Arts Centre Melbourne

What do you do when your baby sister is murdered by a monster? How can you possibly respond to something so horrifying, traumatising and unfair? Would you find some way of moving on, or would you do all you can to exact revenge? That's the crisis faced...

The ballet Sylvia falls very firmly into the “neglected classic” category, and has been rarely performed since it premiered more than 150 years ago. “It’s sadly neglected, and I think it has one of the great scores written for ballet,” Australian Ballet...

There aren’t many dance companies in the world that can truly be described as peerless, but the territory that Bangarra Dance Theatre has occupied for the last 30 years as Australia’s leading Indigenous dance company is entirely its own. The company is...

British performer and theatre-maker Bryony Kimmings isn’t one to shy away from a difficult topic. After all, her previous works include Sex Idiot, in which she traces an STI back through her romantic history to its source; and pop-rock musical A Pacifist’s...

The Australian Ballet is ending its 2019 season with this beloved classic production of The Nutcracker. The company's artistic director, David McAllister says he first saw Peter Wright’s production, originally made for the Birmingham Royal Ballet, in...

When we talk about landmark moments in Australian playwriting, it’s hard to go past Who’s Afraid of the Working Class, the blistering collaboration between four of our finest writers – Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves and Christos Tsiolkas...

Stephanie Lake's spectacular Colossus premiered in 2018 as part of Melbourne Fringe and is returning in 2019 for Melbourne Festival. Read our five-star review of the original season below. Nigh on 50 bodies lie in a massive circle on the Fairfax stage,...