You might think that the Albanese government would offer less meat for the Wharf Revue team to sink its teeth into, but this latest iteration is among its sharpest and funniest.

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

This latest iteration never rose above the moderately amusing, though many fans in the audience clearly enjoyed every minute.

Features this month include summer reads for music lovers, the Limelight Artists of the Year for 2021, the transformation Simone Young will bring to the SSO, and Henry Handel Richardson's love of music and her treasure trove of songs.

Peter Tregear discusses the rise of identity politics and argues that if we wish to defend our orchestral culture, we cannot avoid questions of musical value.

Australians deserve to hear a great deal more music by First Nations peoples, women, gender non-conforming people, composers of colour, and our male contemporaries argues Felicity Wilcox.

Australians deserve to hear a great deal more music by First Nations peoples, women, gender non-conforming people, composers of colour, and our male contemporaries argues Felicity Wilcox.

The final Wharf Revue under the STC banner is a night of frivolity and fast costume changes, where all that is puffed up in politics is satisfyingly pricked.

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The new-look Limelight magazine includes major features written by Mahima Macchione, Jane Albert, Carole M. Cusack and Alex Ross.

Read our features on religion, music and immortality, a Brazilian opera festival where everything is free, adapting literature for the theatre, as well as an extract from Alex Ross’s new book Wagnerism.

There's some fabulously funny satire in this flashier than usual production, though not everything fires.