The Update

In this fortnight's Update: Alexander Briger conducts the Australian World Orchestra; Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own at fortyfivedownstairs; Peter Grimes in concert; Nicholas Carter leaving the ASO; and giveaways to from AWO and Sydney Theatre Company ...

In this fortnight's Update: Young cast announced for STC's Lord of the Flies; Solaris being set to stage at Malthouse Theatre; Cast revealed for Opera Australia’s new Ring Cycle; NGV releases 30,000 HQ images to the public; giveaways, and more!

In this fortnight's Update: Opera Australia announces digital Ring Cycle; Paul Kildea named new Artistic Director of Musica Viva; ABR's new column, Epiphany; Fogarty Literary Award winner announced; Griffith Review names winners of The Novella Project; the ABR FAN poll; and giveaways!

In this fortnight's Update: Monash launches new Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts; the year of Anchuli Felicia King; Tim Munro and Ten Thousand Birds; The Wheeler Centre and the $150,000 Next Chapter writers project; and a giveaway!

In this fortnight's Update: Bill Henson + the Sydney Art Quartet; Nicholas Carter conducts the ANAM Orchestra; the 2019 Archibald Prize finalists are announced; Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton sweeps ABI Awards; SBS releases new free-to-air movie channel, and some giveaways!

In this fortnight's Update: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  performed by Sydney Theatre Company; submissions open for fortyfivedownstair's Emerging Artist Award 2019; the ABR 2020 European tour; Vicki Laveau-Harvie wins the $50,000 Stella Prize 2019; applications open for The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award; the 14th Stonnington Jazz Festival; Slaughterhouse Five reimagined by Theatre Works; The Secret River to tour UK; and more ...

In this fortnight's Update: the Sydney Writers’ Festival program launch, the $20,000 WA Fogarty Literary Award, the First Nations Fellowship for First Nations Writers announced, the KYD Mentorship Program, and more!

In this fortnight's Update: the Clunes Booktown Festival 2019; Cirque du Soleil is coming to Australia; Piers Greville wins the 2019 Glover Prize; The Lifted Brow & RMIT Non/Fictionlab Prize For Experimental Non-Fiction is open for entry; Opera Australia at Uluru; and some giveaways ...

In this fortnight's Update: the Alliance Française French Film Festival; the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize awards ceremony; Nina Stemme and Wagner at the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; the 2019 Newcastle Writers Festival; I'm Not Running broadcast live at Cinema Nova; the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards open for entry; and giveaways ...

In this fortnight's Update: ABR in Adelaide and Perth; Dominic Kelly on Melbourne University Press; the 2019 Stella Prize longlist announced; a tribute to distinguished poet Judith Rodriguez; the thirtieth Alliance Française French Film Festival; and giveaways to Capernaum and If Beale Street Could Talk ...