Performing Arts

The Talented Mr Ripley review: STC production brings a well-known tale to stage
Patricia Highsmith's novel is adapted with theatrical shadow, light and dark.

Ordinary Days review: a new New-York set musical at fortyfivedownstairs
Ordinary Days is an ode to chance encounters and the magic waiting to be found in metropolitan life

Undercover Artist Festival: meet the stars and crew who bring it to life
In its tenth year, the Undercover Artist Festival continues to showcase performers with a disability – and wow audiences.

Australian arts students unable to get US visas for study exchange
Four Bachelor of Arts (Dance) students at WAAPA have had to cancel their U.S. study exchange plans due to the…

PAC Australia’s IMPACT Awards: 8 winners announced
PAC Australia’s annual performing arts awards recognise national impact, arts leadership and excellence.

My Brilliant Career: MTC announces encore season of original musical in 2026
The critically acclaimed musical theatre adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career returns to the MTC in 2026.

CEO Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) – so you want my arts job?
Michael Sterzinger explains how he went from life as a tuba player in the Bavarian Youth Orchestra to being CEO…

Lost and Finding review: raw energy at Flight Path Theatre
Lost and Finding is a fantastical comedy with a sense of adventure (and puppets).

Ghosts of Abbotsford Convent exorcised by poetic and musical collaboration
Poet Nam Le and former ANAM resident artist, pianist Anna Goldsworthy, join ANAM students to explore the Convent’s ‘fraught history’.

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 18-24 August 2025
New nature writing prize, $10,000 for emerging singer-songwriters, mural commission, WA grant funding and more opportunities.