Creature feature
An inventive puppeteer plays in the shadows.
Stage
Bored ballerinas with patchy technique let down a standout soloist
Irina Kolesnikova is outstanding in the lead roles. It's a shame the supporting cast wasn't up to scratch.
Why you need to see ...
Katie Beckett has a dream, and the talented actor and writer is well on the way to making it a reality.
Theatre
Cold Light: Bringing 1950s Canberra to life on the stage
Cold Light, the epic novel by Frank Moorhouse, will finally reach the stage next year in Canberra, its rightful setting.
CAT nominations announced as awards ceremony moves to Dubbo for 2017
The Canberra Area Theatre Awards nominations for plays, musicals and dance have been accompanied by the news that next year the awards night will, for the first time, be held out of Canberra.
Important exploration of queer experience lacks refinement
This piece of verbatim theatre gives much-needed airtime to some of the less prominent letters in 'LGBTIQ'.
Dance
Bored ballerinas with patchy technique let down a standout soloist
Irina Kolesnikova is outstanding in the lead roles. It's a shame the supporting cast wasn't up to scratch.
Price shines at Genee International Ballet Competition
The audience buzz after 16-year-old Joshua Price completed his solo from Le Corsaire told you instantly who was going to get the audience choice award.
Future gleams from darkness
PPY16 – Revealed
Musicals
Intimate two-hander with a chronological twist
Jason Robert Brown's chamber musical is an intimate two-hander with a chronological twist.
Action!: Music, dance, comedy at the Q
From a new musical about Australia's first female prime minister to a three-person adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, there's plenty on offer in next year's season at the Q.
Adaptation of cult parody Reefer Madness leaves audience on a high
The 1930s anti-drug propaganda film became a cult classic for all the wrong reasons. It translates well to the stage.
Opera
Seraphic beauty would make choirs of angels sing with joy
It is difficult to know what to commend most strongly.
Final instalment of Wagner's Ring ends in blaze of glory
It was hard to imagine things could step up any further but this last and longest of the Ring operas was also the most majestic.
Stefan Vinke astounds in third Wagner instalment
That anyone can sing Siegfried, the title role in Wagner's third Ring opera, is surprising, so challenging is the role. That anyone can sing it like Stefan Vinke is astounding.
Comedy
Amy Schumer cancels tour
Comedian Amy Schumer has cancelled her Australian stand-up tour just five days before she was due to perform in Perth.
Comedian, idiot, hoof prancer
Sam Simmons and his fight against beige is our hottest comedy export.
Stand-up comedy career adds up
Dilruk Jayasinha left the heady heights of accountancy for sweaty live comedy.