Victoria's performing arts win $20m funding as Melbourne readies for reopening
Melbourne festival and MTC will be big winners from state’s share of $75m federal package
October 2019
Anthem review – a remarkable, relevant follow-up to a classic Australian story
Skulduggery, mind-trickery and whisky: the unexpected magic of illusionist Scott Silven
October 2018
Melbourne festival 2018: a clay diorama devastates as old and new worlds collide
Flight tells the now familiar story of two orphaned Afghans fleeing their home but uses an unusual storytelling method
October 2017
Taylor Mac review – explosive, spectacular, heartbreaking 'dandy revenge'
After Weinstein, our trauma has turned to rage. Let's use it
Steph Harmon
Tree of Codes review – Wayne McGregor's modern ballet fails to find heart
Joseph Kosuth: 'The artists at the top of the billionaires' lists are quite derivative'
Ping-pong balls and 'displaced hussies': Taylor Mac's 24-hour epic begins in Melbourne
Please, Continue (Hamlet): how a play highlights the inconsistency of justice
Under Siege review – aesthetic triumph as historic Chinese battle danced to vivid life
September 2017
From Bowie to a public hanging: an unorthodox photo show – in pictures
Images from An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne features an array of photos connected in visual, conceptual, temporal, material or circumstantial ways
Black Rider review – Tom Waits, William S Burroughs musical is beautiful but cold
Meow Meow steals the show from a diverse – or disparate – cast, but the cult fable resonates regardless
Taylor Mac on queering history: 'Someone like me doesn't normally get to represent America'
Set to headline Melbourne festival, the performer’s epic 24-hour show presents an alternative history that celebrates the outsiders
July 2017
'Look back to the stars': Taylor Mac's 24-hour music marathon to headline Melbourne festival
The playwright and performer was shortlisted for a Pulitzer for the work, which will form the centrepiece of Jonathan Holloway’s huge second festival
October 2016
Australia culture blog
Melbourne festival: show me The Money and I'll decide how to spend it
An interactive show functions as both a love letter to democracy and an explainer of the frustrations of the democratic process
Melbourne festival 2016: deeply personal melds with public spectacle in triumph for curator
Artistic director Jonathan Holloway infuses his electrifying first Melbourne festival with a series of interior realisations that reckon with the public self
Backstage in Biscuit Land review – Tourette's makes for unpredictable, joyous, must-watch theatre
Ancient Rain review – Paul Kelly and Camille O’Sullivan fuse poetry and cabaret, with mixed results
Lady Eats Apple review – examination of the epic and the every day bears fruit
