Tim Minchin's Roald Dahl smash-hit earns 13 nods, but Sydney companies lose out this year.

How Chinese superstar pianist Lang Lang learned to deliver substance as well as style.

Following the global success of Matilda, the Australian comedian’s next show will tour to New York after its London premiere.

Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly’s wonderful adaption of Dahl’s magical story lives up to the hype. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The Australian comedian’s song, which refers to child abuses cases in the Catholic Church, has gone viral online.

Tim Minchin’s Roald Dahl inspired smash-hit will open at Melbourne’s Princess in March.

In defence of artists. You know those mornings after the night before when you wake up with a warm glow? God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world – and then someone dumps in your cornflakes. That happened to me today. Last night I sat through a couple of hours of unalloyed pleasure. Tim Minchin’s award-winning musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda has landed in Sydney, and the opening night crowd were treated to a cast of hard-working, multi skilled artists (some of them giving every appearance of being shy of ten years-old and quite a few under four feet tall). My face has only just recovered from the effort of maintaining a permanent grin for such a stretch. And then I checked the Daily Telegraph… It turns out that Sydney Theatre Company and Sydney Dance Company are losing their parking spaces on The Wharf down at Walsh Bay. Hold the front page I hear you say! Why I should let myself be annoyed by a total non-story I don’t know, but it isn’t what it says, it’s the way that it says it. In a ridiculously over-sensationalised account, Miles Godfrey (apparently a State Political Reporter, for God’s sake) writes how…

Roald Dahl’s story of a child hero is revamped for stage in a multi-award winning musical phenomenon.

Australian comedian begins work on a musical adaptation of Bill Murray’s iconic film Groundhog Day. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Witty words and postmodern pastiche fuse in Sydney Theatre Company’s latest existential offering. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Tim Minchin on his sold-out Comedy Proms: converting audiences one joke at a time.

The Australian pianist/comedian talks to Limelight about his upcoming national tour.