PRINCESS ANNE, a corgi riding side-saddle behind her, rears her horse; the hounds are off, and the hunt is on. Acclaimed Queensland artist Melissa Egan’s art is part realism/part satire […]

REVEREND HORTON HEAT frontman Jim Heath is content with his career. After 28 years bringing an unabashed celebration of sex, booze and hard living to venues across the US, Heath […]

Robots can build cars, fly planes and even beat Garry Kasparov at chess—but when it comes to emotions and art they fail miserably. Or do they? WAAPA playwright Travis Cotton […]

ARTHUR MILLER’S Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman, is an unlikeable person. He verbally abuses and bullies his wife and sons and is a liar and a braggart in […]

We felt that since we’d recently released a live album we had a little more freedom to play with some new sounds THE gals from Hussy Hicks rounded up some […]

Stuart Elliott likes to toy with his audience, to create ambiguous art that offers a peek of the hangman’s noose, without revealing whether the rope is taut or limp. He […]

American monologist Mike Daisey’s expose of Apple’s factories in China was a powerful and deeply moving account of inhuman working conditions. After hearing his piece The Agony and Ecstasy of […]

LIBRARIANS are a force to be reckoned with. Just ask publishing giant HarperCollins. In the aftermath of 9/11 the multinational subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation had told Michael Moore […]

‘You have to find the person who loves your book’ JOURNALISTS all think they’ll write a book one day—when the mortgage is paid, when the kids are older—there’s a million […]