What do our theatre companies have on offer in the year ahead?

This new play by S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack is a soaring achievement, carried by an extraordinary international ensemble. There are joyous moments, but prepare to sob.

The exciting season includes a Sondheim musical, two new Indigenous plays among seven Australian stories, and an adaptation of a best-selling Australian novel.

A story and a production that distresses and discomforts, enrages and subdues. Prepare to ache and then reflect long afterwards.

Theatre and opera tickets can be very pricey, but there are all kinds of initiatives and deals offering cheaper tickets, if you're prepared to look for them.

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

Anna Dowsley fell asleep when she was taken to see her first opera but she still decided to train as a singer. Clive Paget talks to the Australian mezzo-soprano whose European career is taking off.

All the elements are there in Alana Valentine’s latest play, but Wayside Bride desperately needs further work to fulfil its promise.

The latest arts appointments and departures

Leah Purcell discusses her new film, which is based on Henry Lawson’s short story The Drover’s Wife, but told from the perspective of an Indigenous woman in a radical, important reimagining.

This stage adaptation of Cassavetes' film is skilfully reimagined, but lacklustre performances counteract the building tension.

The former television executive and leading arts philanthropist has died in a boating accident, aged 77.