7,123 stories by "Arts Review"
Flamenco offering Yo, Carmen (in English: I, Carmen) purports to draw on the story of the opera Carmen by Bizet, and some of the popular music which developed into its score. Accompanied by …
The critically acclaimed musical Come From Away has announced its final three cast members ahead of the Australian premiere at the newly refurbished Comedy Theatre, Melbourne in July, just a…
Strange things, eclectic things, random things " all wonderful things! As Sovereign Hill's Gold Museum celebrates its 40th Anniversary " a new exhibition, Wonderful Things: Celebrating 40 Ye…
La Boite Theatre Company has expressed its appreciation and gratitude to outgoing Executive Director Katherine Hoepper, who will leave the trailblazing company in April to take up the role o…
Conflict transcends both plot and narrative in 2018's French-War film Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil) with righteous themes told in such an accost manner that it detracts from the su…
Who is Captain Kidd? Captain Kidd is Australia's leading burlesque brat child, King of Burlesque 2011, crowned in Las Vegas! A shit stirrer, a gender bender and a mover and shaker. And when …
Clare Barron's ferocious and gloriously funny prize-winning play Dance Nation makes its Australian debut at Red Stitch in March as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Directed b…
For the first time in more than a decade, the iconic Ashes Urn will leave Lord's Cricket Ground to feature in a new exhibition at State Library Victoria. Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has ex…
Victoria's reputation for fostering a healthy music industry has been boosted with the Victorian Government announcing funding to support our artists, roadies and music workers in crisis. Mi…
Who are The Huxleys? The Huxleys are a colourful cataclysm of camp theatrics. A visual assault of sparkle, surrealism and silliness. Working across performance art, costume, moving and still…
From the sisters behind Hot Brown Honey and Sista She, comes another genre-defying feminist power show about self-love, Australian Booty " an entertaining mix of comedy, dance, fierce and hi…
Monash Gallery of Art presents two exhibitions that focus on our environment as part of CLIMARTE Festival: ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 " Dombrovskis: journeys into the wild and Koenning: Swell. …
With the support from the Victorian Government, the historic Trades Hall in Carlton will become the new headquarters of the Melbourne Fringe Festival and home to a new creative hub for Victo…
Celebrating both international and Australian cabaret stars, the inaugural Sydney Cabaret Festival is set to take over the Harbour City this July. The 2019 Sydney Cabaret Festival features t…
33 Variations is many things, perhaps not unsurprisingly considering the title. Moisés Kaufman's script explores pain, mortality, love, sacrifice, and how the search for truth " academic or…
Who is Joseph Uchitel? Depends on the day… What would you do differently to what you do now? Spend more time with my family and friends. Who inspires you and why? Tatyana Chernigovskaya. A…
Museums Victoria has unveiled a 26-metre-tall Sylph of Spring, adorning the scaffolding over the front of the World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building. This magnificent figure is usua…
The producers of Senior Moments have hit a jackpot with this delightful production which attracted capacity houses for each of its four Canberra performances. Describing itself as "a come…
Films involving the production of porn have varied in taste in the twenty two years since the release of Paul Thomas Anderson's drama-comedy, Boogie Nights. Where focus has been on exploring…
Following a hugely successful season in Sydney, the spectacular new musical Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will play at Melbourne's Her Majesty's Theatre from August 2019. Sy…
Why is it that the Cyndi Lauper song Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is so infectious? You've heard it a million times but it still resonates girls and fun. So, it's fitting that Kathy Lette comes…
Comparing the fruit of their labours to the efforts of the Ancient Egyptians, there is a grandiose belief held by those working for acclaimed fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent that their c…
It may be 114 years old but the Richard Strauss opera, Salome, has lost none of its ability to shock and unsettle, particularly as presented here in Gale Edwards extraordinarily visceral pro…
There is a deceptive oddness to Bertrand Mandico's 2018 Queer Fantasy film The Wild Boys (Les Garcons Sauvages). On the one hand, we have a cautionary novella that explores the relationship …
Sydney has secured the 2019 premiere of the multi-award winning, record breaking musical Chicago. Produced in Australia by John Frost and Suzanne Jones, this Australian production will premi…
