Sunday, June 5, 2016
Minchin says his song about the cardinal, who is due to give evidence to a royal commission about child sex abuse that occurred within his parishes, is also about homeTim Minchin has written…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMWednesday, June 1, 2016
It has been entertaining Londoners with immersive screenings of cult classics for a decade, and now Australian and US audiences could be about to get a tasteGood news, Australia. Secret Cine…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
Ladyboy performers talk about touring Australia in a big top extravaganza of diamentes, sequins and feathersThanyakarn “Micky” Rattanarak began thinking of herself as a girl when she was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55PMMonday, May 16, 2016
Artistic directors of major theatre companies pen open letter saying government funding cuts represent an ‘unprecedented assault’ on the artsThe artistic directors of Australia’s major…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26AMFriday, May 6, 2016
The American playwright says the rest of us may claim to want straight white men to take a back seat, but then we deem them duds when they do“Destroy the audience” is the motto powering …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:25AMFriday, April 29, 2016
Two-time Helpmann award winner had a 25 year career with the acclaimed dance company Bangarra and composed music for television and filmDavid Page, the award-winning music director of Sydney…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:15AMWednesday, March 23, 2016
Maza decries the Australian novel’s stage adaptation for playing on a tired trope of ‘the real Aboriginals died out’ Indigenous Australian performer and director Rachael Maza has made …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PMMonday, February 29, 2016
The Melbourne comedian who is definitely not a host on The Project on what unites extremist Muslims and Australian patriots Melbourne comedian Nazeem Hussain tells me he’s wearing his one …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13AMFriday, February 12, 2016
Minchin says his song about the cardinal, who is due to give evidence to a royal commission about child sex abuse that occurred within his parishes, is also about homeTim Minchin has written…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:34AMThursday, January 21, 2016
Sydney Theatre Company, SydneyA restaging of Louis Nowra’s sweeping period drama hums with historical detail and pulls apart its own definitions of what is primitive or civilisedHow do we …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20AMFriday, January 8, 2016
Carriageworks, Sydney festivalGeorg Büchner’s 175-year-old story of working-class hardship and sexual rage takes on new resonance in contemporary discussions around family violenceWoyzeck…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43PMSunday, December 20, 2015
Actor, of South African heritage, to play adult Hermione in London West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child A new London stage reimagining of Harry Potter will feature Noma D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18PMMonday, November 9, 2015
Satirist whose show took Egypt by storm says the seeds of subversive humour he helped plant will be nurtured by a generation who has grown up online The Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef joke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52PMMonday, September 21, 2015
In 2004 an Indigenous man died in a police cell on Palm Island. Beautiful One Day tells his story and has been finally performed at the place that inspired it • Brisbane festival: are glit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19PMTuesday, September 15, 2015
With homosexuality still outlawed in Singapore, an all-male production of The Importance of Being Earnest touches on taboos and becomes a paean for equalityMore Brisbane festival: are glitte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43PMFriday, May 22, 2015
Hundreds of artists and arts sector workers hold protests in capital cities and regional centres over Coalition decision to take money from Australia Council Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:49AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
What made Monica declare she saw the 'worst show ever'? Is comedy the last battleground for sexism? And will documentaries always play second fiddle to features? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Cut the Sky, a new dance work premiering at the Perth festival, draws on Indigenous Australian traditions to help audiences apply emotion, rather than cold logic, to climate change Continue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13PMFriday, January 30, 2015
Performer Adrienne Truscott, of standup and Wau Wau Sisters fame, joins the Guardian Australia culture team to discuss this year's Sydney festival and the ideas it inspired, from the art of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
An antidote to Christmas overkill from Hannahband, Charli XCX with her 90s throwback and Troye Sivan’s melancholic electro-pop Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:51PMThursday, December 4, 2014
The culture team talks summer music festivals, whether fashion is art and if Australians are intellectuals. Plus we nominate our top December must-dos that don't involve tinsel Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AMMonday, September 29, 2014
This son of a Socceroos captain and brother to three seriously talented siblings has been flexing his funny muscles for years Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02PMAustralian Dylan and Chinese Lian embody for each other the good, the bad and the ugly of their respective nations in Sue Smiths bold play Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34AMFriday, September 26, 2014
Angry mobs, persecuted minorities and a talentless boob desperate to retain power the perfect political allegory for modern Australia is on stage near you Mark Lawson: Why Wicked still cast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:23AMMonday, September 8, 2014
Major theatres in Melbourne and Sydney have announced their 2015 season lineup and attracted criticism for an apparent lack of diversity and political engagement. Here is a look at some of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22PMMonday, August 18, 2014
The Triple J presenter and comedian on the weird nothingness success brings and the day Julia Stone asked him why are you brown? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11PM 
