Back to Back Theatre goes back to beginning with Lady Eats Apple
What started in 1988 as a project to help disabled people in Geelong make the transition from institutional care to living in the community has become a cultural phenomenon.
Review: Two Dogs' slapstick transcends language but some humour lost in translation
Liu Xiaoye, in particular, has a command of physical comedy that seems to encompass everything from the golden age of American slapstick to the grotesque exaggerations of commedia dell' arte.
Review: Triptyque's blend of circus and dance a new breed of hybridity
Les 7 Doight's trio of adjacent works form a strong program of beautiful performances and interesting ideas.
Ode to architectural power couple and musical innovator
Melbourne Festival 2016: Sir Jonathan Mills creates Cultural Collisions at the University of Melbourne
No first-night nerves as new director's line-up lands
"It's like trying to land a hot air balloon on a serviette in high winds," says Jonathan Holloway of the skills required to deliver his first Melbourne Festival as artistic director.
Melbourne Festival to open in a blaze of fire and witchcraft
Pyrotechnical theatre troupe Deabru Beltzak has its origins transforming a centuries old tradition celebrating witchcraft in the caves of the Pyrenees.
Cartoonist Oslo Davis makes like Mr Squiggle in live story book with puppets
Things have come a long way since Mr Squiggle but using live pictures to tell stories is as magical as it ever was.
Share the stage
In this year's Melbourne Festival, performers are taking the opportunity to engage with their audiences, producing a different show every night.
Guerin dances through light and shade
The latest work from renowned Melbourne choreographer Lucy Guerin makes its international premiere at Melbourne Festival next week.
Working-class voyeur
Photographer Walker Evans' photographs appeared in the most glamorous magazines of the 20th century, including Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and Vogue. Yet he never photographed celebrities.
Queen Vic Market as you've never seen it before
It's been the subject of strong opinion over its potential redevelopment but next month fans of the Queen Vic Market can revel in an art exhibition at the historic site.
Artist to weave intricate story around Melbourne
Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota makes complex webs from dreams and memories.
Shadow play
Barcelona-based company Theatre of the Senses creates theatrical "experiences" that often defy description.
Puberty Blues: The new teen normal
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour highlights the abandonment and anxiety of girls on the cusp of womanhood.
Reviewing the past in the present
Irish artist Gerard Byrne explores the gap between time and space in his retrospective A Late Evening in the Future.
Tourette's show takes the biscuit
Stephanie Bunbury talks to the duo taking tics to audiences around the world aiming to change thinking on the condition.
Real to reel
Australian artist Lynette Wallworth gleefully uses emerging technologies to bring audiences into her artworks, which deal with topics including global warming and refugees in unexpected ways.
Holloway's first program to inflate Back to Back's reputation
Enormous inflatable chambers will fill Hamer Hall as part of the world premiere of Lady Eats Apple, the new show from Geelong's critically acclaimed Back To Back Theatre that will open the 2016 Melbourne Festival.