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Editor's Choice The Pirates of Penzance

Hayes Theatre Co: The Pirates of Penzance

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
Stuart Maunder’s rollicking production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta comes to Perth. When Frederic turns 21, he thinks he will be free at last from the band of pirates to whom he was bound as an apprentice. A numerological paradox, however, has other thoughts. Hits include Poor Wandering One and A…
Editor's Choice Henry 5

Bell Shakespeare: Henry 5

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Returning to Bell Shakespeare after 15 years, Marion Potts directs a new production of Shakespeare’s famous war play with newcomer JK Kazzi in the title role. Young Prince Hal has turned his back on Falstaff, left his wild adolescence behind and taken on the mantle of monarch. When he is…

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Sister Act

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Read the Limelight review. The global smash hit musical sent from above, is coming to the Lyric Theatre. Sister Act is without doubt, the must-see new musical of the year! Based on the film, which quickly became a global phenomenon, Sister Act is set to light up our theatres and lift…

Black Swan State Theatre Company: August: Osage County

State Theatre Centre of WA Perth, WA, Australia
Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 2007. In the scorching heat of summer, the Weston family has come together following the disappearance of their alcoholic patriarch, Beverly, a world-class poet. While his wife, Violet, spirals into opiate addiction, the three daughters dutifully return to their childhood home with their spouses, children and unfinished business…

Forced Entertainment: Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Shakespeare’s 36 plays in eight days, as they’ve never been imagined before! Salt and pepper shakers for the king and queen. A ruler for the prince. A spoon for the servant. Lighter fluid for the innkeeper. Hamlet is a bottle of vinegar. One by one, over eight days, every Shakespeare…
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Sydney Theatre Company: 4000 Miles

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Nancye Hayes returns to the STC for the first time in two decades to perform in this uplifting, comic drama by American playwright Amy Herzog. When 21-year-old Leo (Shiv Palekar) suffers a major loss on a cross-country cycling trip, he turns up at the home of his feisty 91-year-old grandmother…

Sydney Theatre Company: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Five modern teenage girls recount a story burnt into the Australian psyche. In Tom Wright’s lyrical and daring adaptation, Joan Lindsay’s hypnotic classic becomes a form-shattering mix of storytelling, gossip, and reenactment. Seen through the eyes of STC Resident Director Ian Michael (Stolen, Constellations), “the most exciting new director of…
Carmen

The Australian Ballet: Carmen

Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Johan Inger’s award-winning production of Carmen is an exhilarating journey that thrusts Georges Bizet’s 19th-century opera into the modern world with a breathtaking display of athleticism and passion. Created in 2015, Inger’s contemporary retelling of Prosper Mérimée’s 1845 novella is a darkly compelling story of the dangerously seductive Carmen, whose…
The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Sydney Theatre Company: The Dictionary of Lost Words

Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
After delighting audiences in 2023, The Dictionary of Lost Words returns to Sydney then tours to Geelong, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra and Wollongong. Verity Laughton’s loving adaptation of Pip Williams’ bestseller is directed by Jessica Arthur. Beginning in 1886, the story follows Esme Nicoll as she grows into adulthood at the height of…

Adelaide Festival: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The Queens Theatre Corner Gilles Arcade and Playhouse Land, Adelaide, SA, Australia
The Berlin Wall may have fallen, but the revolution is just beginning. “The best rock musical ever” (Rolling Stone) and winner of the Tony Award as Best Revival of a Musical, this genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing sensation is no ordinary musical. It’s a wickedly funny, sweat soaked lightning strike of raw energy…
James Roser & Alex Raineri – An die Musik – Schubert’s Art of Song

Opera Queensland: James Roser & Alex Raineri – An die Musik – Schubert’s Art of Song

Opera Queensland Studio South Bank, QLD, Australia
In this intimate and exclusive performance, Austrian based, Australian-born baritone James Roser invites you to share in the exquisite melodies of Schubert’s art songs. Schubert wrote over six hundred lieder, which have left an indelible mark on the art song canon. Bringing poems to life with an equal concern for the…
Editor's Choice Journeying to Finisterre

The Song Company: Journeying to Finisterre

St Philips Church, Sydney 3 York St,, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Here’s a fascinating program, crafted by The Song Company’s co-Artistic Director and soprano Amy Moore, exploring themes and music associated with the famous pilgrim route across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Medieval music comes from the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus, which contains some of the earliest examples of polyphony, as…

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