• Newcastle Music Festival: Al Andalus | Paco Lara & Friends

    Newcastle Conservatorium of Music Cnr Laman Street, Auckland St, Newcastle, NSW
    Flamenco dance, Spanish guitar – an evening of dazzling excitement in the penultimate event of the 2026 Newcastle Music Festival, as brilliant guitarist Paco Lara is joined by three flamenco dancers led by the wonderful Deya Giner. The world premiere of Al Andalus is a highlight of this great concert.
    Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Songs, silliness and sensibility. Following its London triumph, where it won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice (sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate adaptation where…
    Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In this intimate and poetic program, acclaimed Paris-based violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as soloist and Guest Director, shining a light on one of Baroque music’s most fascinating and overlooked figures — Anna Maria della Pietà. A virtuoso who lived and performed at the Venetian orphanage where…
    Griffin Theatre: Lacuna

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Lacuna

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Claudia is jobless, cashless and flailing. Doomscrolling in the dark, ignoring emails from Centrelink, she wallows in the aftermath of an earth-shattering fight with her Mum. Why can’t Claudia just get a job like a good Chinese daughter? So, Claudia is delighted when a plum job opportunity falls right into…
    Bull

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: Bull

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    WELCOME TO THE RING. ONLY ONE SURVIVES. A lean, brutal modern classic — a companion piece to C*ck, turning the workplace into a gladiatorial arena. Just one month after staging Bartlett’s C*ck, we turn to Bull — an   elemental, unflinching exploration of power, survival and psychological warfare in a boardroom-as-arena. If C*ck interrogates identity and…
    William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs

    Theatre Works: William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    William Shakespeare's Reservoir Dogs brings together the iconic characters and dialogue from Shakespeare's plays with the gritty underworld of Quentin Tarantino's film. Telling the tale of six strangers brought together to commit a daring crime...plunder a coach of precious jewels; things go awry, and those who remain must fight to…
    The Ballad of Dan O’Malley: A Football Tragedy

    Theatre Works: The Ballad of Dan O’Malley: A Football Tragedy

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia +1 more
    The Ballad of Dan O’Malley: A Football Tragedy is based on the true story of AFL club Melbourne’s 2009 ‘tanking saga’. Bright-eyed Dan O’Malley takes the reins as coach of the Central Leopards in 2008. But the club is bottoming out financially and on-field – so administrators call for shady…
    SIX The Musical

    : SIX The Musical

    Comedy Theatre 240 Exhibition St,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    THE QUEENS ARE BACK! LIVE ON STAGE! The global smash-hit phenomenon SIX the Musical is making its royal stage return to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane from July 2026. From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr are ready to…
    Engine

    Sydney Dance Company: Engine – National Tour

    Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Dr, Araluen, NT, Australia
    Engine unites three extraordinary choreographers; Rafael Bonachela, Fran Diaz and Melanie Lane, for an exhilarating performance that promises bold, fearless dance. Rafael Bonachela premieres The Journey Itself is Home, a new work featuring music by Grammy Award-winning composer Bryce Dessner and inspired by 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō. Engine sees the return…
    Second Coming

    La Boite: Second Coming

    La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
    It’s 2065, Earth is burning, and time is running out. Geneticist Evie and the crew of the ARK MARK II spaceship are humanity’s last hope, charged with rescuing every species they can, two by two, for a new beginning on Mars. Lions, Javan warty pigs, and creatures of all kinds…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Jaime conducts Mahler 6

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is a spectacle. The percussionist will flex their muscles, raise a massive hammer in the air, and blow it down with full force inside the concert hall! It’s a climactic point in the symphony that explores philosophical themes of fate and existential angst. Mahler composed it before…
    Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Musica Viva Australia: Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
    In the intricate weave of sounds that make up a baroque ensemble, the lute is central. It’s fitting, then, that French-American lutenist Thomas Dunford is at the centre of some of the most exciting early music making of the moment. A regular collaborator with everyone from Les Arts Florissants to…