Barking Gecko Theatre has taken the opportunity to rethink its program for the year to keep connected to its young audience.
Tanya MacNaughton
WA Opera cancels premiere, regional events and classes.
Simon Collins
Ella Tweedie is helping to steer the ship as Platinum Entertainment sets sail with a “rocked up” version of a Gilbert and Sullivan favourite.
Striking imagery, stirring music and bodies in motion come together in Mam, an abstract and evocative dance production from Irish choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan.
The name Hofesh Shechter has rock-star status among the contemporary dance elite.
Jessie Stoelwinder
Leviathan adds up to an exhilarating collaboration.
No stranger to baring her soul on stage, performance artist Bryony Kimmings’ latest show charting her struggle with post-natal depression is highly emotional at times, but ultimately uplifting.
Matthew Lutton has managed to bring the ultimate West Australian story to the stage in a way that feels like home.
Belle Taylor
Bryony Kimmings’ latest show exploring her experience with postnatal depression was initially something she planned to keep off the stage.
Pierra Willix
Calamity follows Meow Meow like a cursed shadow in Pandemonium.
Jay Hanna
Telling you how the 50-strong dance piece Colossus made me feel is simple. Leaving Studio Underground, I was smiling from ear to ear, enjoying a sense of belonging and wonder.
Damien Woolnough
Like many West Australians, Matthew Lutton first read Cloudstreet in school and, he notes with some relief, he liked it.
Controversial is a word regularly heaped onto American performance artist Amanda Palmer due to her bravery in pushing boundaries in her art and lifestyle.
Bunbury NIDA-trained director comes to Manjimup.
Tari Jeffers
The closing scene of Bennelong is one that can’t be forgotten- it is so powerful, so stark and so gut-wrenching.
The connection actor Ebony McGuire felt to Tim Winton’s classic novel Cloudstreet when reading it from her own perspective as a Noongar person took her by surprise.
When Aquaria won RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2018, she was just 21.
Ballet at the Quarry’s triple bill includes a work by choreographer Krzysztof Pastor.
Macbeth’s queen of the witches is often snubbed but a Noongar retelling gives her royal treatment.
Perth fans of Sydney’s Bangarra Dance Theatre rejoiced in the news incoming Perth Festival artistic director Iain Grandage included the company’s production Bennelong on his inaugural 2020 program.
Director Michael Barlow would have been terrified if he had been conscious of the burden of responsibility when Spare Parts Puppet Theatre first created production The Little Prince in 2007.
The twin doctors behind Operation Ouch! tell Tanya MacNaughton about the audition that got them on to the small screen and stage
Though he’s known and adored for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot more than any other character, there’s another little role that also seems to have resonated with David Suchet’s Australian fans.
Amanda Keenan
Self-confidence a drawcard of this weekend’s junior theatre workshops.
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