Features

“The life of the building is in its communities, not in the thousands of layers of paint that once covered the walls.” Robert Reid on the aftermath of the fire at La Mama.

Carissa Lee discovers how some of Australia’s most innovative and internationally recognised theatre companies are making theatre specifically for children

Government arts funding is on the way out, says Robert Reid. And if arts companies are to survive, they have to invite audiences in.

Witness sound editor Ben Keene gives us a peek inside his editing studio, and his experience with the “musical illusion”: the song of conversation.

Want to write outside your own culture? Carissa Lee explores why research is so important, and why it’s about a lot more than than heading to your local library
 

First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee looks at why intersectional feminism in Australian Indigenous theatre is profoundly necessary.

Alison Croggon looks at sexual harassment in the performing arts. Australia, we have a problem.

We do not tell our story well. Robert Reid reflects on the structural malaise affecting our arts culture. 

‘Think of all the great art!’ Let’s not. Alison Croggon ponders art in dark times.