Performing arts
Making ‘clouds’ onstage and other strange challenges solved by this design supremo
Designer Elizabeth Gadsby loves to push boundaries in her work.
- by Chantal Nguyen
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An amusing take on the perils of living in a share house - in your 30s
The Grammy award-winning rapper lit up the Rod Laver Arena stage in the colours of the Palestinian flag as he performed his controversial new song, Hind’s Hall.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Barney Zwartz, Cameron Woodhead, Jessica Nicholas, Tony Way and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
Have you heard the one about the scientist who does stand-up?
Scientists are increasingly crossing over into comedy.
- by Daniel Herborn
Opera Australia posts $4.9m loss, as shift to musicals draws audiences
Rising costs and a twice-cancelled production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle have all added up for the nation’s biggest arts company.
- by Nick Galvin
‘We’re just really mad’: What keeps the parents of murder victim Matthew going
Keeping their son’s memory alive with and beyond The Laramie Project has become a life’s work for Dennis and Judy Shepard.
- by Cassie Tongue
‘I probably wanted to be a politician’: The Sydney Shire boy who made it big in opera
A lover of cocktails, cigars and conservative politics, Stuart Skelton isn’t your typical opera star.
- by Nick Galvin
Beauty and horror collide in this famous exploration of ‘madness’
One of opera’s most famous ‘mad scenes’ is on show in Melbourne Opera’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor.
- by Bridget Davies, Cameron Woodhead, Tony Way and Andrew Fuhrmann
Epic tale of destruction and family ties: Our latest show to take on the world
Just weeks after The Picture of Dorian Gray made a West End splash, this local stage hit is heading to the US.
- by Linda Morris
From the footy field to the stage for this Indigenous dancer
Indigenous dancer Thomas ES Kelly says his work SILENCE has a message for all Australians.
- by Chantal Nguyen
Jobs at Bunnings: How Australia’s musicians, actors and artists scratch a living
Half of Australia’s working artists are earning as little as $200 from their craft as the sector falls deeper into crisis.
- by Linda Morris
These are the gigs not to miss in May
A Jungle visit, not-so-fresh Air, an inner-city indie music festival and a couple of PNG-born singers round out the month of May.
- by James Jennings