Performing Lines Tas

19/05/2026

🎬 Performing Lines is proud to announce the launch of The Wendy Tapes, a four-part interview series honouring the extraordinary life and legacy of Australian performing arts pioneer Wendy Blacklock AM.💛

As the founder of Performing Lines, Wendy Blacklock was instrumental in building pathways for independent artists, fostering innovation, and championing stories from across Australia to reach audiences locally and internationally.

Through intimate interviews, personal reflections and archival material, The Wendy Tapes offers a rare and deeply human portrait of a producer whose vision and tenacity helped shape the national performing arts landscape.

The four interviews are conducted by artists, colleagues and friends with whom Wendy worked across more than three decades producing, founding and leading Performing Lines, including Wesley Enoch AM, Kate Champion, Annette Downs and Ian Temby AO KC.

🎥 Watch the series via the link below.
https://bit.ly/wendy-tapes

Performing Lines is proud to announce the launch of The Wendy Tapes, a four-part interview series honouring the extraordinary life and legacy of Australian performing arts pioneer Wendy Blacklock AM.

30/04/2026

📣 Performing Lines publishes our 2025 Annual Report ✨

🎉 559 creatives employed
🎉 12 new works premiered
🎉 19 creative developments
🎉 10 tours here and overseas
🎉 16 sector development programs

🎉 Across 249 performances and 10 national and international tours, our work engaged audiences and participants in 20 cities and towns across Australia, and 14 international cities in 9 countries.

We’re often so immersed in the work—the process, the people, the outcomes—that we don’t always pause to tell our story. These numbers speak to the collective impact of artists, producers and presenters working together across the country. 🥂

🔗 View the full Annual Report and Financial Overview via the link below 💛
https://bit.ly/PL-Annual-Report-2025-Publish

13/04/2026

2026 Sector Day

On 26 March 2026, Performing Lines Tas held a one-day gathering for the performing arts sector at Moonah Arts Centre, Nipaluna/Hobart. The day’s overarching theme was Risk; how do arts organisations, artists, funders and communities respond to risk.

Vernon Guest (CEO of Ten Days on the Island and a Performing Lines board member) delivered a keynote that invited us to reframe risk as fear, posing the questions: “Who is carrying whose fear?” and “Is that distribution fair?”

A panel discussion with Adam Wheeler and Emma Porteus (Executive Directors, Assembly 197), Simon Wellington (CEO and Executive Producer, Performing Lines), and Sam Routledge (Artistic Director, Terrapin) considered where responsibility lies when art provokes, how arts organisations balance artistic freedom with public accountability, and what is lost or gained when risk is avoided.

We heard case studies from each organisation on how they navigated risk, with Sam Routledge offering a key takeaway: clarity equals kindness.

We heard from Annette Madden (Head of Theatre, Creative Australia), Kate Mackie (Manager, Creative Tasmania), Jade Lillie and Lee Casey, consultants for The Live Performance Exchange (The Exchange) with an update on the 10-year plan for the professional theatre and live performance sector, and TPAC (Tasmanian Performing Arts Centres) on TAS 28, their Audience development Strategy, funded by Creative Australia. There were also roundtable discussions and opportunities to connect and network.

We were honoured to have the inimitable Jane Longhurst with us as MC - her astute observations and skill kept us thinking and on track throughout the day.

With huge appreciation and thanks to the incredible team at Moonah Arts Centre who ensured that everything was tip-top on the day.

This activity was supported by Art Tasmania

10/04/2026

2026 Celebrates Performing Lines Tas 20th birthday, marking two decades of championing the extensive and formidable talent of Tasmanian artists and arts companies across Lutruwita.

Presented at Moonah Arts Centre from Friday 20 March to Sunday 2 May, the Twenty Years of Performing Lines Tasmania exhibition showcases a selection of artworks and archival moments from across PL Tasmania’s 20-year history.

Since its establishment, PL Tas has played a pivotal role in nurturing, developing, producing, and promoting the performing arts across the state and beyond, making a lasting impact in the careers of countless artists and arts organisations.

Tasmanian artists continue to demonstrate bold and resilient creativity and Performing Lines Tas is excited to be entering the next chapter exploring brave new ideas, nurturing emerging voices, and sharing distinctive Tasmanian stories with the world.

https://performinglines.org.au/pl-tas-20th-birthday/

Performing Lines Tas is supported by Arts Tasmania

23/03/2026

Performing Lines is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of industry icon and First Nations cultural leader Rhoda Roberts AO. A proud Widjabul Wieybal woman of the Bundjalung Nation, she was a writer, actor, director, artistic director, dramaturg, advocate and cultural advisor.

