• Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: String Spectacular

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Could the waltz from Serenade for Strings be the most charming piece of music ever written? Decide for yourself when you hear the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky’s music inside Melbourne Recital Centre. This concert is dedicated entirely to the luscious sounds of the string orchestra. Tchaikovsky’s yearningly romantic music…
    Red Sky Morning

    Theatre Works: Red Sky Morning

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    A powerful and poetic story about family, silence, and finding hope in the everyday. Life in the country can be beautiful and brutally honest. In RED SKY MORNING, we meet a woman, a man, and a girl who live under the same roof but have slowly drifted apart. Over the…

    One Equal Music: Lux

    Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Paddington 369 Given Terrace, Paddington, QLD, Australia
    One Equal Music Foundation, the core of our emerging artist development, offers a luminous meditation on light and transcendence. LUX brings together centuries of shining choral masterpieces, uniting renaissance and romantic masterworks from Tallis and Elgar with glowing soundscapes from MacMillan. This concert is a showcase of the Foundation's exceptional…
    Once

    Chapel off Chapel: Once

    Chapel off Chapel 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, VIC, Australia
    From the very first note, Once draws you in and never lets go. This emotionally captivating musical is the only show to feature music that has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Olivier Award and a Tony Award, and it’s easy to hear why. Set on the streets of Dublin, Once follows an Irish…
    DRACULA

    West Australian Ballet: Dracula

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    BLOOD DRIES FASTER IN THIS AIR. He’s waited centuries for this moment. Dracula rises again, in the return of this multi award-winning, audience favourite. Prepare to be consumed in the seductive storyline, magnificent score and breathtaking set and costume design again – or for the very first time. Based on…
    Retrograde

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Retrograde

    Fairfax Studio
    Director Bert LaBonté (Topdog/Underdog) steers this alarmingly timely and ‘wickedly funny’ (The Standard) work starring newcomer Donné Ngabo (Last Days) and international screen star Alan Dale (24, The O.C.) to its blistering conclusion. It’s the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, fuelled by big money and heady ambition. Paranoia simmers beneath…
    AN ILIAD

    Sydney Theatre Company: AN ILIAD

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A wry, witty and world-weary poet introduces himself as a storyteller, bound to recount the myth of the Trojan War until humanity can overcome its rage for violence and destruction. Award-winning international star David Wenham returns to Sydney Theatre Company as the Poet: a man who has spent millennia walking…
    Editor's Choice The Sapphires

    Queensland Theatre Company: The Sapphires

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Tony Briggs’ popular musical The Sapphires debuted at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2004 and has since been staged in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, London and South Korea. In 2021, it was adapted into a film starring Jessica Mauboy and Miranda Tapsell. Based on the true story of Briggs’ mother, Laurel Robinson, The Sapphires is set…
    Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…
    Editor's Choice Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Robert Harling wrote his 1987 play Steel Magnolias after his sister died from complications relating to diabetes following the birth of her son. The tragicomedy is set in Truvy’s beauty parlour in a small Southern town in Louisiana, where a group of women support each other through life’s ups and downs. The…
    Ensemble Theatre: 84 Charing Cross Road

    Ensemble Theatre: 84 Charing Cross Road

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A heartwarming true story of friendship, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD celebrates the enduring bonds forged through letters, books, and a shared love of words. When a wisecracking New York writer and a reserved London bookdealer strike up a correspondence over their shared love of dusty old books, neither expects to…
    Belvoir Theatre: The Birds

    Belvoir St Theatre: The Birds

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    PAULA ARUNDELL GOES WILD IN A NEW TAKE ON DAPHNE DU MAURIER’S CLASSIC “How many millions of years of memory are stored in those brains? Behind the stabbing beaks. Behind the piercing eyes.” Nature isn’t behaving. The weather is doing strange things, the sea and sky sound different, and things…