Simon Stone has ripped up another classic and breathed new life into it. The Cherry Orchard is faithful and radical at once.

Toby Schmitz and Tim Minchin in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (Pic: Heidrun Lohr)
A veteran servant of the Brisbane stage, Bryan Nason has returned with a new company and a new take on French writer Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
This isn't a one-man show, it's a 20-man-and-woman show. Jeremy Bracka is all of them and a whole lot more, in a show that tackles intractable politics with easy humour.
Sydney Chamber Opera is a diamond in a world of largely unimproved cultural carbon. Its Owen Wingrave, Benjamin Britten's made-for-TV work, is a rare treat.
Opera Australia's timeless vision of Verdi's classic, with a superb cast, brings a finesse that defies the opera's grand scale and sumptuousness.
The Bloody Chamber brings light to the grotesque realities of the darker undertones of the fables and fairy tales we tell to children at bedtime, writes C.E. Mitchell.