Powerhouse cast star in Wit at Fortyfivedownstairs
Margaret Edson's Wit is a harrowing passion play, charting the experience of an academic who finds her body under siege when she is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer.
Stage
Opera Australia and Sydney Opera House team up for world-first silent opera
Using the "silent disco" model, in which clubbers dance to music sent wirelessly to headphones, Sydney Opera House – The Opera: The Eighth Wonder will be performed on the Opera House steps with the sound relayed to the audience via headsets.
Which Way Home perfectly pitched between humour and pathos
This is a show that could easily make the transition to screen: some producer ought to take a look at it.
Theatre
Powerhouse cast star in Wit at Fortyfivedownstairs
Margaret Edson's Wit is a harrowing passion play, charting the experience of an academic who finds her body under siege when she is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer.
Which Way Home perfectly pitched between humour and pathos
This is a show that could easily make the transition to screen: some producer ought to take a look at it.
Gangster adaptation delivers an outpouring of satirical bile
George Banders is fabulously grotesque as Arturo Ui in his chilling emergence from buffoonery to tyrannical xenophobic speechifying.
Dance
Pilobolus's Shadowland at the Canberra Theatre: a dream-like adventure
This combination of projected images and front-of-screen choreography has been an international success.
Off the Record review: Movement makes way for spoken word in funny and thoughtful show
Off the Record is the first work by Force Majeure under its new artistic director, Danielle Micich, and it's interesting to note the similarities and differences.
Ballet dad among the six 2016 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award nominees
Jarryd Madden has been nominated for the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award for a second time; his wife Amy Harris won in 2012.
Musicals
The Production Company's Curtains a rollicking musical whodunit
A droll showbiz lampoon, full of killer one-liners and highly confected backstage farce, with an occasional moment of genuine poignancy thrown in.
My Fair Lady turns 60 with a new production
Tony Llewellyn-Jones and the rest of the cast are being directed by the original Eliza Doolittle, Dame Julie Andrews.
"Stop the show" – a rough landing for Aladdin's magic carpet
Stage managing a major theatre production is about solving problems before they happen, but what happens when a crash landing stops the show.
Opera
Opera Australia and Sydney Opera House team up for world-first silent opera
Using the "silent disco" model, in which clubbers dance to music sent wirelessly to headphones, Sydney Opera House – The Opera: The Eighth Wonder will be performed on the Opera House steps with the sound relayed to the audience via headsets.
The Marriage of Figaro at the Canberra Theatre is a delight
The plot is about as crazy as a plot can get, with much to say about love and marriage and gender and class in an 18th-century setting.
Fawlty Towers meets Downton Abbey with great music
Michael Gow's new translation of Mozart's comic opera will make it accessible to new audiences.
Comedy
Is this a golden age for Australian comedy?
Forget the Olympics. Our new national expertise is in taking the piss.
Three Australians in the running for the 'Oscars of comedy'
Three Australians are among the nominees for the distinguished Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
Trevor Noah delivers home truths in Brisbane
Daily Show host shines light on race issues.