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At the Perth Festival, stories from home inspire new work

102

Griffin marks the end of an era with a Louis Nowra triple bill

103

'We have to learn to listen again' — Akram Khan's reimagined Jungle Book

104

Why Groundhog Day's Australian debut is healing for Tim Minchin

105

Sunday — The woman who shaped Australian art

106

Joanna Murray-Smith — a playwright in demand

107

The Tina Turner story on stage

108

Theatre healed Heather Mitchell

109

How Eddie Perfect and Gillian Cosgriff make musical theatre

110

If your show needs a lift, 'Send for Nellie!'

111

The Warumpi Band story comes to the Sydney Festival

112

A Ring Cycle for our part of the world

113

A Game of Thrones villain finds redemption in A Christmas Carol

114

From a caravan in WA to the mainstage — The McElhinneys venture out

115

Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part II)

116

Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part I)

117

How Chicago became a hit musical — 'We wrote fast and tore up fast'

118

Bridal laments and vanishing vultures inspire new work at OzAsia

119

Hamilton maestro reworks the music of Sting

120

Taylor Mac's queer rock opera adds to 'the library of the deviant theme'

121

When asked to adapt a classic, Nakkiah Lui chose Showgirls

122

Broome's complex history and culture inspire an award winner

123

How the stage needs to change

124

Kate Miller-Heidke's new musical, and Wicked returns

125

Bangarra Dance Theatre enters a new era

126

'I didn't know any better' — How David Lang redefined opera

127

Is there something wrong with Debra Oswald?

128

Helen Morse never sought the spotlight

129

After 10 years, Anthony LaPaglia returns to the stage

130

The radical innovations of Caryl Churchill

131

A high-camp provocateur treads unfamiliar territory: real life

132

Michelle Law's latest play contests Chinese values

133

Wesley Enoch honours the elders of First Nations performing arts

134

In his 90th year, Michael Frayn's plays still make noise

135

Once Upon a Mattress composer Mary Rodgers was anything but shy

136

Andrew Bovell comes home

137

Eddie Perfect and Gillian Cosgriff show us how to make a musical

138

'It's been a slog' — Jacky debuts at the Melbourne Theatre Company

139

Is the stage the right place to talk about climate change?

140

Why Tina Turner was 'adamant' that the violence of her past be put on stage

141

A 114-year-old Australian novel in Chinese becomes a play for today

142

'It was such a balm' — How theatre healed Heather Mitchell

143

Lano and Woodley set sail in search of Moby Dick

144

A Pulitzer winner serves social justice and sandwiches in Clyde's

145

A satirical One Woman Show skewers the Fleabag generation

146

Nureyev's Don Quixote recreated on stage

147

Why dance in a museum?

148

After 50 years at La Mama, a legend passes the torch

149

The book that brought us Macbeth

150

Verdi's Messa da Requiem pulses with life in Adelaide

151

A Little Life on stage — Ivo van Hove adapts the 'cruel' bestseller

152

'Cabaret is the original punk' — Reuben Kaye at WorldPride

153

New works take flight at a cosmic Perth Festival

154

Tim Minchin takes comedy seriously

155

The woman who shaped modern Australian art

156

'The future is Blak' — How fatherhood changed Bangarra's head designer

157

Dorian Gray's visionary director revitalises another classic

158

An Australian play on Broadway

159

'It was time they had a blackfella at the top' — A new era for ADT

160

90 years of performing arts on your ABC

161

Finding true love at the barre

162

Michael Sheen returns to Amadeus as a different man

163

'Sharing a mad moment together' — Chaplin's grandson's ode to theatre

164

The forgotten ballets of Australia

165

Andrew Lloyd Webber's go-to director

166

Sandi Toksvig has reasons to be cheerful

167

'We are here, we belong' — Uniting communities through the arts

168

Matilda and A Christmas Carol director keeps The Old Vic young

169

A manifesto for dance of a different kind

170

From chook farmer to change maker

171

A comedian's debut play inspired by the on-field drama of footy

172

Finding true love at the barre

173

Les Misérables and Miss Saigon creators take centre stage

174

Remembering Uncle Jack Charles

175

Straight lines and stillness — New work from two theatre giants

176

New plays light up the Brisbane Festival

177

Brett Dean's Hamlet triumphs at The Met

178

Dorian Gray's visionary director revitalises another classic

179

Hairspray brings back a Broadway legend

180

Being an opera singer saved her life

181

Diablo Cody found her dream collaborator in Alanis Morissette

182

Catherine McClements is looking for a challenge

183

First London, next Broadway — An Australian playwright on the rise

184

'It became very woke' — An Asian Australian director embraces 'elder' status

185

'It was time they had a blackfella at the top' — A new era for ADT

186

90 years of performing arts on your ABC

187

The Tony-winning creator of Broadway's 'big, black and queer' Best Musical

188

Tina Arena on the intimacy and vulnerability of cabaret

189

At RISING, the arts take the chill off winter

190

Lea Salonga — a trailblazing star of the stage

191

Mr Producer — How Cameron Mackintosh rebuilt an industry

192

Truth-telling in the theatre — Why Andrea James ditched law for the arts

193

Theatre icon Geraldine Turner reveals her off-stage struggles

194

'Wagner belongs to humanity's treasure' — Confronting a contentious classic

195

Big plays in a tiny room — Red Stitch turns 21

196

Power and ethics in playwriting

197

Imagination will help young people 'sort out the mess' left by grown-ups

198

Blind and vision-impaired artists rewrite Tchaikovsky's final opera

199

Lano and Woodley set sail in search of Moby Dick

200

An Englishman in New York takes on An American in Paris