This Month
TEG enlists MinterEllison to investigate workplace culture claims
It was Brad Banducci’s first week as chief executive of the company that owns ticketing giant Ticketek. It included a workplace review by an law firm.
March
From Annie to Zimmer: the must-see shows to catch in April
Take a break from the hard-knock life with our monthly selection of the best live entertainment around the country.
How to direct a musical on a ‘football field’
There’s a lot riding on Opera Australia’s annual outdoor production but Shaun Rennie is more worried about actors getting to their marks, and nothing getting blown into Sydney Harbour.
Australian Ballet appointments a show of faith
The artistic director’s contract extension comes as the major performing arts company also gets a new executive director, after being without one for almost a year.
Former MSO boss settles with pianist she cancelled
Sophie Galaise has settled with Jayson Gillham on the eve of his discrimination trial against the orchestra.
He was David Helfgott’s hands. Now he must have fingers in many pies
Sharing the stage with a $16 million violin and donning a powdered wig to become Mozart – pianist Simon Tedeschi on the eclectic lot of a classical musician.
This actor has the legal profession flocking to see her show
Heather Mitchell is reviving the crowning role of her long career, playing the US Supreme Court judge in RBG: Of Many, One.
Your concert ticket might soon look like a bill
A federal parliamentary inquiry into reviving the struggling live music industry has proposed itemising the costs that go into the price of a show.
From two Pulitzer Prizes to the Michael Jackson musical
Playwright Lynn Nottage – whose second Pulitzer Prize was praised for “explaining” Donald Trump’s win – says taking on the King of Pop’s life was a no-brainer.
Police probe Gene Hackman’s phone records to determine death
Santa Fe police said they are trying to piece together a timeline of the Oscar-winning actor’s movements leading up to his unexplained death.
February
Being George Clooney is harder than it looks
A big Democrat donor, Clooney said he sees “a lot of cowardice” as the tech moguls bow to Trump.
Roberta Flack, piano teacher who rose to rule the charts, dies
The music industry didn’t quite know what to do with the soulful, yet classical-inspired music of the North Carolinian – but Clint Eastwood did.
Seven shows you must see in March
From a Michael Jackson musical to an anniversary tour of Green Day’s breakthrough album, there are plenty of performances to get you off the couch.
He won over Shane Warne with a musical. Could Gina Rinehart be next?
Eddie Perfect wrote a Broadway smash in Beetlejuice, a critical hit (but financial disaster) about the leg-spinning legend, and would love to give another prominent Australian the song-and-dance treatment.
Meet the rare male soprano shaking up concert halls
Samuel Marino is one of just a handful of professional male singers with the voice type, but his significance is more than musicological.
This 4000-year-old story could be fresh off the front page
Sanskrit epic Mahabharata showing at Perth Festival has an urgent message for all of us – particularly for some in the WA capital.
‘He was Switzerland’: Edgar Myer to chair MSO as court battle looms
The anthropologist and lawyer turned fund manager and philanthropist takes the orchestra’s helm ahead of a court date with pianist Jayson Gillham.
Falls Festival site going for a song as Live Nation cuts asking price
The entertainment group wanted $4 million two years ago for the site near the Great Ocean Road. It’s less optimistic now on price.
Wuthering Heights gets a folk-protest remix in new musical
The rebellious British director Emma Rice has made a version of Emily Bronte’s gothic classic that leans into its darkness and sense of injustice.
Troubles at Opera Australia a symptom of a bigger cultural malaise
Getting the books of legacy arts institutions back in the black requires reining in bureaucracy, improving arts education and rejecting ideological distractions.