Despite the energy of the cast and the inventive staging, this sung-through musical doesn’t entirely hit the heart.

This ingenious, double-plotted musical, with a stunning jazz score and hilarious book, is brought to vivid life at the Hayes.

Commissioned to write "something hard" for this year's Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, Lee Bradshaw delivers.

Disney's sumptuous, magical staging of "a tale as old as time" is a delight from start to finish.

Affinity Quartet is the only all-Australian outfit competing in this year's Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. Cellist Mee Na Lojewski gives us the low-down.

Linda Woolverton wrote Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and the book for the Broadway show. But she had to fight to make Belle strong, independent – and an avid reader.

With his first musical about to open at Melbourne Theatre Company, Tom Gleisner tells us how much he’s enjoyed the creative process.

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

Nicholas Buc has written the music for a new oratorio called Origins, which draws on science to tell the creation story.

The latest arts appointments and departures.

A round-up of our recent news reports.

Cheryl Barker and Peter Coleman-Wright are upping the ante at Pacific Opera, using pocket operas and oratorios to prepare the Young Artists for the profession.