Culture

Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a nuanced departure from the blueprint created by Elia Kazan’s classic film.

My co-workers are alright, not just because they deal drugs on the side or email me free tickets to a show tonight so I can ‘forget about everything for a couple of hours xoxo’

Teen internet sensation Clairo’s third album, Charm, demonstrates the value of growing up in her own way.

For all its promise of a bloodily feminist retelling of Shakespeare, Zinnie Harris’s Macbeth (An Undoing) at Malthouse Theatre is disappointingly banal.

Acclaimed countertenor Iestyn Davies – who tours next month with the Australian Chamber Orchestra – was originally inspired by Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder, and still has a keen sense of the absurd.

A retrospective of Paul Gauguin at the National Gallery of Australia illuminates both the variety of his work and the colonisation it represented.

Growing up on a farm meant hours spent in solitude, so Jillian never quite knew what to do at these gatherings. Adults formed forests of legs while gangs of whirligig kids ran between them, raiding buffet tables and knocking over everything. Jillian roamed the limitless grounds alone, wishing everyone would go home.

Podcasts created by museums, archives and galleries to draw attention to their extraordinary collections have huge potential but too often fail on their promise.

In his exhilarating final production as artistic director of Sydney Theatre Company, Kip Williams rewrites Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a hymn to queer love.

The latest book by acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country, addresses brutal conflict and ideological tribalism front on.