• Editor's Choice La Traviata

    Opera Australia: La Traviata

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Verdi’s iconic tale makes landfall in Melbourne. Sarah Giles, one of Australia’s most thoughtful theatremakers, deploys a lightly updated setting to explore the opera’s emotional heart. Stacey Alleaume and Maria Laura Iacobellis share the role of the consumptive heroine Violetta, with Filipe Manu and Oreste Cosimo as her lover Alfredo,…
    Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    In VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, master of comedy, Christopher Durang, takes characters and themes from Chekhov, pours them into a blender and mixes them up. The utterly hilarious and occasionally touching result is his multi-award-winning play set in present day Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Vanya and his stepsister…

    Monash Performing Arts Centres: Black Jesus Experience

    The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The Black Jesus Experience (BJX) delivers the power and beauty of Africa through the prism of Hip-Hop, jazz and the freedom of funk. The multi award winning ensemble presents an irresistibly danceable alloy of traditional Azmari Ethiopian song and 21st century groove. The band features an incredible line-up of artists…
    Editor's Choice Alexander Gavrylyuk performs Rachmaninov

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Alexander Gavrylyuk Performs Rachmaninov

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Recently announced as General Music Director in Stuttgart, Nicholas Carter conducts an ocean-inspired program featuring Benjamin Britten’s Sea Interludes, Claude Debussy’s La Mer and the Australian premiere of Jeanne Demessieux’s Poème. Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk joins the SSO for Rachmaninov’s notoriously difficult Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, composed in 1934…
    Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett

    Velvick: Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett

    Meat Market 3 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Season extended until 7th June due to phenomenal demand!!! Following a phenomenal, sell-out 2025 season, and due to overwhelming demand, Club Kabarett returns to North Melbourne’s iconic Meat Market. The critically acclaimed show is once again led by the undisputed queen of Weimar kabarett, Bernie Dieter. Renowned for her immense…
    Beasts

    Theatre Works: Beasts

    Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    A group of dejected young men turn to the dark corners of the internet to restore their self-imposed “virtue”, striking a Faustian deal with the gruesome personification of masculinity: Alpha, to give them back the world they believe they are owed. But, in their quest for the perfect masculine ideal…
    Opera Lecture Series

    Opera Bites: Opera Lecture Series

    City of Sydney Creative Studios 119 Bathurst Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Since 2003, Opera Bites Co-Founder Murray Dahm has delivered accessible, friendly and informative lectures, drawing on its history, culture and music. Enjoy exploring a variety of areas of operatic history from composers and voice types through to genres and quirky bits of opera trivia. From Verdi and Puccini to opera…
    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:…
    Editor's Choice Interwoven

    Australian String Quartet: Interwoven

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    This program of vivid contrasts is anchored by Elizabeth Younan’s Interwoven, a recent work exploring connection and expression. Haydn’s String Quartet in A major – part of his revolutionary Sun series – brings wit and invention, while Prokofiev’s wartime Second Quartet in F major draws on Caucasian folk idioms. Clara Schumann’s Variations,…
    My Brilliant Career

    Merrigong Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    IPAC 32 Burelli St, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    Hailed as a ‘funny, feminist triumph’ (The Guardian) and earning multiple five-star reviews for its sold-out premiere season in Melbourne, the joyous My Brilliant Career now embarks on a limited, exclusive Australian tour. Ready to blow Wollongong away, it’s a big-hearted musical for all who dream of a bigger, more brilliant life. Set in…
    Event Horizon

    Artspace: Event Horizon

    Artspace The Gunnery, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Roadway,, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    Artspace presents Event Horizon, the first major solo Australian exhibition by renowned Australian conceptual artist Michaela Gleave from Friday 6 March to Sunday 7 June 2026, with the opening event taking place on Thursday 5 March at 6:00pm. Using energy fields and physical materials such as mist, sound waves, atmospheric…
    Mitch Cairns: Artist’s Mouth

    National Art School: Mitch Cairns: Artist’s Mouth

    National Art School Corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    From 1 May to 11 July 2026, the National Art School Gallery will present  Mitch Cairns: Artist's Mouth, a major survey exhibition of work by Sydney-based painter and Archibald Prize winner Mitch Cairns, celebrating his twenty-year artistic career since graduating from the National Art School (NAS) in 2006. It features some 48 works, mostly from institutional and…