Read our features on religion, music and immortality, a Brazilian opera festival where everything is free, adapting literature for the theatre, as well as an extract from Alex Ross’s new book Wagnerism.

The company will present the inaugural Maali Festival, which was to have taken place in 2020, as well as Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, an adaptation of Animal Farm by Van Badham, and an audience-choice Shakespeare.

Productions include the return of Fangirls and A Room of One's own, three new Australian plays, and The Cherry Orchard.

New AD Alan Cumming presents a taster of his full line-up (to be announced next March), with his own new cabaret show closing the festival.

Jason Arrow has landed the title role of Alexander Hamilton, with local performers from diverse backgrounds playing the vast majority of roles.

An acerbic two-hander interrogating class, privilege, and power in art and storytelling.

This farce, set over Christmas lunch, is written with an unusual twist, but the humour largely fails to land.

The company brings back Hamlet, forced to close this year after a week and a half, John Bell reflects on a life with Shakespeare and Peter Evans directs A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Belvoir has announced the Yuin actor, writer and theatre-maker as its 2020 Balnaves Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow.

The eight plays include the highly anticipated adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe, The Taming of the Shrew directed by Damien Ryan, and Sheridan Harbridge reprising her stunning turn in Prima Facie.

The season so far features a new adaptation of Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow, the Australian premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, and the musical Fun Home, originally scheduled for 2020.

Kodie Bedford’s raucously funny debut play gives us a big-hearted story that sings true.