Editor's Choice Event Series Into The Shimmering World

Sydney Theatre Company: Into The Shimmering World

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Angus Cerini’s new play follows in the footsteps of his gothic dramas The Bleeding Tree and Wonnangatta, both of which used a visceral, poetic language, while plugging into Australia’s complex relationship with the bush. Into the Shimmering World is a quieter, more contemplative piece. Colin Friels and Kerry Armstrong give moving…
Editor's Choice Event Series 37

Queensland Theatre: 37

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
The Cutting Cove 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…
Event Series Re:Classical

Omega Ensemble: Re:Classical

Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
Max Richter’s chart-topping global sensation, Four Seasons Recomposed, leads this performance of groundbreaking classical music from Australia’s most exciting and forward-thinking chamber music group. This foot-stomping performance also includes a world premiere by leading American composer Jessie Montgomery, whose infectious music celebrates dance and movement, and a re-imagining of Elena…
Event Series Do We Need Another Hero?

Opera Queensland: Do We Need Another Hero?

The Empire Theatres, Toowoomba 54-56 Neil Street, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Timeless hits about bravery and heroism from artists like David Bowie, John Farnham and more, intertwine with opera classics from composers like Beethoven and Bizet to provide the soundtrack for our story as we search for what it means to be a hero. Exploring the musical archives, we discover that…
Event Series RBG – Of Many, One

Sydney Theatre Company: RBG – Of Many, One

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
After a wildly popular, sold-out premiere season in 2022, the Sydney Theatre Company smash-hit production arrives in Canberra with the brilliant Heather Mitchell reviving her award-winning “virtuosic performance” (The Conversation) of the woman who changed the face of the American legal system: the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The second woman…

The Street Theatre: Lady Sings The Blues

The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Lady Sings The Blues, a story about women in song, their hurts, struggles and pain whilst their beauty remains the same. Volume 2 sees Prinnie  embark on more stories of the women that have shaped the history of music. You will be transported from the speak easy setting to the…

The University of Melbourne: The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Join The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony for their first concert of the academic season featuring Faculty member and horn soloist Carla Blackwood who will be premiering a concerto by Ukrainian-Australian composer Catherine Likhuta. The concert will begin with a spark of sound out of the silence with Ryan George’s…
Event Series Spellbound

Base Entertainment: Spellbound

Goulburn Performing Arts Centre NSW
Get ready for a spectacular night of Magic and Grand Illusion with one of Australia’s leading Illusionists, Anthony Street. The Star and producer of the stage phenomenon Celtic Illusion will be touring his Grand Illusion show this school holidays. Witness levitations, impossible vanishes, mentalism and a death-defying escape as Anthony…
Editor's Choice Event Series Carmen

The Australian Ballet: Carmen

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
For those of us lucky enough to have caught the one-off Sydney performance of Johan Inger’s I New Then in 2022, this is the moment we’ve all been waiting for: another work showcasing the Swedish choreographer’s unique contemporary voice. Set to Rodion Shchedrin’s brilliant arrangement of Bizet’s score, Inger’s retelling…
Event Series Seagull

Chaika Theatre: Seagull

ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
A vivid and contemporary, site-specific translation and adaptation by Karen Vickery of Chekhov’s masterpiece. A country house near a lake is the scene in which love triangles, quarrels about the theatre, and egos erupt. Aging celebrity actress, Irina, returns to the family property with her much younger lover, Boris –…

CIRCA: Humans 2.0

The Round 379 - 399 Whitehorse Road,, Nunawading, VIC
A symphony of acrobatics, sound and light, this is next level circus by Circa. Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance. Towers grow and decay, bodies leap and are caught, as physical limits are pushed to…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Almighty Sometimes

Melbourne Theatre Company: The Almighty Sometimes

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Kendall Feaver’s knotty drama takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people. Anna threw herself out of a window when she was seven. The following year, having read her somewhat macabre stories, her worried mother Renée took her to see a child psychiatrist, who prescribed a…

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