The Stage Show

We dive into Bizet's opera Carmen and the many ways the story continues to be told, we celebrate Uncle Jack Charles' Red Ochre Award win, and we meet the writers of Come from Away — a musical about the surprising impact of 9/11 on a remote Canadian town.

We dive into Bizet's opera Carmen and the many ways the story continues to be told, we celebrate Uncle Jack Charles' Red Ochre Award win, and we meet the writers of Come from Away — a musical about the surprising impact of 9/11 on a remote Canadian town.

Black Cockatoo tells the story of Australia's first Indigenous sports star, cricketer Johnny Mullagh, we ask Australian creatives and performers to reflect on the last ten years of performing arts, Bernadette Robinson returns to Australia with Songs for Nobodies, and we share some seasonal cheer with Michael Cormick, Johanna Allen and the cast of Christmas Actually.

Black Cockatoo tells the story of Australia's first Indigenous sports star, cricketer Johnny Mullagh, we ask Australian creatives and performers to reflect on the last ten years of performing arts, Bernadette Robinson returns to Australia with Songs for Nobodies, and we share some seasonal cheer with Michael Cormick, Johanna Allen and the cast of Christmas Actually.

Romantic comedy Black Ties, directed by Rachael Maza and Tainui Tukiwaho, brings together Australia's Ilbijerri and New Zealand's Te Rēhia, our theatre critics highlight the best shows of the decade and their top picks for 2020, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus turns 40, we farewell British theatre director, actor and writer Jonathan Miller, and Kim Carpenter shares his Top Shelf.

Romantic comedy Black Ties, directed by Rachael Maza and Tainui Tukiwaho, brings together Australia's Ilbijerri and New Zealand's Te Rēhia, our theatre critics highlight the best shows of the decade and their top picks for 2020, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus turns 40, we farewell British theatre director, actor and writer Jonathan Miller, and Kim Carpenter shares his Top Shelf.

We look at the origins of the Faustian bargain with Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Méphistophélès in the Opera Australia production of Gounod's Faust) and music scholar Peter Tregear, we search for the ghost of Federici, who died performing the Méphistophélès role in Melbourne in 1888, Maxine Doyle shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and we meet acclaimed director Damiano Michieletto ahead of his Royal Opera House production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale screening in Australian cinemas.

We look at the origins of the Faustian bargain with Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Méphistophélès in the Opera Australia production of Gounod's Faust) and music scholar Peter Tregear, we search for the ghost of Federici, who died performing the Méphistophélès role in Melbourne in 1888, Maxine Doyle shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and we meet acclaimed director Damiano Michieletto ahead of his Royal Opera House production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale screening in Australian cinemas.

With the yuletide season drawing near, a live radio play version of the 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life will be staged in Perth, theatre producer and columnist Richard Jordan discusses the emerging transfer hubs for new theatre in New York and London, Fiona Blair reviews the Australian premiere of Oil by British playwright Ella Hickson, Leith McPherson leads us through some vocal warm-ups to get mouths moving and tongues twisting, and the Women's Circus stage their triennial large-scale production: The Drill.

With the yuletide season drawing near, a live radio play version of the 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life will be staged in Perth, theatre producer and columnist Richard Jordan discusses the emerging transfer hubs for new theatre in New York and London, Fiona Blair reviews the Australian premiere of Oil by British playwright Ella Hickson, Leith McPherson leads us through some vocal warm-ups to get mouths moving and tongues twisting, and the Women's Circus stage their triennial large-scale production: The Drill.