live performance
A master storyteller willing to connect: Rob Carlton
The Silver Logie winner is bringing his powerful and award-winning one-man show, ‘Willing Participant’ to MICF 2025.
Turning cancer on its head
Dr Jo Prendergast took her devastating diagnosis and said, ‘Yes, I can make a comedy show out of this.’
Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival
A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.
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: Sim Chi Yin, One Day We’ll Understand, Footscray Community Arts, Asia TOPA
A multimedia performance exploring memory and inheritance.
Performance review: Night Night, State Theatre Centre WA, Perth Festival
A magical-realist show about the origins of life on earth.
Performance review: Björn Again, West Gippsland Arts Centre
The ABBA tribute band are back on a country-wide tour.
Theatre review: Shellshocked, Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide Fringe Festival
The psychological ravages of war laid bare in unexpected ways.
Theatre review: Berlin, The Stables Meat Market, North Melbourne
Secrets and lies, the past and the present: Joanna Murray-Smith's play returns for a short season.
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.