A group of artists struggling to pay the rent in New York City during the AIDS pandemic hardly sounds like the formula for a hit musical. But it is reports HELEN MUSA.
When an Adelaide law lecturer drowned in 1972 after having been thrown into the River Torrens, it led to SA becoming the first Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality. The story seems tailor-made for opera, writes HELEN MUSA.
The ACT’s indigenous arts sector has been boosted with the appointment of a reference group to establish the new ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Space at the Kingston Arts Precinct.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA rates Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire as one of the greatest acting vehicles in the western repertoire. And there's a new production being staged next month.