This week Jo Litson recommends the Belvoir online concert, Lin-Manuel Miranda's 14-minute musical 21 Chump Street, Gillian Anderson in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Black Swan's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
May 19, 2020
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced $5.2 million in project grants to artists, groups and small to medium arts organisations, as well as a further $1.8 million in grants through its Resilience Fund.
May 15, 2020
King has been awarded the $25,000 Fellowship, while Keziah Warner has taken out the Patrick White Playwrights Award.
May 14, 2020
Arts Centre Melbourne CEO Claire Spencer discusses the support the Arts Wellbeing Collective is giving performing arts workers during the coronavirus crisis, and the path to reopening theatres.
May 14, 2020
This week, Jo Litson recommends Inua Ellams’ exuberant play Barber Shop Chronicles, Sam Mendes’ 1993 Donmar Warehouse production of Cabaret starring Alan Cumming, and Tim Crouch’s I, Malvolio.
May 12, 2020
The global entertainment company led by British impresario Sir Howard Panter plans to reopen the theatre in August 2021.
May 8, 2020
This week Jo Litson recommends John Foreman’s digital variety show Big Night In, and two live streamed concerts, Here’s to the Ladies and Lights Up on the Arts [Home Delivery].
May 5, 2020
The converted railway works is Australia’s largest multi-arts centre and COVID-19's biggest arts scalp to date.
May 5, 2020
Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa's Fully Sikh took home three awards in this year's ceremony, presented by presented by Artist Relief Fund WA.
May 4, 2020
Though this year’s Festival won’t go ahead, Shun Wah will helm an online program of events exploring Australia’s relationship to Asia through the arts.
May 2, 2020
The CEO and Artistic Director of Metro Arts has called on the Federal Government to recognise the value of Australia’s cultural sector.
April 30, 2020
In her first column, Jo Litson's highlights include NT at Home's Frankenstein, Red Line's Gruesome Playground Injuries, and Les Misérables – The Staged Concert.
April 28, 2020