British director Jo Davies to lead Opera Australia
Opera Australia’s new artistic director has not worked here before but her job is to make the national company more identifiably Australian.
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A production for inclusivity and possibility
How Moulin Rouge! The Musical forged new paths for its performers – real and fictional – and became a modern-day canvas for equity, freedom and love.
Tim Minchin’s life lessons
The Matilda composer opens up on his bruising early rejection and the perils of fame as Netflix’s highly-anticipated version of his stage musical is unveiled.
Star lovers cross: ‘It’s easier to dance since having our baby’
Pregnancy used to end a ballet dancer’s career. But Ako Kondo and husband Chengwu Guo are set to take to the stage as Romeo and Juliet with a whole new perspective.
Black swans land on reimagined classic
West Australian Ballet’s profoundly beautiful Swan Lake brings the story to the lands and waterways of the Noongar people.
Fire of vengeance to peaceful oblivion
Richard Roxburgh plays Prospero, but it is the formidable production talents behind the scenes that pull off this triumph.
Why Roxburgh has come back to the Bard
He was legendary as Hamlet, but it’s taken 28 years for Richard Roxburgh to return to Shakespeare’s magic. Here, he reveals the toll it takes.
Wenham is ready for his Bah! Humbug! moment
The actor says he’s the ‘perfect age’ to take on a gift of a role – that ‘grasping old sinner’ Scrooge.
After the downfall: Louis C.K.’s comedy revival
He once was described as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of comedy’, then the US performer met a swift comeuppance that excluded him from public life. Five years later, he’s back.
Poetic resistance to the pressures of conformity
Artist Erin O’Rourke has won the Telstra Emerging Choreographer award.
Bangarra’s next step
For the better part of three decades, Frances Rings has been a quiet but constant presence at Bangarra Dance Theatre. Now she’s taking over the acclaimed company. But what do we actually know about her?
Ukraine’s displaced dancers alight on Swan Lake
Less than a year ago, Ukrainian ballerinas Anastasiia and Iryna were already well on their way to establishing successful careers. But that was before the war.
A daring new Indigenous take on Swan Lake
A Noongar story, unspoken for more than a century, has provided the key to the first production of Swan Lake in the history of the West Australian Ballet.
Acting’s grande dame
Angela Lansbury, who became a household name through her role as a writer-detective in the hit TV show Murder, She Wrote, has died, aged 96.
‘When I read about her life … it was just like mine’
A few months ago Heather Mitchell was so frail, she struggled to stand up. Now, the cancer survivor is reprising her award-winning TV role and playing legendary US judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The passions at play behind Julia’s speech
Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has written a dramatised portrait of Australia’s first female prime minister in the lead-up to the misogyny speech.
Guest star mixes expertise with novelty
An international artist brings renown to her title role.
A restless Savage on a cerebral journey
The new work from the Australian Dance Theatre to highlight themes of incarceration, alienation, climate change and personal suffering.
Lend me your words: Bard’s collaborations
The ‘fingerprint’ of other authors has been found across William Shakespeare’s plays, an expert has said.
Star Turner
Geraldine Turner on her shocking new memoir, landing a plum role in The Mousetrap — and why applause is “like a drug”.
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