Cassie Tongue on Adena Jacobs’ The Howling Girls at the Sydney Chamber Opera

It takes a lot to speak. The act requires the use of about half of your brain. It calls on a complex series of muscles and memory to […]

“Girls, I think your father’s dead. I knocked his knees out. I conked his head. I shot that house clown in the neck.”

Here at Witness HQ we’re very excited about our May Live Night. With the help of our […]

Jane Howard on Akram Khan’s new work Xenos, which played at the Adelaide Festival at the beginning of a world tour
Akram Khan – in reportedly his last full-length production as a performer – is an ast […]

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 […]

Our inaugural First Nations Emerging Critic is the multi-talented and super-deadly Carissa Lee: poet, actor,  critic and Instagram queen.

Carissa Lee is a Wemba Wemba actor and writer based in Melbourne. A […]

For our April Live Night, we’re thrilled to invite you to come with Witness to see Jodee Mundy’s Personal on April 26 at Arts House.

Personal, a blend of performance, storytelling, multimedia and animation t […]

We’re almost there. And we think we deserve a celebration. 

On March 3 when our first issue goes live, we’ll be gathering in the courtyard at La Mama Theatre to launch ourselves onto the information […]

Launching in March 2018, Witness (witnessperformance.com) is a new curated website for critical discussion of the performing arts, founded by Alison Croggon and Robert Reid. Witness will provide rigorous critical […]