What do you get when you put 16 writers, nine directors and 19 actors into a room? The inaugural Mayday Playwrights’ Festival. The theatrical shorts are a shot in the arm for Sydney indie theatre.

The Brisbane Arts Theatre revives Frankenstein in the best traditions of the Gothic horror tale. Brenna Lee-Cooney’s take is an intense but colourful adaptation.

From Geoff Rush to Neil Armfield, friends of Bille Brown gathered in Brisbane earlier this week to farewell the celebrated thespian in the most theatrical of ways.

This is dark and painful circus, using very few props, and only the performers’ bodies to do all the hard work and act as supports for each other.

Ordinary Days might be small-scale and low-budget, but it’s no ordinary musical. Written by young, still-ascendant composer and lyricist Adam Gwon and directed by Scot Grace Barnes, for Squabbalogic, it focusses in on the Manhattan lifestyle, but presents a side less idealised and glamourous than, say, Woody is prone to do. Paul Geddes is musical [...]

It’s getting to the stage where one has to seriously suspect collusion, or a notion of competition, permeating the ranks of artists. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Is there? After all, there used to be a sense of oneupmanship, envy and anxiety between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. And the similarities between [...]

What’s a physics graduate doing tangling with Don Giovanni? Jacqueline Dark talked to Curtain Call about the glories of Mozart, the darkness of Don G and life as an Opera Australia diva.