• The Sleeping Beauty

    The Stuttgart Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Performing in Australia for the first time in decades, Germany’s premier ballet company, The Stuttgart Ballet, brings Marcia Haydée’s The Sleeping Beauty exclusively to Melbourne, by special invitation from The Australian Ballet. Proving that dreams do come true, guest company The Stuttgart Ballet bring The Sleeping Beauty to Melbourne. At the Regent…
    Editor's Choice The Spare Room

    Victorian Opera: The Spare Room

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    In composer Jane Hammond and librettist Therèsa Borg’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, Helen has offered her spare room to her friend Nicola, who is coming to Melbourne for an unconventional treatment that she believes will cure her cancer. Over three weeks, Helen becomes nurse, judge and guardian angel…
    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…
    And Then There Were None

    John X Presents: And Then There Were None

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Ten strangers are lured to a solitary mansion off the coast, each harbouring a dark secret. When a recorded message accuses them all of unpunished crimes, the tension becomes palpable. One by one, they begin to die in accordance with a sinister nursery rhyme, and the realisation sets in that…
    Editor's Choice A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Paul Dainty, Ken Davenport & Bob Gaudio: A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Created in consultation with Neil Diamond himself, the jukebox musical, A Beautiful Noise, charts his rise to superstardom through the songs that defined his life and career, among them Cracklin’ Rosie, Forever in Blue Jeans and Sweet Caroline. Famous for his swaggering sexuality and velvet-meets-gravel voice, Diamond is conjured by two…

    Melbourne Baroque Orchestra: Lully and De Lalande at Versailles

    Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park 210-218 Richardson St, Middle Park, VIC, Australia
    Directed by the much-acclaimed Michael Fulcher, MBO and PV will present two astonishingly beautiful and rarely heard motets created by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Michel-Richard De Lalande for the great occasions of court life at Versailles. The orchestra, bursting with the exquisite sonorities of winds, violas (six of them), gamba, and…
    CLOUD BANK @ Backbone Festival

    Backbone Festival: CLOUD BANK

    Seven Hills Hub 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills QLD 4170, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Cloud Bank is at once both a lighting installation of a lightning storm inside a room and a bespoke venue to house new visual works for Young Audiences. Cloud Bank is a place of sanctuary, a store of wonder, and a repository of dreams; somewhere my armour falls off, and…
    Blackadder Live on Stage!

    Harbour Theatre: Blackadder Live on Stage!

    Harbour Theatre 16 Lochee Street, Mosman Park, WA, Australia
    Harbour Theatre brings the second series of the classic British comedy Blackadder to life at Camelot in Mosman Park this October. Join Edmund Blackadder, Queenie, Baldrick and Sir Percy in two favourite episodes set in Elizabethan England. In Potato, Blackadder’s attempt to outdo Sir Walter Raleigh at sea goes disastrously…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Triumph of the Spirit

    Federation Concert Hall Hobart, TAS, Australia
    We're joined by the TSO Chorus, star vocal soloists and a familiar face on the podium for this concert that begins and ends with Beethoven. Leonore Overture No 3, written for the 1806 version of Beethoven’s one and only opera, Fidelio, features an off-stage trumpet and furious strings. Beethoven’s Mass…
    We Are The Tigers

    Cheers Productions: We Are The Tigers

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    It’s the annual sleepover of the Giles Corey High Cheerleading Squad, and team captain Riley is determined to lead her squad to redemption after last year’s spectacular flop. But what starts as a night of pizza and team bonding in the basement quickly spirals into chaos — there’s a killer…
    Young Frankenstein

    Theatre Works: Young Frankenstein

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    From the outrageous mind of Mel Brooks comes Young Frankenstein, the gloriously silly, lightning-powered musical comedy that celebrates everything wonderfully ridiculous about classic horror and big Broadway spectacle. When the impeccably serious Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (…that’s “Fronk-en-steen,” if you please) inherits his family’s eerie Transylvanian estate, he is determined to…