The Stage Show

We meet two groups of theatre makers taking their work beyond the proscenium at this year's Melbourne Fringe, Opera Australia utilise the industrial grandeur of its scenery workshop for Aribert Reimann's Ghost Sonata, acclaimed Australian soprano Helena Dix demonstrates how an opera singer's vocal decisions are key to their character portrayal ahead of her Melbourne Opera season of Bellini's Norma, and Temperance Hall artistic director and BalletLab founder Phillip Adams discusses his program of new dance works at this year's Melbourne Fringe.

We meet two groups of theatre makers taking their work beyond the proscenium at this year's Melbourne Fringe, Opera Australia utilise the industrial grandeur of its scenery workshop for Aribert Reimann's Ghost Sonata, acclaimed Australian soprano Helena Dix demonstrates how an opera singer's vocal decisions are key to their character portrayal ahead of her Melbourne Opera season of Bellini's Norma, and Temperance Hall artistic director and BalletLab founder Phillip Adams discusses his program of new dance works at this year's Melbourne Fringe.

The award-winning autobiographical musical Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) has its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre, director Adena Jacobs and performer Jane Montgomery Griffiths discuss tackling Shakespeare's grisly Titus Andronicus, the viability of digital publisher Australian Plays is under threat after losing Australia Council organisational funding, and MALAPROP Theatre from Ireland bring their hit comedy about human-robot relationships, LOVE+, to Australia.

The award-winning autobiographical musical Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) has its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre, director Adena Jacobs and performer Jane Montgomery Griffiths discuss tackling Shakespeare's grisly Titus Andronicus, the viability of digital publisher Australian Plays is under threat after losing Australia Council organisational funding, and MALAPROP Theatre from Ireland bring their hit comedy about human-robot relationships, LOVE+, to Australia.

In the next of our High School Playlist series, we put Arthur Miller's The Crucible on trial with Queensland Theatre artistic director Sam Strong and students from John Curtin College of the Arts, Cassie Tongue reviews the latest National Theatre production in cinemas: The Lehman Trilogy, we discuss director-choreographer Jerome Robbins' extraordinary career with Wendy Lesser, author of Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance (Yale University Press), and we visit Canberra's Street Theatre for Small Stages.

In the next of our High School Playlist series, we put Arthur Miller's The Crucible on trial with Queensland Theatre artistic director Sam Strong and students from John Curtin College of the Arts, Cassie Tongue reviews the latest National Theatre production in cinemas: The Lehman Trilogy, we discuss director-choreographer Jerome Robbins' extraordinary career with Wendy Lesser, author of Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance (Yale University Press), and we visit Canberra's Street Theatre for Small Stages.

Bangarra Dance Theatre turn 30 this year and are marking the occasion with a triple bill called 30 Years of Sixty Five Thousand, Playwave aims to bring more young people into theatres by offering cheap tickets and special events for people under 20, contemporary circus company One Fell Swoop's new show Sensory Decadence indulges our senses, and audiences are invited to join the band in the ukulele musical Uked!

Bangarra Dance Theatre turn 30 this year and are marking the occasion with a triple bill called 30 Years of Sixty Five Thousand, Playwave aims to bring more young people into theatres by offering cheap tickets and special events for people under 20, contemporary circus company One Fell Swoop's new show Sensory Decadence indulges our senses, and audiences are invited to join the band in the ukulele musical Uked!

As the Darwin Festival kicks off, we find out about the unique opportunities — and challenges — that come with making art in the Northern Territory, we pay tribute to the late George Whaley, we speak with Omar Musa about his work Since Ali Died and its journey from poem to album to theatre, and Stephen Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George returns to the Australian stage.

As the Darwin Festival kicks off, we find out about the unique opportunities — and challenges — that come with making art in the Northern Territory, we pay tribute to the late George Whaley, we speak with Omar Musa about his work Since Ali Died and its journey from poem to album to theatre, and Stephen Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George returns to the Australian stage.