'Tis Pity review: The strumpets shall sound
The energetic and impassioned Richard Mills, artistic director of Victorian Opera, knows no bounds.
Stage
A Strategic Plan hits all the KPIs at Griffin
Ross Mueller delivers a piercingly funny satire on the state of the arts.
South Park creators' musical is an un-PC delight
The Book of Mormon is the hottest ticket in town with good reason.
Theatre
A Strategic Plan hits all the KPIs at Griffin
Ross Mueller delivers a piercingly funny satire on the state of the arts.
The Book of Mormon: Trey Parker and Matt Stone shun Trump as musical opens in Australia
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are sick of Donald Trump. They have bigger fish to fry.
Time-bending Amazon adventure The Encounter a theatrical and technical triumph
An hallucinatory, tech-augmented tour de force, The Encounter is an extraordinary feat of theatrical storytelling unlike anything you will have experienced before.
Dance
Idiot's guide to Melbourne's big new arts festival, Asia TOPA
This big new triennial goes for months, so let us help you find the best must-see events from the program.
Institute review: brilliant movers provide both laughs and gasps
A must-see festival show steeped in nightmarish situations.
Blood On The Dance Floor aims to change minds about HIV
A blood-red video underscores a passionate show.
Musicals
What it's like to see The Book of Mormon as a lapsed Mormon
The Book of Mormon's stereotypes of everyday members and missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are spot on.
The Book of Mormon: Trey Parker and Matt Stone shun Trump as musical opens in Australia
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are sick of Donald Trump. They have bigger fish to fry.
Cabaret served fully cooked and maybe a little overdone
Snappy, vividly performed and technically watertight, but emotion and spontaneity seem to have been boiled off during the making of this Cabaret.
Opera
'Tis Pity review: The strumpets shall sound
The energetic and impassioned Richard Mills, artistic director of Victorian Opera, knows no bounds.
La Traviata's enduring power to seduce, inspire and move
This was Opera Australia's 200th performance of a work that never seems to tire.
Opera Australia's La Traviata is perfect celebration of work's power to move, inspire
Opera Australia's 200th performance of La Traviata never seems to tire.
Comedy
Sydney Festival: Otto and Astrid channel Eurovision in their new tent show
Next time Australia enters the Eurovision Song Contest, we might do worse than to send Astrid and Otto Rot, aka brother-sister punk-pop duo Die Roten Punkte.
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!"