• Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Isla and Violet are a ‘lethal combination’. Their self-righteous headmaster thinks that’s an insult. They think it’s a cute name for a girl group. Too smart, too precocious and way too outspoken, it’s no surprise when these self-proclaimed soulmates are SEPARATED until the end of the year. But the world outside…
    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…
    Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
    Anastasia The Broadway Musical, the romantic and adventure-filled hit musical inspired by the beloved film, is coming to Australia for the first time! This dazzling production, by the Tony Award winning team Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Darko Tresnjak, transports you from the twilight years of the Imperial…
    Editor's Choice

    Canberra International Music Festival: Pianos and Percussion: Festival Finale

    Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…

    Horizon Festival: The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave

    Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, Tanawha (Kabi-Kabi Country) Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, Tanawha, QLD, Australia
    From Aotearoa New Zealand, Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer present the award-winning The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave, an endurance-based dance work to the booming techno album 'Nocturbulous Behaviour' by Suburban Knight. Exploring the movement vocabulary used in techno and rave culture, a contemporary nightclub between…
    M’ap Boulé

    Horizon Festival: M’ap Boulé

    Black Box Theatre at The Old Ambulance Station 80 Howard Street, Nambour, QLD, Australia
    Experience the fierce and funny storytelling of M’ap Boulé – a play with re-enactments, original music and poetry about a child born of immigrants growing up in a country called Australia. The charismatic Nancy Denis sets the stage ablaze with her journey to embrace her Black, Queer, Haitian and Australian…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: The Spooky Men’s Chorale – 25 Years of Pointless Grandeur

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Spooky Men’s Chorale is a magnificent, many-headed beast that has single-handedly turned the world of men’s singing upside down. Bypassing well-trodden avenues, they carve out new territories of mighty man sounds, exquisite tenderness, and charming stupidity to both celebrate masculinity and mock it. Celebrating their 25th birthday, The Spooky…
    Gruesome Playground Injuries

    Unorthodox Productions: Gruesome Playground Injuries

    TAP gallery 259 Riley Street, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
    Why do we hurt ourselves? Kayleen and Doug are destined for each other. After a chance encounter in the school sick bay, they find themselves pulled back together again and again, like stitches over an open wound. Messy, complicated, funny and deeply painful, Gruesome Playground Injuries asks whether a relationship…
    My Brilliant Career

    Sydney Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “The holy grail of Australian musical theatre” The Age Miles Franklin’s classic novel as you’ve never seen it before, with a live soundtrack that’s equal parts contemporary pop, folksy bush band and barnstorming pub rock. Beloved by audiences and showered with five-star reviews, My Brilliant Career was Melbourne’s most in-demand ticket in 2024.…

    TEG Van Egmond: Matteo Bocelli – Falling In Love World Tour

    State Theatre, Sydney 49 Market St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    TEG Van Egmond proudly presents the return of Matteo Bocelli as he brings his globally acclaimed Falling in Love World Tour to Australia this April and May. Following sold-out performances around the world, including a sold-out Australian debut tour in 2024 and a mesmerising performance at the SCG in 2025 — Matteo returns for…
    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:…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Mostly Mozart: Mozart and the Bach Sons

    Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
    In this Monday morning performance, take a deep dive into the Bach family tree and the family's impact on Mozart. Featuring the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Orchestra, under the direction of violinist Shaun Lee-Chen (Concertmaster, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra), experience a rare treat of a program featuring the Bach…