Brisbane’s 77-year-old Arts Theatre has a new lease on life under energetic artistic director Ron Kelly and an open-house philosophy for the theatrical community.

Independent theatre company Deckchair is closing its Fremantle doors, highlighting the daily struggle of smaller performing arts companies to survive.

Creating a stir in Melbourne’s indie-theatre circles last weekend was the surprise closure—then relocation—of new writer’s theatre, MKA Richmond. The theatre opened with a launch party a couple of Thursdays ago, 28 October, and was all set for a one-off, month-long series of playreadings at its headquarters in Tanner Street, Richmond, when, two days into [...]

Christina: A Story With Music leaves you with a sense of the creativity sparking well away from the bright lights of main stages. There are fairly extraordinary theatre experiences to be had if you just know where to look. Even in car parks.

The story of the design and construction of the Sydney Opera House is one of those great political pieces of folklore that should be told more often; how Danish architect Jørn Utzon was driven out of the project after a battle between his uncompromising vision and a penny-pinching government.