• Featherbrained (Melbourne Fringe)

    Melbourne Fringe Festival: Featherbrained

    The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    New Zealand comedian Oliver Pol is a silly goose. It's been a turbulent time in his life, having quit drinking, been through a very personal medical situation about which he'll happily massively overshare. Also he maybe wants to grow a moustache? Enter the mind of a certified overthinker and marvel…
    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…
    Log Boy

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Log Boy

    Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    A deliriously dark, heart-stabbing, and hilarious queer ghost story about love, grief, and the demons we can’t quite exorcise — especially the leather-clad ones. After the death of his fiancé, Anthony retreats to their country house to grieve, only to be haunted — literally and figuratively — by loss, lust,…
    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…
    Roisin McAlinden – Fairytale: Ending

    5 Foot Entertainment: Roisin McAlinden – Fairytale: Ending

    Bard's Apothecary Shop 7, 24 Crossley Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    A funny feminist anti-fairytale. If you’ve come here looking for happily ever after, you’ve come to the wrong place. Fairytales turned Roisin into a damsel in distress. This is her revenge. 'Like catching up with a brutally honest, very funny friend' ★★★★★ - On The House A rallying cry to…
    Too

    Tip Toe Theatre: Too

    The MC Showroom l1/50 Clifton Street, Prahran, NSW, Australia
    Someone is having their laser hair removal paid for by their mother. Another yearns for top surgery. A person drives a tire pump through their foot. Written by Bronte Lemaire, ‘Too’ is a verbatim play created from the real stories and thoughts from the non-binary community. Physicalised by a skilled…

    Contra Concerts: Giles Henderson Wannan – Chamber Music for Flute Viola & Harp

    The Old Museum Concert Hall 480 Gregory Terrrace, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
    Harpist Alice Giles, flautist Jonathan Henderson and violist James Wannan join forces to present a programme centred around French music and contemporary living composers. Together, these three artists bring extensive international experience as soloists, chamber musicians and orchestral performers. The sonority of the flute, drawn from the human breath, the…
    Islander

    Australian Theatre for Young People: Islander

    Pier 2/3, Suite 2/13A Hickson Rd Pier 2/3, Suite 2/13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    New friends, ancient fractures, one mystical adventure. Eilidh lives on an island. Adrift and with one eye on the horizon, she is aimless. It seems every day someone is leaving for the mainland, even her own mother. And then a whale washes up on the shore, followed soon after by…
    Pekka Kuusisto – Legends & Luminaries

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Pekka Kuusisto – Legends & Luminaries

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Pekka Kuusisto returns to the ACO after nearly a decade to direct music from four prodigious talents. Kuusisto is an artist unbound by convention, who embodies an artistic freedom that is unexpected and thrilling. As a renowned virtuoso and boundary-crossing composer, he pushes the limits of performance into exciting new…

    SuonaVoce™ Australia Pty Ltd: Baroque on the Hill — An Evening of Johann Sebastian Bach

    St Brigid's Church, Red Hill 78 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, QLD 4059, Brisbane, Red Hill, QLD, Australia
    Baroque on the Hill – An Evening of Johann Sebastian Bach brings internationally recognised baroque violinist Madeleine Easton and Brisbane harpsichordist Peter Roennfeldt together for an evening devoted entirely to J.S. Bach. Set in the atmospheric surrounds of heritage-listed St Brigid’s Church, Red Hill, the programme moves between Bach’s music…
    Editor's Choice Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…