The Avalanches review: Welcome return as band gears up for Coachella
A decade-long hiatus has come to an end with a tight live show.
Stage
Choose your own celebration: a guide to New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in Melbourne
Still not sure what to do with yourself this New Year's Eve? Want to avoid the CBD crush?
Comedian Celia Pacquola gets serious
Comedian Celia Pacquola's nudity clause? "No nipples and no side boob!"
Theatre
Shadow House Party at the Courtyard Studio presents theatre, music and dance
From a punk-rock take on Hamlet to a bathtub philosopher, this offers something different for the adventurous.
Kate O'Keeffe pays tribute to late brother Daniel in stage show show Losing You (Twice)
The sister of Daniel O'Keeffe, whose disappearance prompted a nationwide social media campaign, is staging a one-woman show about her sibling, whose death was confirmed in March.
Giant balloons and gobbledygooks: kids' holiday shows have come a long way
It starts small, with a feather blowing gently in the breeze. Before you know it, a storm is brewing; vast swathes of bright silk and household umbrellas cascade through the air.
Dance
The Australian Ballet's Storytime Ballet: The Nutcracker is coming
The production is aimed at introducing Tchaikovsky's classic to young children in a shortened version with a narrator.
Dance in review
Nakedness in dance can be beautiful but it doesn't improve the quality of the choreography.
Champions to show merits of teamwork, blending dance and sport
 Shifting patterns... Bodies moving in space to a grand plan... Tension building, then releasing...
Musicals
Giant balloons and gobbledygooks: kids' holiday shows have come a long way
It starts small, with a feather blowing gently in the breeze. Before you know it, a storm is brewing; vast swathes of bright silk and household umbrellas cascade through the air.
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.
Opera
Putting Ring on it tops magnificent year of opera
Any year with a Ring in it is bound to be worth celebrating. As it was with Opera Australia's revival of Neil Armfield​'s production of Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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.
Comedy
Comedian Celia Pacquola gets serious
Comedian Celia Pacquola's nudity clause? "No nipples and no side boob!"
Trump is the gift that keeps on giving to SNL
Saturday Night Live unsurprisingly concluded the year with a Christmas special featuring Alec Baldwin as his favourite blonde in office, only this time Vladimir Putin was included in the act.
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.