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Brisbane Music Festival: Stefan Cassomenos in Recital

FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
Stefan Cassomenos performs Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Miranda Driessen's Werden Menschen Brüder? Alle?, György Ligeti's Etude No. 4 Fanfares and Galina Ustvolskaya's Sonata No. 1.
Memory of Water

Ensemble Theatre: The Memory of Water

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Shelagh Stephenson’s poignant and painfully funny comedy is about conflicting memories, life and loss. Mary, Catherine and Teresa are sisters who share a common past. A world of disputed bicycles, midnight ice-cream sodas, cocktail dresses and their Mum’s perfumed advice. A seaside…
Robyn Archer
Event Series Robyn Archer: An Australian Songbook

Belvoir St Theatre: Robyn Archer: An Australian Songbook

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Robyn Archer — icon, legend of the Australian stage, and provocateur — has thrilled audiences with her rich renditions of the great songbooks of Europe and America. Now, Robyn turns her distinctive and fearless talents to songs that describe the difficult, wonderful place that is Australia. From the music of…
Loot-New Theatre

New Theatre: Loot

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
“Euthanasia is against my religion so I decided to murder her.” Young thieves (and lovers) Hal and Dennis need a place to stash the cash from a bank robbery. The coffin of Hal’s recently-deceased mother, currently at home awaiting burial by her bereaved husband Mr McLeavy, is the perfect solution.…
Event Series The Wharf Revue: Pride in Prejudice

Soft Tread: The Wharf Revue: Pride in Prejudice

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
The Wharf Revue is back for another year of sensational value! Satirical content is up by 7% and the average laughter quotient is indexed at 8.3% over the forward estimates. With over twenty-three years experience in the political satire space, Australia’s most trusted revue-based practitioners continue the tradition with this year’s hilarious…

Montsalvat: Anton Delecca Quintet

Montsalvat 7 Hillcrest Avenue, Eltham, VIC, Australia
Talented tenor saxophonist Anton Delecca’s music is soulful and passionate, drawing from a diverse range of influences including folk, gospel, spiritual jazz, 70’s acid fusion and music from the current New York City jazz scene. Delecca was based in New York from 2017-2019 where he recorded his fifth album ‘The…

OzAsia Festival: Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance piece. It is a fusion of dance, text, and song, underscored by dynamic visual elements, a compelling original musical score, and of course – a tea ceremony. Drawing inspiration from the historical Japanese female entertainer, Izumo no Okuni, initiator…
The Boy From Oz

Encore Theatre Company (TAS): The Boy From Oz

Princess Theatre, Launceston (Theatre North) 55/57 Brisbane Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
The Boy from Oz tells the dazzling, funny and heartbreaking story of the life of legendary Australian entertainer and songwriter, Peter Allen. From humble beginnings in the 1950s, growing up in Tenterfield NSW, Peter was singing in country pubs at age 11. He survived family tragedy, to become a local teenage…
Beyond the Break
Event Series 25A – Beyond the Break

Belvoir St Theatre: 25A – Beyond the Break

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Are you proud to be an Australian? Our orator explores the dazzling light and confusing shadow of this question. As a person of mixed race, he finds himself straddling multiple worlds, whilst being truly included in none. Shifting between poem and prose, this raw and epic work grapples with how…
Elvis: A Musical Revolution
Event Series Elvis – A Musical Revolution

David Venn Enterprises: Elvis – A Musical Revolution

Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Featuring over 40 hit songs, Elvis: A Musical Revolution celebrates the extraordinary life of award winning, cultural icon, Elvis Presley. From his childhood in Mississippi, to his triumphant ‘68 Comeback Special, and ascent to become ‘The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’, this brand-new high-energy production explores the pivotal moments in…

Alessandro Pittorino: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
Don your finest Halloween costume and prepare to unleash your inner monster this October. Perth Concert Hall’s 3000-pipe organ will be commanded by virtuoso organist Alessandro Pittorino (graduate of the famed Juilliard School in New York City), who will release the beast accompanying the 1931 silent film classic, Dr Jekyll…
A dancer extends her leg against a backdrop of the Sydney Harbour waterfront.
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Sydney Opera House: Message in A Bottle

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Movement and mime take centre stage at the People’s House in October. A hit at the Adelaide and Edinburgh Festivals, Belgium’s Dimanche combines physical theatre and puppetry in a bittersweet, gravity-defying lament to extinction. Chi Udaka finds Taikoz and Lingalayam in a confluence of earth and water, with taiko drumming and Indian dance representing…

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