Performing Arts
Opportunities and awards
Art award for youths, major commission opportunities, plus winners of WA Multicultural Awards and nominees of 2024 Queensland Music Awards.
Disturbing trend damaging actors' mental health
Forced to wait up to four months to hear the outcome of an audition, actors' mental health is regularly suffering.
Soundcheck report tabled … and serious work is required for survival
Creative Australia has released its Soundcheck report into Australia’s music festival sector. ArtsHub takes a look at the findings.
Theatre review: Loot, AdAstra Theatre
Given a strong production and cast, Joe Orton’s celebrated 'Loot' is as relevant today as when it was first written.
Comedy review: Headliners with Joel Kim Booster and Zainab Johnson, Melbourne Town Hall, MICF 2024
This unlikely pair of Americans dazzled at this year's MICF.
Comedy review: Brown Women Comedy, Trades Hall, MICF 2024
A different line-up of six South Asian comedians take to the stage each night.
Singing in the winter dark: Festival of Voices returns for 2024
Hobart’s original winter festival returns with a program featuring everything from US R&B star Macy Gray and choral workshops to…
Funny Tonne – part one, MICF 2024
The first batch of top reviews from the Funny Tonne, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's fledgling reviewers for 2024.
Comedy review: Mel Buttle, Not Here To Put Socks On Centipedes, Town Hall, MICF 2024
Whether it's admitting that parenthood isn't always 100 percent rosy or dealing with a rowdy crowd member, Buttle's timing is…
Comedy review: Zoë Coombs Marr, Every Single Thing In My Whole Entire Life, Town Hall, MICF 2024
Coombs Marr proves once again she gets just as many guffaws out of drag as she does in it.