The Stage Show

As the OzAsia Festival kicks off in Adelaide, we meet the creators of a new work that interrogates the oft-overlooked Asian heritage of South Australia's first Surveyor-General William Light, the sweeping vineyards and pastures of the Yarra Valley in regional Victoria become the backdrop for the grand drama of opera at this year's Yarra Valley Opera Festival, and Natives Go Wild examines the darker side of the employment of First Peoples in circuses and sideshows at the turn of the last century.

As the OzAsia Festival kicks off in Adelaide, we meet the creators of a new work that interrogates the oft-overlooked Asian heritage of South Australia's first Surveyor-General William Light, the sweeping vineyards and pastures of the Yarra Valley in regional Victoria become the backdrop for the grand drama of opera at this year's Yarra Valley Opera Festival, and Natives Go Wild examines the darker side of the employment of First Peoples in circuses and sideshows at the turn of the last century.

The new Australian musical Fangirls challenges negative perceptions of female fandom and places their passion and power centre stage, Grey Rock at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival tells the story of a Palestinian TV repairperson secretly building a rocket ship bound for the moon, and choreographers Sue Healey and Gideon Obarzanek discuss filming dance to capture and push the boundaries of an ephemeral art form.

The new Australian musical Fangirls challenges negative perceptions of female fandom and places their passion and power centre stage, Grey Rock at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival tells the story of a Palestinian TV repairperson secretly building a rocket ship bound for the moon, and choreographers Sue Healey and Gideon Obarzanek discuss filming dance to capture and push the boundaries of an ephemeral art form.

92 years since its German premiere, Ernst Krenek's Weimar-era opera Jonny Strikes Up! will have its Australian premiere, State Opera South Australia's Lost Operas of Oz series continues with a new production of John Haddock and Michael Campbell's Madeline Lee, and voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson returns to The Stage Show to share more of her insights into the power of voice.

92 years since its German premiere, Ernst Krenek's Weimar-era opera Jonny Strikes Up! will have its Australian premiere, State Opera South Australia's Lost Operas of Oz series continues with a new production of John Haddock and Michael Campbell's Madeline Lee, and voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson returns to The Stage Show to share more of her insights into the power of voice.

21 years after Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irine Vela reunite for Anthem at the Melbourne Festival, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes by Back to Back Theatre shines a light on the shadows of prejudice, and we meet the team behind the most ambitious work at this year's Brisbane Festival: 59 Productions and Rambert's Invisible Cities, inspired by Italo Calvino's novel.

21 years after Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irine Vela reunite for Anthem at the Melbourne Festival, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes by Back to Back Theatre shines a light on the shadows of prejudice, and we meet the team behind the most ambitious work at this year's Brisbane Festival: 59 Productions and Rambert's Invisible Cities, inspired by Italo Calvino's novel.

Acclaimed Israeli-born, UK-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale to the Melbourne Festival, we travel to the Brisbane Festival to experience three Australian works that question the ways in which we connect: From Darkness, Bitch on Heat and Communal Table, award-winning English actor Maxine Peake shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and Chicago returns to the Australian stage, bringing glitz, glamour, guile and all that jazz.

Acclaimed Israeli-born, UK-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale to the Melbourne Festival, we travel to the Brisbane Festival to experience three Australian works that question the ways in which we connect: From Darkness, Bitch on Heat and Communal Table, award-winning English actor Maxine Peake shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and Chicago returns to the Australian stage, bringing glitz, glamour, guile and all that jazz.