7,123 stories by "Arts Review"
Former Queer Screen President, Lisa Rose has been appointed Festival Director of Queer Screen, overseeing the organisation's 25th Mardi Gras Film Festival in 2018 and the 5th Queer Scr…
The Sydney Opera House has announced the appointment of Kate Dundas as Executive Director of Performing Arts. "We are thrilled to have an Executive Director of Kate's talent, experience a…
The Australian cast of Cyndi Lauper's hilarious and heart-warming new musical Kinky Boots will perform a charity concert at Sydney's Capitol Theatre on Sunday 18 June to raise money for beyo…
Producers John Frost and Suzanne Jones are delighted to announce that Lucy Durack and Jemma Rix are joining the cast of the world's favourite musical, The Wizard of Oz, to play Glinda the Go…
Following on from the recent critical acclaim of her direction of The Trouble with Harry at The Seymour Centre, the unstoppable, multi-award winning Kate Gaul is next turning her hand to dir…
Did anyone else feel like a bit of a dick taking notes through this? Just me? Because, Ursula Martinez, Zoë Coombs Marr, and Adrienne Truscott have not so much made a brilliantly construc…
Often, getting to your seat at La Mama means walking through the set. Here it's a rather homely, slightly older room we tread through, not unlike a time capsule. We're in the present day, bu…
With Meg Miroshnik's opulent, post-Soviet Moscow play, The Fairytale Live of Russian Girls, Melbourne's Boutique Theatre once again offer up an Australian premiere season that promises somet…
A behind-the-scenes exploration of 31 of the most important Australian homes of the past 60 years., Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery presents Iconic Australian Houses: an exhibition …
Who is Gemma Paintin? She's an artist. She works hard, she likes to travel. She goes to the pub with her friends. She likes to do gardening and grows tulips in her tiny back garden. What wou…
A new, highly acclaimed production of Szymanowski’s King Roger will have its Melbourne premiere tonight, offering audiences a rare opportunity to experience an extraordinary piece of w…
From the pre-eminent Australian novelist of his generation, The Kin Collective in association with fortyfivedownstairs presents Tim Winton’s searing drama, Shrine in a limited Melbo…
Producers Global Creatures and Roy Furman have announced that King Kong will arrive on Broadway in 2018 at the Shubert Organization's Broadway Theatre. King Kong's first preview, press…
In its 60th anniversary production, My Fair Lady has opened in Melbourne at the Regent Theatre after a successful opening at the Sydney Opera House, directed by the one of the most loved …
The Transitions Film Festival returns to Adelaide this May with a powerful line-up of cutting-edge documentaries about the existential challenges, mega-trends, game-changing technologies, an…
Who is Robbie Carmellotti? I am just a guy who likes to create art on stage. My mind is always lost in a world of art, it's a constant kaleidoscope of nonsense inside my head. I started Stag…
It is not often that one walks into an art gallery to be greeted by an air of exhilaration. Such was the case at the Art Gallery of Western Australia on ‘Sneaker Saturday’ –…
Following its critically acclaimed world premiere season earlier this month, Sydney Dance Company continues its 2017 season in Melbourne and Canberra with the latest creation from Artisti…
Palace Cinemas once again are bringing the best of American independent film to Australian screens with American Essentials. Twenty films make their Australian premiere – many hot on t…
Who is Ursula Martinez? A show off and a nudist, from Croydon What would you do differently to what you do now? I would have a secretary do my press for me. Who inspires you and why? Zoe Coo…
Coranderrk returns re-written and remounted for a national tour presented by ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Belvoir with Regional Arts Victoria. Since April 2017, the production has played to…
St Kilda's historic Palais Theatre is set to reopen this week, following an extensive refurbishment, for the St Kilda Film Festival Opening Night on Thursday, brighter and more vibrant than …
In 1895, James Alexander Kenneth Mackay wrote his novel, The Yellow Wave: A Romance of the Asiatic Invasion of Australia. A text dripping with stereotype and melodrama, it's not a book yo…
Who is Laila Thaker? A driven, charismatic Indigenous artist who lives and breathes performance art. What would you do differently to what you do now? I’d be a wildlife conservationist…
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced more than $7 million to support 270 projects delivered by individuals, groups and small-to-medium organisations through the first of three gr…
