Melbourne Comedy Festival 2017 review: Damien Power takes stand-up to next level in Utopia - Now in 3D!
The Queenslander fuses comedy with philosophy to powerful effect.
Stage
Melbourne Comedy Festival 2017 review: Tom Walker's Bee BoMelbourne Comedy Festival 2017 review: Tom Walker's absurdly silly show Bee Boo has audience in stitcheso
Is it possible for a show to be one of the best things you've seen at the festival, and one of the worst, at the same time? ★★★★
Denise and Judith take a trip down menopause lane
Denise Scott and Judith Lucy have been entertaining Melbourne since they were fertile.
Theatre
Shane Warne's tell-all stage show Warney Uncut postponed
Shane Warne's tell-all stage show Warney Uncut has been postponed until further notice.
A tale for our times - and live streamed to boot
From Brexit to Trump and Putin to populism, the best productions can give audiences a prism through which to view a disturbing world.
Capital Life April 15 2017
What's on in the Canberra arts scene
Dance
Dancers' athleticism displayed but Faster lacks variety
In the Australian Ballet's latest triple bill, Faster, diversity is missing.
Toned and terrific: Ballet gets a sporty makeover
''Faster'' is a modern ballet that plays out like an MGM musical with a Hitchcockian soundtrack.
Young dancers throw themselves into adaptation of dystopian tale
Movement is an ideal way to illustrate the development of these characters, whose moments of introspection are most effectively conveyed.
Musicals
Dream genie: The joy of Michael J Scott
Hard-working star talks about growing up black in the US, Southern American food and playing Aladdin.
Epic musical Les Miserables is on at the Q in an intimate production
The classic musical returns in a new production by Free-Rain that seeks to emphasise the emotions of the story based on Victor Hugo's novel.
Eddie Perfect heading to Broadway with Beetlejuice musical
After the success of Tim Minchin's hit musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day, another Australian is heading to Broadway.
Opera
The Princess and the Pea review: Fast, furious, farcical and musically rewarding
Austrian-born Ernst Toch's 1927 opera, in the hands of Victorian Opera, updates Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale to the digital age.
Shipshape rendition of Gilbert & Sullivan classic
Melbourne Opera delivers a fine production of HMS Pinafore but it's almost too energetic for its own good.
Sex, jealousy, murder: Opera's feistiest females
As Opera Australia bumps in its spectacular restaging of Carmen outdoors on Sydney Harbour, we look at the feistiest women in the repertoire.
Comedy
Melbourne Comedy Festival 2017 review: Damien Power takes stand-up to next level in Utopia - Now in 3D!
The Queenslander fuses comedy with philosophy to powerful effect.
Melbourne Comedy Festival 2017 review: Tom Walker's Bee BoMelbourne Comedy Festival 2017 review: Tom Walker's absurdly silly show Bee Boo has audience in stitcheso
Is it possible for a show to be one of the best things you've seen at the festival, and one of the worst, at the same time? ★★★★
Denise and Judith take a trip down menopause lane
Denise Scott and Judith Lucy have been entertaining Melbourne since they were fertile.