Director Gary Abrahams and a talented cast give this well worn Puccini opera an early 20th century Melbourne refresh.

Some of the best if not-so-well-known local theatre talent deliver a minimalist production of Shakespeare’s tragedy to maximum effect.

Two talented singers delighted their audience, skipping along a path less travelled of art songs, opera and musicals.

Compelling performances and Benjamin Nichol’s scripts make this double bill of one-handers more than the sum of its parts.

In the centenary year of Puccini’s death, Victorian Opera offers his rarely performed late work, La rondine.

This Pulitzer-winning comedy about adults studying English in Iran explores identity, self-expression, alienation and belonging through language.

Notable female talent deliver a one-off, semi-staged performance of the contemporary opera based on Lars von Trier’s disturbing film.

Soprano Nicole Car makes a rare hometown appearance for this delicious banquet of operatic favourites.

This classic-with-a-twist interpretation of Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece mostly works, especially Nikki Shiels’s magnetic Blanche DuBois.

Shakespeare’s play is given a feminist shake-up, but this sometimes pedestrian, occasionally unclear take comes undone.

Emerging artists interpret numerous oddballs of history in this handsomely staged production of a forgotten mid-century gem.

Red Stitch’s first mainstage production transfer sees Kat Stewart playing unfair games of love and war in Edward Albee’s classic.