• Editor's Choice The Gesualdo Six

    Dark Mofo: The Gesualdo Six

    MONA - Museum of Old and New Art 655 Main Rd, Berriedale, TAS, Australia
    Renowned for its consort singing, The Gesualdo Six begins its Australian tour at MONA’s Elektra – Anselm Kiefer’s colossal concrete amphitheatre. In Sydney, Lux Aeterna spans Tallis, Gesualdo, Tavener and contemporary composers including Joanna Marsh and Richard Rodney Bennett, while Hemispheres is a collaborative program of luminous polyphony with St James’ Choir. The British vocal…

    Bloomsday in Melbourne: Between The Lines – The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Now in their 32nd year of celebrating this much-loved worldwide event, Bloomsday in Melbourne proudly brings their latest season to fortyfivedownstairs, Between The Lines - The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters. A young scholar makes the discovery of the century – letters between James Joyce and comedy legend Groucho Marx –…
    C*ck

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: C*ck

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    WHO ARE YOU… WHEN LOVE DEMANDS A CHOICE? A razor-sharp modern classic about identity, desire and the cruelties of indecision. Mike Bartlett’s C*ck has, in just over a decade, secured its place as a seminal modern classic — strong, startling, and unforgettable, it’s a play that confronts identity, desire and the cruelties…
    Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Secret House: Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Seymour Centre and Secret House present the Australian premiere of Shooting Hedda Gabler by Nina Segal—a darkly unsettling, wickedly funny examination of ambition, manipulation and coercive control. When offered the lead part in a Norwegian film adaptation of Hedda Gabler, an actress seizes the opportunity to escape her past and gain…
    A Succulent Chinese Musical?!

    Flight Path Theatre: A Succulent Chinese Musical?!

    Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
    IT’S BACK: BIGGER. BETTER. MORE SUCCULENT. After a sold out Melbourne Fringe season and being named in TimeOut’s ‘Top 10’ for Melbourne International Comedy Festival, A Succulent Chinese Musical?! returns to Sydney, supersizing their hit fringe show into a full-scale two-act musical of epic portions. Bring your appetite for this…
    Romeo and Juliet

    Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): Romeo and Juliet

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Desire, dreams and destiny collide in the world’s most famous story of love at first sight. Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, this pair of star-cross’d lovers chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them. Don’t miss WAAPA’s…
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    Get ready to be seduced, swindled, and swept off your feet — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels hits the Hayes in a glittering new production that’s all charm, chaos, and con artistry at its most delicious. Based on the hit 1988 film starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, this Tony-nominated musical comedy…

    Monash Performing Arts Centres: Melba Big Band

    The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Led by Justine Jones, the all female Melba Big Band brings the golden age of swing to life with a powerhouse ensemble of brass and rhythm. Featuring music from the 1920s to 80s, the band performs classics by Count Basie, Glenn Miller and George Gershwin in a vibrant celebration of…
    The Deep Blue Sea

    ACT Hub: The Deep Blue Sea

    ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
    Chaika Theatre presents a fresh, emotionally charged interpretation of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, a timeless exploration of love, loss, and personal struggle. Set in the post-war austerity of 1950s London, the play follows Hester Collyer, a woman trapped in a turbulent affair with a passionate but troubled ex-fighter…
    Hair

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Hair

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Celebrating the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory, one of the most famous musicals of all time featuring “Aquarius,” “Good Morning, Starshine,” “Hair,” “I Got Life” and “Let The Sunshine In.” Identity, community, global responsibility and peace, HAIR remains relevant as ever as it examines what…
    Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    It begins with the four most famous notes in music. The legendary motif propels the entire first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth. The power of this symphony never relents, from those iconic opening moments to the bright light of the finale. The end of the third movement is electric, strings hovering…
    Kapitalism is your Friend!

    Qtopia Sydney: Kapitalism is your Friend!

    The Substation - Qtopia 136 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    Franzi has been asleep since 1989. She fell into a coma in East Berlin and has woken to a world where the Berlin Wall has fallen, and capitalism has thrown one hell of a party. Can she navigate this brave new world? Fresh from critical acclaim at Adelaide Fringe, KAPITALISM…