From extreme heat to sinking venues: how are festivals coping with climate change?
Adelaide festival’s opening weekend this year saw temperatures soar into the 40s. How are Australian arts festivals managing ever more intense weather?
February 2019
How do you express the voicelessness of children in detention? An opera without words
Opera, dull? Watching The Magic Flute is like drinking 10 cups of coffee
Ned Kelly review – new opera interrogates bushranger's fierce but fragile masculinity
Swan Lake twisted into a gripping tale of clerical sex abuse and suppression
Perth festival embraces communal confrontation
Our Town: why a major theatre company is letting amateurs loose on a Pulitzer-winning play
January 2019
The spirit of Perth: how creativity blooms in a city on the periphery
Wendy Martin
Perth festival’s outgoing artistic director, Wendy Martin, reflects on the special sense of place that inspires artists in the world’s most remote capital
