Spectrum Theatre is starting 2026 with a bang, returning from summer holidays after the success of A Composite Arrangement with two one-act plays.
Jacki Elezovich
Under Waters is a new immersive exhibition at PICA that transports audiences to a magical speculative past, imagining Earth 500 million years ago when water covered this continent.
Tanya MacNaughton
The Last Great Hunt returns to Perth Festival 2026 with Le Nor (the rain), a faux foreign film performed live each night with made-up language and English subtitles.
Artist Merry Robertson is a woman who loves doing her homework
Claire Middleton
Harsh light, stark steel and brutal concrete echo to a haunting orchestral vamp for Franz Kafka’s The Trial, from Lost and Found Opera, at Forrest Chase.
David Cusworth
A smorgasbord of sentiment serves to launch the Cygnus Arioso 2026 program at UWA’s Callaway Auditorium.
Fluid themes and agile phrasing launch Duo 2.10’s double-piano matinee at UWA’s Callaway Auditorium.
Youth theatre company shines a spotlight on climate issues.
Tim Sadleir
Chunky Move artistic director and choreographer Antony Hamilton is skilled in the art of digging himself a metaphorical hole and finding an interestingly creative way out of it, doing just that in UNITED.
High-vaulted arches of St Mary’s Cathedral host WA Symphony Orchestra’s Echoes Through Time.
Local artist Charlie Colbung is a busy man these days with one thing leading to another.
Entering Bambi Cumberland-Brown’s Albany studio is like going through the back of a wardrobe and finding a magical world existing in a different time and space.
Would you trust a kid armed with expensive camera equipment to carry an entire stage production? You should.
WA’s future performers will take centre stage in the heart of Perth this year, with the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts unveiling a program of more than 300 shows at ECU’s new city campus.
Harriet Flinn
Art will meet the ocean at Middleton Beach this April, when Sculptures at Binalup transforms the foreshore into an outdoor gallery.
Amy Towers
Gold Logie winner and Perth-raised leading lady of stage and screen Lisa McCune is starring in Steel Magnolias, touring to His Majesty’s Theatre in July.
Australian-born international cabaret sensation Meow Meow is rather adept at remedying the fairy tales of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, going for a trifecta with Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes.
UK choreographer and dancer Aakash Odedra returns to Perth Festival 2026 with Songs Of The Bulbul, a solo work intertwining Kathak dance with Sufi storytelling for an intensely physical and spiritual journey.
Dancing beneath the night sky as part of a Perth Festival summer tradition, WA Ballet’s Incandescence: Ballet At The Quarry program is a radiant evening of world premiere classical and contemporary beauty.
Securing Ed Sheeran’s tick of programming approval during his concert at Optus Stadium was the icing on the Perth Festival 2026 cake for artistic director Anna Reece as the festival opens.
A 118-year-old building at the heart of a Wheatbelt town has been granted thousands in Government funding for crucial upgrades to ensure the future of regional performing arts.
Hannah Whitehead
US President Donald Trump has announced plans to build a towering arch near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
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She has quiet classical music playing in the background of her studio which overlooks Goode Beach and Frenchman Bay, a picture-perfect spot for contemplation and an artist’s easel.
Fans endorse WA Symphony Orchestra’s move to Winthrop Hall with ticket sales prompting an extra night of the season opener on March 5.
