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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Dreamcrafters

Lecture Hall, Port Fairy Sackville Street, Port Fairy, VIC, Australia
Curators Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos have set out to examine our heritage and bloodlines, and to rejoice in “the miracle of how millions of notes in the hands of master musicians are crafted into stunning sonic stories,” all the while paying homage to the Ancient Greek mosaic and the…
Chip On Her Shoulder

Melbourne Fringe: Chip On Her Shoulder

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Single, Snacking, and Struggling: A Play About Chips, Comfort, and Coping Kate wishes she was all that — and a bag of chips. Spoiler: she’s not. She’s a mess, and she knows it. But she’s trying, sort of. She might even be a little bit salty — at life, at…
Sincere Apologies

Melbourne Fringe: Sincere Apologies

Trades Hall, Melbourne 2 Lygon St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Say sorry. Really mean it. Experience a performance built from all the apologies that the world keeps offering — the famous, the ridiculous, the deeply personal and those that begin every second email in our inboxes. Part theatrical ritual, part social experiment, Sincere Apologies explores what it means to apologise…
Flesh Vessel

The Australian Ballet: Flesh Vessel

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Through, around and between, Flesh Vessel is a hypnotic flow of carefully designed physical narrative. Demanding acute awareness, interconnection and kinetic calculation of its three performers (Jayden Wall, Melissa Pham and Ashley Mclellan), Flesh Vessel is a movement piece that tests physical intensity, precision and intuition to generate states of both tranquillity and focus,…

Cameo Rascale Entertainment: Cirque Nouvelle – A New Evolution of Circus

The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
Following sell-out shows in 2024, the internationally acclaimed, all-star cast of Cirque Nouvelle are back and ready to present a truly unique and versatile production. This world-class line up of circus performers have combined their acrobatic, juggling, aerial and balancing talents to create a show like no other. Led by a quirky…
The Taming of the Shrew

The Playwrought Project: The Taming of the Shrew

Wharf 2 Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company
Get ready to witness Shakespeare’s infamous battle of the sexes in a bold 70-minute production packed with grand Elizabethan costumes, devilish jokes and fresh twists. In this reimagined 1594, it is a matriarchal world where the women do the taming. This is Shrew like you’ve never seen it before. In…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Mozart & Harrison

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Mozart was the first to explore this combination in his Clarinet Quintet of 1789, written for Anton Stadler, the most gifted clarinettist in Vienna at the time. Across four exquisite movements we hear a gentle lullaby, a lively dance and lyrical passages that could almost be opera arias; while the…
Burlesque: The (parody) Dinner Show

Talk and Tease Comedy Cabaret: Burlesque – The (parody) Dinner Show

Level 1 Level 1/ 33 darlinghurst Rd, Potts Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
This is an immersive musical theatre and culinary experience unlike any other! Relish the theatrical whirlwind of acting, dancing, singing and storytelling as it unfolds around you from the comfort of your cabaret table...all while wining and dining on delicious modern Australian cuisine. This is a parody adaptation of the…

The Bizz with Johnno: eXposure

NorthcoteSocialClub 301 High St, Northcote VIC 3070, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
This isn’t just a gig. This is eXposure. We’re not your average showcase or scene. We’re a movement — a launchpad for Melbourne’s most electrifying, genre-bending talent. No gimmicks. No freebies. Just pure, unfiltered live music and real industry connection. eXposure is a ticketed industry event that unites past performers,…

The Blue Room Theatre: Resistance | ചെറുത്തുനില്പ്

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
In a world where women’s bodies often become battlegrounds for power and control, Resistance | ചെറുത്തുനില്പ് delves into themes of resilience and strength. Performed in Mohiniyattam, a traditional South Indian dance form that embodies ideal womanhood, the dancer subverts these norms, boldly confronting the narratives that shape women’s experiences. Choreographed…
Fate

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Fate

Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 bursts into life with the thunderous power of brass, setting a dramatic stage for the composer’s exploration of fate. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 offers a charming counterpoint, as Benjamin Grosvenor’s virtuosity infuses the playful and expressive dialogue between piano and orchestra. The concert begins with Akimenko’s celestial…
Monument

Red Stitch: Monument

Earl Arts Centre 10 Earl Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
Edith Aldridge is the youngest woman to be elected leader of her country. In the lush presidential suite of a heritage listed hotel, she has just 90 minutes to get ready for the biggest day of her life. Enter Rosie, a twenty-two year old makeup artist from the David Jonescounter,…

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