What is the perfect way to learn more about the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts? Get down to WAAPA’s Open Day this August for an access all areas experience. WAAPA offers full-time courses in Aboriginal Performance, Acting, Arts Management, Costume, Dance (Classical Ballet and Contemporary), Design, Lighting, Music (Classical, Jazz, Contemporary Music and Composition […]
The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art are throwing their very first fundraising party, transforming the PICA building into a fabulous visual sensation. Women of Music Production Perth will be taking over the dance floor all night long, featuring spins from local favourites Feels, and a selection of local female, trans and non-binary music makers, and Jen […]
The acclaimed theatrical production of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four opens at His Majesty’s Theatre this week. The stage version of Orwell’s dystopian novel has garnered critical acclaim on Broadway and in the West End, and it’s been selling out as it tours around Australia. Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation first premiered at the Nottingham […]
Show & Tell and Body Not Fit For Purpose | PICA | April 28 & 29 | ★ ★ ★ ½ In Show & Tell and Body Not Fit For Purpose, choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion, deliver a performance that is quite unlike anything I’ve seen before. The pair begin sitting in a couple of arm chairs […]
Prepare yourselves Perth, Glitta Supernova’s arrival in imminent. Glitta’s packing her drag bags and heading west for a return performance at Fringe World. The show Body Map will be at the Circus Theatre from Tuesday and runs through to Sunday 12 February. The performance is described as psychedelic, satirical, personal and political storytelling, served on a platter […]
Presented by the creative minds that brought LIMBO to Perth, Strut and Fret are returning to entertain us in spectacular style. Blanc De Blanc combines incredible talents from the worlds of cabaret, circus and acrobatics for an opulent extravaganza that promises a few surprises. Feminist performance artist Emma Maye Gibson bring her special brand of […]
‘I Do, I Don’t” is an exploration of family, identity and personal history written and performed by Perth-born Whitney Richards. Seeking to recreate memories Richards’ suspects she had suppressed the play was pieced together using interviews with her family, recalling fond memories of the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge and inspiration from her namesake Whitney Houston. “I […]
Club sensation Betty Grumble returns to Connections Nightclub this month and is presenting her show ‘Grumble: Sex Clown Saves the World’ on Wednesday April 13th. We chatted to Grumble to find out more about her show which promises to both titillate and terrify. Where did Betty Grumble begin? Betty Grumble began in my guts where […]
Perth poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell, winner of the Creatix Poetry Award, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support a new experimental performance at Newcastle’s Crack Theatre Festival. Mitchell, who had submitted his poem to Creatix for publishing, did not realise he was entering his work for a prestigious award – and was surprised to discover he […]
Edge Hill University in Lancashire, in England’s north west has become the first known tertiary education facility to offer a course on the art of drag. Available to third year performing arts students, the course is entitled ‘Drag Kings and Drag Queens of Performance’ and will give students the opportunity to analyze the relationships between […]
