The popular comedian asked the mother and baby to leave his Saturday night Comedy Festival show,saying it was for people aged over 15 only and the baby was “disrupting” his performance.
While Peter Clemenger’s children will inherit some of the artworks he spent decades collecting with his wife,Joan,others were too big – and too important – to hand down.
In a time of uncertainty for the arts,the MTC’s outgoing chair is leaving a parting gift to help shore up the future of theatre.
A safe program is a dull program. You get exceptional shows by pushing at boundaries – the price of that,however,is that occasionally one will fall flat.
British novelist Jasper Fforde’s new novel is a sequel to a book he wrote in 2009.
From a performance on a boat to a gig by an iconic punk band,Mona Foma is a reminder that art can be joyful,pensive and much more than a distraction.
We ask artist Maurizio Cattelan about the practicalities of his controversial work:why a banana? How is it prepared? And how does he feel about people eating his art?
Inspired by his great-grandfather’s letters,S. Shakthidharan’s play Counting and Cracking is a Sri Lankan story but could be that of many other nations.
The work,painted in 1999,has been in storage ever since the Melbourne artist’s death. This month marks the first and potentially only time the public will be able to see it.
People keep asking Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie why he moved from New York to Tasmania. The answer is simple:“Because I like it.”
It used to be a way of showing appreciation for an exceptional performance – but now jumping to our feet seems to be the expectation.