The Drawing Room

In September last year, Michael Smith was evacuated from China after being questioned by state security.

That followed the ejection of more than a dozen foreign journalists and brought an end, at least for now, to the Australian Financial Review's China bureau.

Michael has written about his time in China in a new book, The Last Correspondent.

The Father began life as a play, taking out awards in each new country it was staged in.

Now the film version has continued that tradition, winning Oscars for best actor and best adapted screenplay.

The movie brings the audience inside the dementia of the man at its centre, played by Anthony Hopkins, and grounds a complicated story in a simple emotional truth.

The Father began life as a play, taking out awards in each new country it was staged in.

Now the film version has continued that tradition, winning Oscars for best actor and best adapted screenplay.

The movie brings the audience inside the dementia of the man at its centre, played by Anthony Hopkins, and grounds a complicated story in a simple emotional truth.

M'ap Boulé, the new show by Nancy Denis, mixes music and storytelling to look at the history of Haiti and her own experience as a child of immigrants.

In the Drawing Room, Denis talks revolution, education and Haitian Creole.

M'ap Boulé, the new show by Nancy Denis, mixes music and storytelling to look at the history of Haiti and her own experience as a child of immigrants.

In the Drawing Room, Denis talks revolution, education and Haitian Creole.

When Robin Fox was commissioned to design a laser show for Brisbane, he found that only industrial cutting lasers were bright enough light up a city.

But what sort of safety measures do you need when you're creating a beam of light that can be seen dozens of kilometres away?

In the Drawing Room, Fox discusses laser safety, mechanical synaesthesia, and the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award.

When Robin Fox was commissioned to design a laser show for Brisbane, he found that only industrial cutting lasers were bright enough light up a city.

But what sort of safety measures do you need when you're creating a beam of light that can be seen dozens of kilometres away?

In the Drawing Room, Fox discusses laser safety, mechanical synaesthesia, and the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award.

Several years ago, at a flea market in Victoria, Mayu Kanamori came across a collection of hundreds of photos from Japan's Showa period.

They were part of a deceased estate, but that was all the information Mayu was able to get. There were no names, no dates, no details at all.

And so Mayu has set out to discover the story behind the photos, with a new exhibition Untitled.Showa.

Several years ago, at a flea market in Victoria, Mayu Kanamori came across a collection of hundreds of photos from Japan's Showa period.

They were part of a deceased estate, but that was all the information Mayu was able to get. There were no names, no dates, no details at all.

And so Mayu has set out to discover the story behind the photos, with a new exhibition Untitled.Showa.

In 2019, Forbes Magazine wrote an article describing Kylie Jenner as the world's youngest self-made billionaire. The internet had opinions.

Enter stage left: Shari Sebbens and Moreblessing Maturure, the director and co-star of seven methods of killing kylie jenner, a recent play that merges memes and monologues to explore online identity, youthful mistakes and the politics of race.