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I have a friend who has a joke that I love: “If our Agriculture Ministers knew as little about producing food as our Arts Ministers know about producing art, then we’d all starve to death”. I was thinking of this last week when the Victorian Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley took a massive, unexpected
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Record-breaking box-office figures for the 2017 Adelaide Festival and Fringe have added weight to the call for increased investment in South Australian artists, says the Arts Industry Council of SA chairperson Gail Kovatseff. At the weekend the Adelaide Festival announced a 2017 box office income of more than $4.08 million (excluding WOMADelaide) – the highest since
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Days until opening: 15 Expenses so far: approx. $4208 covers venue hire, video content and prop production Tickets sold: 106 Tickets need to sell to break even: 210 “It’s a beast of a play, who on earth is going to put it on?” an experienced director-friend asked me a couple of months ago. Swallows, um me. With just two weeks to
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By Maxim Boon
Anyone who was lucky enough to see David Sefton’s final program as artistic director of the Adelaide Festival last year, featuring Tanz Wuppertal Pina Bausch, the National Theatre of Scotland’s acclaimed James Plays, and a jaw-dropping arena spectacular by France’s Groupe F, will know that it was always going to be a tough act to
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By Maxim Boon
New Melbourne Festival artistic director Jonathan Holloway unveiled his 2016 program tonight. The much travelled British director aims to show how there’s big thinking behind small-scale art this October. What do you give to someone who has everything? It’s a question that’s been on the mind of the Melbourne Festival’s new director, Jonathan Holloway, except he’s not catering for just one tough customer,
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By Ben Neutze
According to Leo Schofield, his new Sydney Sings festival is unlike any other festival in Australia. The program, revealed this week, covers as many different singing styles as possible, from gospel choirs to classical choirs, jazz soloists, musical theatre singers, operatic tenors and beat-boxers.
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By Daily Review
Happy Easter! Daily Review has double passes to give away to the Thursday, Friday and Sunday night performances of a series of Melbourne Comedy Festival’s most exciting shows for next weekend. Just enter your details and select the shows you want to see for the chance to win.
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By Ben Neutze
Festival Director Lieven Bertels today announced the program for the 40th anniversary Sydney Festival, his final in the role before Wesley Enoch takes over for 2017. And while there’s a nostalgic tinge to some of the line-up, there’s not a lot of time to look backwards with a packed three weeks of arts and community
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By Daily Review
1. The Victorian senator, Mitchell “Mitch” Fifield is the brand new Federal Arts Minister replacing the hugely unpopular Senator George Brandis who stripped $105 million in arts funding from the Australia Council, most of it affecting small to medium companies. Fifield was appointed Arts Minister today by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull who also appointed Fifield the Minister
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By Daily Review
Daily Review‘s occasional column Do The Right Thing provides practical solutions to the dilemmas and misunderstandings that can arise when artists and audiences come face to face in the real world. If you are confused as to how to negotiate your way in your art world interactions please submit your problem(s) to info@dailyreview.com.au
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