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Filmmaker Tim Marshall is hoping to bring Brisbane to life on the silver screen in his upcoming feature film debut.

Three members of the Indigenous all-female group, the Sapphires, appeal for help to find photos or old recordings of their songs.

More than 800 people register to attend a meeting in Perth to discuss dwindling numbers of both venues and audiences for live music.

Kath & Kim star Jane Turner has turned away from the double-act and has taken up the challenge of playing the demanding lead role in April De Angelis' hit play Jumpy through back-to-back seasons in Melbourne and Sydney, writes Robin Usher.

An Australian playwright is asking why audiences are constantly drawn to stories of black suffering, if it rarely translates into change in the community.

Victoria's capital is transformed into a city of light and colour for the White Night Melbourne event, which will run for one night only from dusk until dawn.

The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra decides to ditch the selfie stick, banning the implement from inside its collection of precious art.

Australian author Peter Carey is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Man Booker Prize joining only two other writers in history.

A Tasmanian-based theatre company is bringing the plight of the world's seafarers into the spotlight with a production premiering in the port city of Hobart next month.

Alison Croggon considers the very ordinary realities exposed by Samuel Beckett in his rarely performed shorter works, Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby.

In a rare Australian showing, acclaimed choreographer Mark Morris has pitted his New York-based dancers against the wild talent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and produced a performance that is complex, pleasurable and darkly seductive, writes Alison Croggon.

The big news of the first weekend of the Perth Festival is The Giants, the Royal de Luxe's supersized puppets. I've never seen an art event like it, writes Alison Croggon.

Powerlines are to be lifted and kerbing removed as two giant marionettes walk the streets of Perth this weekend for the city's international arts festival.

A new play aims to use theatre to bridge the divide between the Aboriginal and white communities. Kill the Messenger tells the story of an Aboriginal man in Sydney who hangs himself after being refused treatment for stomach cancer. Its playwright, Nakkiah Lui, wants white audiences to see it so they understand issues from an Indigenous point of view.
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On Friday, 11 February 2005, UK's Channel 4 broadcast the first episode of a six-part narrative comedy series titled Nathan Barley. Penned by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, Nathan Barley satirised the lives of creative types in trendy East London. At the time the residents of this once gritty, working class part of London didn't have a collective name, now ten years later we know them as hipsters. Nathan Barley may not have coined the term, but it remains one of the first depictions of hipsters on TV.

The changes in Melbourne and Sydney's live music landscapes are being mapped by a researcher from RMIT.

Debate has started about which artist will represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Austria in May.

For the first time, vision-impaired and blind people are given a chance to touch the floats and costumes ahead of the Adelaide Fringe Festival parade.

From interviewing the great and the notorious in rock and roll to donning armoured press vests in war zones, Andrew Mueller's career has taken some adventurous turns. Barnaby Smith profiles the expat Australian author and journalist.

American author Harper Lee says she is "humbled and amazed" that a novel that was presumed lost will be published more than half a century after the release of her much-loved classic To Kill a Mockingbird.

Adelaide is being transformed as the city gets ready for this year's Fringe Festival, which organisers say will be the biggest event yet.