• Julius Caesar

    Bell Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Betrayal and chaos rock the republic as Rome teeters on the brink of collapse It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has triumphed…
    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,…
    BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…
    BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…
    The Other Side of Me

    Gary Lang NT Dance Company: The Other Side of Me

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    An aching dance duet of a man’s struggle with identity, loss and otherness and the redemptive beauty of singing his spirit home One mother’s love, another’s loss. Between them the child that grows to a man who can never return home. The Other Side of Me by Gary Lang shares the tragedy…
    35MM: A Musical Exhibition

    QPAC: 35MM: A Musical Exhibition

    QPAC - Cremorne Theatre
    A picture is worth 1,000 words – what about a song? Can a picture inspire a song or fifteen? In 35MM: A Musical Exhibition, each photo creates a unique song, moments frozen in time; a glimmer of a life unfolding, a glimpse of something happening. A stunning new multimedia musical which explores a…
    Your Song

    The Little Red Company: Your Song

    Sydney Opera House - Playhouse , Australia
    Your Song celebrates the unforgettable music of megastar Elton John and the memorable moments it evokes for everyday people, reimagining Elton’s biggest songs including Candle in the Wind, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, I’m Still Standing, Benny and the Jets, Rocket Man and Tiny Dancer using powerful stories and personal experiences…
    Game. Set. Match.

    Malthouse Theatre: Game. Set. Match.

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Ray meets Joshua after the funeral of his mother, an Australian tennis legend. The pair hit it off, with banter that flies back and forth like a rally at Wimbledon. Over one boozy night during the Australian Open, we witness a classic match of will-they-or-won’t they? But you’ll never guess how…

    Horizon Festival: Helios

    Maleny Community Centre 23 Maple St, Maleny, QLD, Australia
    A story about the son of the god of the sun, HELIOS transplants the Ancient Greek tale into a modern-day myth wound round the winding roads of rural England – and into the everyday living of a towering city. It’s a story about life, the invisible monuments we build to it, and…
    Howl

    Omega Ensemble: Howl

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
    Howl presents a performance of musical defiance and untamed brilliance. Best known as the musical mind behind Tim Burton's dark cinematic worlds, Danny Elfman’s mischievous Piano Quartet is a rare and revealing gem, written with the same sardonic humour and manic intensity that define his film scores. Celebrating the strange…
    Beethoven’s Ghost

    Musica Viva Australia: Beethoven’s Ghost

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What makes a great piano trio? Is it celebrity? Is it longevity? Or is it serendipity? Three magnificent musicians, brought together at the right time and the right place? Aura Go, Australian pianist, storyteller and FutureMaker, has worked with Finnish/Australian-based cellist Timo-Veikko (Tipi) Valve for many years, performing nationally and…
    Editor's Choice Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, 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…