Sue Smith’s play recreates wild years spent on the island of Hydra, which became an artist’s refuge.
Jeff Busby
A new play tells the story of George Johnston and Charmian Clift’s time on the Greek island of Hydra, which ultimately led to the novel My Brother Jack - but not without sacrifices.
Artist Janet Laurence is ferocious and uncompromising in her work.
Jacquie Manning
A new survey exhibition of contemporary artist Janet Laurence urges us to reconsider the relationship between art, nature and politics.
A Man of Good Hope is a theatrical adaptation of the book of the same name, playing as part of this year’s Adelaide Festival.
Keith Pattison
In A Man of Good Hope, an energetic cast of over 20 performers take the audience on a journey through the life of Somali refugee Asad Abdullahi.
Melita Jurisic as Mae West and Diana Glenn as Diane Arbus in Stephen Sewell’s Arbus and West.
Jeff Busby
One of Australia’s most prominent playwrights has reimagined the infamous encounter between Hollywood icon Mae West and photographer Diane Arbus.
A scene from La Reprise, director Milo Rau’s first production following the publication of his controversial ‘Ghent Manifesto’ on theatre.
Michiel Devijver
La Reprise is remarkable theatre about the murder of a gay man, Ihsane Jarfi, in Belgium in 2012.
Natalia Osipova in Meryl Tankard’s recreated Two Feet, which premiered as part of this year’s Adelaide Festival.
Regis Lansac
Acclaimed dance choreographer Meryl Tankard’s show Two Feet premiered in 1988. Now it returns to the Adelaide Festival, recreated for one of today’s most brilliant dancers.
Dada Masilo’s Giselle follows the ballet’s original story outline but changes it in clever ways.
John Hogg
An unconventional take on Giselle is playing as part of this year’s Perth Festival.
Michelle Lim Davidson, Anthony Taufa and Nakkiah Lui in Sydney Theatre Company’s production of How to Rule the World.
Prudence Upton
The latest offering from playwright Nakkiah Lui illustrates just how ripe our political class are for satirical representation.
A unique production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute is playing at this year’s Perth Festival.
Toni Wilkinson
A new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute uses animation to bring the fantastical opera to life.
Sunset is collaboration between freelance director and choreographer Maxine Doyle and Western Australia’s STRUT Dance, in association with Tura New Music.
Simon Pynt
As part of the 2019 Perth Festival, dance-theatre performance Sunset takes place in a former men’s home on the banks of the Swan River.
Stephan James and Kiki Layne in If Beale St Could Talk.
Entertainment One
The new film from Moonlight writer and director Barry Jenkins delivers on high expectations.
Felicity Jones (centre) as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in new biopic On The Basis of Sex.
Entertainment One
Trailblazing US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is known to many as the ‘Notorious RBG’. But the new film On the Basis of Sex is a muted portrayal of her.
Dust is a new show by far-north Queensland company Dancenorth, currently playing at the 2019 Sydney Festival.
Pippa Samaya
Dancenorth’s Dust explores a world on the brink of turning back to dust. Its themes are familiar in contemporary dance, but the show is replete with powerful images.
In his Quarterly Essay, Smee laments the erosion of ‘inner life’ thanks to digital technology.
Shutterstock
Smee insists that the rich and intense visions of artists such as Cézanne or Chekhov are increasingly lost to us.
Anna Breckon and Nat Randall, Rear view 2018 (still),
high definition digital video, multi-channel sound, 85:11 mins
Courtesy of the artists Photo: Andrew Curtis
Through animation, video, light and sound, Theatre is Lying exposes how visual art, performance and theatrical devices can interrogate what is real and what is not.
Leah Ashwood, Jasper Lloyd, and Texas Watterston in The School (2018).
Bronte Pictures, Head Gear Films, Kreo Films FZ
Some of the best examples of horror and fantasy genre films have emerged from Australia. Unfortunately, The School is not one of them.
American mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux in the lead female role of Mandane in Artaserse.
Brett Boardman
Artaserse is an old Roman fable of treachery and the ethical power of clemency that becomes a psychological study of conflicting desires.
Tokyo design studio nendo responds to the work of M. C. Escher.
Sean Fennessy
There is nothing to prepare us for the shock to the senses in the National Gallery of Victoria’s latest exhibition combining the works of M. C. Escher with Japanese design firm nendo.
André Rieu performs in his Sydney Town Hall performance.
André Rieu Productions
Few classical musicians can fill out an 8,000 seat hall. But then few classical musicians are like André Rieu.
Rock Bang tells the story of Astrid and Otto from Die Roten Punkte as they flee to Berlin.
Mark Turner
A new show pairs the acrobatic skills of Circus Oz with the local comedians Die Roten Punkte.