7,123 stories by "Arts Review"
Who is Joseph Mitchell? Artistic Director for OzAsia Festival. And when time permits, recreational scuba diver, cinema goer, occasional tourist to various places around the world and avid su…
Melbourne icon Dolly Diamond has been announced as the new Artistic Director for the 2017 Melbourne Cabaret Festival. Originally from the UK, the much-loved performer has called Australia…
Who is Tess de Quincey? Hmmmm, a wild bee being danced by the weather… What would you do differently to what you do now? Ah, being an artist in this time and place is not easy, but hopeful…
Who is Frank Minniti? A kid from the western suburbs of Melbourne who ran away with the circus, then created his own circus. Now, I look to help independent artists by co-producing their wor…
A moving tribute to a modern master, the Australian Ballet presents John Neumeier’s Nijinsky at Arts Centre Melbourne, before playing the Adelaide Festival Centre and Sydney Oper…
The hilarious smash hit of Hayes Theatre Co's 2016 Cabaret Season that played to sellout audiences and rapturous standing ovations, Hispanic Attack will make its Melbourne debut thi…
Who is Jane Montgomery Griffiths? Not Vivian Bearing, my character in Wit, but I could have been her in a parallel life: both academics, both lovers of literatures, both believers in the val…
In 1956 Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's masterful retelling of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion took the world by storm. Creating the enchanting character of Eliza Doolittle was a young…
You Got Older by US playwright and actor Clare Barron makes its Australian Premiere at Red Stitch. In a depressed moment, lead character Mae issues a lament along the lines of "I feel like e…
A supreme masterpiece of Japanese printmaking, for the first time, the Art Gallery of NSW will present from its own collection an exhibition displaying the full series of One hundred aspects…
After working with a Grammy Award winning producer on her debut album, Modern Times, and two consecutive years of sold out MICF shows, Jude Perl is ready to talk about ‘selling o…
Australia's foremost jazz vocalist Vince Jones leads a celebration of one of rock music's greatest performers in Van Morrison Masterpieces. Joined by The Astral Orchestra and guest vocalist …
What's the world like without sight or sound? Over a four-year period, Jodee Mundy and Deafblind artists Heather Lawson and Michelle Stevens created Imagined Touch – a tact…
The City of Melbourne has announced $910,000 in grants as part of its Annual Arts Grants Program, further strengthening Melbourne's status as a world-class creative capital. Sixty-seven a…
This September, Melbourne audiences will witness the phenomenal skills and imagination of the circus world's future stars, when the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) in collaboration …
Circus Oz has thrown open its doors in Collingwood for the sixth BLAKflip masterclass for ten, new and returning, deadly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists – brought toge…
Who is Isaac Lummis? A Melbourne based Costume designer and occasional maker, sometimes runner and a weekend cook. What would you do differently to what you do now? I would probably be a die…
More joy, more play, more panache, more love, more wild leaps of imagination, more possibility. More life. Belvoir's Artistic Director Eamon Flack has unveiled an optimistic and wildly enter…
It would be beyond belief if it wasn't true. In 2009, Brisbane's Catholic community was rocked when the Catholic Church stepped in to oust beloved priest Father Peter Kennedy from his post a…
Darlinghurst Theatre Company has revealed its 2017 season at the Eternity Playhouse, featuring 6 plays that are rich in vision and broad in appeal. Featuring the world premieres of …
The arts perennially faces the problem of scant public money and competition for the donated dollar. But today, ever more individuals and organisations are in the donation hunt. It is timely…
A moving and witty story about a young woman navigating the treacherous world of adulthood and her complicated world of fantasy, Red Stitch Actors Theatre presents the Australian premi…
The 2016 Feast Festival Program has arrived and it is filled with a range of International, Interstate and local Queer Art and Culture. There was no denying the 2015 Feast Festival hosted…
The Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) have announced the recipients for the 2016 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects that includes a prize pool of $10,000.00. The first prize recipient,…
The 2017 Malthouse Theatre program is breaking all the rules to present an anarchic and ribald season of five new Australian plays, eight world premieres and a cohort of rebellious …
