Richard is away this week, guest host Daniel Santangeli fills in! Playwright Fleur Murphy explores ordinary acts of bravery and the ethical concerns of witnessing domestic violence in her award-winning play ‘The Fence,’…
First Nations artist Gail Mabo talks shouldering the legacy of her father, activist Eddie Mabo, and her new exhibition ‘Current’ at McClelland Gallery with fellow First Nations artists Lisa Wuap and Dominic White…
Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Vice President of Actor’s Equity for the MEAA breaks down the US writers and actors strike, uncovering how streaming and AI technologies have threatened livelihoods in film and the potential impacts…
Artistic Director Louise Bezinna gives an extensive overview of this year’s Brisbane Festival program; Priya Namana, CEO of the Centre of Projection Art on the upcoming innovative projection-art displays at the 2023 Gertrude…
Richard Hull, CEO of Flying Fruit Fly Circus explains the devastating impacts Swinburne University’s decision to freeze the National Institute for Circus Arts' student intake in 2024, may have on circus in Australia…
Co-artistic director Sarah Kreigler talks everything puppets, delving into the Melbourne Festival of Puppetry and its 2023 puppet treasure hunt; Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, Penelope Benton, on…
Richard is away this week, guest host Oliver Coleman fills in! Co-writer and performer Louise Siversen explores cancel culture in theatrical performance, ‘Underneath Ms Archer’, depicting a 21st woman’s encounter with a medieval…
Co-artistic director Lara Thoms on artist-run, experimental performance arts group, Aphids and their RISING Festival performance ‘Oh Deer!’, delving into the grief of losing a parent; Director Emma Valente on dramedy performance ‘Shhhh’…
Internationally renowned choreographer Edgar Zendejas on his collaboration with NICA graduates to create circus performance, ‘Oneiric’; Artist Yvette Coppersmith on her exhibition ‘Carnelian’, a response to the Jewish Museum of Australia’s exploration of…
CEO Lucy Manne on 350 Australia’s campaign to help the arts community rule out coal and oil industry partnerships; Janet McLeod reminisces about her comedy room, ‘Local Laughs’ in the wake of its…
Actor Sarah Funari on the Stan and BBC original series ‘Ten Pound Poms,’ charting the story of over a million British people that migrated to Australia for 10 pounds; Artist Miles Johnson on…
Artist Genevieve Lacy on her twilight gathering of soundwork, 'Consort of the Moon', inspired by the oldest known notated song; Cabaret icon Paul Capsis takes audiences on an intimate journey of acoustic song…
Adam Noviello on their theatrical exploration of bullying and the gruelling social hierarchies of high school in ‘MOTH’; actor Peter Houghton on ‘Cavalcade’ and the reopening of Eleventh Hour Theatre; Judith Lucy explores…
Director Ursula Sullivan on her gallery Sullivan and Strumpf and the changing commercial art landscape; Christos Tsiolkas & Dan Giovannoni on adapting the novel 'Loaded', as a play - exploring queer, migrant Melbourne;…
Illustrator Oslo Davis explores his lasting connection with Triple R; Melbourne International Comedy Festival Director, Susan Provan on Barry Humphries’ controversial cultural legacy; Red Stitch actor Khisraw Jones-Shukoor on Pulitzer-nominated war-time play, ‘Selling…
Comedian Josh Ladgrove pays tribute to his late Ukrainian grandmother’s strong spirit in tragic comedy ‘Baba’; Leisa Shelton on her exploration of the lost lineage of Australian art in a series of performances…
Comedian Melissa McLensey on ‘The Briefing’, her latest interactive US press briefing style MICF show; Curator Vistal Kumaraswamy talks exhibition at North Melbourne Town Hall, Okkoota; Daizy Maan and Sukhijt Kaur Khalsa discuss…
Artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah on ‘Journey’, his latest exhibition exploring the intersection of faith, identity and culture through large scale sculptures; Musical comedian Gillian Cosgriff talks optimism and stuff you like in her MICF…
Ahead of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, comedian Rowan Thambar discusses his show ‘Nothing Deep, Just Good Times!’, a night of irreverent laughs from a former chronic over-sharer; Poet-turned playwright Nathan Curnow talks…
Melbourne Theatre Company’s artistic director and co-CEO Anne-Louise Sarks talks about making her directorial debut as AD with ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’; Irish contemporary artist Sean Lynch talks curating the exhibition ’Desire Lines’ at City Gallery…
