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Actors may soon be replaceable by CGI
CGI is close to being indistinguishable from the real thing. Could actors find themselves auditioning against a dead or imaginary…
Theatre, trauma and the age of Trump
Perhaps you’re not ready to have the intersectionality conversation with your Trump-supporting uncle. But you could share a theatre that…
2016's best-selling music shows are stuck in a time warp
In 2016, the most commercially successful music in the world wasn’t Beyoncé, Britney or Bieber. It was arguably more problematic.
Why games are the new theatre
Gaming offers the performing arts a playful intervention, and the opportunity for participation instead of spectatorship.
We need a national day for the arts
Australia has public holidays for agricultural shows, football finals and a horse race. Why don't the arts have a public…
Vale to artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
Yosl Bergner spent only 11 years of a long life in Australia but his understanding of the Indigenous tragedy made…
Why Adelaide continues to be Australia's most successful festival city
South Australia’s claim to be ‘The Festival State’ is still backed by the numbers despite Australia’s increasing number of festivals.
On the move: appointments and resignations
National Art School Director appointed plus Federation University announces the new Director of the Arts Academy Ballarat and Gippsland Centre…
Working for free is a privilege
A new report shows that unpaid work experience is an opportunity denied to less advantaged young people.
Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein
Stories of an uncomfortably human dystopia that gnaws at our comfort with the status quo of our relationship with technology.