| Dr Diana Carroll loves words. Her writing has been published in leading newspapers, magazines, and online news sites. Diana has been commissioned to write life-advice columns, business features, obituaries, and opinion pieces. She has a particular passion for the arts and is an experienced reviewer and respected critic. Some examples of Diana's published articles appear here.
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Diana's background in public relations includes writing seriously good copy for corporate clients, advertising campaigns, and conference presentations. She uses those skills today in her freelance writing and professional speaking engagements. Based in Adelaide, Diana now lives and works in London.
Diana has been a specialist lecturer in writing at the University of South Australia, the Adelaide Centre for the Arts, and in Malaysia and Hong Kong. She is a member of the Adelaide Critics Circle.
LONDON
STAGE – Mean Girls
ArtsHub UK, 9.12.24
STAGE – The Devil Wears Prada
ArtsHub UK, 9.12.24
OPERA – The Pirates of Penzance
ArtsHub UK, 5.12.24
FEATURE - Don’t miss in December
ArtsHub UK, 1.12.2024
BALLET – The Snowman
ArtsHub UK, 26.11.2024
STAGE – A Christmas Carol
ArtsHub UK, 25.11.2024
CLASSICAL – Olafsson Plays Brahms
ArtsHub UK, 11.11.2024
STAGE – Barcelona
ArtsHub UK, 11.11.2024
OPERA – M Butterfly
ArtsHub UK, 29.10.2024
FEATURE - Don’t miss in November
ArtsHub UK, 28.10.2024
STAGE - The Sound of Philadelphia, Royal Albert Hall
ArtsHub UK, 23.10.2024
CLASSICAL - Gustav Mahler, Symphony No 2 Resurrection, Barbican
ArtsHub UK, 23.10.2024
VISUAL ART – Discover Constable and the Hay Wain
ArtsHub UK, 21.10.2024
VISUAL ART – Frieze Unfurls
ArtsHub UK, 14.10.2024
OPERA – La Boheme, Coliseum
ArtsHub UK, 7.10.24
CLASSICAL – LPO Rachmaninoff, Royal Festival Hall
ArtsHub UK, 1.10.24
VISUAL ART – Michael Craig-Martin at the RA
ArtsHub UK, 30.9.2024
FEATURE – Don’t miss in October
ArtsHub UK, 30.9.2024
BALLET – Akram Khan’s Giselle, The Barbican
ArtsHub UK, 23.9.2024
CLASSICAL – Chopin & Mahler, The Barbican
ArtsHub UK, 23.9.2024
CLASSICAL – Proms 72, Royal Albert Hall
ArtsHub UK, 23.9.2024
CLASSICAL – Elgar & Holst, The Barbican
ArtsHub UK, 18.9.2024
VISUAL ART – Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
ArtsHub UK, 16.9.2024
FEATURE – Outdoor Cinema at The Barbican
ArtsHub UK, 27.8.2024
FEATURES
Rockhampton Riverfest
ArtsHub, 27.6.2024
Exit through the Gift Shop
ArtsHub, 22.5.2024
Around the World in 7 Galleries
ArtsHub, 17.5.2024
Is This Something?
Sydney Arts Guide, 10.12.2023
FEATURE – French Film Festival
Fifty+SA 8.2.2024
FEATURE – Christmas Art Books
ArtsHub 6.12.2023
FEATURE – High Tea at the Mortlock Library
Fifty+SA 30.11.2023
FEATURE – The art stars of tomorrow
ArtsHub 15.11.2023
FEATURE – The art of the manifesto
ArtsHub 8.9.2023
FEATURE – CoUNTess Spoiling Illusions in the Arts
ArtsHub 9.8.2023
FEATURE – Creative Spaces Summit
ArtsHub 24.7.2023
FEATURE – Ramsay Art Prize
ArtsHub 29.5.2023
FEATURE - Postcard from London
ArtsHub 26.4.2023
FEATURE - Andy Warhol and Photography
ArtsHub 7.3.2023
FEATURE – Scribblers in the Dark
ArtsHub 15.2.2023
FEATURE – Arts philanthropy with Vincent Ciccarello
ArtsHub 8.2.2023
FEATURE – Prison art around Australia
ArtsHub 30.1.2023
FEATURE – TAFE Fee Free
ArtsHub 23.1.2023
FEATURE – Find your Writerly Tribe!
