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…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Lewis Trilogy

Griffin Theatre Company: Così

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…

Bell Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Love is in the air in Athens – and it’s contagious. Besides the royal wedding, which is just days away, there are young lovers dreaming of enchanted futures together. Hermia and Lysander are besotted with one another, while Helena adores Demetrius. The only snag is that Demetrius loves Hermia –…
Event Series The Goldner String Quartet

Four Winds: The Goldner String Quartet Part One: Sound Shell

Four Winds Barragga Bay, NSW, Australia
A final opportunity to experience one of the finest string quartets Australia has ever produced. Over the course of the Easter Weekend, the Goldner String Quartet will play two programs that exemplify their superb musicianship. As always, they will champion Australian composers, performing works by Paul Stanhope and The Goldner Variations on…
Editor's Choice Event Series 37

Melbourne Theatre Company: 37

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
The Cuttaway Currawongs have spent so long at the bottom of the footy ladder, they are the laughing stock of their small coastal town. But with the arrival of two talented Marngrook cousins, things might just turn around. But not everyone’s happy. Named after the number Adam Goodes wore on…
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 Zombie! The Musical

Hayes Theatre Co: Zombie! The Musical

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
Sydney, Australia. It’s the turn of the 21st century, and a dedicated community theatre troupe is frantically rehearsing before their opening night. Little do they know that beyond the walls of the theatre, a highly infectious disease is rapidly spreading – turning its victims into full-blown zombies. Will humanity take…
Event Series Holding the Man

Belvoir St Theatre: Holding the Man

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Belvoir is proud to bring Holding the Man, a deeply moving play adapted by Tommy Murphy from Tim Conigrave’s memoir, back to stage from 9th March to 14th April, 2024. Tim Conigrave's 1995 memoir changed Australia, and Tommy Murphy's 2006 adaptation became an instant hit, introducing a new audience to…
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 & Juliet

Michael Cassel Group: & Juliet

Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
Read the Limelight review. In this pop-driven, girl-power romp, Juliet is given a second chance at life when Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, persuades him to change the ending of Romeo and Juliet. The show features songs by Swedish hitmaker Max Martin, made famous by the likes of Britney Spears, Ariana Grande…
Editor's Choice Event Series Groundhog Day the Musical

GWB Entertainment: Groundhog Day the Musical

Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
This is your last chance to catch the Australian production of Groundhog Day the Musical, featuring music and lyrics by Tim Minchin. Based on the 1993 film, the brilliantly structured and ingeniously staged musical follows arrogant Pittsburgh TV weatherman Phil Connors as he is forced to keep reliving the same…

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