On a failing farm in rural Australia in the 1930s, Alice learns to play the piano. Brilliantly. Well enough to be sent to England - away from the despairing anger of her father and the broken dreams of her mother. Away from everything she has ever known.

British author Sarah Perry on the five works that have influenced her.

The distributors of VAULT, a contemporary art magazine published in Melbourne, have been forced to cover up the painting of a nude woman on the cover of their latest issue.

RN's Claire Nichols take us to Edinburgh Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world, which this year is featuring more three thousand different shows.

In a struggle between the sacred and the profane, which will win? Melbourne Opera stage a huge production of Wagner's very sexy opera, Tannhäuser.

What is it about the Tudors that keeps so many historical novelists interested? A conversation with one of the leaders of the genre.

Visual art and classical music collide in The Painted Bach - where a new painting is created in response to Bach's cello suite No.5.

Victorian Opera and Circus Oz have joined forces for a new production of the operatic masterpiece Pagliacci called Laughter and Tears, which draws on opera's Commedia Dell’Arte roots.

Libyan writer Hisham Matar's new book is a powerful, unflinching account of his struggle to find out what happened to his father, who disappeared during the dictatorship of Colonel Gaddafi.

Winyanboga Yurringa, the new play by Andrea James, adds a contemporary episode to the classic production Women of the Sun.