ADELAIDE: New York based performance artist Kim Smith raised the eyebrows no end with his 2010 Cabaret Festival debut. He’s returning in 2012 with a new show, and he spoke to Peter Burdon.

Australian Dance Theatre premieres its new work Proximity in the Adelaide Festival. Peter Burdon spoke to dancer Daniel Jaber.

SYDNEY: Irish performer Neil Watkins combines Jesus, porn and poetry in a provocative one-man show, The Year of Magical Wanking.

REVIEW: This is a play about violence that shows very little in the way of violence. It is suggested, alluded to, and always lurking just below the surface. Right from the opening scene there is a sense that we are building toward some kind of horrific event and Sam Strong’s excellent production keeps the tension on a knife’s edge, making for an enthralling, if uneasy, experience in the theatre. 

A survey of gay actors in Britain has found most of them are open in their professional lives - except when it comes to telling agents.

Up-and-coming performer Brendan Hay is among the more than two dozen singers, dancers, actors and entertainers taking part in Slide’s first annual cabaret festival.

SYDNEY: An ambitious Sydney Festival collaboration between Sydney Theatre Company and Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed has resulted in a show that attempts to canvas no less than a history of everything.

A stand-up comedian for more than two decades, Judith Lucy is a household name. Ahead of her new show, she sits down with Garrett Bithell to talk about her gay fanbase, audience participation, and her famous voice. 

Through broken hearts and broken heads, heartrending intimacies and knockabout comedy, Frantic Assembly’s Beautiful Burnout is total immersion in the visceral world of boxing.

SYDNEY: Australia’s most famous ‘unreal girl’ brings her act back to Sydney for one extra-terrestrial night only.

REVIEW: Let me say it straight and not wrap it in ribbons: as a piece of theatre Buried City is tough going. I applaud its ambitions and appreciate the talents of those involved but dear god it is a long 80 minutes in the theatre. 

The Sydney Festival is in full swing. Check out these must-see shows and events.

Wildly controversial radio broadcaster Alan Jones is performing as President Roosevelt in the new production of Annie. But when Garrett Bithell gets him on the phone, the conversation quickly turns to a variety of issues affecting the GLBT community, and his responses are surprising.  

The Hayloft Project’s Thyestes premiered in Melbourne in 2010 to a groundswell of controversy. But as actor and co-writer Mark Winter tells SX ahead of the production’s Sydney Festival season, to shock was never the intention. 

Following seminal productions of The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, Cheek by Jowl, one of the world’s great theatre companies, returns to Jacobean tragedy with a new production of John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore.