Search results for: “perth festival”
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Review: Sudan Archives 2026 Perth Festival
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★★★½ East Perth Power Station came alive for the final night of Perth Festival 2026 as crowds gathered to see LA-based musician Sudan Archives. Brittney Parks, known to fans as Sudan Archives, delivered a stand-out set on the Main Stage in her first tour since releasing her new album The BPM.…
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Review: Dragon I 2026 Perth Festival
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Dragons are often representative of important elements of humanity. Whether it’s Smaug hoarding gold, Puff getting abandoned by an aging child, or even the dragon slain by St George being analogous to a generally intimidating situation, dragons are heralds of significance. This brings us to Dragon I, the newest show…
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Review: Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes 2026 Perth Festival
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★★★½ Meow Meow is an international cabaret figure known for blending virtuosic singing with anarchic, unpredictable performance. Equal parts diva, clown and provocateur, she constructs shows that veer between glamour and collapse, humour and menace, intimacy and spectacle. And in Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes, co-presented by Black Swan State Theatre Company for Perth Festival, she…
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Review: Haribo Kimchi 2026 Perth Festival
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Jaha Koo invites us into the story of his ‘home’ in a work that blends poetic, vulnerable storytelling with striking visuals and sound media. Haribo Kimchi is a hilarious, intimate and mouth-watering take on what it means to emigrate, assimilate and find solace in unfamiliar places. Presented as part of…
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Review: Rebel Rebel Perth Symphony 2026 Perth Festival
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For one night only, the East Perth Power Station came alive with the music of David Bowie reimagined by Perth Symphony Orchestra and an impressive line-up of guest singers in Perth Festival’s Rebel Rebel. With an audience made up of mostly Gen X and Boomers, peppered with a few younger…
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Review: POV Re:group Performance Collective 2026 Perth Festival
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Parents are supposed to guide and support their children. But what if they aren’t able to do that? What if an illness is holding them back? More problematically, what if it’s a mental illness? How do we talk to our kids about mental health? POV, created by re:group performance collective…
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Perth Festival 2026: Lights Up, The Stage Is Set
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Perth Festival 2026 bursts to life tomorrow with a bold, immersive opening weekend that celebrates art, time and place in all their rich and surprising forms. From an eclectic music line-up lighting up the returning East Perth Power Station, to the gripping theatrics of LACRIMA at the State Theatre Centre,…
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Vocalists Announced For Rebel Rebel Bowie Concert At Perth Festival
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Perth Symphony Orchestra will be joined by powerhouse guest vocalists Meow Meow, Abbe May, Noah Dillon, Katy Steele and Rachael Dease for a one-night-only spectacular performance: Rebel Rebel, celebrating the music of David Bowie at the East Perth Power Station on Friday 13 February 2026. Perth Festival Artistic Director Anna…
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Lotterywest Films Brings Summer Of Cinema For Perth Festival
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For 18 balmy weeks beneath the Somerville pines, Lotterywest Films will roll out a hand-picked lineup curated from the world’s major film festivals including Cannes and Venice. Adventures! Pulse-quickening thrillers. Eye opening documentaries. Spicy rom coms and emotion-soaked dramas ensure there’s something to excite, inspire, shock, entertain, move and amuse…
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Announcing Lineup For Perth Festival 2026: Truth Telling & Mischief Making
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The Perth Festival 2026 program – the second from Artistic Director Anna Reece – presents audiences with the works and artists of this time and place, repurposing Perth icons as works of art and inviting a journey into completely unexpected locations. From office towers, town halls, a power station and…
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Announcing First Artists For Perth Festival 2026
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Perth Festival has announced that its 2026 season will open with the monumental French theatre production Lacrima. Alongside this epic work, international artists Max Cooper, Nilüfer Yanya and Black Country, New Road are unveiled as the first acts programmed in the East Perth Power Station cultural hub as it is…
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Review: Hiromi The Piano Quintet Perth International Jazz Festival
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The Perth International Jazz Festival kicked off Friday night, boasting a line-up of esteemed international jazz musicians. Opening the festival with a sold-out Perth debut was Grammy Award-winning pianist Hiromi: The Piano Quintet, featuring New York’s PUBLIQuartet. If this show is any indication of what’s to come over the next…
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Perth International Jazz Festival 2025 Launches This Weekend
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Perth will step firmly onto the global jazz stage as the 2025 Perth International Jazz Festival (PIJF) kicks off this Saturday night, producing its most prestigious program in history. Across 14 days from 18 October – 2 November, audiences will experience four GRAMMY Award-winning artists, the highest concentration of international…
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Film Review: Life Is Life 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival
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★★★★☆ Can an 80-year-old, 4th-grade-educated shepherd stand up against a pushy multimillion-dollar juggernaut and win? Riccardo Milani’s Life is Life (La Vita va Cosi), a Best Comedy winner at the 2026 Nastro d’Argento Awards, poses just that. Written by Ricardo Milani and Michele Astori, the film was inspired by the…
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Film Review: Holy Cannoli 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival
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★★★★½ Pif needs only three letters. When a satirist becomes so familiar within a nation that even his shortened name needs no explanation, he earns unusual freedom. He can approach the sacred without immediately being accused of sacrilege. In Italy, few institutions are more sacred than the Catholic Church. Food…
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Film Review: Sweetheart 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival
