More artists and performers are withdrawing from Sydney Festival as part of a boycott protesting the festival receiving funding from the Israeli embassy.

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

What have our theatre companies programmed this year?

Kamilaroi playwright Thomas Weatherall will receive the $25,000 residency to create a new piece for Belvoir.

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

Virginia Gay and Richard Carroll discuss the joys and oddities of pantomime and staging a new play that celebrates panto traditions.

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

The 2022 Belvoir season includes six new works including stage adaptations of Looking for Albrandi and Opening Night, and the new play from the team behind the award-winning Counting and Cracking.

The stimulus package will provide much-needed support for performing arts organisations who have lost income as a result of Sydney's current COVID lockdown.

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.

Despite making redundancies last year, Opera Australia has posted a sizeable deficit. "It doesn't look pretty," says CEO Rory Jeffes, but he believes OA is now better placed to deal with further disruptions.