Annie (Melbourne)

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Annie

Capitol Theatre, Sydney 13 Campbell St, Haymarket, NSW
The beloved tale of Annie has been capturing the hearts of theatregoers around the globe for generations. And now the production returns to the Capitol Theatre from March for a strictly limited season. Starring the incomparable Anthony Warlow as “Daddy” Warbucks, the show-stopping Debora Krizak as the infamous Miss Hannigan,…
And Then There Were None

Crossroads Live Australia: And Then There Were None

Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Agatha Christie’s breathtaking masterpiece, And Then There Were None opens at the Comedy Theatre in February. From the producers of the hugely successful Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap comes a brand-new production of the best-selling crime novel of all time. Ten strangers are lured to a solitary mansion on an island…
momenta

Sydney Dance Company: momenta

Ulumbarra Theatre Bendigo, VIC, Australia
From the most tender exchanges to an intense physical storm, witness an extraordinary force of movement, striking individuality and powerful unity, escalating to a joyous release. The connection is instinctive. The moment is transformational. momenta takes audiences on a journey into the poetry and physicality of human bonds. This mesmerising…
Editor's Choice Manon

The Australian Ballet: Manon

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece makes a welcome return after more than a decade. Originally created for The Royal Ballet in 1974, it came to our shores 20 years later, thrilling audiences with its sumptuous retelling of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel. Prepare to be moved by Manon’s doomed love affair with…
Editor's Choice The Wrong Gods

Belvoir St Theatre: The Wrong Gods

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
S. Shakthidharan enjoyed international success with his epic 2019 play Counting and Cracking about a Sri Lankan-Australian family across four generations. His latest stage work is a more intimate, 90-minute piece, featuring four performers. Co-produced with Melbourne Theatre Company, The Wrong Gods explores the tension between tradition and progress in…
Happy Days

Sydney Theatre Company: Happy Days

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Stage and screen icon Pamela Rabe (The Children, The War of The Roses, The Lost Echo) immerses herself in one of the greatest roles ever written, Happy Days’ eternal optimist, Winnie. Conceived and directed by award-winning theatre designer Nick Schlieper – Lighting Designer on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr…
Scenes From The Climate Era

Belvoir St Theatre: Scenes From The Climate Era

Hothouse Theatre Lincoln Causeway,, Wodonga, VIC, Australia
A frog, the last of its species, starts calling for a mate, but there’s no-one to hear. A group of friends reminisce about the last time they took a flight, before all that came to an end. Landholders in Borneo confront western environmentalists over who owns the forest. A scientist…
fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival

fortyfivedownstairs: The Juliet Letters

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Juliet Letters is a studio album by the British singer and songwriter Elvis Costello and British string quartet Brodsky Quartet released in 1993. Costello described the album as “a song sequence for string quartet and voice… It’s a little bit different. It’s not a rock opera. It’s a whole…

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): Northern Lights

Richard Gill Auditorium Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley, WA, Australia
WAAPA’s String Camerata and the Darlington Quartet present Holberg Suite Op.WAAPA’s String Camerata and the Darlington Quartet present Holberg Suite Op.40, Edvard Grieg’s joyous 200th birthday gift to the celebrated Norwegian writer, philosopher and playwright, Ludvig Holberg. It’s a sparkling reimaging of the Baroque music that Holberg would have heard…
Kew Court House Live

Boroondara Arts: Maggie Alley

Kew Court House 188 High Street, Kew, VIC, Australia
Maggie Alley is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocal powerhouse with an unfiltered view of life around her. She has an engrained habit of shaking the world by its hairy, devilish horns when she has something to say – which is often. A preternatural song writing talent recognised early by collaborators…

Boroondara Arts: Maggie Alley at Kew Court House Live

Kew Court House 188 High Street, Kew, VIC, Australia
Maggie Alley is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocal powerhouse with an unfiltered view of life around her. A preternatural song writing talent recognised early by collaborators like ARIA winner Matt Walker (producer of her first EP) and renowned Australian vocalist Dallas Frasca, long-time Melbourne music scribe Jeff Jenkins took to…

YIRRAMBOI: Tina – A Tropical Love Story

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Step into a world, where the sultry heat of the tropics meets the electrifying energy of a cultural icon. It’s 1993, in a sweltering Darwin amphitheatre in the Northern Territory. A young First Nations boy finds himself swept away by the legendary Tina Turner – an encounter that would spark…

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