• Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Theatre: Drive Your Plough Over The Bones Of The Dead

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
      PAMELA RABE AND EAMON FLACK TAKE ON THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNERS’ WHODUNNIT This is Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece, now a theatrical tour-de-force led by the great Pamela Rabe. Janina Duszejko, a woman of retiring age, lives quietly in a remote village. But one winter, men start being murdered in her district,…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Symphonic Cinema –The Planets

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    More than a visual accompaniment to music, this is a deeply felt journey that expands the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall into a shared space of wonder and reflection. Van Woerkum performs as a cinema soloist, matching his film in real time to the Orchestra’s performance; as Holst’s celestial masterpiece…
    Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Isla and Violet are a ‘lethal combination’. Their self-righteous headmaster thinks that’s an insult. They think it’s a cute name for a girl group. Too smart, too precocious and way too outspoken, it’s no surprise when these self-proclaimed soulmates are SEPARATED until the end of the year. But the world outside…
    Editor's Choice Daniel Verstappen: The Cinematic Piano Experience

    Big Deal Touring: Daniel Verstappen: The Cinematic Piano Experience

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Belgian pianist-composer Daniel Verstappen returns following his 2024 debut, performing alongside Melbourne-based violinist Yena Choi. The program combines Verstappen’s own works with film music staples including Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission and Cinema Paradiso by Ennio Morricone, Time from Inception and Now We Are Free from Gladiator by Hans Zimmer,…
    Trophy Boys

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Trophy Boys

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    St Imperium College’s all-boys team think they’ve got the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament in the bag. It’s the most important night of the academic year and the private school lads believe they’re about to intellectually own their sister school. The topic up for debate: “feminism…

    WA Youth Jazz Orchestra: Women in Big Band

    Margaret River HEART 47 Wallcliffe Road, Margaret River, WA, Australia
    Big band jazz has always been shaped by extraordinary women as composers, arrangers, instrumentalists, and bandleaders, even when their contributions haven’t always been given the spotlight. Women & Big Band celebrates the powerful legacy and ongoing influence of women in large-ensemble jazz. Featuring music by trailblazers such as Melba Liston,…
    Howl

    Omega Ensemble: Howl

    ACO on the Pier Suite 3/13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    Howl presents a performance of musical defiance and untamed brilliance. Best known as the musical mind behind Tim Burton's dark cinematic worlds, Danny Elfman’s mischievous Piano Quartet is a rare and revealing gem, written with the same sardonic humour and manic intensity that define his film scores. Celebrating the strange…
    Chicago The Musical

    Darwin Musical Theatre Inc.: Chicago The Musical

    Browns Mart 12 Smith Street, Darwin, NT, Australia
    In roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap... until he finds out he's been dumped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the…

    City Recital Hall: Melodies of Gallipoli

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Melodies of Gallipoli is a powerful symphonic production that brings to life the human experiences of the Gallipoli campaign through music, narration and visual storytelling. Blending history with artistry, the production invites audiences to reflect on one of the most defining chapters shared by Australia and Türkiye. Following its sold-out premiere…
    Editor's Choice Audible Edge ’26

    Tone List: Audible Edge ’26 — A festival of exploratory music (Saturday Night)

    Victoria Hall 179 High St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
    Artist-led, international and delightfully unpredictable, this annual festival of exploratory music is housed in Fremantle’s Victoria Hall, creating a space for virtuosic and “anti-virtuosic” improvisation, forward-thinking club sets and participatory play. Seed-funded artists include composer Simon Charles and poet John Kinsella, experimental electronic music producers Lia T and R. Glacken,…
    Beyond The Neck

    The Clocktower Centre: Beyond The Neck

    The Clocktower Centre 750 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds, VIC, Australia
    A mother. A teenager. A tour guide. A man who can’t outrun the past. Their lives don’t intersect – until they do, in the aftershock of one day Australia won’t forget. Tom Holloway’s Beyond the Neck is a profoundly compassionate portrait of a community living with loss. Four individual stories…
    35MM: A Musical Exhibition

    QPAC: 35MM: A Musical Exhibition

    QPAC - Cremorne Theatre
    A picture is worth 1,000 words – what about a song? Can a picture inspire a song or fifteen? In 35MM: A Musical Exhibition, each photo creates a unique song, moments frozen in time; a glimmer of a life unfolding, a glimpse of something happening. A stunning new multimedia musical which explores a…