Stage
Comedy
Sandman, aka Steve Abbott, is back with new show at the Street Theatre
SALLY PRYOR He was a fixture on breakfast radio and evening television throughout the late '90s. But whatever happened to the Sandman?
Dame Edna skewers Waleed Aly, talks up Malcolm Turnbull on The Project
LINDA MORRIS Waleed Aly operates as The Project's political conscience but he became Dame Edna's fall guy when the comedian visited the panel Thursday night and virtually took over.
Hannah Gadsby: Dogs, ditching woe and the paradox of Taylor Swift
LENNY ANN LOW Hannah Gadsby and Taylor Swift collaborate on a comedy pop-tacular
Axis of Awesome's Jordan Raskopoulos on how audiences have reacted to her transition
ELISSA BLAKE Chemistry is everything in a three-man comedy act. Meddle with it at your peril. But what happens when you change the hormone balance?
Sydney Comedy Festival 2016: Language no barrier for Korean comedy troupe the Ongals
ANDREW TAYLOR Korean comedy troupe the Ongals transcend language barriers with their brand of physical humour.
Dance
CounterMove combines Cacti and Lux Tenebris by Sydney Dance Company
RON CERABONA A double bill from Sydney Dance Company combines the comic and the dramatic.
Arts funding shock: Malcolm Turnbull has 'seriously let down the arts community'
ANDREW TAYLOR UPDATED The casualty list of defunded arts companies is growing, with Force Majeure, Legs on the Wall and Ausdance among victims in the latest round of Australia Council funding.
From twerk to tango, the Inaugural Annual Dance Affair gets everybody moving
John Bailey The Inaugural Annual Dance Affair brings together Italian seniors who gather to dance monthly, pint-sized ballerinas and veteran hoofers, twerkers and tango stars.
Keir Choreographic Award review: Ghenoa Gela wins a puzzling prize
Jill Sykes It's a thoughtful and imaginative work but a question has to be asked: why isn't a choreographry award about choreographry?
From Coyote Ugly to the UK's Got to Dance, Adam Garcia takes a Gene Kelly turn
LAWRENCE MONEY He's in the public gaze since the age of 10, and after 22 years abroad, the dancing sensation is still turning heads.
Musicals
Little Shop of Horrors at the Canberra Theatre is a monster musical
RON CERABONA 11:45pm A plant with a taste for human blood is an unlikely subject for a musical.
Catch Me If You Can is a musical about former conman Frank Abagnale
RON CERABONA 11:45pm Frank Abagnale's life as a youthful con artist seemed an unlikely subject for song and dance.
The Sound of Music opens in Melbourne with special guest Nicholas 'Friedrich' Hammond
ANNABEL ROSS There are nuns in habits, children in lederhosen and stars Cameron Daddo and Marina Prior, but at the media call for The Sound of Music at the Regent Theatre, one man manages to outshine them all.
Tony-nominated musical Xanadu at the Hayes Theatre in Potts Point
ELISSA BLAKE No matter how good you are as a dancer, roller skates are a whole new challenge.
Adam Garcia comes home to play the lead in Singin' in the Rain
ANNABEL ROSS Forget your glad rags – this Saturday night, those in the front rows at Singin' in the Rain will be needing another, less stylish accoutrement - a raincoat.
Opera
Why the Google Cultural Institute is a friend not foe of the Sydney Opera House
ANDREW TAYLOR The Sydney Opera House is the latest cultural institution to move into Google's online world.
Verdi rarity Luisa Miller headlines Opera Australia's Melbourne autumn season
Michael Shmith Opera Australia's Melbourne autumn season features three operas.
Jessica Pratt returns to Lucia di Lammermoor in Victorian Opera debut
John Bailey Despite starring in more than 20 productions of the opera, Jessica Pratt has yet to perform the role in Australia, so her local debut in Victorian Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor is much anticipated.
Meet the Megadeth, battleaxe-loving star of Turandot on Sydney Harbour
ELISSA BLAKE From being an axe-wielding extra in Gangs of New York to singing one of opera's most famous arias, Nessum Dorma, on Sydney Harbour, tenor Riccardo Massi takes it all in his very long stride.
Singer Greta Bradman will perform in Canberra on her My Hero tour
RON CERABONA Greta Bradman will perform in Canberra as part of her 'My Hero' concert tour.
Theatre
Hit comedy show Bad Jews coming to Seymour Centre for Sydney debut
ELISSA BLAKE The broad appeal of aspiring American playwright Joshua Harmon's script has brought worldwide success and now the comedy Bad Jews is heading to Sydney after a run in Melbourne.
Mario tells the story of singer Mario Lanza at the Courtyard Studio
RON CERABONA Blake Bowden plays one of the great tenors in Mario.
