7,123 stories by "Arts Review"
Taking inspiration from performance artist Marina Abramovic’s The Artist Is Present, Tasmanian Author Heather Rose has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Stella Prize for h…
Dissolving the barriers between high art and pop culture and imagines a shatteringly funny post-apocalyptic world where The Simpsons becomes the new global religion, State Theatre Company of…
Just as Zack Dyer was announced as the winner of the 2017 RAW Comedy Final, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival have announced the nominations for the 20th annual Barry …
A courageous story that inspired the roaming spectacular of The Giants at the 2015 Perth International Arts Festival, Black Swan State Theatre Company presents the Australian premiere season…
Comedians Jess Perkins & Naomi Higgins come onto the stage looking for a fight. They stand toe-to-toe, fists up and strike a classic pre-match pose, before retiring to the wings to await…
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is not only Australia's most popular gallery, but one of the top 20 most visited worldwide as revealed by the UK's The Art Newspaper in its latest surv…
Who is Ako Kondo? I am a Principal Artist at The Australian Ballet. I was born in Japan and moved to Australia in 2008 to follow my dream (my dream was to be a professional ballerina!). I am…
It's my first time at YUMMY. I'm used to a lot of first times being similar to The First Time " there's a little awkwardness and I'm not sure what to do with my hands. At, Yummy, however, I …
Well, well, well. One does not often think of the bottom of a well as the ideal venue for stand-up comedy. The acoustics are awful and, with no room for any actual audience, the box office m…
There's a nice shape to Comic Conned, with music a strong presence both at beginning and end. To be honest, any show that opens with Bonnie Tyler singing, Holding Out For A Hero is going to …
Act Like A Lady features a series of concise sets of stand-up comedy from a group of female Canberran comedians. The group was well-led by MC Codie Bell, with a fantastic set that had the au…
If you're of the mind that sitting in a theatre watching a rarely performed 400 year-old Shakespearean play about a murderous king, with the king played by a slip of a girl, might not be you…
"Unconventional," is too clichéd, "Surprises," is too brash and loud; rather, The Omission of the Coleman Family, has no shortage of… "unexpected elements" " both in and outside of th…
Billy Joel's opening "A bottle of white, a bottle of red \Â Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead" in Scenes from an Italian Restaurant notes the importance of variety. If you're needing a ch…
Who is David Williams? I make theatre, attend football matches, and convince people (my partner mostly) that these two activities are completely entwined and of similar value. What would you…
In a unique collaboration between the Shanghai Ballet and renowned British choreographer Derek Deane, a grand production of Swan Lake with 80 dancers, will open exclusively at Melbourne's…
A documentary exploring the life of artist Michael Leunig and a big screen 3D journey to the Great Barrier Reef are among 16 local film and television projects heading to the screen thanks t…
It cannot be the final arkle! Surely the inventor of Dave Sorenson, greatest and most persistently injured of farnarklers, will rebuild himself for the next match. Please tell me this is onl…
Celebrating 65 years of Parisian Glamour and inspired by the endless theme of femininity and sophistication, Australian audiences will experience the tantalizing cultural phenomenon of Crazy…
Showcasing one of the most fruitful writing partnerships in history, Flourish Productions presents Let It Be: The Songs of Lennon & McCartney for three special performances at Chapel …
The Adelaide Fringe Poster competition is as iconic as the festival itself. Each year since the birth of the festival, the Adelaide Fringe hero image has been a poster competition entry, wit…
Who is Sharon Andrews? I am a stand up comedian currently competing in the national final of Raw Comedy. I am also an academic and a person who sometimes struggles with public speaking, bein…
Walking out of a 16-colour Sierra game comes Clara Cupcakes – platinum blonde hair, purple skin, eight tentacles. Cephalopod molluscs never looked so fancy, as if straight outta the pi…
Chi Vu's script resembles Adaptation in some ways with its lead character a playwright struggling to find a way to write herself into a story in a way she's satisfied with. There's shades of…
Alice Tovey and Ned Dixon certainly know how to wield their instruments: Ned is terrific on the piano, his hands fierce across the keys; Alice has an incredible voice, majestic and malleable…
