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#SaveOurCTP – Fighting Monash University’s dissolution of the Theatre department

It was announced this month that Monash University will be dissolving its theatre department, the Centre for Theatre and Performance.…

6 years ago

Vidya Makan on making music for social change

The events of 2020 so far have been a catalyst for change, particularly regarding the treatment of Bla(c)k, Indigenous, and…

6 years ago

TALKING HEADS: The perfect pandemic production

In the midst of the 2020 lockdown, BBC iPlayer aired a series called Unprecedented, a collection of short performances filmed…

6 years ago

St Martins Artistic Director Nadja Kostich talks 40/40

2020 marks 40 years since St Martins Youth Arts Centre opened their doors. Their impact since is almost inconceivable. A…

6 years ago

Racism, gaslighting, and the Rob Guest Endowment

Earlier this week, it was announced that the 2020 Rob Guest Endowment Scholarship would be cancelled, and the endowment postponed…

6 years ago

Rural Theatre – A safe way forward?

Rural theatre and drive-in theatres in Australia began to decline in the 1970s and 1980s, whilst on the other side…

6 years ago

PIPPIN: Inside The Auditions

Covid 19 has shut down the theatre... all theatre... there's none left, it's all gone... done... finished... Or is it?…

6 years ago

Laura Bonner talks touring children’s circus

Flipside Circus and arTour are collaborating on one of the first large-scale tours since the COVID crisis hit Australia -…

6 years ago

A chat with Caroline Martin about Yirramboi’s 2021 return

With its name meaning 'tomorrow' in the shared local languages of the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung peoples, Yirramboi is Australia's first and only First…

6 years ago

The Importance of Staging Musical Theatre Revivals: The Age of Pippin

The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘revival’ as ‘an instance of something becoming popular, active or important again’. This is exactly…

6 years ago