Artists Lior Attar and Lou Bennett channel Jewish and Yorta Yorta heritage through the story of Ngapa William Cooper, scored by Nigel Westlake for Australian String Quartet at Perth Concert Hall on Sunday.
David Cusworth
WA Symphony Orchestra and a galaxy of Perth Festival stars farewell artistic director and conductor Iain Grandage at Supreme Court Gardens.
Rock-show lighting beams over stage and audience before Brooklyn Rider string quartet take Perth Concert Hall stage, exploding in an earthy folkdance from their native America.
World music superstar Angelique Kidjo celebrates Mother Nature and Talking Heads at Perth Festival tour de force
Simon Collins
Australia’s master songwriter explores theme of time across barnstorming performance at Perth Concert Hall.
Calexico blend united nations of influences, and musicians, on 20th anniversary tour of breakthrough album, Feast of Wire
Geoff Sobelle’s FOOD serves up several unexpected courses of clowning, frivolity and freaky theatre.
Belle Taylor
Perth Festival’s Stunt Double is a wild ride of multiple moving parts with a cleverly choreographed and unforgettable car ride racing towards an incredibly poignant ending.
Tanya MacNaughton
French/American jazz duo Domi & JD Beck produce a sound that’s hard to define. Mostly, because it’s music that isn’t easy to make and also, because you’ve probably never heard anything like it.
Melinda Webster
Acclaimed Aussie singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett goes instrumental for the first half of festival performances at the Rechabite
Part of Perth Festival 2024, Black Swan State Theatre Company’s The Pool is making waves for all the right reasons and is simply splashtastic.
While not faultless, there are moments of magic to be found in this new take on Rudyard Kipling’s classic, Jungle Book.
Jay Hanna
Noongar opera comes of age at The Maj this week with Wundig wer Wilura, Gina Williams’ and Guy Ghouse’s legend of star-crossed lovers from Ballardong country, York.
The scorching heat of the day settled just in time for the dancers of WA Ballet to ignite the stage as they laid everything bare under the night sky for the 2024 season of Metamorphosis: Ballet at the Quarry.
Fremantle businesses have struck a sour note about the city’s AC/DC festival, saying it did not bring them any new customers, with one regretting opening on Sunday.
Indigo Lemay-Conway and Caitlyn Rintoul
She was in need of a good night sleep, but US indie darling Angel Olsen was still in fine vocal form for the first of her two shows for Perth Festival.
Linda May Han Oh’s Ephemeral Echoes a reflection on impermanence after fleeing New York City for WA at the onset of pandemic.
Noongar artist Maatakitj (Clint Bracknell) unleashes world premiere Bindari (Thunderstorm) at the Concert Hall with California’s Kronos Quartet for Perth Festival on Saturday.
An attenuated, percussive quality permeates Cedric Tiberghien’s piano in a world premiere reworking of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes at Perth Concert Hall
There is strength in storytelling and Australian Dance Theatre’s Tracker is all about sharing truth from the heart.
American punk rockers Bikini Kill came, they cried, they conquered at fist-pumping Festival gig
There are some artists who simply must be experienced in the flesh, and Bon Iver is one of them.
Jessie Stoelwinder
WA Opera mezzo soprano Ashlyn Tymms makes her long-awaited title-role debut in Carmen with a tour de force of seductive artistry and drama.
If you thought you heard a siren call pulling you towards Northbridge last night, it’s safe to say it came from Julia Jacklin.
Indigo Lemay-Conway