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A box-ticking compliance conundrum is killing art and creativity

Australia’s box-ticking grant application culture may be stifling the very art it aims to serve.

Nat Jobe, Shay Debney, Manon Gunderson-Briggs, Amy Hack and Justin Smith in Hayes Theatre's production of Phar Lap: The Electro Swing Musical. Photo: John McRae.
Features

Supporting our stages: the NSW performing arts sector looks ahead

Over the past decade, state government support has helped independent theatres in New South Wales stay afloat. But they, and…

Second Echo Ensemble at the From Barriers to Belonging forum. Photo: Laura Purcell.
Features

Australia’s arts and disability movement is gaining new momentum

The National Director of Arts and Disability Network Australia says there will be no more decisions about us without us.

Neurospicy: The Musical at Adelaide Fringe. A fair-skinned young woman dressed in a red chili costume and smiling at the camera.

Adelaide Fringe reviews: Pinky von Sox and the Novel Stand-Up Experience, and Neurospicy: The Musical

A Fringe first-timer’s engaging exploration of neurodiversity and an improvised storytelling show are among the offerings at this year’s Adelaide…

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Best opportunities, grants & awards for creatives: 23 February to 1 March 2026

Opportunities for budding comedy critics, First Nations performers, excellence in humanities, and more.

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Musica Viva’s A Winter’s Journey review: a potent retelling of Schubert’s Winterreise.

In A Winter's Journey, visual art and atmospheric lighting add to a mesmerising musical interpretation.

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Features

What do our reading choices say about us?

Red-flag books and authors, performative readers – what we read is under greater scrutiny than ever before.

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Art review: a revived classic holds a mirror to artistic and social foibles 

Yasmina Reza’s 1994 classic, Art, has opened in Sydney, starring Richard Roxburgh, Damon Herriman and Toby Schmitz.

Bangarra's Terrain at Sydney Opera House. The photo shows an Aboriginal woman dancing, caught mid-routine, with her right leg dramatically raised; her right arm is bent above her head. Other dancers are visible, kneeling on the stage behind her.
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Bangarra awarded prestigious Golden Lion by the Venice Biennale Danza 2026

The First Nations dance company, under the artistic direction of Frances Rings, will be the first Australian company to win…

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Lorde review: Ultrasound World Tour is a gritty, powerful portrait of a grown woman

Lorde's stripped back arena show was a risk, but it's one that's paid off for the star.

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