Perth Festival
★★½
Arts
Drumming spectacular misses a beat
Presentation fails to live up to its promise of musical richness.
- by Jill Sykes
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When the set steals the show: HOUSE at Perth Festival is a magical, whimsical adventure
I hadn’t expected the design of the house, a whimsical, beautiful, surprising mishmash of a place to be so strikingly wonderful.
- by Daile Cross
Perth welcomes home a no longer starry-eyed boy from Oz, Tim Minchin
A more fitting stage couldn’t have been set for Tim Minchin’s new album debut, Apart/Together.
- by Aja Styles
Tim Minchin isn’t laughing when it comes to supporting Perth arts
It took much “jiggery pokery’ to rebuild the Perth Festival ahead of its delayed launch, so Tim Minchin couldn’t stress enough the opportunity West Australians had to open their eyes to the talent in their backyards.
- by Aja Styles
The perfect crime? Perth Festival eyes open to North Korean political assassination doco
Ryan White’s Assassins documentary unravels the mystery surrounding two women at the centre of the murder of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s half brother.
- by Aja Styles
New dance work is a fleeting pleasure
A new Sydney Dance Company production seeks to explore the concept of impermanence via choreography and music.
- by Valerie Lawson
On the road again with rock'n'roll – and memories of The Purple One
Former roadie Bartley Melocco has helped put together a unique community music festival.
- by Nick Galvin
‘You have to stand for something’: WA festival director cries vindication after being ‘laughed out’ of funding meetings
In a city where resource company logos reign supreme across the skyline, it's inevitable that mining dollars underpin the arts scene. But is there another way?
- by Emma Young
Opinion
What's on
As weird as it was amazing: Hordes, horns and hells bells on Perth's Highway to Hell
The Highway to Hell concept was big and weird and it was a gamble but it paid off massively and is something we can proudly write in history books.
- by Hamish Hastie
John Prince Siddon: eclectic, gothic and psychedelic
Anyone who imagines Aboriginal painting as a matter of ochres, dots and symbols is going to be blown away.
- by John McDonald
Ten things you never knew about Neil Gaiman: Secrets shared in Perth show
Given the sell-out crowd of 1700, Neil Gaiman’s conversation with us at Perth Concert Hall on Sunday night felt strangely intimate.
- by Emma Young