ArtsHub 16.1.2023
FEATURE – Historically Informed Performance
ArtsHub 22.11.2022
FEATURE - Video Game Music
ArtsHub 24.10.2022
FEATURE – How to get known as a classical composer
ArtsHub 28.9.2022
FEATURE – Music-making where professionals and amateurs meet
ArtsHub 24.8.2022
FEATURE – Going it alone
ArtsHub 26.7.2022
FEATURE – The secret art of conducting
ArtsHub 24.7.2022
FEATURE – Gaze and gesture: the power of moving portraits
ArtsHub 13.7.2022
FEATURE – Classical music, new ideas
ArtsHub 28.6.2022
FEATURE - Get on Board
ArtsHub 26.7.2021
FEATURE - SA Museum director on the shifting museum lens
ArtsHub 24.6.2021
FEATURE - Just Say Hello!
ArtsHub 8.2.2021
FEATURE - My biggest art mistakes
ArtsHub 2.12.2020
FEATURE - What to say when the news is all bad
ArtsHub 26.10.2020
FEATURE - Small business basics
ArtsHub - 28.9.2020
FEATURE - Corporate art collecting
ArtsHub 14.9.2020
FEATURE – We need to talk about the arts
ArtsHub 28.8.2020
FEATURE - So you want to do an arts PhD?
ArtsHub 27.7.2020
FEATURE - Is The Sector Over-Reliant On Volunteers?
ArtsHub - 21.5.2018
FEATURE – What Sponsors Want From The Arts
ArtsHub - 14.5.2018
FEATURE – Film Festival Showcases The World In 15 Minutes Or Less
ArtsHub – 8.6.2018
OPINION PIECE - Feminists, Mumpreneurs, and Having It All
SA Life - March 2015
OBITUARY - Neville Jeffress
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - 2.10.2007
OBITUARY - Andrew McAuley
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - 24-25.2.2007
FEATURE - Dream Award Opportunity for Indigenous Artists
ArtsHub - 9.12.2016
COLUMN - Gee, Wow, Thanks?
WOMAN'S DAY - 20.12.2010
COLUMN - Give a Great Wedding Speech
WOMAN'S DAY - 20.9.2010
COLUMN - Email Etiquette 101
WOMAN'S DAY - 8.11.2010
COLUMN - 5 Ways to Make a Difficult Conversation Easy
WOMAN'S DAY - 4.10.2010
COLUMN - Make a Complaint
WOMAN'S DAY - 27.9.2010
COLUMN - Hearsay
INDEPENDENT WEEKLY - 6-12.5.2006
COLUMN - Doing it Buy the Book
INDEPENDENT WEEKLY - 28.8.2009
CLASSICAL REVIEWS
Rachmaninov Symphonies
ArtsHub 1.7.2024
Symphony Series 4, Heroic
ArtsHub 7.5.2024
Symphony Series 3, Grandeur
ArtsHub 13.2.2024
Symphony Series 2, Horizons
ArtsHub 2.4.2024
Golden Blues, Selby & Friends
Sydney Arts Guide, 29.3.2024
Beethoven’s Emperor, ACO
ArtsHub, 14.3.2024
Majesty, ASO
ArtsHub 13.2.2024
Christmas Unwrapped
Fifty+SA 19.12.2023
Chopin and the Mendelssohns
ArtsHub 23.11.2023
Ecstasy, ASO
ArtsHub 8.11.2023
Dreams, ASO
ArtsHub 26.9.2023
Paradise, ASO
ArtsHub 28.8.2023
Embrace, ASO
ArtsHub 11.7.2023
Vitality, ASO
ArtsHub 2.8.23
Skyward, ASO
ArtsHub 27.6.2023
Rachmaninov – Piano Concertos
ArtsHub 26.5.2023
Wild, ASO
ArtsHub 24.4.2023
Orchestra Unwrapped
ArtsHub 15.2.2023
Signum Saxopohone Quartet
ArtsHub 16.11.2022
Beethoven, The Symphonies Concert 3
ArtsHub 26.9.2022
Tragedy to triumph
ArtsHub 17.8.2022
Serenity
ArtsHub 29.6.2022
Bach, ACO
ArtsHub 29.6.2022
Paul Grabowsky and Andrea Lam
ArtsHub 21.6.2022
Joy
ArtsHub 31.5.2022
Jubilation
ArtsHub 13.4.2022
Chineke!
