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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
When Bell Shakespeare artistic director Peter Evans was handed the keys to the company’s new home at Pier 2/3 in Sydney’s Walsh Bay, he knew precisely with which play he wanted to christen the space. With its generously proportioned stage, and unusually intimate 250-seat audience accommodation, Coriolanus – one of Shakespeare’s most political, and least-performed, tragedies – was his top pick. It didn’t happen.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
Sydney’s recently opened network of city metro stations have taken out one of the top prizes at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2025 NSW Architecture awards, announced on Friday night.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
Kirsha Kaechele has put the Gold Coast on notice. “The surf’s up and the patriarchy is down,” says the Tasmania-based artist who made international headlines after winning her bid in the state’s supreme court to continue barring men from her Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona). Now her performance art installation is heading north for Queensland’s Bleach* festival.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
Former ABC News Breakfast host Lisa Millar and chef and presenter Poh Ling Yeow are among this year’s nominees for the 65th Gold Logie, announced on Monday.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
Sydney Theatre Company has recorded a $10m boost to revenue after its Dorian Gray production became a West End hit, and is poised to reap millions more when it receives a cut from this year’s even more lucrative Broadway run.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
Australian music is thriving on the world stage but new research shows it is fading fast from local playlists and charts. Only 8% of the top 10,000 artists streamed in Australia in 2024 were Australian, an analysis in a Creative Australia report finds. According to one of the report’s key researchers, Christen Cornell, it takes local music consumption to an “historic low”.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
Back yard brotherly pranks, comedic violence and schlock horror morphed into psychological terror when the Australian YouTubers and twins Danny and Michael Philippou unleashed their debut feature Talk To Me on the world two years ago. The supernatural thriller, about a group of Adelaide teens who get in over their heads while playing a twisted party game, was the surprise hit of 2023: made on a shoestring budget of just US$4.5m, it grossed almost US$100m at the global box office.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
Australian commercial television networks have all but given up on creating local children’s drama, advocates say, with just $1.75m spent on the genre across all commercial free-to-air networks in 2023-2024. But that’s $1.75m more than the previous year, according to the latest report card by the communications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma). In 2022-2023, not a single children’s television drama was made by any commercial network.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
At least four judges for the Queensland literary awards have resigned over the past 24 hours, protesting against the State Library of Queensland’s decision to withdraw a prestigious $15,000 fellowship from First Nations writer Karen Wyld over comment she made last year about the Gaza conflict.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Kelly Burke
The chair of Creative Australia is departing the organisation, with the arts minister, Tony Burke, announcing on Friday Robert Morgan’s intention to retire. The First Nations playwright and creative director Wesley Enoch will serve as the acting chair and is expected to replace Morgan. Morgan presided over the controversial board meeting in February that voted to withdraw the 2026 Venice Biennale commission from Lebanese-Australian arts Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino.
