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'Shakespeare in the Garden – A Midsummer Night’s Dream'. Image is a green leafed clad fairy atop a green leafy piece of set with a background of trees.
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Theatre review: Shakespeare in the Garden – A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wollongong Botanic Garden

Merrigong Theatre Company's enchanting reimagining of Shakespeare's classic against a breathtaking natural backdrop.

Studios: 2023. Image is a woman in long blue dress and with a brown shoulder bag, with her back to camera looking at an art piece made of half a rowboat standing on end, full of shells and other additions, with candles, empty bottles and a bong on the floor around it.
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Exhibition review: Studios: 2023, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

A vivid, haunting and emotionally powerful collection that takes the viewer through a journey of diaspora, family history and connection…

'How Do I Let You Die?' by Michele Lee, performed at Arts House featuring Alice Qin. Photo: Sarah Walker.
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Theatre review: How Do I Let You Die?, Arts House

Michele Lee’s autobiographical tale of Hmong parents, death and ghosts raises intriguing questions, which resonate with the migrant experience.

Sibyl. image is a range of performers on a dark stage in wide outlandish costumes, one of whom is holding a large broom and casting a huge shadow on a backdrop that is also covered in projections of newspaper front covers.
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Opera review: Sibyl, Sydney Opera House

A creative South African performance that dazzles the senses, ‘Sibyl’ marks a new era for Sydney's famed icon.

The Dark Current’. Image is a woman in a tight pink dress, and pink headdress lying back in pink liquid, with her arms up and elbows bent.
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Video work review: Angela Tiatia: The Dark Current, ACMI

Something is amiss in paradise.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Image is of ballet dancers against a black backdrop, fairies all reaching up with one arm and the other reaching down, behind two principals - a male in black and a female in traditional white tutu - in the same pose.
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Ballet review: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Canberra Theatre Centre

A charming and exquisite production, Queensland Ballet’s interpretation of the Shakespeare classic is likely to bring a little bit of…

Access. Image is a man in a white T-shirt and dark trousers sitting in a chair with his eyes closed opposite another empty chair.
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Performance reviews: Access, Dougie Baldwin and Aza: stories of grief in diaspora, Melbourne Fringe Festival

An hour of anarchic clowning, emotional experimentation and diasporic mourning at Melbourne Fringe 2023.

Design Fringe. Image is white gallery space and wooden floor and empty fireplace, with tables and shelves covered with art objects and pieces of furniture design.
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Exhibition review: Design Fringe 2023, Linden New Art

Where would design take us if it no longer has the answers?

Mona. Image is of an artwork depicting a doorway, with the annunciation viewed within, surrounded by a cloudy sky.
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Exhibition reviews: Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World, Jean-Luc Moulène and Teams, and Jónsi Hrafntinna (Obsidian), Mona

The newest triple bill of exhibitions at Mona can make you believe in the transcendent power of art, all over…

Boom. image is of two figures standing back to back and looking to either side, on a purple set.
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Theatre review: Boom, KXT on Broadway

Looking at the bridge between our past and future with a heartfelt Singaporean story that traverses borders.

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