• A Thing Called Birthday

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op: A Thing Called a Birthday

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
    Do we need another hero? This is a much debated question but the answer is probably, yes! Do you like births? Do you like days? We've combined the two into one concept- a birthday! Do you like tights and mortality? Join us for our Birth Day celebration! Where:... When:... How:...…
    The Bookbinder

    Trick of the Light: The Bookbinder

    HOTA Home of the Arts 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
    An old man sits down to read the tale of an erstwhile bookbinding apprentice. As he speaks the story spills from the pages and into the bindery. The Bookbinder weaves shadow play, paper art, puppetry, and music into an original dark fairytale in the vein of Coraline and Jonathon Strange and Mr…
    The Other Side of Me

    Gary Lang NT Dance Company: The Other Side of Me

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    An aching dance duet of a man’s struggle with identity, loss and otherness and the redemptive beauty of singing his spirit home One mother’s love, another’s loss. Between them the child that grows to a man who can never return home. The Other Side of Me by Gary Lang shares the tragedy…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at the Convent: Interstellar Call

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Messiaen's Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call) sits at the heart of this program: a solo horn work that transforms breath and resonance into something vast and otherworldly. Alongside it, music by Dukas, Tomasi, Boulanger, and Bizet reveal how French composers reimagined the brass ensemble as ceremonial and spiritual — capable of…
    The Savages

    Voxalis Opera: The Savages

    Saint Andrew's Uniting Church 299 Ann St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    A world shaped by division and violence, by mysticism and constant change. A world that feels both overwhelming and strangely familiar. What if opera and song could hold up a mirror to it? Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations does exactly that. At its heart, the song cycle is a portrait of…
    Lose To Win

    Belvoir St Theatre: Lose To Win

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    One young man’s border-crossing, autobiographical odyssey, from South Sudan to the theatre’s stage. When war ravages everything you know, imagination becomes a tool of survival. Lose to Win is Mandela Mathia’s autobiographical telling of his journey as a refugee from the Sudanese civil war, through Egypt and onto Australia. Mathia’s voyage is…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Interstellar Call

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Taking its title from Olivier Messiaen’s Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call), this program traces the evolution of the modern French brass sound — from the grandeur of early 20th-century fanfares to Messiaen’s cosmic lyricism. Written in 1971 as part of Des canyons aux étoiles..., Messiaen’s solo horn piece sits at the heart of the…
    ArtsLab: Overflow

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op: ArtsLab: Overflow

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
    Shopfront Arts ArtsLab: Overflow, is a festival of seven new creative works by emerging artists. With bold new performance works spanning installation, theatre, puppetry, carving, performance art and film – this year’s ArtsLab is an exciting blend of young voices.⁠ This year, we’re also thrilled to welcome two incredible emerging…
    Your Song

    The Little Red Company: Your Song

    Sydney Opera House - Playhouse , Australia
    Your Song celebrates the unforgettable music of megastar Elton John and the memorable moments it evokes for everyday people, reimagining Elton’s biggest songs including Candle in the Wind, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, I’m Still Standing, Benny and the Jets, Rocket Man and Tiny Dancer using powerful stories and personal experiences…
    Game. Set. Match.

    Malthouse Theatre: Game. Set. Match.

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Ray meets Joshua after the funeral of his mother, an Australian tennis legend. The pair hit it off, with banter that flies back and forth like a rally at Wimbledon. Over one boozy night during the Australian Open, we witness a classic match of will-they-or-won’t they? But you’ll never guess how…
    Exoticism

    Horizon Festival: Exoticism

    Black Box Theatre at The Old Ambulance Station 80 Howard Street, Nambour, QLD, Australia
    Performed by Lucky Lartey and Vishnu Arunasalam - dancers with distinct cultural backgrounds and training - the choreography (also by Lucky Lartey) uses mirroring, symmetry and contrast to probe binaries like race and gender, revealing both difference and shared humanity. Audiences will encounter dynamic dance interwoven with installation, including video…
    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…