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ArtsLab: Reverb – ‘Tautua: A Journey’ by Fale Tumanu

Shopfront Arts Co-Op: Tautua: A Journey

Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
‘O le ala i le pule o le tautua’ (the path to leadership is service)’ – a prominent proverb in Sāmoan culture believed to be a way of life and how Sāmoan individuals navigate the world. In this exhilarating new autobiographical work, Fale Tumanu interrogates tautua using thought-provoking poetry and…
opera’s bad girl: anna bishop, the world’s first daringly defiant diva

Canberra REP Theatre: Opera’s bad girl: anna bishop, the world’s first daringly defiant diva

Canberra REP Theatre 3 Repertory Lane, Acton, ACT, Australia
A one-woman show with music (+Pianist) telling the story of the life of extraordinary trailblazing Victorian Diva, Anna Bishop, who carved a career traveling the world surviving extraordinary odds and events. Presented with story and arias and popular songs of the age.
The Pirates of Penzance

Hayes Theatre Co: The Pirates of Penzance

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
The Gilbert & Sullivan classic… re-wired and re-booted. (Swash) buckle in for an epic voyage as the Hayes Theatre Co harness the irreverent, genre-busting spirit of a sprawling, satirical, musical masterwork, and bring it to raucous new life for a 21st-century audience. This brand-new, boisterously joyful adaptation is brought to…

BLINKING LIGHT: These Youths Be Protesting

KXT on Broadway Cnr Broadway & Bay St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ meets ‘Don’t Look Up’ in this comedy about climate change. The students of Sunlake Downs High School’s Recycling club hold a cake stall to raise money for one of those cool machines that turns cans and bottles into money. When a local politician donates to their…
Nijinsky

The Australian Ballet: Nijinsky

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Vaslav Nijinsky was at the height of his career during the early 20th century. His unparalleled performances brought him adoring fans while his evocative and sensual choreography caused riots in theatres in Paris. In a tragic turn of events, Nijinsky succumbed to the effects of schizophrenia, spending the remainder of…
Editor's Choice Mansfield Park

Victorian Opera: Mansfield Park

Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat 17 Lydiard St, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
Described as “a musical and theatrical treat” in a four-star review for Limelight, Jonathan Dove’s brilliant musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1814 novel arrives in Ballarat for two shows only. Mansfield Park follows the romantic adventures of Fanny Price. As a girl with limited prospects, she was sent by her…
Editor's Choice

Sydney Theatre Company: Bloom

Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
This new Australian musical played to sold-out houses when it premiered at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2023. The fact that Tom Gleisner of Working Dog fame (The Castle, The Dish, Utopia, Have You Been Paying Attention?) wrote the book and lyrics was doubtless part of the appeal. Bloom (with music…
Devotion

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Devotion

Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Canadian virtuoso James Ehnes, a good friend of the ASO, returns to play Brahms’ Violin Concerto; a quest for beauty, which is revealed in the velvety second movement and celebrated in a jubilant Hungarian finale. Lotta Wennäkoski’s Hava follows, with swirling winds and lively percussion igniting a burst of spontaneous energy. The…
The Machine Stops

Theatre Works: The Machine Stops

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
From the team that brought you The Human Voice and Moth comes the radical 1909 dystopian epic that predicted the internet. Be transported by this world premier of a new adaptation of the brilliant novella The Machine Stops by EM Forster. In this chilling tale of a futuristic information-orientated society…
Antilton

Theatre Works: Antilton

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
A struggling artist has the strange idea to take Lin-Manuel Miranda’s global smash hit musical Hamilton, and recreate it almost word for word, except for one key difference: now it’s about ants instead of people. Worse yet- they want to perform it in their own backyard, and have roped their…

Seymour Centre: Moulin Scrooge – The Adults-only Panto Returns

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Trevor Ashley, one of Australia’s most celebrated drag and cabaret performers, returns for a strictly limited season alongside the legendary Carlotta in this smash-hit adults-only panto! Follow cabaret diva Satôn (Ashley) and club owner Astrid Zeneca (Carlotta) as they fight to save their beloved Moulin Beige from greedy developers. Packed…

Queensland Symphony Orchestra: James Bond – Skyfall in Concert

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre Glenelg St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Film Concerts Live! is proud to present Skyfall in Concert, the second instalment in the James Bond Concert Series, produced in association with EON Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM). Daniel Craig returns as the legendary secret agent in the franchise’s most successful film to date. Now you will…

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