Sixty projects to share in more than $1 million in funding; State Opera South Australia and Opera Hong Kong to partner up for Hansel & Gretel.

The Ensemble's peppy production finds the pulse in the story of an unconsummated transatlantic love affair.

Upbeat but never sugarcoated, this new production of The Sapphires cements its place as an important work in the Australian canon.

A fine cast led by Alison Whyte is kept too busy with comedy to do justice to the tragedy of Tennessee Williams’s memory play.

A “pocket-sized” production that began its life in a backroom of an actual bookstore continues to delight theatregoers around the globe.

Fast closing in on its 30th birthday, Julie Taymor's spectacular staging of this 'Hamlet with fur' story still entrances adults and kids alike.

This theatre-meets-cabaret Cinderella villain origin story stops short of turning the stereotypical evil stepmother into a fully rounded character.

Maude Dromgoole’s play taps into matters Malthusian with the story of an eco-activist couple accidentally contributing to the world's population problem.

A period setting reminds us how modern, and how merciless, Chekhov can be.

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Obsessed with The Drover’s Wife as a child, Leah Purcell has adapted it as a play, novel and film. Then composer George Palmer asked if she would collaborate on an opera.