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What’s in store in 2024 for the performing arts (part one)

As season announcements for 2024 begin to roll out across the country, we look in brief at some of next year’s potential performing arts highlights.

25 Aug 2023 13:18

Richard Watts

A white man in evening dress with baton raised dramatically conducts an orchestra, who are barely visible. The empty seats behind him suggest this is a rehearsal photo.

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WASO Principal Conductor and Artistic Adviser Asher Fisch. Photo: Daniel James Grant.

As we move towards the final quarter of the year, companies across Australia have begun rolling out their plans and programs for 2024.

Sure to be a hit with the company’s subscribers, The Great Divide (8 March – 27 April) is billed as ‘a new comedy with wise-cracking commentary on wealth inequality and human greed’, and focuses on the clash between a single mother living an idyllic life in coastal Wallis Heads, and the immensely rich developer who suddenly sets her sights on the town.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts