Dancers Ako Kondo and Chengwu Guo travelled great distances at a very young age to join The Australian Ballet. Here in Australia, they’ve risen to become award-winning artists and principals at the company — but they also found each other, beginning a fairy-tale romance and inspiring each other to new heights.

Also, Broadway's longest-running show The Phantom of the Opera will soon give up the ghost, and ahead of a new Australian production, we ask Agatha Christie biographer Laura Thompson why The Mousetrap — the longest-running play in London — endures.