WASO’s Underground series, presented with Perth Festival, has become the orchestra’s laboratory for the wilfully eclectic.

A visually startling spectacle performed by dancers wearing eye-popping exoskeletons and prostheses.

An efficient, glass-walled descent into Kafka’s world of systems, stagnation and spiritual suffocation.

QSO Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici gathers his friends for a consummate chamber music program.

What does traditional Irish fiddle music gain from being played in a cathedral? Quite a lot, as it turns out. 

US vocal group Roomful of Teeth unlocks the extraordinary potential of the human voice in a vibrant, highly textured program.

Four world premieres at The Quarry balance visual invention, conceptual ambition and uneven dramatic payoff.

LACRIMA reminds us that behind every stitch lies a story and quiet sacrifices that history too often forgets.

Our readers gravitated to daring premieres, festival feats and revisited classics alike.

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As her play Lacrima comes to Australia, writer/director Caroline Guiela Nguyen talks about why she likes interweaving different narratives.