Performing Arts

Ex-Sydney Festival Director delivers first program in new Toronto festival role
Australian arts leader Olivia Ansell sends a postcard from Canada after her first months in new festival role.

Opportunities and awards
Enlighten Festival callout, SA Arts Leadership Program open, plus finalists across the 2025 National Biography Award, Bowness Photography Prize and…

RISING receives lifeline from Creative Australia to deliver 2026 dance biennial
ArtsHub exclusive: RISING will return in 2026 as the national presenter of the Australian Dance Biennial.

Universal Kingdom: The Next Era review: dinosaurs lit up as part of Illuminate Adelaide
A luminous installation of dinos big and small.

Scenes from a Yellow Peril reviewed: QPAC show exploring systemic and structural racism
A show that uses verbatim words to depict scenes of violence and racism in Australia and New Zealand.

Annie review: an orphan captures hearts on Australian stages
Annie is a well-orchestrated cohesive theatre production, whose songs are as catchy as ever.

My Cousin Frank review: Rhoda Roberts engages at Arts Centre Melbourne
A tribute to the first Aboriginal person to represent Australia at the Olympics.

Working Class Magician: Rehired review – staged with safety in mind
Working Class Magician: Rehired features an inventive setup of a safety seminar for working magicians.

Smokescreen review: smoke and mirrors theatre show in Melbourne
Smokescreen shows how tactics developed by the tobacco industry were used by the fossil fuel industry to delay action on…

Waterloo reviewed: Bron Batten does battle at Melbourne's Theatre Works
Waterloo at Theatre Works strides into the battlefield of ideas, politics and contemporary moral dilemmas.