ArtsHub 22.3.2022
ASO John Williams at 90
ArtsHub 15.2.2022
Seraphim Trio
ArtsHub 25.11.2021
Symphony Series 5
ArtsHub 12.10.2021
ASO Star Wars
ArtsHub 28.8.2021
ExoticStrudel
ArtsHub 15.3.2021
Konstantin plays Beethoven
ArtsHub 20.10.2020
Australian World Orchestra Conducted by Riccardo Muti Sydney
ArtsHub – 3.5.2018
Alina Ibragimova - Death and the Maiden
ArtsHub – 23.3.2018
Thomas Tallis’ England at City Recital Hall
ArtsHub – 2.3.2018
Dramatic Mozart: A Mozart Celebration
ArtsHub – 5. 2.2018
Australian World Orchestra Chamber 8
ArtsHub – 25.7.2017
Mahler 3: Heartwarming Voices
ArtsHub – 24.7.2017
Dancing With The Orchestra: Alina In The Spotlight
ArtsHub – 18.7.2017
Intimate Mozart
ArtsHub – 10.7.2017
Unfinished Romance
ArtsHub – 23.5.2017
Nobuyuki Tsujii Plays Chopin
ArtsHub – 23.5.2017
Songs Without Words: The Grigoryan Brothers
ArtsHub – 10.4.2017
Songs & Vistas: An Alpine Symphony
ArtsHub – 3.4.2017
Vengerov Plays Brahms
ArtsHub – 20.2.2017
Music Under The Moon
ArtsHub – 14.2.2017
Rautavaara
ArtsHub – 16.1.2017
Beethoven Heroic
ArtsHub - 17.10.2016
Simone Young & Mahler
ArtsHub - 25.7.2016
Master Series 9
INDAILY - 2.10.2012
Master Series 10
INDAILY - 2.11.2012
Solaris
INDAILY - 18.3.2013
2001: A Space Odyssey
INDAILY - 12.3.2013
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
INDAILY - 5.3.2012
OPERA and BALLET REVIEWS
West Side Story, Opera on the Harbour
ArtsHub, 28.3.2024
Threepenny Opera, Adelaide Festival
ArtsHub, 12.3.2024
The Nightingale, Adelaide Festival
ArtsHub, 4.3.2024
Marriage of Figaro, State Opera SA
ArtsHub 21.11.2023
Macbeth, State Opera SA
ArtsHub 11.9.2023
Aida, Opera Australia
ArtsHub 22.6.2023
G&S Fest: HMS Pinafore
ArtsHub 16.5.2023
G&S Fest: Pirates of Penzance
ArtsHub 15.5.2023
Don Giovanni
ArtsHub 10.1.2023
Carmen on Cockatoo Island
ArtsHub 30.11.2022
La Traviata
ArtsHub 31.10.2022
La Traviata
ArtsHub 29.8.2022
Voss
ArtsHub 10.5.2022
The Turn of the Screw
ArtsHub - 16.11.2021
The Barber of Seville
ArtsHub 4.5.2022
Anna Karenina
ArtsHub - 16.7.2021
Bluebeard’s Castle
ArtsHub – 11.12.2017
Madama Butterfly
ArtsHub – 30.10.2017
The Magic Flute
ArtsHub – 16.10.2017
The Rape Of Lucretia
ArtsHub – 21.8.2017
Two Weddings, One Bride
ArtsHub – 11.5.2017
Porgy & Bess
ArtsHub - 6.12.2016
OperaMania
INDAILY - 5.4.2013
Fidelio
INDAILY - 15.10.2012
The Gondoliers
INDAILY - 13.8.2012
Carmen
INDAILY - 7.11.2011
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BOOK REVIEWS
Jackie: A Novel
Sydney Arts Guide, 16.8.2024
The Cryptic Clue
50+SA, 1.7.2024
How to Spot the (Star) Signs
Sydney Arts Guide, 30.6.2024
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
50+SA, 5.6.2024
The Work
Sydney Arts Guide, 1.5.2024
My Mother and I
Sydney Arts Guide, 1.5.2024
The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder
Sydney Arts Guide, 1.4.2024
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Sydney Arts Guide 30.1.2024
Darling Girls
Fifty+SA 18.1.2024
Unruly
Sydney Arts Guide 9.1.2024
Light over Liskeard
Sydney Arts Guide 2.1.2024
Home Style Handbook
