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The late Ryuichi Sakamoto will perform in a virtual performance at Asia TOPA 2025. A white-haired Japanese man in dark glasses and a black shirt poses for the camera with his raised hands held to his lips.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto performs from beyond the grave for Asia TOPA 2025

Melbourne’s Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts returns in February 2025, with the first two program highlights revealed today.

The inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale at Villa Alba Museum. Pictured are works by Louise Paramor, installation view, large paper sculptures with saturated colour inside a Victorian mansion.
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Exhibition review: 2024 Melbourne Sculpture Biennale, Villa Alba Museum

The first edition of Melbourne Sculpture Biennale quickly found its footing with solid works that spoke to the 2024 theme…

The cast of "Come From Away'. They are sitting in two rows of chairs, replicating the seats of an airplane.
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Musical review: Come From Away, National Theatre

The popular musical about community-building in tragic times returns.

Two men, one with a beard and shaved head, one with a moustache, both on one knee throwing a juggling skittle forward. Escalate.
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Circus review: Escalate, Circus Oz HQ

A circus juggling show that keeps all of its balls in the air...

Agains a green backdrop, a bust of a man's head. It is cracked.
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Performance review: A Brief Episode, Trades Hall

Ash Flander's show draws on his most recent life experiences.

So you want my arts job? Indie theatre director Cassandra Fumi smiles at the camera. She is fair-skinned and has wavy, shoulder-length blonde-brown hair and wears a black jumper
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So you want my arts job: Director, Independent Theatre

If you love collaborative storytelling that helps communities form around a common goal, directing indie theatre productions may be the…

Architecture render of the Potter Museum of Art at University of Melbourne, Wood Marsh Architects. A heritage brown brick building with a reflective steel entranceway.
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Potter Museum reopens in 2025 with exhibition and resources on 65,000 years of Australian art

After extensive redevelopment, the University of Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art makes a comeback with a glossy new entrance and…

An Indian man, Ceejay Singh, is standing next to three signposts that say 'New Dehli,'Adelaide' and 'Sydney'
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Comedy Review: The Good Immigrant, Trades Hall

A new Indian immigrant to Australia reflects on culture shocks and similarities between the two countries.

A publicity image for 'Troy', one of seven productions in Malthouse Theatre's 2025 season. A multi-racial cast of seven, including men in skirts and women in tunics reminiscent of ancient Greece, link hands as they struggle across a dramatically lit and smoky battlefield.
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Malthouse Theatre eschews naturalism in its 2025 season

Addressing the cost of living and leaning into the theatrical, the Malthouse’s new season promises the epic and the intimate…

One Fell Swoop Circus has welcomed the news that the Perry Street, Collingwood training facility will remain a home for circus and physical theatre artists. Two circus artists stand on a blue stage, holding overlapping white ropes. A third circus artist balances on the ropes where they are intertwined.
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Circus training centre to open up for sector

One Fell Swoop and Na Djinang among those circus companies looking forward to the appointment of a new site operator.

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