7,123 stories by "Arts Review"
The 7th annual Transitions Film Festival returns to Cinema Nova this February with another inspiring line-up of world-changing films. Showcasing local and international documentaries aimed a…
Invisible Wall Productions and Sugary Rum Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co have announced, due to popular demand, an additional week of performances to the Australian Prem…
Following the great critical and public success of Tannhäuser and Lohengrin, Melbourne Opera is once again turning its attention to Wagner's rich repertoire. From 2-10 February, the comp…
The official launch of Festival 2018 has revealed a spectacular line-up of arts and cultural entertainment across 12 action-packed days from 4 – 15 April to celebrate and extend the Go…
More than 500,000 people from Australia and across the world have visited the inaugural NGV Triennial since its opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on Friday 15 December 2017. Galler…
Transforming the stunning Lorne foreshore and surrounds on the Great Ocean Road, the 2018 Lorne Sculpture Biennale (LSB), will celebrate the best in contemporary Australian and international…
An incisive drama about the responsibility each generation faces in leaving a better world for those that follow, Melbourne Theatre Company presents the Australian premiere of Lucy Kir…
Who is Mark G Nagle? The director of Fucking Men – opening 8 February at the New Theatre as part of this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. What would you do d…
Running from 27 February – 20 March, Carriageworks has announced the public program to complement the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award. Australia's first major choreographic award, …
Au Cause Célèbre is described as "An oversaturated tragically romantic melodrama." I'll admit to some uncertainty as to the significance of the title, so I've looked to Cece's wee descript…
Tune your air guitar and raise your rock salute, Melbourne! Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway and West End smash hit rock musical, School of Rock will make its Australian premiere at Her Majest…
Who is Phillip Lee Curtis? For the most part I'm a scared little boy pretending to be a grown up. In my spare time I'm a singer, writer, graphic designer, producer and very bad dressmaker wh…
A wickedly clever comedy from the creator of, well, everything, Darlinghurst Theatre Company presents the Australian premiere of David Javerbaum’s An Act of God at the Eternity P…
The first significant survey of their work on display in Australia, The SUBSTATION presents, from 2 February, an exclusive exhibition of works from Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Loyalty Do…
A tenderly heartfelt and highly intelligent new work from one of the ground-breaking artists of our time, Taylor Mac – whose A 24-Decade History of Popular Music was the critical sm…
Shining the spotlight on Australia's 1970s Gay Rights Movement and the passionate individuals who were unwavering in their fight for decriminalisation, recognition and equality, the highl…
Supporting new VR works by Australian artists and filmmakers, ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) has announced that applications are now open for the second $80,000 Mordant Fam…
Who is Tony Sheldon? I'm not the right person to ask. What would you do differently to what you do now? Â Â I'm a pretty good version of myself now. The past 15 years have been a proces…
Strangers in Between has been around for a while: It's been over ten years since actors first took Tommy Murphy's words onto a stage and said them out aloud. What's remarkable about this rev…
The word "drag" has connotations of a difficult journey, often being moved somewhere against one's will. In Dragged that somewhere is Stella's memories. Having collapsed in an anonymous gree…
A persona that functions like a bulletproof vest – a disguise to conceal the truth, Phillip Lee Curtis presents Ego Jacket at The MC Showroom as part of the 2018 Midsumma Festival: …
Nassim is a continuation of the work begun by playwright Nassim Soleimanpour with his enigmatic and popular show, White Rabbit Red Rabbit. Nassim, also begins with a similar enigmatic premis…
In 1897, Oscar Wilde wrote the letter we call De Profundis from his cell in Reading Goal. His time there was part of a two-year sentence for "gross indecency" – a result of his ongoing…
Now in its fifth year, Melbourne Theatre Company has announced the 12 new participants for its 2018 Women in Theatre Program, providing invaluable career development opportunities f…
Who is Dolly Diamond? I'm just your average Queen of Cabaret trying to make a name for herself in the only way she knows how… flamboyantly. After 15 years of performing in Australia I …