Performing Arts
Theatre review: The Robot Dog, Southbank Theatre, The Lawler, Asia TOPA 2025
In the year 2042, a woman attempts to sort out her life while coming to terms with her mother's therapy…
Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival
A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.
Port Fairy Folk Festival to feature Missy Higgins, Troy Cassar-Daley and more this weekend
One of the most long established and beloved music festivals in Australia returns.
2025 summer festival highlights for your arts diary part 3: March
A hand-picked guide to some of the most intriguing cultural events on offer around the country in March 2025.
Performance review: Sim Chi Yin, One Day We’ll Understand, Footscray Community Arts, Asia TOPAÂ
A multimedia performance exploring memory and inheritance.
Dance review: U>N>I>T>E>D, Asia TOPA 2025
A futuristic epic that turned philosophical.
Performance review: Night Night, State Theatre Centre WA, Perth Festival
A magical-realist show about the origins of life on earth.
Opportunities and awards
A $60,000 moving image commission opens, plus the winner of the MECCA x NGV Women in Design and finalists of…
Performance review: Björn Again, West Gippsland Arts Centre
The ABBA tribute band are back on a country-wide tour.
Turning 60 in style: Australian Dance Theatre leaps from the stage to the gallery wall
AD Daniel Riley describes the birth of ADT and an accompanying exhibition documenting the company’s six decades of dance-making.