Complete Home Filtration, Ear Science Institute Australia and West Australian Shalom Group were among the national winners of the Telstra Best of Business Awards.
More than a month after the company behind a Little Shop of Horrors production declared it was closing, liquidators have been appointed but creditors are unlikely to receive a cent.
Barking Gecko Theatre Company’s new show The Great Un-Wondering of Wilbur Whittaker impresses junior reviewer Jackson Davis with its special effects and positive message.
An ambitious reworking of Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta sheds light on the experience of living with disability. But Rosalind Appleby says it comes at a cost.
The WAAPA third year acting students’ sparkling revival of Moliere’s classic Tartuffe speaks to the kind of cynicism so prevalent in our halls of power today, writes Jan Hallam.
A disability workforce retention fund and a campaign to attract workers are among the seven initiatives awarded funding to grow the sector’s labour force.
National not-for-profit Ability First Housing has acquired five units at Hesperia’s $65 million Victoria House development for specialist disability accommodation.
Rick Heath is departing from his role as chief executive of Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA after two years at the helm and will be succeeded by former Screenwest boss Ian Booth.
More than half of local arts organisations with turnover between $250,000 and $1 million will not be financially viable in 12 months, according to a survey of the sector in WA.
The federal government has shown its support for a $750 million comprehensive cancer centre and pledged $375 million to fund the project, but the state government is yet to commit its half.
Peter Fiore has struggled to distance himself from an alleged $1.2 million scam involving the Regal Theatre, but has continued his push for freezing orders over his assets to be lifted.
Family members of the late Judy Wheeler have donated $300,000 to the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in her honour to fund a new 10-year commissioning program.
The arts union is concerned for workers involved in Entertaind’s Little Shop of Horrors and the Australian School of Theatre after the companies announced they were going into liquidation.
Freeze Frame Opera are the arts community’s first responders, says Rosalind Appleby. And they have done it again, with a production of La Boheme that couldn’t be more pertinent.
Researchers may finally know the extent of microplastics concentration in the human body as a result of a new partnership between Minderoo Foundation and the University of Queensland.
From the poignant to the political, many works in this year’s iteration of ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ are about more than its coastal setting, discovers Kim Kirkman.
Multiple screens and a poetic visual style lift Isaac Julien’s film works well above the ordinary in this Perth Festival installation, writes Craig McKeough.
In Become Ocean, WASO and WAYO offer two new works that tinker at the conceptual boundaries of Perth Festival’s theme “Wardan” (Water), writes Claire Coleman.
