It's a car that has made its name across the globe and today it has been announced that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the musical is heading to Adelaide.

Within every festival there is bound to be a few surprises, and the Feast Festival is no exception.

Some of the country’s most talented members of the LGBTI community were among those to be honoured at this week’s Helpmann Awards celebrating the best in performance and live arts.

What tempts a handsome, chisel-jawed man-about-town to play Mabel in an all-male Pirates of Penzance? Peter Burdon spoke to Alan Richardson about the forthcoming Australian tour of this huge UK hit.

Way back in 1986, Catherine Fitzgerald had the lead in the local premiere of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls. In 2012, she’s in the director’s chair. She spoke to Peter Burdon.

An unflinching commentary on modern America and its tragic contradictions, Vernon God Little is coming to the Sydney stage for the first time, writes Garrett Bithell. 

Sydney performer Trevor Ashley is among a host of queer artists and creative professionals up for honours at the 2012 Helpmann Awards.

Remember Codgers, a laugh-a-lot farce by Don Reid about grumpy old men. Well, he was dared to try on the girls for size. One of the stars of Biddies, Maggie Blinco, told Peter Burdon all about it.

SYDNEY: The Reg Murphy Centre in Elizabeth Bay will continue as a venue for theatre and the arts with the City of Sydney now accepting expressions of interest from applicants willing and able to run the performance space.

Inspired by the recent spate of ‘misery hoaxes’, and fuelled by our fascination with the grand suffering of the victim, queer playwright Rick Viede’s Griffin Award-winning sophomore play A Hoax is another example of why he is one of the most exciting new voices on our theatrical landscape, writes Garrett Bithell.

SYDNEY: There’s no doubt about it. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a big play, a great play and somehow, 60 years after its premiere on Broadway, a very modern play. Perhaps the global recession that has seen western countries teeter on the brink of economic collapse gives the play its timeliness.

SYDNEY: Bell Shakespeare’s latest production is a gutsy, fast-paced take on macabre Jacobean dramatist John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. Actor Ben Wood sat down with Garrett Bithell. 

One of the saddest things about playwright Joe Orton’s premature death at 34 was he had only just established himself as a compelling theatrical voice when he was killed.

The giant stage bus used in the musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert has been gifted to the outback NSW mining town of Broken Hill.

Adelaide’s award-winning Windmill Theatre presents a new take on the evergreen story of Pinocchio. Peter Burdon spoke to Nathan O’Keefe, in the title role