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Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre has today desperately kicked off an online campaign, hoping to catch pop star Taylor Swift’s attention to save the premiere of their play Seventeen — by tonight.
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Earlier this year, Miranda Tapsell (above, left) won two Logies for her role on Love Child and used her acceptance speech to encourage Australian media to “put more beautiful people of colour on TV and connect viewers in ways which transcend race and unite us”.
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This week in Melbourne, Complete Works Theatre Company (CWTC) will be performing Medea, the seminal ancient Greek tragedy of love, despair, betrayal and revenge. Beginning in 1999, CWTC has toured schools with its theatre productions, introducing young audiences to classic plays and live performances, but this weekend’s shows are open to the general public.
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More submissions to the Senate Inquiry into federal arts funding decisions are gradually being uploaded for public viewing on the Australian Parliament website, currently totalling almost 150 out of the over 2260 reportedly submitted.
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Over 2260 submissions to the Senate inquiry into federal arts funding decisions have been received, according to the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). The Senate inquiry was launched in the wake of Arts Minister George Brandis’ recent sweeping changes to the funding environment.
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The Shadow King, the award-winning production from Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, is heading to London for its international premiere in 2016.
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George Brandis’ National Opera Review (NOR), which was announced a year ago and the subject of much debate and conversation among opera audiences and critics alike has been delayed by six months.
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When federal Arts Minister George Brandis unveiled his plans to take $105 million from the Australia Council budget to fund his National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA), people across the nation and around the world held a wide range of emotions. Some were skeptical, many were shocked, and most were appalled.
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“But the magnanimity of your ideas will never die/and that is why we only say good bye/until we meet again,” sings Hester Fraser in her song The Camellia Tree which will be publicly released as a digital download on August 1.
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