Students from NIDA and the Sydney Conservatorium are staging Elena Kats-Chernin’s jazzy reimagining of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea.

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

Doomed to be judged on criteria such as strategic value and return on investment, performing arts training in Australia is in crisis, argues Chris Hay.

Canberra-based institutions, the national broadcasters and arts training institutions among the winners in the 2023-24 federal budget.

Neurodiverse writer Ryan Enniss addresses preconceptions about autism in his new play Drizzle Boy.

A theatre teacher, director and a sometimes controversial critic, Kevin Jackson has died after a long illness.

Rahel Romahn plays Mozart in Amadeus, opposite Michael Sheen as his musical adversary, Salieri. He plans to pick Sheen’s brains, since the Welsh star portrayed Mozart in London in 1998 and then on Broadway.

A round-up of our recent news reports.

Announcing a new postgraduate program for 2023, Words, Text, Voices, Music, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music will halt its successful Composing Women program for the foreseeable future. 

John Clark delivers a forensic account of NIDA, from shed to world-class institution.

John Clark's new memoir analyses NIDA's profound impact on Australia's arts and culture. In this extract, he discusses the 1970 staging of The Legend of King O'Malley at Jane Street Theatre.

We chart the latest appointments and departures in the arts sector, among them Anne Dunn who joins Sydney Theatre Company and Carl Crossin who leaves Adelaide Chamber Singers.