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Natural history meets artifice in Judith Van Heeren's new exhibition Sea Garden at Murray White Room – extending the artist's longstanding interest in the genre of natural history pain…
A razor-sharp dissection of one man's emotional indecision in our commitment-phobic age, Baker's Dozen Theatre Company presents Mike Bartlett’s award-winning play, Cock at the Meat …
Laid is majestic anarchy. Whether audience or artist, Laid is compulsory viewing at this year's comedy festival. Beyond superlatives, beyond the thesaurus, beyond any frame of reference that…
Having recently kicked off their year with You Know We Belong Together, Craig Dalglish takes a look at the diverse and eclectic season of productions Black Swan State Theatre Company h…
The Creative State Summit returns to Melbourne in June and members of Victoria's creative sector are invited to take part as speakers and delegates. An initiative of the Victorian Government…
Who is Hilary Glow? I am an Associate Professor at Deakin University where I lead the post graduate Arts and Cultural Management program. I conduct research in the arts sector and I'm curren…
From Pattie Boyd's personal images of life with George Harrison and Eric Clapton to Japanese love dolls, the death rituals of Indonesia, John F. Kennedy and an emotional exploration of a fam…
Following a sell-out premiere season in 2017, La Boite and Multicultural Development Australia (MDA) present a return season of The Village, 11 – 15 April as part of the Commonwealt…
Last year, one of Australia's sharpest comedians Simon Taylor was told he was going to be a dad. Then he was told he might not be the dad. Then he was told he was probably the dad. Then he r…
ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) invites you to venture down the rabbit hole into an enchanted world, where expectations are upended and curiosity is rewarded in Wonderland R…
What a delightful breath of fresh air is playwright, Nakkiah Lui. Her writing is witty, perceptive, informative and deliciously entertaining; her characters, believable, charming and very fu…
Sometimes we all need a change of scene. English mime duo The Kagools have this in mind in their new show Kula. The result is a very funny expedition to the frontiers of physical comedy. Las…
The title of this parody of the Pirates of the Caribbean series –Â Dead Men Tell No Jokes –Â doesn't tell the whole story; the living can have some problems too. These were s…
Who is Mark Lee? He is an actor, sometime director, sometime singer/songwriter still trying to find his way through what he does. Still learning, failing sometimes but with the hunger to do …
From an enormous moon sculpture to giant sea urchins and abstract art, Festival 2018 is set to ignite, inspire and completely astound audiences from around the globe. With over 1,000 free ar…
An outrageously funny new play about sex, literature and spiralling out of control, Sydney Theatre Company presents Michele Lee’s Going Down in a world premiere season at the Wha…
Put on some makeup and turn on your eight-track " it’s time to experience the original Hedwig! Tony Award-winning actor/director/writer John Cameron Mitchell brings his new show, Th…
On March 18, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk triumphantly announced that Dora had been saved. News that the Dora the Explorer live action film would be made there followed a week…
Offering a glimpse into the domestic lives of eras past, the National Gallery of Victoria presents A Modern Life: Tablewares 1930s " 1980s, on display until January 2019. This new collect…
Who is Jeremy Stanford? Thanks for asking. Most of the time I have no idea, and it's about time I had a sit down and a good hard think about it. I have threads. My life is threads. Sometimes…
In a programme of about 600 shows at MICF 2018, it helps to have a point of difference. Sean Patton has the hook of being from the 'drunken voodoo pirate city' of New Orleans. Given that upb…
Just before the official start, Smith advised that Worth It wasn't going to be about money, as the MICF guide indicated. Instead of being that show from the Canadian's brain, this would be "…
A former Apple Store "Genius", English comic James Veitch has gained some life XP and returns to MICF following his sell-out 2017 offering on internet scams: Dot Con. Having missed that, I w…
Winner of the 2013 MICF Barry Award and Edinburgh Fringe's Perrier Award, the widely-toured and irascible Rich Hall is a frequent visitor to Australia. As for his last trip in 2016, he st…
An "Escape Room" gives you the chance to work with friends against the clock to solve puzzles and secure your release. The business world has seized on the concept for "team building" –…
