Fringe World and Perth Festival may offer audiences a different range of artistic experiences, but both achieved strong growth in ticket and box office sales this year, according to recent reports.
Perth Festival has released the first taste of its 2019 program, one day after festival sponsor Adrian Fini won a national award for his philanthropic work.
For the first time in its 65-year history, Perth Festival has appointed a home-grown artistic director, Iain Grandage, whose creative vision will be executed across a four-year tenure starting in 2020.
The artistic director of the 64th Perth International Arts Festival, Wendy Martin, has found several ways to keep Australia's longest running cultural festival fresh, with ticket sales already exceeding the 80 per cent box office target several weeks before the end of the event.
The head of performance and dance at Southbank Centre in London, Wendy Martin, has been appointed artistic director of Perth International Arts Festival.
