The Stage Show

Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical theatre star — and two-time Disney Princess — Lea Salonga brings her concert tour to Australia, Alana Valentine and Sandra France have written Flight Memory — a song cycle inspired by the Australian inventor of the black box premiering at The Street in Canberra, and Australian theatre-maker Roshelle Fong, having recently staged her show nomnomnom in China, explains what it's like to take a show on the road.

Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical theatre star — and two-time Disney Princess — Lea Salonga brings her concert tour to Australia, Alana Valentine and Sandra France have written Flight Memory — a song cycle inspired by the Australian inventor of the black box premiering at The Street in Canberra, and Australian theatre-maker Roshelle Fong, having recently staged her show nomnomnom in China, explains what it's like to take a show on the road.

The work of playwright Louis Nowra has been on stages right across Australia and the world, but his latest drama — The Goodbye Party — is bound for your headphones, an almost 400-year-old copy of Shakespeare's First Folio of plays housed in an American public library is now believed to have belonged to the English poet John Milton, we encounter the famous life-size horse puppets backstage ahead of the return of War Horse to Australian stages in 2020,, and The Australian Musical by Peter Pinne and Peter Wyllie Johnston lovingly documents a century of Australian musical theatre.

The work of playwright Louis Nowra has been on stages right across Australia and the world, but his latest drama — The Goodbye Party — is bound for your headphones, an almost 400-year-old copy of Shakespeare's First Folio of plays housed in an American public library is now believed to have belonged to the English poet John Milton, we encounter the famous life-size horse puppets backstage ahead of the return of War Horse to Australian stages in 2020,, and The Australian Musical by Peter Pinne and Peter Wyllie Johnston lovingly documents a century of Australian musical theatre.

The 1982 Australian musical film Starstruck has been developed into a new stage production that will premiere at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, at Adelaide's OzAsia Festival, we encounter two productions that use the culinary arts to help tell their stories — Kuro Tanino's The Dark Master and Abhishek Thapar's Surpassing the Beeline, Suzy Wrong reviews the Sydney Theatre Company and National Theatre of Parramatta co-production of White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King, and writer and comedian Kathy Lette is taking her live stand-up show Girls' Night Out on the road.

The 1982 Australian musical film Starstruck has been developed into a new stage production that will premiere at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, at Adelaide's OzAsia Festival, we encounter two productions that use the culinary arts to help tell their stories — Kuro Tanino's The Dark Master and Abhishek Thapar's Surpassing the Beeline, Suzy Wrong reviews the Sydney Theatre Company and National Theatre of Parramatta co-production of White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King, and writer and comedian Kathy Lette is taking her live stand-up show Girls' Night Out on the road.

Prolific American musical theatre composer Frank Wildhorn in conversation about his long career and the man who defined his Jekyll and Hyde: Anthony Warlow.

Prolific American musical theatre composer Frank Wildhorn in conversation about his long career and the man who defined his Jekyll and Hyde: Anthony Warlow.

Circa continue their thrilling fusion of acrobatics with classical music and opera by teaming up with Opera Queensland for a new production of Orpheus and Eurydice, arts critic Tim Byrne reviews contemporary dance at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival, Tony Award-winning director of Come from Away Christopher Ashley shares his Best Advice, we ask voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson whether we should affect accents on stage, and Open Homes, presented by La Boite, invites the public to step into a stranger's home and learn about their life.

Circa continue their thrilling fusion of acrobatics with classical music and opera by teaming up with Opera Queensland for a new production of Orpheus and Eurydice, arts critic Tim Byrne reviews contemporary dance at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival, Tony Award-winning director of Come from Away Christopher Ashley shares his Best Advice, we ask voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson whether we should affect accents on stage, and Open Homes, presented by La Boite, invites the public to step into a stranger's home and learn about their life.