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★★★★★ All too often, the rush of life and the obligations of society demand our constant attention. Margherita Spampinato’s exquisitely rendered debut film, Sweetheart (Gioia Mia), asks us to stop and hold the moments in between, however fleeting. Inspired by Spampinato’s own childhood, the film follows Nico (Marco Fiore), a…
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Announcing First Highlights Russell Hobbs British Film Festival
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Some of Britain’s finest stars feature in the first highlights of the 2026 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival. Presented by Palace, this year’s festival includes a spectacular line up of dramas, diverse and illuminating documentaries, romantic comedies and more, all screening at Palace Cinemas, Palace Nova and Luna Palace Cinemas…
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Win Tickets To The 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival
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This Spring, Palace is thrilled to bring the 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival to cinemas as the largest festival of Italian cinema in the world. Showcasing an incredible selection of new Italian cinema celebrating the country’s language stories and culture, the festival includes works from contemporary Italian auteurs, documentaries, comedies,…
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Announcing 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival Full Program
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Palace is thrilled to announce the full line up of the 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival, the largest festival of Italian cinema in the world. Showcasing an incredible selection of new Italian cinema celebrating the country’s language stories and culture, the festival includes works from contemporary Italian auteurs, documentaries,…
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Film Review: Digby & Camille 2026 Melbourne International Film Festival
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★★★½ Full of energy, affection and personality, Digby & Camille is a sweet slice-of-life documentary about a couple living with Down syndrome, making its world premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival. Tender, funny and unabashedly affectionate, Digby & Camille captures an intimate portrait of a relationship that has spanned eight…
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Announcing 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival First Highlights
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Returning to cinema screens this September is the largest celebration of Italian culture and film outside Italy, the 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival presented by Palace. Featuring unmissable gems from some of Italy’s finest filmic talents, the festival screens in Sydney, Melbourne, Ballarat, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Byron Bay…
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Film Review: The Last Viking 2026 Nordic Film Festival
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★★★★☆ A hilarious yet surprisingly tender family drama, The Last Viking is an absurd journey of acceptance and the development of unconditional love. It’s also about a gaggle of folks with dissociative personality disorder who believe themselves to be the members of The Beatles. They attempt to form a band,…
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Film Review: ÁRRU 2026 Nordic Film Festival
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★★★½ There’s something viscerally beautiful about a film so grounded in time and space. In our current cinematic landscape dominated by elevated horror, big blockbusters and financially safe remakes, seeing an understated film laced with raw honesty is a refreshing change. Set in the pristine, frosty white lands of Sápmi,…
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Film Review: The Kidnapping Of A President 2026 Nordic Film Festival
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★★★½ Set in Helsinki in 1930, The Kidnapping of a President, funnily enough, tells the story of exactly that: the kidnapping of President Stahlberg. What ensues is a series of incompetent events. An alcoholic Lieutenant Colonel, Eoro, drunkenly issues the call for a revolution early, enlisting a team of ragamuffins…
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Win Tickets To The 2026 Hurtigruten Nordic Film Festival
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The 2026 Hurtigruten Nordic Film Festival is screening nationally through the wintry months of July and August at Palace, Palace Nova and Luna Palace Cinemas. Featuring the best new cinema from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, this year’s formidable line-up showcases cinematic legends, breathtaking landscapes and the unique storytelling and profound…
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Announcing 2026 Hurtigruten Nordic Film Festival Full Program
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Palace Cinemas is delighted to announce the full programme of the 2026 Hurtigruten Nordic Film Festival, screening nationally through the wintry months of July and August at Palace, Palace Nova and Luna Palace Cinemas. Featuring the best new cinema from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, this year’s formidable line-up…
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Review: Tara Tiba OMID 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★☆ After seven years away from the stage, the Iranian-born, Perth-based singer Tara Tiba stood in the Banquet Room last night and offered the audience something that felt fragile, defiant and alive. OMID means hope, and for Tiba, hope is not a slogan; it is a survival tool. Tiba is…
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Film Review: Another League 2026 Spanish & Latin American Film Festival
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★★★½ There’s a scene in Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz’s Another League which would be hilarious were it not so cringeworthy. A class of teenage girls receives a visit from a well-coiffed speaker, looking a lot like Margaret Thatcher. She represents the bizarrely named “Women’s Section” of the Spanish government.…
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Film Review: La Salsa Vive 2026 Spanish & Latin American Film Festival
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★★★★½ Directed by Juan Carvajal, La Salsa Vive is a pulsating and insightful documentary that tells the story of two cities that share a common bond – the rhythm of salsa – from its roots in New York City to its current location in Cali, Colombia. Through more than five…
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Film Review: The Tigers 2026 Spanish & Latin American Film Festival
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★★★★☆ There was a cinematic trend in the eighties and nineties where it was near impossible to kill off the villain. In Cape Fear, Sleeping with the Enemy and Fatal Attraction, the enemy simply refused to die easily – or sometimes appeared to die twice. Echoes of the syndrome appear…
