State Theatre Company South Australia: The Dictionary of Lost Words

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Motherless and ever curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium – the “Scrippy”, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. She hides beneath the table and catches discarded words as they fall –…

Shopfront Arts Co-Op: Mummy I’m Scared!

Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
The year is 1892 and seances are all the rage. Put on your ghostly best, cause you’re invited to the hottest candle lit seance table at the house of the FeatherBottoms. As the dinner starts, Mummy FeatherBottom reveals that she is dying, but chokes halfway through the reading of her…

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Live Stand Up Comedy Show Female Comedian Local Comedy Festival Event

Queen Victoria Women's Centre 210 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Brand new with tags! The Live Stand Up Comedy Show Female Comedian Local Comedy Festival Event is the perfect item for people who LOVE to laugh! Join Bridget Hassed for a cool, and normal evening of observational humour, personal anecdotes, clever punchlines, with absolutely no deeper message or sharing of…

Shopfront Arts Co-Op: We Have Stolen Our Bodies From God

Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
On a tranquil afternoon, in rural New South Wales township, a deeply religious community watches as a UFO crash-lands into a nearby bushland. Some deem it a biblical apocalypse, some form entirely new belief systems around it, while others struggle to reconcile everything they thought to be true with the…

Melbourne International Comedy Festival: End Game

MC Showroom Level 1, 48 Clifton Street, Prahran, VIC, Australia
Joanie, an eccentric cabaret performer, arrives in the afterlife for her soul review. Did she learn her lessons at Earth School? Or did she get distracted? The results are in. It's all about one woman, Eva. But who on earth is Eva? Multi award-winning writer/performer Katie Reddin-Clancy (★★★★★ Mumble Theatre)…
Josephine Wants To Dance

Monkey Baa Theatre Company: Josephine Wants To Dance

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Based on the picture book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley, this delightful musical is a must see! Josephine is a kangaroo who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her kangaroos don’t dance, they hop – but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the air.…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Bach, Stravinsky & Spohr

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Everything feels closer in a chamber orchestra performance. In this intimate, personal atmosphere, you can hear each musician and the extraordinary sounds they can draw out of their instrument. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.3 is a ten-minute whirlwind of joy – a masterpiece in miniature that will leave you breathless. And…

Playhouse Pantomimes: Story Soup: The Improvised Pantomime

ACMI Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Playhouse Pantomimes is proud to present… absolutely anything you want! Our hilarious team of improvisers will make up a brand-new musical pantomime on the spot. But we need your help! Bring along a head full of ideas and we’ll create a fairytale based on suggestions that you, the audience, give…

Sydney Opera House: Grug and the Rainbow

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
A magical adaptation of Ted Prior’s beloved picture books, Grug and the Rainbow sees our grassy little friend embark on an epic adventure to bask in the colours of the illusive rainbow. Featuring exquisite puppetry and heart-warming humour back to delight audiences, this smash hit is not one to miss…

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Sister Act

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Based on the film, which quickly became a global phenomenon, Sister Act is set to light up our theatres and lift our spirits with its irresistible energy and joy, that only this iconic story can. Starring Casey Donovan as Deloris Van Cartier, Genevieve Lemon as Mother Superior and Rhonda Burchmore…

Hayes Theatre Co: The Producers

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
Bialystock and Bloom! Those names strike terror and hysteria into anyone familiar with Mel Brooks’ classic cult-comedy film, or the smash-hit, record-breaking Broadway musical it inspired. Now, the show comes to the Hayes in an all-new production! The plot is simple: a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and a mild-mannered accountant come…

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