The illustrator, composer and author talks about using his art and music to overcome his bipolar diagnosis.

Act 2 features Richard Roxburgh as Prospero in The Tempest, Meyne Wyatt’s City of Gold, and the premiere of five new plays by Australian playwrights.

Director Simon Phillips and actors David Campbell and Amber McMahon discuss the hugely successful stage adaptation of Hitchcock's spy thriller as it arrives in Sydney.

When Aaron Wyatt steps on stage tonight to conduct Deborah Cheetham's Long Time Living Here for the MSO, he will be the first Indigenous person to conduct one of Australia's state orchestras.

ABC presenter Joel Carnegie discusses his solo show Stardust about his jazz musician grandfather, which is touring with Tom Molyneux's performance about his Gunditjmara great-great-uncle.

Playwright and director of new Australian musical set in remote Western Australia talk about creating opportunities for WA artists, and the 1960s dream of equality unrealised all these years later.

Sydney Festival's Acoustic Life of Boatsheds is not just another concert but a real experience around Sydney Harbour that audiences will not forget.

When he was approached by Bob Dylan's people to pitch to use the singer-songwriter’s music to create a work, Irish playwright Conor McPherson knew it had to be set in Dylan's hometown during the Depression.

Rachael Osborne, who teaches Ohad Naharin's Gaga method, and Sydney Dance Company AD Rafael Bonachela discuss Decadance, which SDC will perform at Sydney Festival in January.

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Among the many tributes to Dalaithngu, director Baz Luhrman tweeted, "you made a vast contribution not only to Australian cinema, but global cinema, allowing us into your world, spirit & storytelling. There has never been anyone like you. There will never be anyone like you.”