Triplets of Belleville composer performs live score to 'anti-Disney' film
The Triplets of Belleville is a gloriously oddball animation, adorned with superb songs that glitter like lights on the Seine and clatter like old cars on cobblestones.
Buried Country concert unearths history of popular Aboriginal music
Auriel Andrew was a regular little country music fan as a girl. She remembers her mum standing her up on the table when she was small, to do her party dance to *Guitar Boogie*.
Review: Gwenno's Welsh electro-pop eccentric and endearing
Gwenno Saunders is well aware of how foreign Welshness is, even to a predominantly Anglo-Saxon audience in Melbourne.
Paul Kelly and Camille O'Sullivan's Ancient Rain turns 100 years of Irish poetry into song
A century after the Easter Uprising, there's a treasure trove of literature worth singing about.
Review: Lady Eats Apple tests audience's comfort zone
Back To Back's triptych explores the psychological experience of disability rubbing against well-meaning, and uncomprehending, condescension.
Review: The Echo of the Shadow a heightened realm of the senses
Nothing I've experienced comes close to the achievement represented by Teatro de los Sentidos' show.
Review: Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour charms with hair-raising frankness
It's sensational theatre, this vigorous, warts-and-all coming of age play exposes growing pains with a raw, unflinching gaze.
Is The Money the best reality TV show that hasn't happened yet?
There's a dozen or so people, and a pile of cash on the table. You've got 90 minutes to figure out what to do with it.
Review: Faye Driscoll's Thank you for Coming: Attendance gently turns audience into performers
For many, the notion of audience participation is a frightening concept, but Attendance does it extremely well, creating powerful and successful immersive performance.
Review: Star Trek 50th Anniversary Concert fails to launch
Saturday's 50th anniversary celebration of the Enterprise and all who sailed in her was pretty unsatisfying.
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 Doigts' 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.