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The Women Playwrights' Solutions Roundtable, jointly supported by the Australia Council’s Theatre and Major Performing Arts Boards, took place on Friday, 12 August 2011. This report documents the processes and people involved, the substance of the discussion and the outcomes.

This panel session took place at the Brisbane Powerhouse on 16 September 2011 as part of the Australian Theatre Forum. Responding to audience demand for more connection, for the more experiential – artists and companies are experimenting with new modes of engagement that have the capacity to deepen and re-imagine relationships between artists and audiences.

This panel session took place at the Brisbane Powerhouse on 15 September 2011 as part of the Australian Theatre Forum. Practitioners share their experiences of partnering and the impact it has had on their work – negotiating different ways of making, working in culturally and economically unfamiliar conditions, optimising both successes and failures.

Are we thinking for innovation? Or are our organisations and practices entrenching old habits? This panel session took place at the Brisbane Powerhouse on 14 September 2011 as part of the Australian Theatre Forum.

Theatre makers share their vision of the Australian theatre industry in a form of a video ‘postcard’ from the year 2021. This panel was part of the Australian Theatre Forum 2011, held at the Brisbane Powerhouse in September.

Suzie Miller discusses her play Transparency, which was developed through the Kit Denton Fellowship for courageous writing.

We've teamed up with the Australia Theatre Forum 2011 to bring you some clips from this year's event and provide an insight into the sometimes heated and always animated exchange of ideas and experiences taking place at Brisbane's Powerhouse.

Hilary Bell talks about her play Memmie Le Blanc, her process for working with historical sources and her views on collaboration.

American dramaturg Cristin Kelly has set herself a challenge that's guaranteed to bring her up to speed with Australian culture... to read or watch an Australian play every day for 100 days.

The Cold Reading Series is a monthly script event in Melbourne. As the name implies, there's no rehearsal and no preparation.