Aunty Rhoda had a long and warm association with Performing Lines from her role as a dramaturg on erth’s The Nargun and the Stars (2009), the NSW representative on the Community Cultural Connections Group for the BlakLines touring initiative and most recently as a special national mentor at the 2025 Regional Artist Residency in Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Performing Lines staff extend our sincere condolences to the Roberts/Field families and join our many friends and colleagues in this time of grief while remembering Aunty Rhoda as a strong, dedicated, and nurturing force of nature whose impact will live on across the nation for generations come.
“The scale of Aunty Rhoda’s impact across the performing arts sector is truly hard to put into words. A true visionary. A graceful force of nature with a powerful presence forever woven into the very fabric of this Country. As we continue to champion independent artists, elevate untold stories and push artistic boundaries, we do so alongside those trailblazers who laid the pathways for First Nations artists. Hers is a legacy that has touched many. May you be held safely in the Dreaming, yarning around the fire.” — Sinsa Mansell, Senior Producer, Performing Lines TAS

19/03/2026

🎂✨ Celebrating 20 Years of Performing Lines Tasmania: Exhibition Opens Tomorrow 🎉

Opening at Moonah Arts Centre on 20 March, this anniversary exhibition presents a vibrant collection of photographs capturing the energy, talent and dedication that has defined Performing Lines Tasmania over two decades.

From modest beginnings to critically acclaimed productions, the display honours the artists, collaborators and communities who have shaped the organisation’s journey, inviting visitors to reflect on the past and look ahead to an exciting future.

📅 20 March – 2 May 2026
📍 Moonah Arts Centre (27 Albert Road), Moonah TAS
🎫 Free entry — join us

06/03/2026

Tasmania’s annual gathering for the state’s performing arts Sector.

The arts matter. To our stories, our communities, and our future.

Date and Time: 9:30am – 5:30 pm Thursday 26 March 2026.
Whether you’re an artist, producer, presenter, or industry professional
✨ Be part of the conversation.
✨ Connect with peers and collaborators.
✨ Help shape the future

"There’s something powerful about a room full of people steering in the same direction. When the ship is guided collectively, hope isn’t just possible, it’s tangible"

Annette Downs 2024 Sector Day

email: [email protected] for further infomation

02/03/2026

THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE
Tasmanian Theatre Company and Mudlark Theatre’s Things I Know To Be True is a tender portrait of the fragility and strength of familial bonds. As Bob’s garden changes with the seasons, each member of the Price family faces personal upheaval. Buried truths emerge and identities are questioned as the family searches for the source of their love for one another.
The script from celebrated playwright Andrew Bovell (Lantana) is given a new local lens by director Ivano Del Pio and an ensemble of Tasmania’s finest actors. Things I Know To Be True finds a family at an intergenerational intersection where heartbreak and hope collide.
Season Details:
26-28 March
Studio Theatre, Theatre Royal (Hobart)
Tickets: www.theatreroyal.com.au/shows/things-i-know-be-true

1-2 April
paranaple arts centre (Devonport)
Tickets: https://www.paranapleartscentre.com.au/events/things-i-know-to-be-true/

The Theatre Royal thinks it’s important that creative professionals get to experience as much art as they can, so they have implemented an Industry Allies program.

Learn more about this program and apply now!
https://www.theatreroyal.com.au/how-buy/affordable-tickets

This initiative is all about supporting Lutruwita's creative community, making it easier for industry professionals to see the work being made on our stages, connect with peers, and stay inspired.

Every rose has its thorns.

19/02/2026

📣 2026 Sector Day

Performing Lines Tas Sector Day is a gathering for the performing arts sector. A vital day of connection that brings together artists, independent practitioners, presenters, funders & arts leaders from across Lutruwita/Tasmania to reflect on our ecology, share insights, and shape our collective future.

Registrations close on Thu 19 March and if you haven’t received your registration form (maybe it went to spam) or if you have any qustion or would like to know more please send us an email [email protected] and we’ll sort you out.

Where & when: Moonah Arts Centre, Thursday 26 March

📸Michael Oneil

17/02/2026

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👏🏻 Congratulations to all shortlisted nominees 💛 Grateful to be part of a community shaping a more connected, generous and culturally rich Asia-Pacific arts landscape.