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For the third year in a row, Bluesfest Byron Bay has won the Best Major Festival & Event at the NSW Tourism Awards. The competition was particularly fierce in 2017 with Vivid Sydney, 201…
The critically acclaimed American play Hand To God –Â about a demonic sock puppet that wreaks havoc on relationships and faith in a small Texas town – will have its Australian …
James Batchelor is one of Australia's most exciting and ambitious young dance-makers. As the recipient of Chunky Move's prestigious Next Move 2017 commission, he presents the world premiere …
Jason Robert Brown's acclaimed 2001 musical, The Last Five Years returns to the Melbourne stage in a new production at The MC Showroom for a strictly limited season from 21 November 2017.…
Tracing the genre of the fairy tale, exploring its function in contemporary society, the Ian Potter Museum of Art presents All the better to see you with: Fairy tales transformed as it…
An exquisitely textural visual performance that beautifully weaves puppetry, projection, drawing and dance, Arts House presents the world premiere of Fleur Elise Noble’s ROOMAN at t…
Australian artists now spend more time on their creative practice than in previous years but earn less from it. The situation is particularly gloomy for the average Australian female artist.…
At some stage, the usual superlatives don't suffice, so you throw your words into a Yahtzee cup and see what shakes out. Which is probably why I can safely say Romeo is not the Only Fruit is…
Since they were introduced into this country by former Canberran, David Bates, spiegeltents have become associated with a particular style of risqué European-style intimate cabaret featurin…
Bringing to the stage a wide range of voices and stories, and creating a space where difference is both valued and celebrated, Merrigong Theatre Company has revealed its 2018 Season under…
Who is Benjamin Nichol? An actor, the theatre director of the Ringwood sector for the Fresh Theatre for Social Change, co-creator of the hot new theatre show BREAD CRUMBS, and proud boy of t…
A hilarious take-no-prisoners comedy for anyone who feels a mix of terror and affection about spending Christmas with family, Darlinghurst Theatre Company presents the world premiere season …
Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre presents Desert, 6:29pm by Morgan Rose in a world premiere season from 22 November 2017. We're in a town in the middle of nowhere. It's dinnertime. A fami…
Guiding you on an intimate fleshy foray through the parallel universes of 90s club culture and performative theatre, Australia's cult pioneer of queer performance art, Glitta Supernova bring…
Australia's rarely acknowledged history of frontier violence and massacres of Aboriginal people has become part of the permanent First Peoples exhibition at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural …
The widely anticipated auction of Aboriginal & Oceanic Works of Art that was set to take place on Tuesday 14 November at Sydney's Chifley Tower, will now take place tonight (Thursday 16 …
Bringing a classic of absurdist theatre to the Sydney stage, Throwing Shade Theatre Company presents Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker at The Actor's Pulse Studio, Redfern, from 22 Nove…
Who is Eddie Rayner? Tim Finn's description: “Eddie's a true larrikin with a musical sensitivity second to none, and a gift for goonery that surpasses all…” My description:…
From the AWGIE award-winning writer of Little Bird, State Theatre Company South Australia presents Nicki Bloom’s dark-as-pitch comedy (with a sting in its tail), Vale in th…
After a stellar 2017 of ground-breaking musical theatre, StageArt has announced the three shows that feature in the 2018 season and will be presented at Chapel Off Chapel: Falsettos, bare th…
Australians have voted in support of marriage equality and Live Performance Australia (LPA), the peak body for the live entertainment and performing arts industry, has called on the Federal …
Soaring with the exuberance of the great stage musicals and enriched with the passion of grand opera, From Broadway to La Scala will hit a new high note for all lovers of fine entertainment …
Who is Richard Sarell? Richard Sarell – director – Memory of Water. What would you do differently to what you do now? I'd make more money. And I'd have more fun. I'm having heaps…
Two-time Archibald prize-winner, Del Kathryn Barton will be celebrated in the largest ever exhibition of her work to date at National Gallery of Victoria in Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway i…
Melbourne audiences will have the opportunity to hear the unforgettable songs of original Split Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner when Arts Centre Melbourne presents ENZO: The Songs of Split E…