Festival boss named CEO of Carriageworks
Fergus Linehan will head up one of Australia’s leading arts and cultural institutions.
Stage
Dancers sparkle in celebratory season
The Australian Ballet has marked its 60th anniversary in style, with two world premieres and an ultra-glamorous modern classic.
Nudity, meat hooks: is this the most controversial work seen in Australia?
Audiences faint, walk out and also applaud during Florentina Holzinger’s performances, which feature blood, sexual acts and a rat being taxidermied, delivering an experience they are unlikely to forget | WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
‘Vale old man’: Humphries bows out with family and friends
The satirist was bid a final farewell at a private funeral on Friday, held at the estate of his longtime friend and artist, Tim Storrier, in the NSW Southern Highlands.
Harry Belafonte, singer and activist, dies at 96
One of the most groundbreaking black entertainers in history and a lifelong activist, Belafonte died of heart failure in New York.
Even in death, Barry stirs the possums
The comedian was not ‘properly appreciated by Australia’ and was disrespected by the Melbourne event after his remarks about trans people, says friend Miriam Margolyes.
King spoke to Humphries in days before death
Leaving behind an untouchable legacy, Barry Humphries spent his last days doing what he did best – making people laugh.
An angry young man’s big night out
Christos Tsiolkas reflects on what inspired his exhilarating debut novel Loaded, now coming to the stage.
Phantom ends record Broadway run
After 35 years and almost 14,000 performances, the curtain has fallen for the final time on the longest-running show in Broadway history – The Phantom of the Opera.
‘We are not dealing with a lot of ego’
The Australian Ballet’s David Hallberg talks about the company’s upcoming season of Jewels and its first season at the Royal Opera House in 35 years.
Giselle rises from the depths of disaster
After Brisbane’s devastating flood last year postponed the ballet season, dancers Neneka Yoshida and Victor Estevez are to take the stage in Giselle.
Writer polishes a goldfields gem for a modern audience
Australia’s first Chinese novel, from 1909 and long forgotten, gets a new life onstage – first in Brisbane in May and then at the Sydney Theatre Company in June.
Ballet prize finalists on point to a bright career
Determined since early childhood to be a ballerina, Katherine Sonnekus is one of five young dancers from the Australian Ballet to be nominated for the Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards.
The woman they could not silence
A new play about Julia Gillard – and that famous speech – imagines what it was like to be Australia’s first female prime minister.
Culture and the Butterfly effect
Opera Australia has engaged a cultural consultant to ensure the depiction of Japanese characters in Madama Butterfly is ‘respectful’.
Why ballet needs an ‘exercised heart’
The artistic director on keeping the art form fresh with four significant upcoming productions.
No holds bard: Shakespeare meets Katy Perry in rollicking romp
Notwithstanding the dad jokes, bad puns and the misquotations, this passionate and deeply committed young cast stages a winner.
Queen returns: Why the world’s greatest dancer ended retirement
After finding peace living by an olive grove, Sylvie Guillem has returned to Australia to mentor a new generation of dancers. But gone are the days of ‘Mademoiselle Non’.
Angels rehearse? No, they’ll wing it
At WOMADelaide this weekend, one of the headline acts is an intricate overhead ballet involving the use of five cranes, dozens of circus performers and ziplines strung 50m above the crowd.
Fiddler on the Roof actor, dead at 87
Chaim Topol, Israel’s first international movie star, played the role of Tevye the Milkman in Fiddler on the Roof more than 3500 times.
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