This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

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In a series of delightfully excruciating theatre games, the underlying hurts of five ordinary people are gently revealed.

Taking on roles played in the movie by Julia Roberts and Richard Gere is daunting but exciting too, say Samantha Jade and Ben Hall.

An astonishingly good Dolly Parton dupe provides nearly all the style for a jukebox musical otherwise short on substance.

Chloé Charody brings her politically charged performance pieces to Melbourne for the first time. "I want to use my platform to amplify the voices the world wants to forget,” she tells Limelight.

With a different performer cold-reading every night, plus some video trickery, playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s new show is enjoyably unsettling.

Marina Prior shines in a zany, emotional roller coaster with all the feels.

What would we do if all the rubbish we hurled into the world came back to bite us? A new show at La Boite confronts our uncertain future.

Rhoda Roberts’ monologue about her Olympic boxer cousin is also the story of the First Nations people’s fight for justice and respect.