Sydney Fringe Festival: CIRCUS – The Show

Hello Darling 25 Harbour Street,, Sydney, NSW, Australia
This internationally award-winning, sell-out sensation is flipping into town this school holidays! Sure to astound and amaze the entire family, CIRCUS is the latest trailblazer in children’s entertainment - featuring world-class illusions, tumbling acrobats, highly skilled jugglers, breath-taking and elegant aerialists, an endearing clown with his GIGANTIC 6ft balloon, and…

Sydney Fringe Festival: Banging Denmark

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
From the pen of Van Badham, one of Australia’s leading social commentators, comes this biting rom-com with a fiercely feminist sensibility. Aussie Jake Newhouse is a management consultant with a side hack as a toxic male podcaster. He also fancies himself as a pick-up artist. His latest crush, a brilliant…

The Blue Room Theatre: Alex and Evie and the Forever Falling Rain

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
Evie just moved to a place where it’s always raining. It’s rained every minute of every day of every year, forever. But this year, before her 10th birthday, Evie decides she’s going to stop the rain. And then Alex arrives at her door. Evie doesn’t trust him but, as her…

Sydney Fringe Festival: Church of the Clitori

Castlereagh Boutique Hotel 169 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
This show is not only for or about women, it's for everyone. Think ‘Sex in the City’ meets ‘Book of Mormon.’ A church unlike any other - comedy and cabaret meets theatre and worship. A show that takes feminine power out of the box. The Church of the Clitori is…

Deadhouse Productions: Juanita Nielsen – The Final Days

St James Church, Sydney 173 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dare a dip into Sydney’s dark past with the immersive true-crime theatre show, Juanita Nielsen: The Final Days. Staged in a 200-year-old crypt beneath the St James’ Church in Sydney, a guide will escort the audience through eerie rooms and passages to witness the events of one of Sydney’s most…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Hello Kitty and Friends with The Ribbon Kingdom Band present a classical concert

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
The Ribbon Kingdom Band, composed of Hello Kitty, Daniel, MyMelody, and Badbadtz-Maru, are getting ready to perform a special show for their Australian fans. The concert will feature classical tracks such as Beethoven’s Für Elise, Baucherini’s Menuet, Mozart’s Turkish March, Austin’s Dolly’s Dreaming and Awakening, and Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Showcasing various musical instruments including the…
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Griffin Theatre Company: Blaque Showgirls

Griffin Theatre Company 13 Craigend St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
Plumage! Puns! Political incorrectness gone mad! Griffin Theatre Company is proud to present: Blaque Showgirls! A lonely kid in rural Australia, fair-skinned Sarah Jane Jones is deathly sure of two things: 1. She’s the best dancer in the whole town of Chithole, and 2. She’s a proud Aboriginal woman. There’s…

Brisbane Festival: Bananaland

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Meet Ruby Semblance, a 21-year-old idealist. She believes in art, music and angry choreography. Ruby is the lead singer/songwriter of Kitty Litter. Not Kitty Litter ‘the band’ mind you – according to Ruby, an “Onstage Conceptual Art / Music Oriented Happening”. If that sounds unappealing, you’re right. Kitty Litter have…

Long Listen: A Short Festival Teaser

Eudlo Hall Eudlo Hall, 19 Rosebed Street, Eudlo, QLD, Australia
Join us for a punchy session of short works for harp and flute with two of the world’s most dynamic and engaging artists. Up close and personal, this is music making at it’s best. Perfect for your lunchbox listen.

Perth Concert Hall: WA Massed Choir Festival

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
The WA Massed Choir Festival is a showcase of excellence for our public primary school choirs. This annual sold-out event raises the profile of music in our public primary schools, with 101 primary schools involved in this festival of 9 concerts with over 5000 students involved this year. The festival supports staff…

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Yuldea

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
At Yuldea, stories hover in the sky. The stars reveal a divine Songline, stretching between earth and sky. Frances Rings’ first work as Artistic Director is a ceremonial affirmation of history and heritage. Yuldea awakens the earth and sky worlds to tell the story of the Anangu people of the…

Sydney Theatre Company: Is God Is

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
The recipient of the pre-eminent American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award, Aleshea Harris’ breakout hit Is God Is tells the vivid and violent story of twin sisters Racine and Anaia and their cross-country odyssey of revenge. They’re on a mission to track down their absent and abusive father to repay him for the…

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