Elissa Blake is an Arts Writer.
After more than three decades with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, concertmaster Dene Olding, 59, is stepping down to focus on family life, other musical pursuits, and, surprisingingly, the Japanese martial art Aikido.
Going from Cleverman to Shakespeare isn't such a stetch for actors Rob Collins and Josh McConville, they say.
Nearly six months after the English director Jonathan Church made a shock departure from the artistic directorship of the Sydney Theatre Company his full-time replacement is yet to be announced.
Using the "silent disco" model, in which clubbers dance to music sent wirelessly to headphones, Sydney Opera House – The Opera: The Eighth Wonder will be performed on the Opera House steps with the sound relayed to the audience via headsets.
It's a fact that mainstream Sydney theatre audiences are far more likely to see depictions of 19th century Russian families and tales of Shakespearian royal courts than plays set in our own modern-day, multicultural suburbs.
Valesca Lehmann believes in the power of having a good time.
Opera Australia and the Australian Ballet have lashed out at the NSW state government for failing to provide any compensation for the arts companies being shut out of the Sydney Opera House while it undergoes renovations in 2017.
Television star Marta Dusseldorp is returning to the stage in a new Australian play offering her a role unlike anything she has done before.
In a bid to close the gender gap on stage and off, emerging writer-director Julia Patey, 23, and young actor Scarlett Waters, 13, have formed an unusual intergenerational alliance.
Watch out for that spoon.
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