Culture

In Victorian Opera’s ocker production, Leonard Bernstein’s ebullient Candide is rendered as a queer shaggy dog story.

MGMT may be distinctive for their ability to constantly move on, but Loss of Life is their most palpably emotional record yet.

Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature, How To Have Sex,   an unblinking look at teenage hedonism, consent and  rape, has made her a major force in international cinema.

Night Country – the fourth season of the darkly philosophical police procedural True Detective – brilliantly reinvents the show.

My friend did not ask the obvious. I would have. Asked the obvious. But perhaps the marriage had long since burnt up all such complicating desires.

Author and playwright Louis Nowra says the historical nonfiction book Wisconsin Death Trip changed his life through its macabre insights into another world.

Opera Australia’s The Magic Flute embraces a nostalgic vision of white Australia that undermines Mozart’s cutting social commentary.