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Hosted by award-winning journalist, author, radio broadcaster and playwright Melanie Tait, Off Stage delves into the untold stories of Australia theatre, dance, music and film.

Hosted by award-winning journalist, author, radio broadcaster and playwright Melanie Tait, Off Stage delves into the untold stories of Australia theatre, dance, music and film.

Actor, activist and director, Cynthia Nixon was born on this day in 1966. She's best known for playing Miranda Hobbes on Sex and the City.

Despite its widespread rating as one of his masterpieces, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella is chock full of knots, gaps and stumbling blocks – all of which the Royal Ballet’s new production throws into relief. Ashton isn’t altogether to blame: Prokofiev’s graphic score dictates an excessive amount of time given over to knockabout for the Ugly Sisters

"Sleeping Beauty" holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It was the ballet with which the ...

Readers discuss Bob Brown, Bridget Jones and challenging your own team.

This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes CUT, Mo’Ju x MSO, The Four Seasons, My Chemical Romance, Don Quixote, and Tamara Anna Cislowska and Gerard Willems,

Pictures Librarian Linda Groom describes the process of acquiring the archive of theatre designer and director Robin Lovejoy. Anne Fraser, Costume design for the performance of The Return of Ulysses, performed by the Victorian State Opera, 1980, nla.pic-vn3060965

The company worked with Rudolf Nureyev and Robert Helpmann for the legendary 1973 film – which it has now recreated for the stage

Inside a hot airplane hangar at Essendon Airport, the mercurial Rudolf Nureyev left his mark on the Australian Ballet.