Midsumma's A Night At The Musicals a fun and frivolous drag cabaret
Lack of pants notwithstanding, there's something very seat-of-the-pants about the show tunes shtick that (just barely) holds this show together.
Stage
Irish author tells Sydney Theatre Company to 'look after your actress'
Author Colm Toibin has words of advice for the Sydney Theatre Company: "You need to look after your actress."
Ditzy role turns bimbo stereotype on its head
Ditzy blonde girl meets worldly, intelligent man who takes her under his wing as a student. She emerges from his tutelage clever and confident.
Theatre
Irish author tells Sydney Theatre Company to 'look after your actress'
Author Colm Toibin has words of advice for the Sydney Theatre Company: "You need to look after your actress."
A story with food, but where's the meat?
Camel proves a turn-off in this celebration of Middle Eastern food and storytelling
Warm tribute to Indigenous family life
Muttonbird harvesting is a family affair for the Duncans, but this year more so than usual.
Dance
Sydney Festival review: Inheritor Album
The six dancers of Canada's Company 605 attack their action-packed material with enormous energy and impressive agility.
Townsville meets Tokyo in dance collaboration
Spectra, a Japanese-Australian collaboration between Dancenorth and the butoh collective Batik, pursues a theme of interconnectedness.
Human bodies in graceful action
Was it the dancers? The paintings and sculpture? The music? The audience? The gallery ambience? The nudity that got us there in the first place?
Musicals
Salonga on song for Australian tour
The voice behind hit song A Whole New World from Disney's Aladdin returns to Australia in February.
Fans queue for blocks to get first show tickets for The Book of Mormon
Fans have queued around the block to get their hands on $20 tickets to the first preview of The Book of Mormon.
Book of Mormon announces $20 preview tickets for one night only
Producers of smash-hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon have added a special, super-cheap preview show on January 17.
Opera
Powerful operatic double act blurs boundaries with dramatic force
Opera Australia's latest production reimagines an onstage play as a nightmare.
Richard Divall, renowned conductor and composer, dies aged 71
Awarded opera aficionado dies in Melbourne after battle with cancer.
Brisbane Baroque saga closes with creditors still out of pocket
The company behind the embattled Brisbane Baroque festival has been placed into voluntary liquidation bringing to an end a saga that has captivated the Australian arts landscape for months.
Comedy
Your guide to a fabulous time at Midsumma 2017
Melbourne's premier LGBTI festival celebrates its 30th year with a bang.
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.