Monday, March 30, 2020
The Biennale of Sydney has announced initial details of how it is taking the 22nd edition online through a series of activations and experiences. From Monday 6 April 2020, online programming…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:43PMLive Performance Australia (LPA) has announced the annual Helpmann Awards will not be presented in 2020. The decision to cancel this year’s presentation is in response to the COVID-19 publ…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:17PMA new leadership structure has been adopted by NETS Victoria with two new advisory committees being appointed with a focus on the Artistic Program and Fundraising. Penny Teale has been elect…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:18PMThe Adelaide Festival is as much shaped by people and place as it in turn shapes people and place; its identity is a weird and wild shifting thing. It is not owned by one individual, but bel…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:57AMAs a response to the devastation that COVID-19 is having on the arts and entertainment industry, John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra and friends have “phoned in” an isolation orchestr…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:08AMWho is Mia Heathcote? Mia is a passionate dancer, a creative person and a loving family member and friend. What would you do differently from what you do now? I would try and let go of contr…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:31AMSunday, March 29, 2020
From the people who really know and love their music, comes the ultimate playlist for the next few months – from Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s musicians comes the QSO-solation Playlist…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:36PMSome years ago, I travelled to Israel for a conference on dramaturgy. Losing my way at the train station, I was rescued by a soldier who chatted with me all the way to Tel Aviv. I dreaded wh…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:52PMWith the onslaught of COVID-19 and the mass shutdown of public events across Victoria and the country, including the planned Green Room Awards Ceremony which was to take place tonight (Monda…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:21PMFriday, March 27, 2020
Despite the 2020 Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) being suspended due to COVID-19, MQFF has celebrated the brightest queer voices and filmmaking talent in Australia by announcing their J…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:39PMIn celebration of World Theatre Day – Australian Arts Review takes a look at twenty musicals developed in Australia. The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom:…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 04:41AMThursday, March 26, 2020
Being close to others is intrinsically associated with theatre. In Shakespeare’s London, theatre gatherings were condemned by the Puritans as evil. They thought the plague spread by theatr…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:43PMThe Australia Council has announced its first Response Package to support artists, arts practitioners, arts groups and arts organisations coping with the impact of COVID-19. In the last week…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:51PMAustralian independent booksellers, members of Leading Edge Books, have announced There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett (Hachette Australia) as their favourite book from last year, and the w…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:13AMWednesday, March 25, 2020
Queensland Ballet has announced a raft of changes to its 2020 season in light of the unfolding COVID-19 situation. Artistic Director Li Cunxin AO said the decisions have been made following …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:44PMRomance fiction has two defining features. First, it centres on a love story. Secondly, it always ends well. Our protagonists end up together (if not forever, then at least for the foreseeab…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:49PMIn the difficult times of COVID-19, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC) has extended the submission deadline for both the 66th Blake Art and the Blake Poetry Prizes to 31 May 2020. With ove…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:22PMThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra invites music lovers to keep the music going with a special online premiere concert series every Thursday evening at 7.30pm. This new series of pre-recorded …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:52PMOpera Australia (OA) has announced details of an employee support package designed to retain their workforce in the face of widespread layoffs across the arts and entertainment sectors follo…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 04:00PMWith constraints on our movements and general way of life becoming more and more restricted, we are feeling a loss of control not experienced since the second world war. In being confined to…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:38AMCastlemaine State Festival will be taking their biennial fundraising program online for the first time in the history of the event. The ten-day Castlemaine State Festival Art Auction will be…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 02:27AMMelbourne Theatre Company has announced the cancellation of its next six productions in a bid to ensure business continuity during this global health crisis. Berlin, Sexual Misconduct of t…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:27AMIn light of efforts to slow the COVID-19 virus and the recent ban on non-essential gatherings of over 500 people, the Green Room Awards ceremony scheduled to take place at Melbourne’s Come…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:20AMTuesday, March 24, 2020
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the executive team and board of the new Melbourne Festival have made the decision to postpone the inaugural festival until 2021. In a stat…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:38PMDespite its closure to the public last week in response to the evolving COVID-19 situation, Australia’s oldest and busiest public library will remain an emporium of knowledge for the Victo…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:59PMHaving already been featured at Austin Film Festival, Flickerfest (Best Australian Animated Short Film) and nominated for a Best Short Film AACTA Award 2019, the award-winning short film, R…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:31AMIf you find yourself in isolation because of COVID-19, it could be the ideal time to write the novel you’ve always dreamed of creating – according to New York Times best-selling science …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:49AMMonday, March 23, 2020
Sydney Fringe Festival, New South Wales’ largest independent arts festival, has announced that the 2020 Festival will go ahead, playing a crucial role in creating income-generating opportu…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:48PMFollowing the South Australian Government’s declaration of a public health emergency, and ban on non-essential gatherings of 100 people or more at indoor premises including Adelaide Festiv…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:11PMWho is Jean Kittson? Presently, I am the author of a guidebook or manual on how to help your parents and other elders as they age, without having to taser them. Keeping them safe and comfort…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:45AMBig, bold and exhilarating, visually stunning and aurally magnificent, this epic production by Opera Australia of one of Verdi’s early operas, performed in Australia for the first time, tr…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:31AM 
