Performing Arts
Review: Xenides, Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre WA
This devised mix of musical theatre, witty confessionals and thoughful social critique engages, but lacks a consistent thread to convincingly…
Review: The Climbing Tree, Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre
A touching and poignant drama about Bathurst as both a material and imaginative sphere. It is a complex and profound…
Review: Freud’s Last Session, Seymour Centre
There is some truly marvellous acting in this detailed and precise production.
How stage and screen professionals can help reduce suicides in Australia
Evidence suggests that the dramatic portrayal of suicide can impact on vulnerable audiences, including contributing to increases in copy-cat incidents…
Nginha ngurambang marunbunmilgirridyu: I love this country – but do you?
Jonathan Jones’ Artstate keynote talk offered fresh pathways forward in our complex colonial conversation.
Critics savage King Kong on Broadway
The massive star of the show, a 2000 pound and 20 foot high puppet, gets rave reviews, the songs and…
What it really takes to juggle an arts organisation with family life
The director of Wellington's LitCrawl, Claire Mabey, reflects on what a family-friendly arts organisation might look like.
ICYMI: This week’s arts news round-up
Fraudulent art dealings; first convention centre to lead arts with a Reconciliation Action Plan; art conquers Bathurst car culture and…
The turgid trajectory of sculpture in education
An international panel at the Sydney Sculpture Symposium asked whether our education system is failing sculpture.
How a supportive environment encourages students to learn and grow
Applications are now open for the 2019 intake at Melbourne’s prestigious National Theatre Drama School.