Arts Centre Melbourne reopens the Ian Potter State Theatre this month. It’s just one of a number of new and revitalised venues around the country.

After working at Opera Australia for 19 years before becoming Director of Canberra Theatre Centre in 2019, Budd returned to OA as CEO in 2025. He believes music is a vital part of life.

Laura Hansford talks about her new production of Bizet’s Carmen for State Opera South Australia, in which Don José is seen to fail as a human being rather than its heroine.

Making her recital debut in Australia next month, the UK pianist says she relishes the sense of freedom that playing solo can bring.

For Alexander Gavrylyuk and Richard Tognetti, duo playing means listening, responding and surrendering to possibility.

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Victorian Opera takes us inside its new adaptation of Helen Garner’s award-winning novel The Spare Room.

Actor Helen Thomson has spent a lifetime perfecting difficult women. Her role in Sydney Theatre Company's The Unfriend maybe her most perfectly difficult yet.

The latest arts appointments and departures.

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

Australian stage legends prepare to re-enact Robert Falcon Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition in Patricia's Cornelius's powerful drama about the dying of the light.

As her international career goes from strength to strength, Suzie Miller talks about her latest play, Strong is the New Pretty, about the formation of the AFL’s women’s league.