Arts & Culture
Dami Im returns to her jazz roots for intimate Birds Basement shows
Eurovision has helped Dami Im reconnect with a style of music and performance she loves, and next month she will share that rediscovered sound with Melbourne audiences at Birds Basement.
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More than four decades of story and culture: Ray Thomas exhibition opens at Fed Square
A major new exhibition opening on May 30 at the Koorie Heritage Trust will celebrate the life, art and cultural legacy of acclaimed Gunai artist Ray Thomas, bringing together more than 40 years of paintings, sculptures, drawings and personal objects.
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How Pretty Woman’s villain helps complete the fairytale
There are few movie villains as memorably slippery as Philip Stuckey.
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RISING returns for another Melbourne winter arts extravaganza
Melbourne’s monster RISING Festival kicks off on May 27, with more than 100 events featuring 376 artists, seven world premieres and 11 Australian premieres over its two-week run until June 8.
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Reminders of wartime looms over Princes Bridge
In the early 1940s in Melbourne, as war ravages overseas, life in the city carries on as normal at the corner of Princes Bridge and Flinders St.
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Waitress to serve up Broadway charm in the CBD this May
A fresh slice of Broadway is heading to the CBD next month, with Waitress set to begin its Australian premiere season at Her Majesty’s Theatre from May 1.
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An escapee arrested at the Coffee Tavern
Opened in October 1882 on Bourke St between Swanston and Russell streets, the 90-foot-tall Melbourne Coffee Tavern featured 161 bedrooms and was also home to a sewing machine business owned by Hugo Wertheim.
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Melbourne Writers Festival marks 40 years with Visions & Revisions
Running from Thursday, May 7 to Monday, May 10, this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) features a lineup of more than 150 artists from across Australia and around the world brought together under the theme Visions & Revisions.
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Melbourne singer in new “narcissistic” reading of The Rake Punished
A new production of Don Giovanni, alternatively titled The Rake Punished, opening at the Athenaeum on April 26 interprets the title character of the classic opera as a sex offender. CBD-based singer Eddie Muliaumaseali’i is singing in it.
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Why ART still stings, sparkles and lands 30 years on
Some plays arrive, make a splash and fade. Others burrow deeper into theatre culture and refuse to leave. ART, Yasmina Reza’s internationally celebrated three-hander about friendship, taste and the detonating power of one very expensive painting, belongs firmly in the second category.
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