Exiled co-founders of Belarus Free Theatre return to Australia to stage their play Generation Jeans — a look at the political power of jeans in Soviet-era Belarus, memories of Horsham's battle for a modern theatre vindicated by The Australian Ballet's return with Coppélia, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar set in a dystopia of populist leaders and fake news by director James Evans for Bell Shakespeare, and Sydney's theatre community wonder about the fate of the still shuttered Theatre Royal.

Exiled co-founders of Belarus Free Theatre return to Australia to stage their play Generation Jeans — a look at the political power of jeans in Soviet-era Belarus, memories of Horsham's battle for a modern theatre vindicated by The Australian Ballet's return with Coppélia, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar set in a dystopia of populist leaders and fake news by director James Evans for Bell Shakespeare, and Sydney's theatre community wonder about the fate of the still shuttered Theatre Royal.

In Claire Christian's new play Lysa and the Freeborn Dames, gay first-year uni student Lysa King wages war on her home town's entrenched misogyny, Lars Von Trier's brutal film Melancholia is adapted for the stage, directed by Matthew Lutton, regional singers join the stars of Opera Queensland in Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse, and passions smoulder and fists fly in the stage musical adaptation of John Waters' Cry-Baby.

In Claire Christian's new play Lysa and the Freeborn Dames, gay first-year uni student Lysa King wages war on her home town's entrenched misogyny, Lars Von Trier's brutal film Melancholia is adapted for the stage, directed by Matthew Lutton, regional singers join the stars of Opera Queensland in Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse, and passions smoulder and fists fly in the stage musical adaptation of John Waters' Cry-Baby.

The National Theatre production of Shakespeare's Macbeth starring Rory Kinnear now in Australian cinemas, Opera Australia present their first production with completely digital sets in Aida, Claire Nichols brings us the latest arts news, and Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland serves as the setting for Marcel Dorney's award-winning punk rock play Prehistoric.

The National Theatre production of Shakespeare's Macbeth starring Rory Kinnear now in Australian cinemas, Opera Australia present their first production with completely digital sets in Aida, Claire Nichols brings us the latest arts news, and Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland serves as the setting for Marcel Dorney's award-winning punk rock play Prehistoric.

The Victorian Opera presents William Tell 140 years after it was last performed in Australia, we take a look at the winners of "Act I" of this year's Helpmann Awards, Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator and original performer John Cameron Mitchell on the songs and stories of Hedwig, a digitised collection of stunning backdrops made for JC Williamson stage productions provides a window on the history of Australian theatre.

The Victorian Opera presents William Tell 140 years after it was last performed in Australia, we take a look at the winners of "Act I" of this year's Helpmann Awards, Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator and original performer John Cameron Mitchell on the songs and stories of Hedwig, a digitised collection of stunning backdrops made for JC Williamson stage productions provides a window on the history of Australian theatre.

WAAPA's Aboriginal Performance course for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders produces some of our most well-regarded Indigenous Australian actors, The Australian Dance Theatre production The Beginning of Nature, with a libretto in the Indigenous Kaurna language, is on tour, and inspired by Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem, The Hunting of the Snark combines comedy, musical theatre and puppetry.

WAAPA's Aboriginal Performance course for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders produces some of our most well-regarded Indigenous Australian actors, The Australian Dance Theatre production The Beginning of Nature, with a libretto in the Indigenous Kaurna language, is on tour, and inspired by Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem, The Hunting of the Snark combines comedy, musical theatre and puppetry.