Artists from Victoria’s arts community have created a social media campaign called Performance of a Lifetime, overseen by the MSO, encouraging the public to play their part and get vaccinated.

We look at opera's love affair with wine, the Australian Chamber Orchestra's new project River, and Virginia Gay's emergence as a playwright. We also salute Paul Goodchild, doyen of Australian brass.

Actor Virginia Gay emerges from lockdown as a busy playwright.

Belvoir programs an eclectic festival, the company's first repertory season featuring plays by Caryl Churchill and Alana Valentine, and a new panto by Virginia Gay to end the year in ridiculous, joyous fashion.

Virginia Gay brings us a new gender-flipped Cyrano de Bergerac on a program with three new Australian works, two Australian premieres and the postponed As You Like It.

The Hayes is back on the boards with a genre-defying concert.

Michael Cassel, Benjamin Law, Trudy Dalgleish, Eddie Perfect, Simon Phillips and Ursula Yovich are among 11 industry leaders participating in the new arts mentorship program.

Currently based in LA, the irrepressible performer tells us about the concert, the special challenge of performing in online events like this, and how her "apoca-puppy" is helping her cope with COVID-19 isolation.

This week Jo Litson recommends the Belvoir online concert, Lin-Manuel Miranda's 14-minute musical 21 Chump Street, Gillian Anderson in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Black Swan's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.

A dozen leading ladies shine as Fanny Brice in this brilliant, semi-staged SSO concert.

With a Sydney Theatre Award for her star turn in Calamity Jane at the Hayes, now touring, the popular performer recalls being raised on classical music, before discovering Nirvana, musicals and “newgrass”.

Muriel’s Wedding takes home seven awards, followed closely by Hir and A View From the Bridge.