Steve Dow

Steve Dow

Steve Dow is the 2020 Walkley Arts Journalism Award recipient for his essay, profile and reportage portfolio. The Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer’s work also appears in The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Meanjin, Art Guide, and Vault.


Articles by Steve Dow

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Reframing Bennelong

Steve Dow talks with actors Googoorewon Knox and Guy Simon, and playwright Jane Harrison about her new play Bennelong in London.

May 25, 2026
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Into the Light

British viola virtuoso Lawrence Power chats with Steve Dow about Isles of Light, the concert he has programmed, directs and performs in for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and why he believes there’s such a strong viola tradition in the British Isles.

May 25, 2026
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Izzard’s Hamlet

Hot on the heels of this month’s Remix Tour Live, Suzy Izzard is bringing her one-woman version of Shakespeare’s tragedy to Australia.

April 20, 2026
Supported by State Opera South Australia

Delicious Fun

Director Neil Armfield tells Steve Dow why his production of Cinderella for State Opera South Australia will have a 1970s twist.

March 23, 2026
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Crosses to Bear

As she prepares to perform in her own adaptation of The Shiralee for Sydney Theatre Company, Kate Mulvany discusses her life and work.

September 22, 2025
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Maid in Australia

Small companies are “vital” to Australia’s arts ecology, given “so much opera is being dictated by finances” higher up the chain, says soprano Celeste Lazarenko.

August 25, 2025
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Walking Tall

As co-director and star, Pamela Rabe is well and truly up to her neck in Samuel Beckett’s absurd masterpiece Happy Days.

April 22, 2025