The Stage Show

Delays on a new venue leave the ACO without a home, while the ballet world mourns Dame Margaret Scott.

Director John Tiffany and cast members talk Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — the theatrical phenomenon that has just opened in Melbourne's Princess Theatre, Lano and Woodley's Fly is their first show as a duo in 12 years, and as the Perth Festival enters its final week, Humphrey Bower breaks down the hits and misses of this year's program — Wendy Martin's last at the helm.

Director John Tiffany and cast members on the theatrical phenomenon that has just opened in Melbourne's Princess Theatre and is predicted to run for years.

Director John Tiffany and cast members talk Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — the theatrical phenomenon that has just opened in Melbourne's Princess Theatre, Lano and Woodley's Fly is their first show as a duo in 12 years, and as the Perth Festival enters its final week, Humphrey Bower breaks down the hits and misses of this year's program — Wendy Martin's last at the helm.

Award-winning Bangarra dancer Beau Dean Riley Smith shares the dance and theatre productions that have shaped him as an artist.

Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play follows survivors of the apocalypse who form a theatre troupe to perform plays inspired by their hazy memories of Springfield's favourite family.

Australia's peak dance body, Ausdance, says it has cancelled this year's Australian Dance Awards because of funding cuts.

We tour The Australian Ballet Centre's pointe shoe room with dancer Jade Wood and artistic coordinator Robyn Begg and learn that it takes a firm hand to mould a soft shoe.

Eddie Izzard on workshopping his new show Wunderbar in French and German, we tour The Australian Ballet Centre's pointe shoe room with dancer Jade Wood and artistic coordinator Robyn Begg, we follow a post-apocalyptic theatre troupe who perform their hazy memories of The Simpsons in Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play, and Bangarra dancer Beau Dean Riley Smith tells us what's on his Top Shelf.

In response to the closed-border policies of Brexit and Trump, Eddie chose to forge new connections with his European neighbours by workshopping new material in French and German.