STC lifts the veil on the Mother of God
Alison Whyte makes Jesus' mother's sacred heart seem genuinely broken.
Stage
Air Play review: clown antics 'pure delight' with universal appeal
Charming, clever and joyful, these finely devised air sculptures and amusing antics live up to their promise of appealing to all ages.
Vowels take back seat as opera stars tackle King Roger
There are a lot of challenging consonants and a collosal head in Opera Australia's new production.
Theatre
Air Play review: clown antics 'pure delight' with universal appeal
Charming, clever and joyful, these finely devised air sculptures and amusing antics live up to their promise of appealing to all ages.
Sydney Festival review: Patricia Cornelius' unblinking study demands to be seen
This play about three underclass women hits like a slap in the face.
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."
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
Vowels take back seat as opera stars tackle King Roger
There are a lot of challenging consonants and a collosal head in Opera Australia's new production.
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.
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.