• City Recital Hall: Melodies of Gallipoli

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Melodies of Gallipoli is a powerful symphonic production that brings to life the human experiences of the Gallipoli campaign through music, narration and visual storytelling. Blending history with artistry, the production invites audiences to reflect on one of the most defining chapters shared by Australia and Türkiye. Following its sold-out premiere…
    Editor's Choice Audible Edge ’26

    Tone List: Audible Edge ’26 — A festival of exploratory music (Saturday Night)

    Victoria Hall 179 High St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
    Artist-led, international and delightfully unpredictable, this annual festival of exploratory music is housed in Fremantle’s Victoria Hall, creating a space for virtuosic and “anti-virtuosic” improvisation, forward-thinking club sets and participatory play. Seed-funded artists include composer Simon Charles and poet John Kinsella, experimental electronic music producers Lia T and R. Glacken,…
    Beyond The Neck

    The Clocktower Centre: Beyond The Neck

    The Clocktower Centre 750 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds, VIC, Australia
    A mother. A teenager. A tour guide. A man who can’t outrun the past. Their lives don’t intersect – until they do, in the aftershock of one day Australia won’t forget. Tom Holloway’s Beyond the Neck is a profoundly compassionate portrait of a community living with loss. Four individual stories…
    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…
    Editor's Choice The River

    Sydney Theatre Company: The River

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades star in The River, a haunting three-hander by UK playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem). The mysterious, 80-minute play is set in a remote wooden cabin where a lovesick fisherman is playing host to a woman. It should be a weekend full of romance, but all…
    Mara

    Theatre Works: Mara

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    A fearlessly inventive retelling of the Cinderella story from the stepmother’s perspective. Single mother of two Mara struggles to find work, before marrying a wealthy widower. Her new husband still grieves his first wife, buried beneath a cherry blossom tree in the garden – a tree whose branches tap relentlessly…
    Editor's Choice

    Canberra International Music Festival: Tissages du Temps

    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…
    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…

    James Dekleva: Dekleva & Davis | In Recital

    Callaway Auditoirum, UWA Conservatorium of Music 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA, Australia
    Following a successful solo tour of Australia’s eastern states and Singapore, James Dekleva joins Isaac Davis, Associate Principal Cellist of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, for their second recital collaboration. Experience the elegance of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata, a lyrical masterpiece originally composed for a now-obsolete six-string instrument, here reimagined on the…
    ENGLISH

    Outhouse Theatre Co: ENGLISH

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    eymour Centre and Outhouse Theatre Co present the Sydney premiere of Pulitzer prize-winning English, by Sanaz Toossi, a wickedly funny and deeply moving look at the chaos of learning a new language. Iran, 2008 In a classroom in Karaj, four students seek to expand their horizons and opportunities by learning…
    AN ILIAD

    Sydney Theatre Company: AN ILIAD

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A wry, witty and world-weary poet introduces himself as a storyteller, bound to recount the myth of the Trojan War until humanity can overcome its rage for violence and destruction. Award-winning international star David Wenham returns to Sydney Theatre Company as the Poet: a man who has spent millennia walking…
    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, The Sapphires is set…