7,123 stories by "Arts Review"
A landmark exhibition of Western Australian Aboriginal art acknowledging and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum, When the Sky Fell runs from 2 July – 20 August at …
The curtain falls on a Broadway stage, the star comes forward to receive her applause. Melina Mercouri, sex symbol and Cannes award-winner, tells her New York audience the truth about events…
A tragicomedy that explores human assumptions about how God, goodness, faith and causality operate, Knock & Run Theatre presents Grace by Craig Wright at the Civic Theatre Newcastle f…
Melbourne Art Fair returns as the region's most significant platform for Australasian contemporary art. The Fair takes place as the anchor event of Melbourne Art Week, 2-5 August 2018,…
There are some astonishing male coming of age films. For instance, Richard Linklater's acclaimed Boyhood depicts the subtle moments and emotional experiences of one Mason Evan Jr, played by …
With the Adelaide Cabaret Festival coming to an end for another year, Co-Artistic Directors, Ali McGregor and Eddie Perfect announced that Ali will take the reins as sole Artistic Director f…
Who is Margi Ash Brown? Performer and playwright, actor and director, therapist for artists, mother of four, mentor and friend. What would you do differently to what you do now? I would know…
Award winning cabaret chanteuse, Anya Anastasia is bringing a brand spanking new, fierce, and tightly choreographed new breed of contemporary cabaret, The Execution to the intentionally p…
In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in 2018, Screen Australia and ABC TV Arts are pleased to announce Love Bites, a brand new documentary initiativ…
Everyone's favourite Aussie musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert is off on a national tour, starting in Melbourne in January 2018, with stops in Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. After a glit…
Australian literary professionals will be able to follow their storylines around the country and overseas following the announcement of the inaugural Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. Deli…
Who is an artist and when does a fabricated object become art? The 200 individuals represented in The Museum of Everything exhibition at MONA in Hobart focus our attention on these questions…
Fresh from performances at the 2017 Adelaide Cabaret festival, musical comedy duo, Roulston & Young present their smart and funny, Songs For Lovers (And Other Idiots) to The But…
A tender musical adapted from Tim Rogers' iconic solo album, Tasmanian Theatre Company presents What Rhymes with Cars and Girls at the Salamanca Arts Centre for a limited season fro…
Who is Sara Grenfell? A mother, a theatre director, performer, teacher, radio journalist and chef. What would you do differently to what you do now? Not much. I have often wondered what it w…
The eighth annual instalment of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival sees the return of some acts, including acapella group Ginger and Tonic. I'd seen them share a competent segment with an all-ma…
Ethel Agnes Zimmermann was born in New York in 1908 and started singing in public at the Long Island Republican Club at age 5. The talented child would go on to become a great star of famous…
Alice Birch's production, Revolt. She said. Revolt again., currently on at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre, has been staged before as part of the 2014 Midsummer Mischief Festival at Royal Cour…
The main space at the Substation seems made for this, its long red curtains like the Red Room from the Black Lodge. Standing room only, people are littered at first, but soon pulled inexorab…
Back AGAIN by popular demand, The Songs of Alan Menken is taking over the Southbank Theatre for one day only on Saturday 24 June for two performances. Featuring an expanded cast of seven and…
Nesting, change, the power of the feminine; A treasure, the driving force of creation are some of the concepts behind Treasure Of Bachué – an exhibition of new paintings exploring …
Who is Sophie Ross? A very curious and very curly female human. She has a lot of hair. What would you do differently to what you do now? Take more risks. Who inspires you and why? My dear…
This week's nominations for the Helpmann Awards, which recognise the performing arts in Australia, have caused a storm of discussion, particularly about the state of Australian musical theat…
Outer Urban Projects launched their calendar of upcoming works with an extraordinary revival of Poetic License – a story of attempting to adapt Aristophanes' The Frogs, rather th…
Elise McCann won Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards for her portrayal of Miss Honey in the Australian production of the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Roald Dahl's Matilda –…
