Reviews
Performance review: The Lion King in Concert, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra empowered a Disney classic with the majesty and power it deserves.
Performance review: Jersey Boys, QPAC
Prospero Arts delivers a finely crafted and well-sung, semi-staged version of ‘Jersey Boys’ in Brisbane.
Theatre review: The Children, Adelaide Festival Centre
Award-winning UK playwright Lucy Kirkwood examines the fall-out from a nuclear disaster.
Book review: The Next Big Thing, James Colley
Easy beach read romcom is quintessentially Australian in flavour.
Exhibition review: Dawn Ng: Avalanche, Institute of Modern Art
A single-channel video that can evoke different emotions and interpretations.
Exhibition review: From The Other Side, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Local and international works focus on the fear of the monstrous-feminine.
Theatre review: Perpetual Stew, Midsumma Festival
Bite-sized stories served at dinner.
Opera review: The Magic Flute, Sydney Opera House
A new iteration by director Kate Gaul on Mozart's classic search for truth and reason, love and enlightenment.
Performance review: Portent (a ritual), Holmes à Court Gallery
A collaborative work spanning visual and performing arts inspired by solar eclipses.
Performance review: Dead End, Blue Room Theatre
A Ukrainian-Australian cast and crew's surreal presentation of being assaulted by war.