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NSW Minister of the Arts, The Hon Don Harwin has announced Justine Varga as the winner of the 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize for her work Photogenic drawing (2018). The announcement was made at t…
Though it might have been a controversial choice to stage West Side Story as the first musical in the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour series, this brilliant production, under the inspired dire…
Who is Dr Vera Möller? I am an artist living and working in Melbourne and on the Mornington Peninsula. Originally I studied Biology and Microbiology in Germany, but soon after my arrival in…
Jason Robert Brown's acclaimed 2001 musical, The Last Five Years returns to the Sydney stage in a new production at the Ensemble Theatre for a strictly limited season from 29 March 2019. Ins…
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) will present the work of 65 emerging, mid-career and established Australian conte…
It doesn't matter how you arrive at 50 Shades! The Musical Parody, it's a terrific show. A fan of the books? It's a terrific show. Loathe the books? It's a terrific show. Don't care about th…
Michael Gudinski and Michael Chugg have announced an exclusive joint venture between Frontier Touring and Chugg Entertainment that will see the two reunited in business once again, exactly 2…
More than 1000 students and staff have moved into the new state-of-the-art Ian Potter Southbank Centre, home to the new Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Part of the University of Melbourne…
Australia's premier First Peoples arts and cultural event YIRRAMBOI Festival will fill the city throughout May with an exciting program of free and low cost events across music, dance, theat…
Who is Diana Nguyen? Diana Nguyen is a nonstop creative machine. I got into stand up because I realized it was the space where I couldn't be pulled off stage. I am releasing a web series tha…
Entries are open now for the Sydney Cabaret Competition which will discover a new generation of Australian singers, artists and storytellers. In June across three heats, performers wil…
Power-pop-electro anthems follow exuberant schoolgirl Kena (Samantha Mugatsia) as she skateboards through the busy streets of Nairobi in the 2018 Kenyan-drama film Rafiki. The tempo of the m…
The National Library of Australia has just launched its Australian Web Archive " a massive, freely accessible collection of content that provides a historical record of the development of wo…
A local, national and international search is underway for artists, painters and sculptors to create permanent public art for Melbourne's new Metro Tunnel stations, with some of Victoria's g…
In a explosive display, one of the world's most dynamic contemporary artists currently working, Cai Guo-Qiang, created a gunpowder drawing Transience II (Peony) in Melbourne last week. The 3…
Who is James Mangohig? I am a Bass Player / Producer / Story teller / Occasional DJ and Radio Host from Darwin, Northern Territory. My father is from the Philippines and my mother is from Ho…
Despite the dire warnings about the impact of screen devices on society, one of Australia's most prolific playwrights, Alana Valentine, is more than positive about the future. "The future is…
Writers Victoria is offering writers and other literary professionals of Australia the chance to travel the world and give life to their ideas, with the launch of a new round of travel fundi…
Who is Tobias Madden? I'm a writer, editor, publisher (now officially!), performer, teacher, remedial therapist, and soon-to-be husband. What would you do differently to what you do now? Hon…
Playing to sold-out houses all over the world, Potted Potter takes on the ultimate challenge of condensing all seven Harry Potter books (and a real-life game of Quidditch) into seventy hilar…
Live Performance Australia (LPA) has announced that the 19th annual Helpmann Awards, which will see the stars of the live performance industry come together for two remarkable nights in Melb…
The Producers of the Australian production of The Book of Mormon have announced that due to unprecedented demand the hit production will return to Brisbane next year. Currently playing to so…
In this technology-driven age, denying your kid a Smartphone is not a sustainable way of keeping them safe. The last thing you want is them coming home in tears, wondering why they are the o…
Who is Melanie Hawkins? A fiery female from Adelaide but residing in Melbourne. A performer. A dancer. A lover of life and learning lots about herself along the way. (My friends would probab…
Five women, a 50-year-old potato race and one huge battle for gender equality in small-town rural Australia, Ensemble Theatre presents the world premiere of Melanie Tait's new comedy, The Ap…
