiarity to usher the viewer into a…
How to create your ideal artistic life
Mary de Ruyter talks to two artists and asks them how their enviable creative life.
It’s street art – but not as you know it
The inaugural Can’t Do Tomorrow urban and street art festival will pack a multi-level warehouse space with locally produced art…
So you want my arts job: Circus Rigger
Working behind the scenes in the circus sector isn’t for everyone, but if you have a good head for heights…
Review: Eyes Wide Woke, Midsumma Festival (VIC)
What starts as a funny and relatable exposé of middle-class hypocrisy becomes uncomfortably screamy, shouty and stereotypical.
Review: The Life of Us, Hayes Theatre (NSW)
An absorbing and intimate new Australian musical exploring long-distance love.
Review: The Boy I Paid For, Midsumma Festival (VIC)
There are moments of gentle humour and intimacy in this production but the story is indulgent and implausible.
Film review: Present Laughter, National Theatre Live
A deliciously camp version of the Noël Coward play, direct to Australian screens from the London stage.
Review: Don Giovanni, Sydney Opera House (NSW)
Opera Australia’s revival run of Sir David McVicar’s production is part revelatory – and part not.
SongHubs - pushing Australian screen composers into spooky new worlds
Rescued from solitude, Australian screen composers and songwriters cross pollinate like crazy in Los Angeles hothouse.