Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Playing for over 30 years, the Australian Shakespeare Company returns to the Royal Botanical Gardens with their superb family classic, The Wind in the Willows. Have seen this group over a fe…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:58AMMonday, January 27, 2020
The Campaign, written by Campion Decent and directed by Peter Blackburn, is a wonderful work of theatre that exists in an engaging Venn Diagram space where the circles for creative non-ficti…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:06PMThe Keir Foundation, Dancehouse, Carriageworks and the Australia Council for the Arts have announced the new works that will premiere in the Keir Choreographic Award Semi-Finals in March 202…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:32AMWho is Juan Gomez? I’m a 24 non-binary performer from Spain. I grew up there but came to Australia seven years ago to pursue a career in the performing arts. What would you do differently …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:25AMPoorly Drawn Shark is arguably one of the best shows you will see during Midsumma 2020. Part memory play, part power point presentation, part lecture on the intersection of colonialism and f…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:50AMThe Girly Game is one show that you MUST add to your Fringe World list. It is cheap and vulgar and nasty and caaaaaaamp! This is what Fringe is (or should be) all about – some great loca…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:20AMSunday, January 26, 2020
Somewhere along the North Carolinian coast, two young Southern vagabonds make a break for Florida; escaping lives bound by neglect, disenfranchisement and loss. Off the beaten track they fol…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:53PMAs One stakes a claim as the first chamber opera to consider a “transgender experience”. Presented by Gertrude Opera at Midsumma 2020, this is the work’s Australian premiere season. Th…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:09PMIt is exciting to see such a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander productions offered at this year’s Sydney Festival, including the first major revival of the 1990 award-winning …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:42PMSaturday, January 25, 2020
Who is Daley King? Daley King is (in no particular order) an eclectic, neurodiverse, genderqueer, Maori performance artist, writer, stage manager, and social justice advocate, who has two co…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 02:25AMWho is L.J.M. Owen? An author-archaeologist-literary festival director who collects crime novels, kitchen paraphernalia and cats. Somewhat eclectic. What would you do differently to what you…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:54AMFriday, January 24, 2020
In one of the most anticipated announcements for 2020, Darlinghurst Theatre Company has revealed the cast of “triple threats” who will take to the stage of Eternity Playhouse in March fo…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:30PMThe City of Sydney is proud to again support Yabun – one of the country’s largest gatherings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cultures at Victoria Park on Sunday 26 Ja…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:44PMA deeply rich and wickedly biting insight into queer stories and queer voices. Chris Edwards’ play is dripping with glittery venom – no one is safe as his characters slash and snap their…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:38PMWho is Nat Jobe? Nat Jobe is a father, a son, a partner, a friend… and a Donkey. Hee haw! I live on Sydney’s Northern Beaches with my partner, Richard, my daughter, Taj, and her mother, …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:24AMEnjoy exhilarating top notes and stunning harmonies as some of our most exciting singers perform the opera hits you love best as Opera Australia and Anthony Pratt presents Opera for the Peop…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 02:52AMFollowing sell-out seasons in London and Edinburgh, Gavin Roach presents the Western Australian premiere of Rob Hayes’ critically acclaimed dark comedy about love, acceptance and boundarie…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:15AMTurning their thirst for provocation and liberation on the modern Australian man, Kissing Booth and Theatre Works presents the world premiere of Leopard Print Loincloth as part of the 2020 M…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:34AMThursday, January 23, 2020
SBS and Blink TV have announced that Swedish pop phenomenon and winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, Måns Zelmerlöw, is heading to the Gold Coast to perform and be one of the Jury m…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:10PMNude retreats, marine poachers and hot-tempered chefs – Screen Australia has announced two feature films, one television drama and two online projects that will share in $3.5 million of pr…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:46PMThe Boy I Paid For is a surprisingly layered journey through love, acceptance, romance and sex. With a title like this work has, one could easily think that this would be a basic story brim…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:51PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
George was a pioneer. A trailblazer. An icon. He was our saint. Two of Australia’s leading queer artists, electro-pop icon Paul Mac and playwright Lachlan Philpott, have teamed up with …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:31PMIt wouldn’t feel like a real Midsumma Festival without a programme at Gasworks. The 2020 edition is off to a good start, thanks to an exclusive season of You & I by Brisbane-founded, a…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:56PMThere is no doubt the members of The Choir of Man have a passion and talent for singing. Their set covers rock classics and ballads ranging from Adele to Queen while lamenting the destructio…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:30PMPerformance and installation artist Barbara Campbell is the latest recipient of the coveted Mordant Family/Australia Council Affiliated Fellowship. Offered through the generous support of th…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:50PMQueen Bette is a dark, driving glimpse at one of greatest movie actresses, Bette Davis. Directed in splendid, visceral fashion by Peter Mountford, Jeanette Cronin is a marvel as Davis in thi…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:26PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Who is Janet Carter? Good question. You’d think, after 5 decades, I’d know by now… What would you do differently from what you do now? Nothing. I took the long way around to becoming a…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:52PMOne of the most eagerly anticipated dance events each year, for young dance enthusiasts of a certain age, is the annual visit of the Australian Ballet’s Storytime Ballets. Storytime Ballet…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:27PMThe MC Showroom, AWE Alliance and Homegrown Australian Musicals are proud to join forces to present Dolly Diamond’s Piano Bar Party – SWEET RELIEF at The MC Showroom in Prahran on Monday…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:56PMThe Australia Council has announced the appointment of Cassandra Wilkinson into the new role of Executive Director, Arts Investment. “We warmly welcome Cassandra to the Australia Council i…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 04:23PMAlthough he is best known for his portrayal of Agatha Christie’s elegant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, a role he has played for 25 years, David Suchet is a much celebrated actor, havin…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:03AM 
