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TURA New Music Speechless - photo by Toni Wilkinson

In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are makin...

May 27 - Music, Opinion

Classical music has traditionally not been a welcoming environment for women composers. Opera Australia’s 2019 season, for instance, features just one work by a female composer, Elena Kats-Chernin. At a recent New Opera ...

AAR MT Cloudstreet Scott Sheridan and Natasha Herbert - photo by Pia Johnson

In Cloudstreet, nostalgia all too easily redeems Australia’s col...

May 21 - Latest Reviews, Opinion, Theatre

Set in a rambling and ageing house haunted by a colonial past, Cloudstreet is a theatrical adaption of Tim Winton’s 1991 novel of the same title. Written by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo – and first performed in 1998, no...

Natalie Abbott in Muriels Wedding - photo by Jeff Busby

Muriel’s Wedding The Musical

May 20 - Latest Reviews, Music Theatre, Opinion

If you only see one musical this year, make it a date with Muriel’s Wedding. Nothing has been missed in this super colourful, intelligent production. Just like the movie really with an extra oomph! How often do you...

Arts and culture under the Coalition: a lurch between aggression and a...

April 15 - Creative Industries, Opinion

This article is part of a series examining the Coalition government’s record on key issues while in power and what Labor is promising if it wins the 2019 federal election. What happens when an opposition party wins power...

The National, Sam Cranstoun, Utopia, Carriageworks - photo by Zan Wimberley

The National is a time capsule of new Australian art in uncertain time...

April 13 - Exhibitions, Opinion

The National is an ambitious name for any exhibition of contemporary Australian art. In this case it is justified by the inclusion of artists from every state and territory. The bald statistics of the media release note ...

Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the ...

April 11 - Books, Latest News, Opinion

Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s memoir of a “monstrous” mother has won the 2019 Stella Prize. The Erratics tells the story of Vicki’s return home to a prairie house in the sparse wintry landscapes of Alberta, Canada, where she gre...

Missing in action: a vision for the arts in the 2019 budget

April 5 - Creative Industries, Opinion

It says something about the place of the arts in Australian public life that a federal budget speech delivered on the eve of an election chooses not to mention them. Agriculture gets a mention. Culture, however, doesn’t....

Hannah Gadsby’s follow-up to Nanette is an act of considered sel...

April 1 - Comedy, Latest Reviews, Opinion

Hannah Gadsby’s new show, Douglas, is not earth-shattering the way Nanette was; but then, nothing could be. Many of us watched with fascination as Gadsby’s tenth solo show, Nanette, took her from a local niche market in ...

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