Fifty+SA 14.12.2023
Marina Abramovic
Sydney Arts Guide 12.12.2023
Create
Sydney Arts Guide 8.12.2023
Whatever Next
Fifty+SA 6.11.2023
The Modern
Sydney Arts Guide 29.10.2023
The Shortest History of the Crown
Sydney Arts Guide 19.9.2023
Wandering through Life
Fifty+SA 18.9.2023
Courtiers
Fifty+SA 21.8.2023
I’d Rather Not
Sydney Arts Guide 15.8.2023
Rental Person who does nothing
Sydney Arts Guide 19.7.2023
The Millionaires’ Factory
ArtsHub 5.7.2023
King Charles III – Our King
Sydney Arts Guide 23.5.2023
The Other Side
ArtsHub 6.3.2023
The Younger Wife
Sydney Arts Guide 7.2.2023
Hilda: The life of Hilda Rix Nicholas
ArtsHub 13.1.2022
Girt Nation
InDaily – InReview 24.11.2021
Puff Piece
ArtsHub 17.9.2021
Wild Asparagus, Wild Strawberries
THE ADVERTISER 9.6.2018
A Certain Light
THE ADVERTISER 28.4.2018
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
THE ADVERTISER 14.4.2018
How To Be Human: The Manual
THE ADVERTISER 24.3.2018
We Are Here
THE ADVERTISER 10.3.2018
Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking
THE ADVERTISER 20.1.2018
Sugar Money
THE ADVERTISER 13.1.2018
The Glass Soldier
THE ADVERTISER 21.10.2017
Balcony Over Jerusalem
THE ADVERTISER 23.9.2017
Where Hummingbirds Dance
THE ADVERTISER 1.7.2017
Never a True Word
THE ADVERTISER 17.6.2017
Farewell My French Love
THE ADVERTISER 20.5.2017
The Green Bell
THE ADVERTISER 6.5.2017
Only
THE ADVERTISER 25.2.2017
Moonglow
THE ADVERTISER 4.2.2017
Two Decades Naked
THE ADVERTISER - 2-3.7.2016
What the Light Hides
THE ADVERTISER - 18-19.6.2016
Origami Heart
THE ADVERTISER - 9-10.7.2016
Shanghai Grand
THE ADVERTISER - 6-7.8.2016
Dog Medicine
THE ADVERTISER - 8-9.10.2016
No Man is an Island
THE ADVERTISER - 29-30.10.2016
We Are Water
THE ADVERTISER - 1.2.2014
The Broken Road
THE ADVERTISER - 9.11.2013
The Rules of Inheritance and
The Girl's Guide to Homelessness
THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN - 25-26.2.2012
Her Father's Daughter
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - 1-2.10.2011
Just Between Us
THE AGE - 24.8.2013
Just Between Us
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - 24.8.2013
China in Ten Words
INDAILY - 13.12.2012
Happier at Home
INDAILY - 17.1.2013
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
INDAILY - 13.12.2012
Skinny Meals in Heels
INDAILY - 25.1.2012
A Brief Life of the Queen
INDAILY - 16.8.2012
Prince William: Born to be King
INDAILY - 7.6.2012
Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art
THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY - 31.7.2009
STAGE REVIEWS
Chicago
50+SA 12.8.2024
Christina Bianco, Adelaide Cabaret Festival
ArtsHub, 25.6.2024
Variety Gala, Adelaide Cabaret Festival
ArtsHub, 11.6.2024
Tina Turner – The Musical
50+SA, 6.5.2024
Elvis – A Musical Revolution
Upside News, 11.4.24
Cirque Alfonse Animal
Fifty+SA, 21.3.2024
Time Machine
ArtsHub, 19.3.2024
It’s a Sin
Fifty+SA, 12.3.2024
Hans: Disco Spektacular, Adelaide Fringe
Fifty+SA, 5.3.2024
Band of Brothers, Adelaide Festival
ArtsHub, 7.3.2024
