Culture

Multiple Bad Things, the latest show from national treasure Back to Back Theatre, is a troubling evocation of the heightened tensions of day-to-day experience.

Nina Sanadze’s powerful sculptures – now showing in a major survey at NGV Australia – grapple with the brutal histories and emotional contradictions of public monuments.

Netflix’s lavish adaptation of Liu Cixin’s allegedly unfilmable 3 Body Problem is spectacular, if flawed, epic television.

Imagine the silence now. Imagine the scent of hot dust as, drop by drop, time passes with nothing to do but this; pressing the sheets into the rockface section by section, and waiting.

For writer and investigative reporter Louise Milligan, Charles Blackman’s painting series Schoolgirls encapsulates the anxieties and fears of girlhood.

Opera Australia’s magnificent outdoor production of West Side Story remains true to this classic’s tragic social vision.

Frame Narrative is New Ghosts Theatre Company’s first production as artistic directors at Sydney’s venerable Old Fitz, and its central theme is the labour of theatremaking.

In almost four decades of acting, Nadine Garner, now starring in Melbourne Theatre Company’s The Almighty Sometimes, has seen the stage and screen become kinder places.

The indie horror film Late Night with the Devil, directed by Australian brothers Colin and Cameron Cairnes, is a superbly judged and deeply disturbing homage to 1970s pulp.

I may still die naturally or perhaps by the hand of the state too, I don’t know. Some say that someone of my abilities or lack thereof shouldn’t be sent to death. They say I cannot possibly understand the value of life from my lack of intellect, and from my lack of worldly possessions, and my lack of words, and my lack of history. And yet, there are others that say despite everything I lack I am full of rage and horror.