The Next Stage
In 2024, some of the country’s leading arts venues will embark on or complete major renovations. What can audiences expect as a result?
Steve Dow is the 2020 Walkley Arts Journalism Award recipient for his essay, profile and reportage portfolio. The Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer’s work also appears in The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Meanjin, Art Guide, and Vault.
In 2024, some of the country’s leading arts venues will embark on or complete major renovations. What can audiences expect as a result?
There’s a confidence and assurance at play in the programming by Australian arts organisations for 2024.
What do our theatre companies have on offer in the year ahead?
Climate change is a major theme running through this year’s Sydney, Perth and Adelaide Festivals. How can the arts spark action?
In its voyeuristic new work, Private View, Restless Dance Theatre continues to challenge perceptions about people with disabilities.
Though more research is needed, there is evidence that music is beneficial for people living with dementia. We find out what's on offer.
Bangarra Dance Theatre's Frances Rings talks about visiting Yuldea for her new piece, her childhood, and the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Neurodiverse writer Ryan Enniss addresses preconceptions about autism in his new play Drizzle Boy.
David Harrington, the founder of the Kronos Quartet, discusses the ensemble's history, ongoing collaborations, social conscience and final tour of Australia.
Fresh sounds, big events, little gems, cross-genre collaborations, world premieres; it’s a new world for arts organisations, so what do they have in store this year?
What do our theatre companies have on offer in the year ahead?
Noongar culture, language and stories are now firmly embedded in the programming at Perth Festival. We talk to Noongar artists about this blossoming relationship.
Rahel Romahn plays Mozart in Amadeus, opposite Michael Sheen as his musical adversary, Salieri. He plans to pick Sheen’s brains, since the Welsh star portrayed Mozart in London in 1998 and then on Broadway.