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.

Our specialist writers analyse the arts on offer across the year.

What have our theatre companies programmed this year?

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.”

In 2021, not only did William Barton receive the Australia Council's Don Banks Music Award, but also saw the premiere of several works that feel as if they point towards an important new direction for his creative practice.

Finding the "revolting stench": Marta Dusseldorp and Essie Davis co-star in the Tasmanian premiere of Genet's macabre play The Maids.

Van Badham's adaptation of George Orwell's classic for Black Swan State Theatre Company sets Boxer and Napoleon in the world of Trump and QAnon.

The pandemic has accelerated the move online, but is it financially viable?

By casting Albee's classic cross-racially, and using Australian accents, Margaret Harvey aims to reveal race-power relations in her production for State Theatre Company South Australia.