Hannah Story is a writer and editor for ABC Arts, working on Gadigal land. Find her on Twitter @hannahmstory.
Pamela Rabe has been a star of Australian stage and screen for more than 40 years. Now, she takes on a new challenge: playing the matriarch in August: Osage County.
This year, the Waanyi author of Carpentaria, Tracker and Praiseworthy has won the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and now the Melbourne Prize for Literature.
Lisa McCune stars in the Australian premiere of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat, a play that uncovers the simmering tensions beneath America in 2024.
It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which just won one of the world's top literary awards.
ABC chair Kim Williams says investment and regulation are needed to fund the production of Australian stories, as he calls for the broadcaster to be "aggressively, consciously ambitious" in its programming.
Eric Idle, one-sixth of legendary comedy group Monty Python, brings his new live show, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live!, to Australia this month.
Michael Brand is set to depart the Sydney art gallery in July, less than three years after the completion of the $344 million Sydney Modern project.
Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko has won one of Australia's richest literary prizes, the ARA Historical Novel Prize, for Edenglassie, which interweaves stories of Aboriginal peoples in the past and present.
Much-loved comedian Kitty Flanagan talks about the hard road to getting her ABC TV sitcom Fisk made, and how the show has taken off both in Australia and overseas.
With Flat Earthers: The Musical, Lou Wall and their ex, playwright Jean Tong, craft a love story for the chronically online generation Z.
Four years after he retired from playwriting, David Williamson brings three new plays to Australia's main stages in 2024, including his latest The Puzzle at State Theatre Company South Australia.
It's the first song from the English goth rock band's forthcoming record, Songs of a Lost World, which is due out in November.
Works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria will tour to North America from next year, as part of The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art.
Charlotte Wood is shortlisted for her 10th book, Stone Yard Devotional, a novel about a woman who leaves her life in the city to join an enclosed religious community.
The Logie Hall of Famer is one of many TV stars featuring in Sydney Theatre Company's 2025 slate, for the final season from outgoing artistic director Kip Williams.
Jo Davies, artistic director of Opera Australia, has left the company over a 'difference in opinion' with the CEO and board about how to balance artistic and commercial imperatives.
Jayson Gillham, whose scheduled performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was abruptly cancelled last week, talks about choosing to highlight the plight of journalists in Gaza at concert.
Olympic breakdancer Raygun sends a special message to the Logies as Boy Swallows Universe scores early wins. Look back on our blog to see how the day's events unfolded.
The winners of the Children's Book Council of Australia's 2024 Book of the Year Awards have been announced, including debut author Karen Comer and author of 19 books Tristan Bancks.
Award-winning actor, writer and director Mitchell Butel will leave State Theatre Company South Australia to join Sydney Theatre Company at the end of the year.
The winners of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, worth a total of $190,000 have been announced, including prizes for an emerging artist and multimedia work.
Angus McDonald has won the People's Choice award for the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Marcia Langton.
The Kiwi comedian has been a mainstay of Australian TV for years, on shows including Have You Been Paying Attention? Now he hosts his own playful comedy show.
While the Miles Franklin judges may not have deemed it shortlist-worthy, Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional is now up for the Booker Prize.
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