Event Series St John Passion

Canticum Chamber Choir: St John Passion

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Paddington 369 Given Terrace, Paddington, QLD, Australia
Canticum Chamber Choir and conductor Emily Cox AM present Bach's immortal masterpiece, the St John Passion. Joining us are soloists Paul McMahon (Evangelist), Leon Warnock, Sarah Crane, Anne Fulton, Nick Kirkup and Jason Barry-Smith, along with a professional orchestra. Stage direction from Anatoly Frusin makes this production unique, so don't…
Event Series Best of Times

The Company Theatre: Best of Times

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
“No one cares if you get offended. Eat a teaspoon of cement and harden the f*ck up.” When reunions go very, very wrong. On an unusually warm evening in rural NSW, a group of former best friends reunite to pregame for their ten year high school reunion. As old wounds…
Editor's Choice Event Series Margaret and the Grey Mare

Sydney Festival: Margaret and the Grey Mare

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Powerhouse Rd, Casula, NSW, Australia
Looking for something different? Try this one-hour immersive video opera created by visual artist Katy B Plummer and composer Sally Whitwell, with a little help from artificial intelligence programmed to speak in verse like an oracular Celtic spirit. The story, with video by filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, evokes 17th-century European witch…
Event Series Story Soup

Playhouse Pantomimes: Story Soup

ACMI Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Playhouse Pantomimes is proud to present… absolutely anything you want! Our hilarious team of improvisers will make up a brand-new musical pantomime on the spot. But we need your help! Bring along a head full of ideas and we’ll create a fairytale based on suggestions that you, the audience, give…
Event Series Atlantis

New Theatre: Atlantis

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
A play about ovaries and climate change and pursuing your dreams. Australian writer ‘Lally’ is on a quest to make sense of her life, seeking to rediscover the lost innocence of her childhood in America, when things were simple, carefree and defined. Using both autobiographical fact and flights of imagination,…
Event Series Grease Sydney

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Grease

Capitol Theatre, Sydney 13 Campbell St, Haymarket, NSW
It’s the one that you want, Sydney! Grease is back, in an all-new production, and it promises to be slicker, sexier, and more electrifying than ever before. It’s one of the world’s most iconic and loved musicals and nothing beats the feeling you get, going back to Rydell High. Danny,…
Event Series St John Passion

Canticum Chamber Choir: St John Passion

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Paddington 369 Given Terrace, Paddington, QLD, Australia
Canticum Chamber Choir and conductor Emily Cox AM present Bach's immortal masterpiece, the St John Passion. Joining us are soloists Paul McMahon (Evangelist), Leon Warnock, Sarah Crane, Anne Fulton, Nick Kirkup and Jason Barry-Smith, along with a professional orchestra. Stage direction from Anatoly Frusin makes this production unique, so don't…
Event Series The Sun and The Hermit

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival: The Sun and The Hermit

The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
Judge’s Pick 2023 Melbourne Fringe. A delectably nightmarish hour of character comedy you won’t want to wake up from. Squeeze a month’s worth of weird into a delightfully beautiful hour, all while Belinda quietly cradles you like the adult baby, lover of strangeness and person who thrives on constant stimulation…

Four Winds: Yirinda

Four Winds Barragga Bay, NSW, Australia
Yirinda has been performed at Mona Foma, Melbourne Recital Centre, Brisbane Festival, HOTA and more. It is a stunningly beautiful record that combines, ancient Aboriginal language with sublime modern production. Fred’s role as a Songman sees him as one of the custodians of the traditional songs of the Queensland Butchulla tribe…
Event Series Dissent

Arts House: Dissent

Arts House 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Four players take on the role of a fellow community member. As the rest of us watch on, an unnerving and hyperlocal world is created through imagination and play. The streets of North Melbourne become a site of escalating and discomforting choices, where the lines of responsibility between ‘individual’ and…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Lewis Trilogy

Griffin Theatre Company: Summer of the Aliens

SBW Stables Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
The SBW Stables Theatre in Sydney’s Kings Cross, home to Griffin Theatre Company, is about to close for a major renovation. By way of a farewell, Griffin is staging one of its most ambitious projects – a triple bill of Louis Nowra’s semi-autobiographical plays that can be viewed individually or in one…

The Australian Voices: Passio

The Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane 249 Elizabeth Street,, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
One Equal Music & The Australian Voices join forces once a again to present John Rotar's Passio, awarded five stars by Limelight in 2023 and hailed as "an extraordinarily compelling work – one which surely will stand the test of centuries in the repertoire of the greatest choral ensembles on…

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