Performing Arts

Is it already too late for the Godzilla festivals?
With arts festival programs becoming monstrously large, perhaps it’s time to step back and consider the beauty of a smaller…

What’s past is prologue – arts leadership today
The changing face of arts leadership calls for a fresh approach towards finding common ground among new audiences.

Australia Council Strategic Plan: where is the detail?
There is precious little detail in the Australia Council's new Strategic Plan, and big questions remain.

The days the city stood still
A mobile app will take users on an immersive journey into one of Sydney’s greatest social disasters of the 20th…

Australian anxieties explored in French play
A winning writer-director partnership will debut a production of an unconventional social more on the Australian stage.

Emerging Writers Festival expands to Adelaide
Firmly focused on writers instead of readers, this hands-on festival aims to energise Adelaide’s already active literary culture.

Synaesthesia+
A two-day sensory wonderland overtook MONA during Synaesthesia+.

Australia Council has turned its Grants Program on its head
They said they’d listened; and yesterday they delivered. The AusCo’s restructured Grants Program is less convoluted but lacks detail. How…

Threefold: Webber / Hill / Huang Yi
These dancers and the choreographers are accomplished artists, adept in portraying our deepest and innermost feelings.

Cabaret Soirée returns to Perth
An eight-week season of intimate performance pays tribute to such performers as Annie Lennox and Dorothy Fields.