Deborah Cheetham has composed a new carol for ABC Classic, which Australians are invited to record together. Russell Torrance talks to Limelight about the project and how he can't hear the music without crying.

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.

OA is announcing its 2021 program in stages. This first season includes Ernani, Bluebeard's Castle, The Merry Widow and Tosca. Lyndon Terracini also addresses the company restructure and redundancies.

Rosie Dennis tells us about her first program for the Gold Coast festival, which she hopes will bring a sense of connection in a year that has kept people at a distance.

We speak to the Australian director who takes up his new position with the company this month.

Audiences returned to the Sydney Opera House on Sunday for a celebration of jazz icon Don Burrows. The Drama Theatre reopens this week with STC’s Rules for Living.

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.

The company will clear thousands of old costumes and props from retired productions in a sale at its Alexandria storehouse – which is itself up for grabs.

The exciting program features eight plays, including three world premieres and a modern classic, re-interrogated through an Australian First Nations lens.

The season includes seven plays, five of which are Australian and four of them world premieres, as well as three cabaret shows.