• Specials

    Arts House: Specials

    Arts House 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Simon and Cheryl were once at Special School together. And through a quirk of fate, they soon will be again. When the pair travel back in time to their days as students, they are once more fighting the forces that showed them the real cost of being Special: the evil…
    Beyond The Neck

    Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
    A Man of No Importance

    Neglected Musicals: A Man of No Importance

    The musical takes place in Dublin in 1964. Alfie Byrne, a middle-aged bachelor living a quiet life with his spinster sister, works as a bus conductor by day and by night as a amateur theatre impresario dedicated to the plays of his hero, Oscar Wilde. A modest man, a quiet man,…
    Stage Kiss

    New Theatre: Stage Kiss

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “When I kissed you just now, did it feel like an actor kissing an actor or a person kissing a person…?” Two actors, and former lovers, unexpectedly reunite when cast opposite each other in a forgotten 1930s melodrama. As rehearsals progress and onstage romance echoes their past, the lines between…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Ravel, Mahler and Beethoven

    Federation Concert Hall Hobart, TAS, Australia
    From its whip-crack opening, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G is famously fun for the audience and notoriously difficult to play. Our musicians are up for the challenge, led by Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Eivind Aadland and joined by brilliant pianist, Cédric Tiberghien. The program features two works by Mahler:…
    Editor's Choice West Gate

    Melbourne Theatre Company: West Gate

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dennis McIntosh was 12 when Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapsed on 15 October, 1970. He and his friends heard the terrible thud from their school – something he has never forgotten. Thirty-five men died in what remains Australia’s deadliest industrial accident. For the past decade, McIntosh has been working on a play…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Ultrafox feat Georgia Brookes

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    Ultrafox presents hot swinging jazz, tender lyrical ballads, French melodies and gypsy waltzes. Joined by the remarkable Georgia Brookes on vocals, this show is pre-war Paris–inspired jazz at its finest. Formed over 15 years ago by guitarist Peter Baylor, Ultrafox has earned a reputation as one of Australia’s premier swing…
    My Brilliant Career

    Sydney Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “The holy grail of Australian musical theatre” The Age Miles Franklin’s classic novel as you’ve never seen it before, with a live soundtrack that’s equal parts contemporary pop, folksy bush band and barnstorming pub rock. Beloved by audiences and showered with five-star reviews, My Brilliant Career was Melbourne’s most in-demand ticket in 2024.…
    Editor's Choice Madama Butterfly

    Opera Australia: Madama Butterfly

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Moffatt Oxenbould’s much-loved staging of Puccini’s classic was officially retired by Opera Australia in 2017. Now, it’s making a comeback, revived here by Matthew Barclay. “It’s cleverly conceived by Oxenbould and his design team as an exotic, seductive world as seen through Pinkerton’s eyes,” wrote Jo Litson for Limelight. OA’s…
    Anna Lapwood

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Anna Lapwood performs Max Richter

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Fresh from its 2025 BBC Proms debut, his luminous concerto for organ, orchestra and choir Cosmology receives its Australian premiere. Co-commissioned by the Sydney Symphony and written for and performed by Anna Lapwood – one of classical music’s brightest stars – Cosmology is a radiant showcase for her powerful presence and natural ability to connect. Her…

    Canberra Philharmonic Society: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

    ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
    In a moment of perfect syzygy, Canberra Philharmonic is ecstatic, elated, euphoric, thrilled, overjoyed and rapturously happy to announce that our first show for 2026 is the delightful, whimsical, sweet and hilarious 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, coming to you from 12 – 28 March 2026. We are thrilled to…
    George Rigden – Self-Inflicted

    Melbourne International Comedy Festival: George Rigden – Self-Inflicted

    The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    Nominee Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 Nominee Best Musical Comedy Show 2018 Leicester Comedy Festival In 2020, George Rigden was roundly (and rightly) cancelled, and his life fell apart. In 2025, he was finally diagnosed with autism, finally sobered up – and began to put his life back together. Now,…