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There is something apocalyptic in this performance.
Montréal-area performances have seen artists explore our human connections to light and ecological forces, and reflect on grief related to climate change.
When it comes to the best of the Fringe’s comedy lineup this year, we’ve done all the heavy lifting so you don’t have to.
Freedom and feminism take the stage in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s musical revival of My Brilliant Career.
The theatre was turned into a lecture hall in 2006 due to space constraints at the university. As it reopens its doors, decades’ worth of memories come flooding in.
The new opera is a co-production by Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, and the Perth Festival and Brisbane Festival.
Improv performance artists are finding resonance in the fears, ideals and artistic expression evoked by the chaos of war in the early 20th century.
The artist says he chose an English civil war-era coin because ‘it is one of the few British things in the British Museum’.
MONA has demonstrated the art of thumbing its nose at a humourless male establishment.
The audience at opening night seemed appreciative and engaged in the story. Yet somehow I felt unsatisfied with various aspects.
Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival of Arts has two heavyweights, performance artist Marina Abramović and avant-garde artist and musician Laurie Anderson.
Abramović’s foray into the wellness industry is not particularly surprising. As of 2024, she positions herself as an artist-life-coach.
This production by Western Australian interdisciplinary theatre makers Too Close to the Sun is an experiential encounter with the liminal space between life and death.
Art and science combine in this engineering course to let students turn their brainwaves into creative works.
Abramović is the first woman in the Royal Academy of Arts’ history to have a solo retrospective in its main galleries.
Archiving the Ephemeral, brings five works by performance artist Leisa Shelton together in a beautifully curated installation.
A straight cis-man could have made “herstory” as “America’s Next Drag Superstar.” Drag Race’s inclusion problem botches racialized queer histories, community discomfort and ally participation.
The protests paved the way for healing, vitality and a new vista of productive life.
When we see the high prices some are paying for NFT art, we must assume more performances, and potentially, acts of protest, could circulate as NFTs.
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