Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Maxim Boon, Journalist

Features / Arts
Tank Man Takes On Trump In Kip Williams' Production Of 'Chimerica'
"It's the kind of storytelling where you can relish the multiple interpretations that can be taken away from it."
Features / Arts
Playwright Tommy Murphy Hacks Reality For His New Play, Mark Colvin's Kidney
"The only thing you can do when the world feels morally corrupt is take charge of your own actions."
Reviews / Arts
John
"A new play with an old soul; nuanced, touching and astonishingly uncanny."
Reviews / Arts
Little Emperors
"Little Emperors' could have made waves, but it's ended up a damp squib, drowning in poor choices."
Features / Arts
Arts SA's Peter Louca: 'Australia's Cultural Maturing Into Adulthood Was Spearheaded In Adelaide'
"Our local artists have exposure to international creatives and opportunities that can't be experienced anywhere else."
Features / Arts
Actor Jonathon Young On Expressing The Unutterable Pain Of Loss In 'Betroffenheit'
"Making this piece was certainly the most challenging creative process I've ever been part of."
Features / Arts
In 'The Secret River' Director Neil Armfield Navigates The Troubled Waters Of Australia's Colonial Past
"This story belongs to me as well. I believe it belongs to all people."
Features / Arts
A Loveable Rogue: Kate Mulvany Finds Common Ground With Shakespeare's Monstrous Monarch, Richard III
"I can't help but love him, because no one else does."
Features / Arts
James Rowland Finds Heartbreak & Hilarity In Smash Hit Production 'Every Brilliant Thing'
"We're just people in a room and we're just going to share a story."
Features / Arts
Artist Sohan Ariel Hayes Is Giving Life To The Trees For PIAF's Opening Spectacular
There is a deep sense of responsibility I feel given the very great privilege to make work in this place.
Reviews / Arts
L'Amante Anglaise (La Mama)
"There is a muted beauty in what they conjure, built on a pure, uncluttered empathy and an unalloyed yet devastating truth."
Features / Arts
The Cupcake King