Amid today’s grim headlines and a social (media) discourse, this unconventional love story is reaffirming and comforting.

Blessed and cursed with colossal skill and a restless temperament, the artist has worked in both abstract and figurative styles.

The playwright in part owes her 25-year career to a light-fingered thief who stole her draft of a novel.

When a $50,000 musical theatre scholarship picked an overwhelmingly white list of 30 semi-finalists it was accused of subconscious prejudice.

The Mission House is haunted by EM Forster's classic novel A Passage to India.

Past and future come together as musicians reframe the story of Australia.

Merlin Sheldrake's book is a remarkable exploration of natural interconnectedness.

With thousands of buttons and metres of fabric, and a unique feature, the costumes in the Australian production of Hamilton are all nearing completion.

Nobody is looking for love in Emerald Fennell’s conversation-starting film.

Andrew Goldsmith says he's learnt his lesson and intends to prove his doubters wrong.

In the lead-up to Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, previously unseen images evoke the visit that devastated the legendary Australian artist.

The creator of George Smiley has gone, but it's not the end of the espionage novel, far from it.

Our pick of what's showing around Melbourne this weekend on the big screen.

The two-time Oscar nominee coped with darkness and birds in the movie Penguin Bloom, the true story of a northern beaches woman paralysed in a holiday accident.

After nearly 50 years of being Australia's favourite bit of English crumpet, John Waters can finally see the funny side of sex appeal.

Kikuko Tsumura's novel about one woman's experiences in the world of work is quietly funny.

The New York-based Australian writer's complete short fiction reveals her intellectual confidence and stylistic control.

For the opening scene of Wagner’s Ring cycle, director Suzanne Chaundy wanted to plunge the audience into the depths of the Rhine river.

The British actress has one request for press junket journos: Don’t mention the war. The one in Westeros.

The bubbles hold enough oxygen for three people to breathe for approximately an hour and 10 minutes before they must be refilled or unzipped.

Storylines about female empowerment aren’t enough to compensate for the many flaws in this poorly scripted bodice-ripper.

The veteran journalist has said there is something “fundamentally wrong with a system that can produce such a deeply insensitive and divisive decision”.

A haunting performance set in a defunct zoo was a highlight of the captivating second weekend of the Mona Foma festival in Hobart.

Some of the most exciting music being written is for contemporary opera: a new Australian company wants to bring it to national audiences.

Scott Maclachlan said he had been guilty of “stupid, insensitive and ignorant comments” to women in the industry, including asking them if they wanted sexual contact with him, and making comments about their bodies.