• Editor's Choice Audible Edge ’26

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

    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,…
    ملعقة (mil-aa-qa)

    The Blue Room Theatre: ملعقة (mil-aa-qa)

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Coeliac disease, a Lebanese Aunty’s warmth and a live cooking show intertwine in an experience worth savouring.  The absence of traditional flatbread changes the way we connect. Meals once shared and indulged by hand are now simply eaten with a spoon. This shift can feel isolating, as if a thread between past and…

    Seymour Centre: Convergence

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Based on Gadigal land (Sydney), multi-award-winning Persian-Australian tar player and composer Hamed Sadeghi presents Convergence. Sadeghi is part of a growing generation of artists redefining what Australian Contemporary music sounds and looks like. His work challenges the boundaries of genre and belonging, asking what it means to carry more than one…
    Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    Berry Uniting Church Hall 71-77 Albert St, Berry, NSW, Australia
    How does that one go again? Neglected even amongst Beethoven’s even-numbered “B-side” symphonies, No. 4 in B flat can be a little slow to spring to mind, but once that effervescent first subject banishes the portent of the mock-gloomy introduction, the delights of this work come flooding back. Really remarkable…
    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…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Symphonic Cinema –The Planets

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    More than a visual accompaniment to music, this is a deeply felt journey that expands the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall into a shared space of wonder and reflection. Van Woerkum performs as a cinema soloist, matching his film in real time to the Orchestra’s performance; as Holst’s celestial masterpiece…
    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…
    Trophy Boys

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Trophy Boys

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    St Imperium College’s all-boys team think they’ve got the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament in the bag. It’s the most important night of the academic year and the private school lads believe they’re about to intellectually own their sister school. The topic up for debate: “feminism…
    Chicago The Musical

    Darwin Musical Theatre Inc.: Chicago The Musical

    Browns Mart 12 Smith Street, Darwin, NT, Australia
    In roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap... until he finds out he's been dumped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the…
    The Other Side Of Me

    BlakDance: The Other Side Of Me

    Theatre Royal
    One mother’s love, another’s loss. Between them a child grows into manhood but can never return home. The Other Side of Me by Gary Lang NT Dance Company, shares the tragedy of Stolen Generations through the true story of an Aboriginal man stranded between two families, continents and cultures – specifically…
    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…