Hayes Theatre Co: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
Six spellers enter… but only one speller can leave a champion! At least the losers get a juice box… The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a wildly hilarious take on adolescence, parenting, teachers, and the P-A-N-D-E-M-O-N-I-U-M of the world of competitive spelling bees. Centred around a very eclectic group of…

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…

Ensemble Theatre: Summer of Harold

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Memories of 1984. London. Phil Collins on MTV. Cassette tapes. Janet is 23 and to make some money she and her fellow Tasmanian friend pretend to be expert live-in housekeepers. They land a job with Harold Pinter, one of the most significant playwrights of the twentieth century. Harold loves his…
Event Series Juanita Nielsen – The Final Days

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…

Opera Queensland: La bohème

Opera Queensland Studio South Bank, QLD, Australia
Love. Friendship. Art. Join the bohemians with this modern retelling of the Puccini Masterpiece. Based on the Puccini classic, Opera Queensland’s secondary schools’ touring production of La bohème explores the resilience, friendship and love needed for young people to survive in a contemporary world. Follow a group of misfit friends Rudy, Marco,…

Sydney Fringe Festival: Ruby Blinkhorn: Doggy Doo Doo and Don’t Don’ts

Factory Theatre 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
On a day like any other, 6-year-old spoodle Dodger (Ruby Blinkhorn) wakes up with consciousness. A sudden onset of dreams, aspirations, and a bonefied awareness of the fragile nature of existence means humping the couch no longer cuts it. Trapped in a canine body, but with the rare ability to…

UWA Conservatorium of Music: The Song of the Earth

Callaway Auditoirum, UWA Conservatorium of Music 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA, Australia
Internationally celebrated artists Caitlin Hulcup (mezzo soprano) and Florian Thomas (tenor) perform alongside UWA staff, students and members of Perth’s Darlington Ensemble in a performance of Schoenberg’s rarely heard arrangement of 'Das Lied von der Erde' by Mahler. This monumental symphonic song cycle, composed for tenor, alto and orchestra reflects…

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…
Event Series Blaque Showgirls

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…

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