Vox Motus’ Flight is a powerful artwork about child asylum seekers that drives home global realities, says young critic Gully Thompson
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Twin Peaks, Lady Gaga, the Wizard of Oz and Santa Claus: UK critic Megan Vaughan reviews Adena Jacobs and Marg Horwell’s trashy interpretation of Salome at the English National Opera in London
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For November’s Live Night, we’re heading West to The Substation to see a remount of Vicky Reynolds’ verbatim play The Bridge
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The rights of women to bodily autonomy are non-negotiable. So are the rights of people with disabilities. Danica Kohn on the Melbourne Fringe show 19 Weeks
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Video: Art for young people is often marginalised and dismissed in the wider culture. In this lively and passionate Witness discussion at Arts House, part of the Melbourne Fringe XS program, our panellists discussed everything about art for young people – what it is, how it is discussed and evaluated, and why it matters.
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Why do we pander to mediocrity and bad behaviour from male comics? Aboriginal comedy writer Angelina Hurley reflects on her disappointments
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Kate Champion’s revival of That Eye, The Sky reveals a promising physical approach to theatrical writing, says Jane Howard. But she needs a stronger text
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“The distortions of Forsythe’s choreography express something of contemporary fracture, the contemporary trauma of meaning’…
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Fanfare! As we threatened, we have put together an exciting program of Melbourne Live Nights with our Stage Partners, in which you come to the theatre with us and tell us what you thought. This is Book Club for theatre: an informal chat after a show, facilitated by Witness.
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“The wedding dress was a character in its own right”. This month Sayraphim Lothian brought along her iPhone and asked some our of Witness Live Nighters to record their thoughts on Melancholiafor posterity.