Elton John and Lee “Billy Elliott” Hall announce Animal Farm: The Musical. Here are some megaflop musicals that might make them reconsider – including Moby Dick and Carrie: the musicals!

Meg Stuart and Philipp Gehmacher's contemporary dance piece captures the ending of a relationship, in all its futile, fragile agony.

UK theatre-makers Rotozaza present an "autoteatro" piece in which audiences are instructed to perform the piece themselves, for each other. The results are both visceral and provocative.

Max Gillies performs as many of our most lauded and laughable politicos in Guy Rundle's Godzone. It's as sour and zesty and refreshing as a lemon tart at a regional bakery photo-op.

Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese female impersonator who initiated the most bizarre case of international espionage ever. Only a Frenchman could exacerbate a sex and spy scandal this strange.

The laughter dies down in six days and we all have to return to lives of thankless toil. Here is what The Enthusiast has seen so far. Take it as a call to arms. Or a warning.

Puppeteer and classical saw player David Splatt's subversion of the intensely whitebread Australia's Got Talent might just net him a quarter of a million dollars.

Here's a list of comedy festival shows that I've seen keep an audience enraptured and laughing from start to finish:
1. The List Operators.
That is all.

Mentalist, magician and psych student Simon Taylor wants to show us how our brains are built to be tricked. First, he made sure he completely broke mine.