High leaps? Expressive hands? A strong profile? What was choreographer John Neumeier looking for when he auditioned dancers to play one of the great icons of twentieth century culture, Vaslav Nijinsky?

Skirmishes between the sexes touch on the ambiguities of seduction and intimations of sexual violence.

Francesca Savige and Shaun Rennie have won this year's Sandra Bates Director Award, a prize offering mentoring and directing experience for emerging theatre directors at the Ensemble Theatre in Kirribilli.

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A Life In Theatre is a barbed tribute to the acting profession.

Theatre legend John Gaden still has "most of my faculties".

The play ventures into a labyrinth of menace, violence and casual misogyny.

There is plenty of sound and fury when Anti-Hamlet rubs up against Shakespeare's tragic hero.

Andrew Upton's modern swing on a classic farce is a breathless affair.

Playwright and actor Nakkiah Lui's new musical comedy takes the idea of cultural appropriation to the extreme.

In what will be seen as no great surprise to many in the Sydney theatre scene, the STC's interim artistic director Kip Williams has been appointed to the role.

"We never think what we are doing is complicated until other people tell us it's complicated," says director Simon Phillips of the theatre productions he has created with designer Gabriela Tylesova. "We always think it's quite simple."

Still gripped by the interminable circus that is the US presidential election campaign? Will you be hankering for more come early 2017? Then The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family is the show for you.

This stage adaptation of the sitcom captures its eccentric world with suitably broad and endearing performances from a cast led by Karyn Tisdell's warmth in the title role as Geraldine.

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The performers' unflailing energy and delightful sense of the absurd helped overcome elements of weakness.

Antigone is a not-to-be-missed production of unrelenting force.

Young adults find the conviction, anger or argument to care enough to protest or take action.

It won't be remembered as one of the company's best efforts, or even a stand-out among the tiny field of Othellos we've seen in Sydney in recent years.

Judy Davis' production of Faith Healer, one that seems to float among lowering clouds, convinces completely.

Solving the problem of racial diversity in Australian theatre is simple, but requires a little bit of succession planning.

Willy Russell's play is marvellous stuff, a well-warranted attack on inequities of gender and class and education done through the clash of two quirky individuals.

TBC Theatre's latest immersive play takes place in the heritage-listed Gate Lodge.

Many of us have experienced that excruciating moment when a parent decides it's time to sit you down and explain the, er, the birds and the bees … the facts of life … the what-goes-where.