A thrilling, tantalising theatrical adventure through an Elsinore very different to Shakespeare’s.

Melbourne’s annual awards ceremony for the performing arts takes stock of 2019’s best and brightest.

Christos Tsiolkas' Loaded, a transcript of an FBI interrogation performed verbatim, and a reimagining of Macbeth by Scott Shepherd are among the highlights.

Zahra Newman single-handedly conjures a powerful tale of masculine self-destruction in the outback.

Matthew Lutton directs the first professional staging of the epic play in two decades.

A seemingly humble two-hander from America takes on the world, teasing, prodding and ultimately assaulting audiences’ unease about race.

Other big contenders include La Boite’s Prize Fighter and Queensland Theatre, debase productions and JUTE Theatre Company’s The Longest Minute.

Cloudstreet is the centrepiece in a 2019 season steeped in horror, Malthouse AD Matthew Lutton explains.

Queensland Theatre and Malthouse Theatre bring Osamah Sami’s absurd and affectionate memoir to Brisbane audiences.

A director, writer and actor, she has previously worked with Malthouse in her capacity as an actor.

This adaptation of Peter Carey’s novel is an uneven, sometimes laborious tragi-comic exploration of an adman’s existential crisis.

The ever-fabulous mezzo gives us a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Black Rider for Victorian Opera and Malthouse.