Acclaimed Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius has been awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama, US playwright Clare Barron's Dance Nation follows a group of teens in the throes of adolescence finding their place in a hyper-sexualised and competitive world of dance, and we speak with playwright and performer Nakkiah Lui about her new satirical play at the Sydney Theatre Company — How to Rule the World.

Gideon Obarzanek guides us through the programs of Melbourne's biennial dance celebration Dance Massive and the new Sydney dance festival March Dance, and with three Carmen-inspired productions on Australian stages, we take a deep dive into Bizet's opera and the many ways the story continues to be told.

Gideon Obarzanek guides us through the programs of Melbourne's biennial dance celebration Dance Massive and the new Sydney dance festival March Dance, and with three Carmen-inspired productions on Australian stages, we take a deep dive into Bizet's opera and the many ways the story continues to be told.

From the heart of the Adelaide Festival — The Palais on the riverbank at Elder Park — we're joined live on stage by artistic directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield to meet some of the tremendous local and international talent in this year's program. Guests include choreographer Meryl Tankard, artistic director of Windmill Theatre Co. Rosemary Myers, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti from Dutch production Blaas, and Alfonso Barón, Luciano Rosso and Hermes Gaido — the team behind the Argentinian contemporary dance work Un Poyo Rojo.

From the heart of the Adelaide Festival — The Palais on the riverbank at Elder Park — we're joined live on stage by artistic directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield to meet some of the tremendous local and international talent in this year's program. Guests include choreographer Meryl Tankard, artistic director of Windmill Theatre Co. Rosemary Myers, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti from Dutch production Blaas, and Alfonso Barón, Luciano Rosso and Hermes Gaido — the team behind the Argentinian contemporary dance work Un Poyo Rojo.

As a bonus for podcast listeners, we speak with playwright and performer Nakkiah Lui about her new satirical play at the Sydney Theatre Company: How to Rule the World. The play is about three Australian political aspirants — an Aboriginal (Lui), an Asian (Michelle Lim Davidson) and an Islander (Anthony Taufa) — who realise they need a white political puppet to change the system from within. Nakkiah, Michelle and Anthony join us.

As a bonus for podcast listeners, we speak with playwright and performer Nakkiah Lui about her new satirical play at the Sydney Theatre Company: How to Rule the World. The play is about three Australian political aspirants — an Aboriginal (Lui), an Asian (Michelle Lim Davidson) and an Islander (Anthony Taufa) — who realise they need a white political puppet to change the system from within. Nakkiah, Michelle and Anthony join us.

Director John Tiffany and cast members talk Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — the theatrical phenomenon that has just opened in Melbourne's Princess Theatre, Lano and Woodley's Fly is their first show as a duo in 12 years, and as the Perth Festival enters its final week, Humphrey Bower breaks down the hits and misses of this year's program — Wendy Martin's last at the helm.

Director John Tiffany and cast members talk Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — the theatrical phenomenon that has just opened in Melbourne's Princess Theatre, Lano and Woodley's Fly is their first show as a duo in 12 years, and as the Perth Festival enters its final week, Humphrey Bower breaks down the hits and misses of this year's program — Wendy Martin's last at the helm.

Eddie Izzard on workshopping his new show Wunderbar in French and German, we tour The Australian Ballet Centre's pointe shoe room with dancer Jade Wood and artistic coordinator Robyn Begg, we follow a post-apocalyptic theatre troupe who perform their hazy memories of The Simpsons in Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play, and Bangarra dancer Beau Dean Riley Smith tells us what's on his Top Shelf.