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Lucy Maunder’s career has been going gangbusters, but she's long dreamed of playing would-be vaudevillian Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago.
Deborah Jones is a writer specialising in dance. A former long-serving Arts Editor of The Australian, she is currently the newspaper’s national dance critic and also reviews musical theatre and theatre. She is the Sydney correspondent for London-based Opera magazine and Vancouver-based Dance International.
Lucy Maunder’s career has been going gangbusters, but she's long dreamed of playing would-be vaudevillian Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago.
A Frederick Ashton double bill celebrates the British choreographer’s distinctive style and glamour.
Students from NIDA and the Sydney Conservatorium are staging Elena Kats-Chernin’s jazzy reimagining of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea.
The program includes a new ballet by Christopher Wheeldon about Oscar Wilde, exclusive to TAB, a new Stephanie Lake work and the return of some favourites.
Despite some clever, very funny moments, the new Australian musical about the country’s biggest political crisis doesn’t quite hit the mark.
Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall's musical Bananaland opens at Brisbane Festival. They say write what you know, so that's what they did.
The stars were out for Opera Australia’s concert version of Ponchielli’s one and only hit opera with Jonas Kaufmann's artistry front and centre.
Jessica Pratt and Iván Ayón Rivas head a superb cast in Damiano Michieletto’s thrilling production of Offenbach’s last, greatest opera.
Inspired by a moving true story, a new opera illuminates different aspects of the never-ending human narrative of injustice, inequality and loss.
The stars come out for a night of popular music that sends its audience out on a high.
The big finish to Wagner's monumental Ring cycle is musically and dramatically strong, engaging and a feather in Melbourne Opera's cap.
The problem child third opera in Wagner’s Ring tetralogy, Siegfried is dominated by male voices but women save the day.
Melbourne Opera’s Ring cycle hits its stride with an energising second instalment of Wagner’s tetralogy.