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Event Series Bright

Footscray Community Arts: Bright

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia
Footscray Community Arts presents Bright – a joyful art exhibition that ignites the senses, inviting audiences to touch, explore and connect from 10 October to 12 December 2023. The exhibition’s radical curatorial process brings together five installations without a defined beginning or end, each beckoning the artlover to interact with…

PICA: The Purple Shall Govern

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 51 James Street, Perth, WA, Australia
Artist Roberta Joy Rich delves into South Africa and Australia’s histories of segregation, oppression and resilience. Featuring archival material, Roberta asks, "How does power define public space?"
Event Series mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape

Maningrida Arts and Culture: mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape

Flinders University Museum of Art Flinders University, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
An exquisite collection of 48 works spotlighting contemporary painting practice in central and western Arnhem Land and the recent rise and recognition of women in this realm. It comprises paintings on bark and on carved and woven objects, featuring imagery that has its roots in ancient rock art and ceremonial…
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…
Event Series The Face of Jizo

Omusubi Productions: The Face of Jizo

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
The Face of Jizo centres on a father and daughter in the aftermath of war. Tender, beautiful and seasoned with moments of familial humour, this acclaimed Japanese play makes its Australian premiere at the Old Fitz Theatre. Three years after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6…
Democracy Repair Services
Event Series Democracy Repair Services

The Blue Room Theatre: Democracy Repair Services

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
Four teenagers wrestle with how to make a difference, what constitutes democratic process… and whether, or not, to blow up a pipeline.  In the middle of a scorching summer election campaign, Viv, Elena, Fin & Billy get together to change the course of history and come to terms with their…
IRL
Event Series IRL

La Boite: IRL

La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
Being a gay 17-year-old cosplayer with a mild Disney Princess obsession, a TV celebrity as a best friend and a first date with a shy guy you met online takes awkward to the next level. IRL is fairytale meets fanfiction in the quest for ‘happily ever after’. It is a…
A woman dressed like Billie Holiday with white roses in her hair looks over her shoulder into the camera.
Editor's Choice Event Series Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Melbourne Theatre Company: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
It’s 1959. In a small, run-down bar in Philadelphia, Billie Holliday gives one of her final performances, a few months before her death at age 44. As the jazz songs and standards flow, so do the reminiscences. Zahra Newman stars in Lanie Robertson’s musical play, directed by Mitchell Butel. When…
A woman looks shocked as she's handed a letter by a hand from someone out of shot.

Bell Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Washed up in a strange new land, determined to survive, Viola disguises herself as a man named Cesario and finds work with Duke Orsino, only to fall head over heels in love with him. But Orsino is in love with Olivia, who – grieving for her brother – refuses all…
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Editor's Choice

Sydney Theatre Company: The Dictionary of Lost Words

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
South Australian author Pip Williams’ much loved, best-selling novel has been adapted for the stage by Verity Laughton. It begins in 1886. As the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is being compiled by her father and his male colleagues, Esme starts to collect her own set of words neglected by…
Event Series Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

TEG Dainty: Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Direct from Broadway, this smash-hit musical phenomenon is a celebration of an unstoppable woman who became the Queen of Rock n’ Roll. With 37 award nominations including Best New Musical (Olivier Awards) and Best Musical (Tony Awards), this heart-pumping production is guaranteed to raise the roof at Theatre Royal Sydney…
In The Club Theatre Works

Theatre Works: In The Club

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Annie, Ruby and Olivia are going out. They want to get laid, get loose, get love — but they are women in a world of men. Not just any men, gods among men, their beloved boys, the boys of the AFL. And the rules of the game out there in…

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