From Opera Australia, Sydney Chamber Orchestra and Carriageworks, Gilgamesh, is a visceral retelling of a story from a forgotten age, exploring ideas of love, tyranny and what it means to be human.
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David Williamson’s newest play at the State Theatre Company South Australia takes us on board a ‘lifestyle cruise’ – or, to be blunter, a swingers cruise.
Clown education is often long, rigorous and very physically demanding. Many clown courses are quite hard to get into.
More than 50 participants gathered in Melaka, Malaysia, for the Melaka Art & Performance Festival – an exploration of butoh, trance and postmodern dance.
Raygun has forced us to focus on many aspects of dance that are often ignored in Australia, including the role of dance in communities and the politics of dance.
Ray Lawler, who died this week at 103, wrote Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, one of the most influential plays in Australian theatre history.
For the first time in Olympic Games history, the ceremony took place outside a stadium arena.
Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and our fantasy lives. His story is tailor-made for Kip Williams’ adaptation.
Rising has great potential to transform the arts ecosystem in Melbourne. But this requires some deep consultation and consideration as it contemplates what the future holds.
Now in its 24th year, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s annual celebration of all things cabaret sparkles and shines.
Robert Menzies is outstanding as a physically feeble yet emotionally volatile Lear.
Shelley Lasica was the first dance artist represented by an Australian commercial gallery. But how do you stage an exhibition on dance?
The work highlights that there may be no singular perspective on what is right and wrong in this rather complex and nuanced world.
Set in 1990s suburban Australia, The Exact Dimensions of Hell is a theatrical exploration that unflinchingly examines themes of teenage girls, desire and power.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s captivating revival of the 1975 play, co-produced with Dublin’s Gate Theatre, manages to balance the loathing and humour of Thomas Bernhard’s writing.
Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World at the Sydney Theatre Company is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life.
The theatre, dance and music works at this year’s festival have helped fulfil a three-pronged vision from some two decades ago.
Eamon Flack’s production captures well – and with a lovely, light touch – the sense of fleeting memories that are, nevertheless, still available to us.
Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
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