7,123 stories by "Arts Review"
Writer, director and actor Leah Purcell has won Australia's richest single literary prize – the Victorian Prize for Literature – for her play The Drover's Wife, a dramatic reimag…
Regional Arts Victoria welcomes the Victorian Government's Regional Centre of Culture program and is delighted to announce that Artlands 2018 – one of Australia's biggest arts event, w…
Who is Kanen Breen? Kanen Breen, tickler of fancies, deliverer of opera, divider of opinion. A sad clown, a happy hooligan, an introverted extrovert; an intro-extrovert? What would you do di…
A new development that will transform over 1000m2 of vacant retail space into a collection of arts spaces in the Melbourne Arts Precinct is set to launch in February. Situated on the ground …
New Theatre in association with the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras presents Douglas Carter Beane’s award-winning comedy The Little Dog Laughed at the New Theatre from 7 Februar…
Corruption. Politics. Loyalty. Fear. Mate. Brother. Ally. Don't look away. Multi award-winning writer and director Aidan Fennessy (What Rhymes With Cars and Girls, National Interest) makes a…
Jackson Pollock's iconic painting, Blue poles, (1952) will today return to the walls of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra. The approximately two metre by four metre artwork…
In 2004, Melbourne Theatre Company, where I worked at the time, asked me to write a short history for their 50th anniversary. A battered box was duly wheeled into my office, containing mater…
Continuing in the long line of inventive small scale reworkings of classic musicals at the Hayes Theatre, David Hawkins's new production of the Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret is nothing shor…
In the artist's fifth solo show with the Anna Schwartz Gallery, Daniel Crooks presents Parabolic – an exhibition of new works highlighting his interest in the physical properties of ti…
As the Guardian pointed out in an interview with the performer earlier this year, what Trygve Wakenshaw does is not, by popular opinion, 'cool'. Clowning is not cool. And within the school o…
The National Gallery of Victoria invites all registered architects within Australia to participate in the 2017 NGV Architecture Commission Design Competition – calling for innovativ…
Who is Daniel Kok? diskodanny is an independent choreographer, artistic researcher, pole dancer, cheerleader, bondage practitioner and masseur who can fall asleep in any kind of bed. What wo…
It wouldn't be a Midsumma Festival without a colourful musical offering that just sweeps you along with its fun and energy. You'll get this from female vocal trio The Desperettes with their …
A provocative and powerful retelling of one of the most well known stories of all time, Sydney Theatre Company presents the Australian premiere season of Colm TóibÃn’s The …
Producers Michael Harrison, David Ian and John Frost have announced that Kip Gamblin will be playing the title role of The Bodyguard, Frank Farmer, in the Australian tour of the internati…
Continuing its delightful series of fairy-tale ballets for children, which began last year with The Sleeping Beauty, The Australian Ballet has this year produced an even more appropriate bal…
Melbourne Theatre Company has announced the thirteen theatre professionals selected for its 2017 Women in Theatre Program. The successful applicants for this year's program are Gorkem Aca…
Fornicating. Lush. Steamy. Obscene. Nature is the longest, most tender and most gloriously degenerate lover we're ever going to have. And humanity is the shittiest partner. We've ravaged her…
Desires are unleashed, tensions suspended and lines of connection macraméd in the Victorian premiere of Luke George and Daniel Kok’s Bunny " an interactive performance usi…
A conservative politician, a leader, a man in a snappy suit, an athlete in a bad tracksuit. Meet A Prudent Man – an amalgamation of the right-wing politician that haunts us al…
A captivating look into the nuances and intricacies of falling in love, loving and falling out of it all, Kotryna Gesait presents The Nursery Web at The Butterfly Club from 1 February 201…
An innovative transliteration and re-interpretation of the words of Thomas Mann, Sofia Chapman’s Todd in Venice will play a strictly limited season at the La Mama Theatre from 1 Feb…
Local and international creatives are invited to bring their biggest artistic ideas to Sydney as part of Art & About Sydney's year-round creative arts program. The City of Sydney is seek…
This extraordinary staging by Opera Australia in the Sydney Opera House is the first time Szymanowski's King Roger has been performed in Australia. A co-production with the Royal Opera House…
