Performing Arts

Melbourne theatre community mourns Geoffrey Milne
Academic, author, critic, historian, lighting designer, Brecht fan, puppetry enthusiast and mentor to many, Geoffrey Milne will be sadly missed.

Assassins
Director Tyran Parke has assembled a truly stellar cast for this clever, unsettling and brilliant work by Stephen Sondheim and…

Memo Justin Bieber: You owe Anne Frank a song
Justin Bieber upset many people with a flippant comment at the Anne Frank House but he was much less offensive…

Sammy J - Potentially
This year’s comedy festival offering from Sammy J is part storytelling, part musical comedy and part existential musing.

First, Last and Only
The latest performance by Selby and Friends featured a near-definitive performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.1 in C minor, Op.8.

Sydney Writers' Festival's path to publishing
Can you learn everything you need to be a successful author from a writers festival?

>[sdc]< (Simon Currie)
Contemporary visual artist Simon Currie, also known as >[sdc]< is a Sydney-based painter, photographer and printmaker.

Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for over $130,000
The manuscript of I’ve Been Wandering in the Greenwoods by Charlotte Brontë was sold on the 10 April for more…

SOYA 365 brands tom gunn a winner
tom gunn steps forward to win the Fashion Category of the 2013 Spirit of Youth Awards

The long and short of the literary week that was
While literary award longlists dominated publishing news this week, there was also corporate fisticuffs, festival news, releases and a passing.