Madeleine Easton cherry-picks choice selections in an engaging exploration of the incomparable composer's brilliance.

A will-they-won't-they storyline traces a childhood crush as it morphs into toxic co-dependency.

A Life in Notes is Patti LuPone unplugged and intimate, still pushing the envelope and taking risks.

Beauty and precision as expected, along with heart and humour. But the novelty songs left our reviewer cold.

Lucia Mastrantone gives a formidable performance as the demanding, caustic diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's entertaining play.

Australian String Quartet delivers a near-perfect concert, a balance of clarity, rhetorical urgency and sensuousness of tone.

Brilliant cello star Nicolas Altstaedt and the ACO take us to Esterhazy, Transylvania and beyond.

A stellar showcase of charisma and coordination from the MSO led by visiting conductor Anja Bihlmaier.

A stunning exploration of the impressionistic potential of the piano, in an immersive visual environment.

Watershed, though not strictly an opera, is everything contemporary opera should be and so rarely is.

The 1996 Broadway revival is as slick and sexy as ever, though aspects of the latest Australian production could be tougher.

Stolen is a critical part of Australia’s theatre canon, one that does not pander or provoke, but simply tells a collective truth.