Performing Arts

In Our Blood, it still runs
In light of the new ABC series 'In Our Blood', we take a closer look at the history of HIV…

From page to stage for HSC students in 2023
A new initiative by Actors Centre Australia will give HSC students the chance to see their curriculum texts performed.

Alan Cumming in Australia: ‘I’m quite a mess, and I think that’s why people like me'
A stage show and a new film mean Australian audiences will get a double serving of Scotland's most mercurially mischievous…

Screen Music Awards: The Drover's Wife, River and New Gold Mountain clean up
The APRA AMCOS Screen Music Awards returned last night, with several female composers taking home top gongs.

Want to be a film and TV composer? Nigel Westlake says 'check your ego'
Accomplished Australian composer Nigel Westlake shares his tips and tricks for getting into the screen music industry.

How stories shape the world (and how to get better at telling them)
Storytelling, and helping other people hone their storytelling skills, are enormously important for Joe Hepworth, NIDA’s new Head of Writing…

TikTok + Unofficial Bridgerton Musical = Grammys win
A fanfiction musical about Netflix’s period drama Bridgerton beating Andrew Lloyd Webber? You better believe it!

Australian comedy and streaming? It's Mad as Hell
Shaun Micallef’s show is the best Australian comedy of the last decade. For the best of the rest, look to…

Four ways to achieve your work goals in 2022
Back at work with fresh eyes for the year? Here's how to take your career to new places in 2022.

Director Matthew Walker on making I'm Wanita
Making I'm Wanita was a five year crusade through the perils of a very difficult craft.