Bernard Caleo checks in for the Drawn Out segment with news from around the world of comic books; Artist and photographer Odette England discusses her exhibition Dairy Character at Centre of Contemporary Photography…
Theatre-maker Liv Satchell and actor Emily Tomlins discuss their upcoming plays ‘The Grief Trilogy’ for La Mama Courthouse; Veteran theatre practitioners Patricia Cornelius and Susie Dee explain their film adaptation of their play…
Tai Snaith is back for our fortnightly visual arts review segment Art Attack; Tiffany Barton talks co-writing ‘Not All Dictators’ and what happens when women fight back, for La Mama Courthouse; Director Cass…
Bernard Caleo is back for ‘Drawn Out’, our monthly comics segment; Artist Robert Clinch discusses ’Romancing the Streetscape’, an exhibition at Hawthorn’s Town Hall Gallery celebrating streetscapes, parks and buildings iconic to…
Cheyney Caddy and Issy Weiskopf talk about their work on Black Apple Theatre’s production of ‘Thrive: Queer voices out loud’ for the upcoming Midsumma Festival; Playwright Jo Clifford on another Midsummer highlight, ‘The…
In our final Smart Arts episode for 2022, Anne-Marie Peard casts her eyes back over this year’s theatre highlights in our fortnightly theatre review segment; Vincent Alessi talks stepping into his new role…
TarraWarra Museum of Art curator Anthony Fitzpatrick discusses the current exhibition on Australian painter Peter Booth; Author Kath Kenny talks about her work of narrative nonfiction ‘Staging a Revolution: When Betty Rocked the…
Andy Freer, the CEO and artistic director of the 30-year-old Melbourne puppet company Snuff Puppets talks about the world premiere of ‘SWAMP’; Heide Museum of Modern Art’s artistic director, Lesley Harding, on Heide’s…
Sydney Festival’s artistic director Olivia Ansell chats about what’s in store for the immersive 2023 program in January; Bernard Caleo talks all things comic books for the Drawn Out segment; Ella Caldwell, artistic…
Artist Jeremy Blincoe chats about his boundary-blurring exhibition ‘The Fragile Skin of the World’ at Linden New Art; Next Wave’s CEO Jamie Lewis on opening the doors to more artists with the new…
Malthouse Theatre’s artistic director Matthew Lutton introduces the 2023 season; Comedian, drag king, DJ and producer Natali Caro talks ‘Thanks For Having Me’, a FRINGE comedy night for PoC and queer artists; Two…
The Australian Ballet’s artistic director David Hallberg talks the 2023 season program; Christian Cavallo on directing the queer drama ‘If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You’…
The Irish Film Festival’s director Dr Enda Murray talks about 2022’s hybrid program; Artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth on the new exhibition ‘Where Lakes Once Had Water’, combining Indigenous thought, art…
Kate Jinx, programmer for Melbourne International Film Festival, talks about this year’s Melbourne On Film program stream; Artist and photographer Pia Johnson on her exhibition ‘Faint Echoes’ at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre…
Playwright Fleur Kilpatrick chats about her new play ‘Rebel’ about senior activists, for the Ian Potter Centre; Miranda Hill, artistic director of ‘Homophonic!’, on telling the stories of LGBTQI+ elders through music for…
Bernard Caelo dives deep into comic books and graphic novels for our monthly segment ‘Drawn Out’; Curator Jacqueline Doughty takes us through ‘Still Life’, Buxton Gallery’s latest art exhibition on the organic world…
Actor Eryn Jean Norvill and alternative performer Nikki Shiels talk starring in the much-hyped production of ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’; One of the performers at this year’s Melbourne Magic Festival, Josh Staley…
Comedian and co-owner of Comedy Republic, Rhys Nicholson, talks encore shows at Replay Festival 2022; One of four artists showing at Boroondara’s Town Hall Gallery’s ‘Common Thread’, Sarah Hallett, explores transforming everyday materials…
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Senior Curator Dr Miranda Wallace talks about this year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition ‘The Picasso Century’; Director of ‘Passing Strange’, Dean Drieberg, along with the show’s Musical Director…
Playwright Damien Millar on directing Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ for a 2022 audience at La Mama Theatre; Belinda Collins, Creative Director of The Social Crew, is back to discuss ‘Under…
