For many people, a quintessential summer experience in Perth involves sinking into a deckchair among the towering pines of UWA’s Somerville Auditorium to watch a carefully curated movie.
Ben O’Shea
STRUT Dance’s free Perth Festival dance hub, Perth Moves, needed a bigger dancefloor for 2025, its relocation to Forrest Place just in time to present renowned choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Manifest.
Tanya MacNaughton
The fact Perth Festival’s new artistic director Anna Reece is the first WA born artistic director in the festival’s 71-year history is a rather wild and surprising feat.
New artistic director Anna Reece has announced the Perth Festival 2025 program, with East Perth Power Station its live music hub for the next four years.
Epic and intimate, the best of both worlds will be presented at EverNow festival 2024, a program of three special free events to reconnect with country during Kambarang, the Noongar season of birth and renewal.
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.
Mandurah-based emerging artist Alex Winner has been introduced to a world of possibility as one of ten participants selected via video application for this year’s Perth Festival Lab.
Audience become actors, hunters become the prey in Sophia Brous’ Invisible Opera at Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre for Perth Festival.
Eucalyptus, a gothic folktale with music by Jonathan Mills and libretto by Meredith Oakes, opens as a tone poem and closes like a film score on its world premiere 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
Dancenorth Australia’s Wayfinder an energy-filled kaleidoscopic fusion of dance, visual art and music at Perth Festival 2024.
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.
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
Packed houses at the Concert Hall for Perth Festival vouchsafe the hold Italian composer-pianist Ludovico Einaudi has on a global audiences.
Perth Festival and Writing WA have joined forces to put on Writers Weekend, an inspiring event for passionate readers and writers.
Gabrielle Waite
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.
