You can't help but surrender to this transcendently titillating, bawdy and big-hearted celebration of the sexual and the sensual.

John Wardle from the Live Music Office laments the recent closures of three high-profile venues in NSW, and looks at how we can make nightlife vibrant after COVID.

Experienced executive Viv Rosman takes over the role from longstanding ED and company founder Glenn Terry.

Playwright and director of new Australian musical set in remote Western Australia talk about creating opportunities for WA artists, and the 1960s dream of equality unrealised all these years later.

44 productions have been nominated across 28 categories, after two extraordinarily challenging years for the industry.

When he was approached by Bob Dylan's people to pitch to use the singer-songwriter’s music to create a work, Irish playwright Conor McPherson knew it had to be set in Dylan's hometown during the Depression.

Christopher Wheeldon uses Gershwin’s fascinating rhythms to reunite ballet and Broadway.

The versatile entertainer is thrilled to be in Jagged Little Pill – a show that she says “feels like a sign of the times” as Rent was when she made her musical theatre debut in 1998.

Low on laughs, this intentionally farcical musical-meets-cabaret is lost at sea.

This recital, which extended beyond opera and lieder to include musical theatre and Australian standards, was rapturously received.

198 recipients will share in $9.37 million in funding, which the NSW government claims will "deliver record arts and cultural activity across NSW".

Olivia Ansell's first Sydney Festival includes stunning installations, music in boatsheds and at The Cutaway in Bangaraoo, musicals, outdoor theatre, a strong dance component and more.