ADELAIDE: Indigenous elder, convicted criminal, gifted artist, drug addict and gay: The music from Jack Charles’ award-winning stage production Jack Charles v The Crown is a Cabaret Festival exclusive.

The adults-only panto Fat Swan starring Trevor Ashley will make its return to Sydney for a limited run this month with a gala preview on May 16 to also act as a fundraiser for ACON.

ADELAIDE: The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning rock musical Next to Normal will premiere in Adelaide during May 2012 at the State Opera Studio.

State Theatre of SA presents one of the great 20th century plays, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Peter Burdon spoke to director Adam Cook about his swansong with the company.

Kane Alexander returns to Adelaide with his first ever solo show. He spoke with Peter Burdon.

SYDNEY: Simon Stone, one of AXN’s favourite directors, has got his hands on Eugene O’Neill’s 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Strange Interlude. With a stellar cast performing Stone’s brand-new adaptation, the production is set to be a transformative night at the theatre. Actor Mitchell Butel sat down with Garrett Bithell.

With an ARIA award under his belt, End of Fashion frontman Justin Burford goes cabaret – with Kurt Cobain!

Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black’s play, 8, on the controversial referendum that stripped gay and lesbian couples of the freedom to marry in California will premiere in Sydney and Melbourne next month with an all-star local cast including Daniel Macpherson and Lisa McCune.

Writer and performer Bojana Novakovic, in this latest collaboration with her Ride On Theatre cohort and director Tania Goldberg, introduces us to the provocative Mary Maclane (born 1881).

This take on the Bard’s tale of ambition and murder gets off to a great start with a creepily atmospheric opening.

Fans of the movie and fans of musical theatre generally will be queuing up for the SA premiere of the top Broadway musical Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Independent Theatre’s Rob Croser revisits a royal peculiar in Jean Anouilh’s Becket. He spoke to Peter Burdon.

The City of Sydney is seeking expressions of interest from theatre producers eager to set up a resident company at Potts Point’s Reg Murphy Centre, with the current tenant, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, due to move to its new home at the old Burton Street Tabernacle early next year.

In his Bell Shakespeare debut, lauded actor Dan Spielman is playing the notorious Scottish general, Macbeth. He sits down with Garrett Bithell to talk about chemistry, swordplay, and how he’s making the role his own. 

ADELAIDE: Cath Jamison is a magician with a difference and she’s bringing her show to the Adelaide Fringe.