Performing Arts
Finding theatre’s new audience
Australian theatre makers are challenging the status quo by rethinking the role of their audiences.
Unveiled: this week’s announcements
Sydney Festival program revealed, Selby & Friends tour, new Circus Oz, a new Indigenous exhibition at QAGOMA, and the MSO's…
Arts Festivals: same same but different
How do you program an international arts festival, and are two festivals ever the same?
National arts curriculum: Media arts takes the fall
Media arts has taken the fall for the ongoing culture war over the National Curriculum, writes Ben Eltham.
Sound and fury, but what does it signify?
This week's Klinghoffer protests in NYC highlight opera’s continuing relevance.
Headdresses ruffle festival feathers
Music festivals are banning Native American headdresses, concerned that the fashion item is offensive cultural theft.
Melbourne Knowledge Week: catch up with the future
Witness technology alter our perception of human performers, discover how visual art is changing clinical practice in the health sciences,…
Kudos: Congratulations to this week's winners
A ceramics sculptor wins a fellowship, Monash University announces its key alumni, and Patch Theatre is judged most creative.
Banned books, good boys and sad girls
Against fears of negative media effects, study finds that youth reading banned books actually contributes to positive social behavior, although…
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is theatre at its purest, without an extensive cast, expensive sets or bedazzling lighting design.