Festivals
Music review: Daylight Express, Elder Hall, Adelaide Festival 2025
Six exquisitely fashioned gems as part of a two-week series of lunchtime recitals at Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide.
RISING launches full festival program for June 2025
Melbourne’s winter festival RISING is “proudly challenging and uncompromisingly inclusive,” according to its co-Artistic Directors.
Music review: Cat Power Sings Dylan, Port Fairy Folk Festival
When a performer truly shows their vulnerability, sometimes that can give rise to the greatest gigs of all.
If all the world’s a stage, why can’t the stage be a Shakespearean table top?
Forced Entertainment’s Tim Etchells describes the inspiration for and the development of the company’s ‘Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare’.
Four international headliners to appear at the 2025 Melbourne Writers Festival
MWF has announced four of the top overseas drawcards for its May program.
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: Night Night, State Theatre Centre WA, Perth Festival
A magical-realist show about the origins of life on earth.
Dance review: A Quiet Language, Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide Festival 2025
A complex, compelling production, by turns anguished and joyous, angry and elegiac, honouring six decades of radical dance history.
When the 'War of the Worlds' lands in three places at once...
The logistics of staging one festival production in three different locations concurrently is challenging enough. But what happens when you…
Performance reviews: Gravity and Other Myths’ The Mirror, Sawdust, The LadyBoys of Bangkok, Adelaide Fringe 2025
A playful children’s circus show, a slickly performed Thai drag show and the latest production from local powerhouse Gravity and…