Features
Tasmanian ecology shifts as festivals move out of Hobart
Will the relocation of Ten Days on the Island and Mona Foma away from Hobart help heal Tasmania’s long-standing north-south…
The entrepreneurial value of wild ideas
Back to Back Theatre's Alice Nash on the ingredients needed to make great work, and the value of such work…
Exit interview: Lindy Hume
After almost six years as Artistic Director of Opera Queensland, Lindy Hume shares her experiences of running the AMPAG company…
Sydney's Cloud Arch critics and our mean-spirited approach to public art
Australians displays a consistently miserly approach to public art, with typically miniscule budgets requiring artists to respond with agility to…
Ladies and gentlemen of the audience: what is your verdict?
Audience members get to vote in courtroom dramas which pit our need for entertainment against a range of contemporary legal…
Friday essay: why libraries can and must change
In the age of the globalisation of everything – and the privatisation of everything else – libraries can and must…
Why the arts sector loves long lead announcements
Revealing the centrepiece of your program months in advance has become a common tactic, but what value do such announcements…
Fringe themes reveal artists’ deepest concerns
Open access festivals like Sydney Fringe and Melbourne Fringe provide a snapshot of the current cultural zeitgeist.
How to create an Australasian city
Arts organisations committed to long-term cultural engagement with the Asia-Pacific have transformed Brisbane; Bjelke-Petersen would barely recognise his old fiefdom.
Long term collaboration reaps rich rewards
The 31 year creative partnership between Susie Dee and Patricia Cornelius shows no signs of slowing down.