The man taking extreme running (and dancing) around world
Is it art? Or sport? Tristan Meecham will run a marathon on a treadmill amid a dancing, drumming and boxing spectacular.
Stage
Brilliant Mulvany brings the crowd to its feet
It's all-eyes-on-me as one of our most admired performers takes to the stage as Shakespeare's Plantagenet bad boy.
Asian actors and stories shine on the main stage
Asian actors and stories take over the main stage in three cities.
Theatre
Chimerica review: Expansive play yearns for a screen
British playwright Lucy Kirkwood wonders aloud about who the famous Tankman was.
Brilliant Mulvany brings the crowd to its feet
It's all-eyes-on-me as one of our most admired performers takes to the stage as Shakespeare's Plantagenet bad boy.
Asian actors and stories shine on the main stage
Asian actors and stories take over the main stage in three cities.
Dance
Powerful intimacy renders gender irrelevant
 In Difference Lennox Theatre, Riverside, March 2 ★★★★
The man taking extreme running (and dancing) around world
Is it art? Or sport? Tristan Meecham will run a marathon on a treadmill amid a dancing, drumming and boxing spectacular.
Why you need to see … Melbourne Ballet Company
Sydney dance fans are about to see what Melbourne Ballet Company can do in Being and Time at Concourse Theatre.
Musicals
Ladies In Black review: Feminist fairytale a Cinderella story of the Australian stage
An effervescent blend of workplace soap, rom-com and coming-of-age story.
Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken's Newsies comes to Australia
It was a big hit on Broadway, but this musical treatment of the New York newsboys' strike of 1899 could be a tough sell over here.
Esther Hannaford lands Beautiful role in Carole King musical
Singer-songwriter Carole King will come to Australia for the opening of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical based on her life.
Opera
Mad king Saul flips out - literally
Saul, the biblical King of Israel, is descending into madness with King Lear-like fury over young David, who has slain Goliath.
Tosca review: Voices sear through wartime drama
Tosca. Opera Australia. Joan Sutherland Theatre. February17
'Tis Pity review: The strumpets shall sound
The energetic and impassioned Richard Mills, artistic director of Victorian Opera, knows no bounds.
Comedy
The Play That Goes Wrong review: slapstick and schadenfreude have audience rolling in the aisles
It's not quite as great as One Man, Two Guv'nors but is sure to tickle fans of British comedy nonetheless.
Comedy with the freshness sealed in
The consummate Tupperware hostess brings her riotous party to Mardi Gras.
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.