Sherlock Holmes – The Last Act, Adelaide Fringe
ArtsHub, 28.2.2024
Yoah, Adelaide Fringe
Fifty+SA, 28.2.2024
The 60 Four, Adelaide Fringe
Fifty+SA, 20.2.2024
The Children, State Theatre
ArtsHub 8.2.2024
Miss Saigon – Review
Fifty+SA 9.1.2024
Welcome to your New Life
ArtsHub 17.11.23
Il Divo, A New Day
Fifty+SA 13.11.2023
Infinitely Closer
Fifty+SA 30.10.2023
Paradise, OzAsia
ArtsHub 23.10.23
Cabaret de Paris
Fifty+SA 28.10.2023
Dictionary of Lost Words
ArtsHub 2.10.2023
Candlelilght: Tribute to Queen
Fifty+SA 20.9.2023
Miss Saigon – Review
Fifty+SA 13.9.2023
Miss Saigon – Preview
Fifty+SA 23.8.2023
Mary Poppins, Adelaide Festival Theatre
Upside News 12.7.2023
ARETHA
ArtsHub 21.6.2023
Cabaret Festival Variety Gala
ArtsHub 14.6.2023
Adelaide Festival Centre 50th Gala
ArtsHub 6.6.2023
Rocky Horror Show
Upside News 30.4.2023
Broadway Diva
ArtsHub 23.2.2023
Hairspray
Upside News 1.1.2023
OzAsia – SNAP
ArtsHub 24.10.2022
Meow Meow’s Pandemonium
ArtsHub 22.6.2022
Cathedral
ArtsHub 16.5.2022
Archie Roach: Tell me why
ArtsHub 3.5.2022
Cabaret Festival Variety Gala
ArtsHub 28.3.2022
The Ajoona Guest House
ArtsHub 7.12.2021
Glengarry Glen Ross
ArtsHub 20.9.2021
Young Talent Time 50th Anniversary
ArtsHub 21.7.2021
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
ArtsHub 16.7.2021
Rockwiz Salutes Eurovision
ArtsHub 28.6.2021
Ripcord, STCSA
ArtsHub 4.12.2020
The Cowgirl and the Showgirl
ArtsHub 12.10.2020
Gaslight, STCSA
ArtsHub 11.9.2020
The House is Live
ArtsHub 12.6.2019
Sydney Dance Company’s ab [intra]
ArtsHub – 17.5.2018
Meow Meow’s Pandemonium
ArtsHub – 23.1.2018
Muriel’s Wedding The Musical
LONDON THEATRE & PERFORMANCE GUIDE 1.6.2017
Velvet
ArtsHub – 1.8.2017
The Judas Kiss
ArtsHub – 21.2.2017
The Magistrate
National Theatre, London
INDAILY - 30.1.2013
The Sound of Music
ArtsHub - 18.8.2016
South Pacific
INDAILY - 2.1.2014
Tan Dun: Martial Arts Trilogy and Fire & Water
INDAILY - 24.9.2012
Little Shop of Horrors
INDAILY - 6.9.2012
Steppin' Out with Ben Vereen
INDAILY - 25.6.2012
Kane Alexander
INDAILY - 21.6.2012
Cabaret Festival Variety Gala Performance
INDAILY - 12.6.2012
Cats - Now and Forever
INDEPENDENT WEEKLY - 8.1.2010
FILM REVIEWS
Greek Film Festival
ArtsHub – 16.10.2017
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets Live In Concert
ArtsHub – 6.10.2017
Handsome Devil
ArtsHub – 30.5.2017
Back to the Future
ArtsHub - 10.10.2016
The Intouchables
INDAILY - 24.10.2012
The Met: Live in HD
INDAILY - 24.10.2012
VISUAL ART
Sydney Contemporary Highlights
Sydney Arts Guide 14.9.2023
The Art of Banksy
Fifty+SA 28.8.2023
Sydney Contemporary Preview
Sydney Arts Guide 21.8.2023
Ramsay Art Prize
ArtsHub 29.5.2023
Andy Warhol and Photography
ArtsHub 7.3.2023
Salon des refuses 2021
ArtsHub - 19.10.2021
Surrealists at Sea
ArtsHub - 22.6.2021
Clarice Beckett, AGSA
ArtsHub - 1.3.2021
60th Good Design Awards
ArtsHub – 21.5.2018
Making Modernism
ArtsHub – 28.7.2017
Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives
ArtsHub – 12.12..2016
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