7,123 stories by "Arts Review"
This winter, after rocking through their regional Victorian tour and a run of hot shows for the Australia now festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, – Circus Oz returns to Melbourne to kick of…
Dubbed the Queen of psychedelic soul, Janis Joplin is perhaps Rock 'n Rolls most tragic leading lady. Prodigiously talented, she mesmerised audiences with her uninhibited, drug-addled perfor…
Local TV content is hugely popular with audiences and plays a vital role in informing the ways we think about ourselves and each other, but do our TV dramas reflect the diversity of Australi…
It's an overused word, much loved by the theatre cognoscenti, but one impossible to avoid when talking about Yana Alana. Yes! She is certainly subversive. From the moment she takes the stage…
As the Australian Cast of Matilda The Musical prepares for its official premiere in Melbourne tonight, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced that the production will play seasons…
In a small Western Australian town, 13-year-old Ort Flack is coming to terms with terrible changes in his world. Long ago, his parents 'dropped out' to follow a hippie lifestyle. Now his fat…
Featuring a bumper program of 20 stand out shows, Something on Saturday is back for another fun-filled year with the best entertainment for children aged 2 " 10 years from 23 April 2016. …
Who is Anthony Crowley? Playwright and theatre-maker. Performing in his play Redemption opening Thursday 17 March at La Mama Courthouse. What would you do differently to what you do now? In …
Electrifying the city this winter with an extraordinary program of international and Australian jazz artists, the 2016 Melbourne International Jazz Festival will celebrate jazz as a constant…
Kerrie Anne Greenland stole the show with her powerful and heartbreaking rendition of the classic song On My Own in the recent Australian production of Les Misérables for which she won aÂ�…
Who is Kate Dehnert? A comedian who likes to put on energetic/psychedelic/irreverent shows. I've received some pretty good reviews in the past and this year I'm lucky enough to be a Moosehea…
A gripping story of two Catholic priests who share a terrible secret, Anthony Crowley’s Redemption will be presented as part of La Mama's Summer season at the Carlton Courthouse …
2015 was an excellent year for actor Kurt Phelan. After conjuring his inner Patrick Swayze in a national tour of Dirty Dancing he has just completed writing his brand new cabaret, P…
In the fall of 1939, at 9 years old, Eleanor and her family left New York on the SS Hamburg bound for Germany. A new job and a secure financial future awaited her father in Berlin. Half-way …
Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Amanda Joy as the winner of 2016 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem Tailings. The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia's most lu…
Who is James Millar? An actor and writer. Now (spookily) 36 years old. I love theatre, film and any form of creative storytelling and have since I was a little kid. I used to write miniature…
Following the success of last year's SALA Festival Artist in Residence, Aurelia Carbone and her large scale illusion-based installation, Q*bert's Ball, Adelaide Festival Centre is excited to…
Set against the wilderness of the Australian coast, Olga Lorenzo’s The Light on the Water is a provocative and unflinching literary novel of love, guilt and grief. Recently divorced an…
The varied and diverse arts world will converge in regional NSW this October at ARTLANDS DUBBO 2016. Think art, education, music, theatre, circus and so much more under the backdrop of big o…
An acrobatic exploration of the scarred beauty of the place we call home, Circa and Merrigong Theatre Company have joined forces to create Landscape with Monsters in an Australian p…
Three uniquely masterful works combine to create a heart-pounding night of modern ballet, as The Australian Ballet shakes the artform to its foundations in Vitesse at Arts Centre Melbourne f…
An exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, When silence falls presents the work of contemporary Aboriginal artists alongside contemporary international artists to consider the viol…
Who is Claire Cunningham? I'm a disabled artist and performance maker based in Glasgow, Scotland, currently visiting Australia for the first time and now performing my solo show, Give Me A R…
In a starkly beautiful dance of transcendence and struggle, renowned UK performer Claire Cunningham delves into the work of medieval Dutch painter Hieronymous Bosch, to explore religio…
Providing a platform for the cross-pollination of ideas across the fields of textiles, contemporary art and fashion, Fabrik: minimalist and conceptual approaches to textiles is a multi…
