Performing Arts
PM may not laugh at this week's appointments
An Australian AD heads to Amsterdam, a British producer heads here and the PM may have cause for concern.
On the Jellicoe Road almost on the silver screen
Melina Marchetta’s On the Jellicoe Road looks set to become a feature film. The author walks us down the path…
How not to write erotica
Erotica is all elfin blondes, mountainous mammaries and throbbing members right? Well it doesn’t have to be, and good erotica…
From writing copy to red carpet
Award-winning playwright behind Jersey Boys and The Addams Family tells us what writers can learn from advertising, listening, exercise and…
Booki.sh without the books
Booksellers will lose out as Australian innovation Booki.sh, swallowed up by a US corporation, decides it will no longer sell…
10 ways the arts is Changing
As online petition site Change.org hits 1 million users, we take a look at the way that the arts are…
Kate Tempest wraps up Ted Hughes Award for Poetry
26-year-old poet, rapper, and spoken word performer Kate Tempest takes out the 2012 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in…
Handing over the power of the pen
Playwrights are doing less writing and more listening as they rework true-life stories from gay parenting to race riots.
Pulitzer Prize winners announced for 2013
The winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for 2013 were announced yesterday, with the awards to be officially given in…
Do you have to make it before you turn 30?
A 30th birthday is a target many people set themselves for making it in an arts career. But is it…