• Mind Games: Art Alive

    Baeu Medina: Mind Games: Art Alive

    154 Broadway 154-160 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    A new, woman-led, interactive, immersive and independent experiential playground has opened in Chippendale, in Sydney’s inner suburbs – at a scale and level of detail that has not been done in Australia. Comprising multisensory installations such as holographic moon rooms to upside-down trains, mirrored mazes, and perception puzzles, Mind Games:…
    ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School: ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School Corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’ celebrates the legacy and significant achievements of Margaret Olley AC – National Art School alum and one of Australia’s most beloved painters – through the lens of the European artistic tradition intimisme, which honours the quiet poetry of domestic life and the interior world. Drawing from significant public and private…
    Editor's Choice  My Fair Lady

    Opera Australia:  My Fair Lady

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Julie Andrews’ acclaimed recreation of the original 1956 Broadway blockbuster makes a welcome return to Sydney, under Karen Johnson Mortimer’s direction, followed by a run in Melbourne. George Bernard Shaw’s tale of a professor of linguistics who bets on his ability to make a Covent Garden flower girl pass as aristocracy has lost…
    The Village Square

    Melbourne Fringe Festival: The Village Square

    The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The Village Square combines live music performance and storytelling. Set in an imagined town some years ago (as all good fairy tales are), The Village Square presents narratives of love and loss, misfortune and mirth, the graceful and grotesque. Featuring renowned cellist Zoe Knighton, award winning guitarist/composer Robbie Melville, and…
    Brisbane Festival

    Brisbane Festival: Bright Nights By ANZ

    Verso Projects. Festival Village, Southbank Cultural Forecourt and Village GreenSuburb: South Bank, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Featuring an exclusive soundtrack from Brisbane music royalty The Veronicas. Bright Nights by ANZ transforms the Brisbane River into a dazzling, choreographed canvas of water, light, and sound. Floating fountains, waterscreens, amazing animated water features and water jets shooting up to 80 meters high, all pierced by a stunning laser…
    Ode To A Grape

    5 Foot Entertainment: Ode To A Grape

    The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    Prepare to be simultaneously charmed and berated by Tīrau’s resident self proclaimed artist, incompetent anarchist, and lover of grapes. Born in Limburg; Germany, Johann packed his quill and moved to the small town of Tīrau, (NZ) to free himself of his parental constraints and find himself as an artist. Now…
    Brisbane Festival

    Brisbane Festival: Bright Nights By ANZ

    Verso Projects. Festival Village, Southbank Cultural Forecourt and Village GreenSuburb: South Bank, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Featuring an exclusive soundtrack from Brisbane music royalty The Veronicas. Bright Nights by ANZ transforms the Brisbane River into a dazzling, choreographed canvas of water, light, and sound. Floating fountains, waterscreens, amazing animated water features and water jets shooting up to 80 meters high, all pierced by a stunning laser…
    FU*K! I Killed The Director

    Melbourne Fringe Festival: FU*K! I Killed The Director

    The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Blood-splattered silks, taut hairnets and two actors performing Romeo and Juliet moments after killing their director. Accidentally. DO NOT expect tap-dancing, a murder weapon, 39 mimed caged doves, silk underwear or an antigravity machine. This is a very traditional performance of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Kinda... Warnings: Flashing lights, simulated…
    Editor's Choice Eliza

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Eliza

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    As society grapples with the implications and ethics of rapidly advancing artificial technologies, Melbourne Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Eliza by Tom Holloway. The psychological thriller about the birth of AI is based on real events. Dr Joseph Weizenbaum, a brilliant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, carries the trauma of…
    Editor's Choice Small Mouth Sounds

    Queensland Theatre Company: Small Mouth Sounds

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Actions speak louder than words in this charming, wry comedy by American playwright Bess Wohl, set at a silent rural retreat. Six participants from the city, each with emotional baggage, gather for a week-long spiritual course run by a guru who still has some way to go on the transcendental…
    Editor's Choice Girls & Boys

    Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…
    Editor's Choice The Unfriend

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Unfriend

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    This deliciously dark comedy marked the stage debut of British TV titan Steven Moffat – the celebrated showrunner of Doctor Who and creator of Press Gang, Coupling, Sherlock and Douglas is Cancelled – and became a West End hit. While holidaying on a cruise ship, timorous, middle-class couple Peter and Debbie befriend…