As most people in this industry already know, Safe Work Australia has legislation with regard to performing high-risk works. One of the specified work description that falls under the high-risk category is rigging. You might agree though, that the publicly available information online is somehow hazy on the scope that Read more
Founded in 2005, The Sydney Theatre Awards is an award-giving body focused on recognising outstanding mainstream and independent theatre plays and musical. For this year’s winners, the awards ceremony will be held at The Everest Theatre in Seymour Center on January 22, 2018. As usual, though, the nominees were announced Read more
In one of our previous articles, we talked about fire retarding options for theatre fabrics in order to obtain additional safety as well as to comply to the safety regulations of the Building Code of Australia (BCA). Specifically, the theatre fabrics or curtains should pass the standard fire retarding requirement Read more
We’ve seen dance barres installed in rehearsal studios, sometimes the portable ones on theatre backstages. If you are not a dancer, maybe at some point you have already asked yourself what are those long rods used for and why does it seem that ballet barres are important. Read on to Read more
Art is immortal so to speak but keeping performing arts alive has been tough for theatres to do as other more advanced and accessible forms of viewing entertainment has stolen the scene for the past several years. That being said, theatre owners/ managers are finding it hard to keep a Read more