• Editor's Choice The Unfriend

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Unfriend

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    This deliciously dark comedy marked the stage debut of British TV titan Steven Moffat – the celebrated showrunner of Doctor Who and creator of Press Gang, Coupling, Sherlock and Douglas is Cancelled – and became a West End hit. While holidaying on a cruise ship, timorous, middle-class couple Peter and Debbie befriend…
    And Then There Were None

    John X Presents: And Then There Were None

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Ten strangers are lured to a solitary mansion off the coast, each harbouring a dark secret. When a recorded message accuses them all of unpunished crimes, the tension becomes palpable. One by one, they begin to die in accordance with a sinister nursery rhyme, and the realisation sets in that…
    Editor's Choice Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

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

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…
    Editor's Choice A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Paul Dainty, Ken Davenport & Bob Gaudio: A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Created in consultation with Neil Diamond himself, the jukebox musical, A Beautiful Noise, charts his rise to superstardom through the songs that defined his life and career, among them Cracklin’ Rosie, Forever in Blue Jeans and Sweet Caroline. Famous for his swaggering sexuality and velvet-meets-gravel voice, Diamond is conjured by two…
    The Undercover Magician

    Cameron Leo: The Undercover Magician

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Cameron Leo doesn’t claim anything supernatural, but he has a knack for reading a room, pulling thoughts from the crowd and landing predictions that hit far too close to home. A former undercover police officer turned psychological magician, Cameron has performed across Australia for brands including Disney, Origin Energy, Telstra,…

    Darwin Symphony Orchestra: Palmerston Classics

    Palmerston Recreation Centre 11 The Blvd, Palmerston City, NT, Australia
    Join the DSO in Palmerston for a glittering evening of popular classics, filled with colour, romance, and energy. The program features Markiyan performing Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Saëns, before moving to the elegance of Elgar’s beloved Serenade for Strings. Our own brilliant soloists then take centre stage in Mozart’s radiant Sinfonia Concertante for Four…

    Melbourne Baroque Orchestra: Lully and De Lalande at Versailles

    Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Williamstown Nelson Place, Williamstown, Victoria, Australia
    Directed by the much-acclaimed Michael Fulcher, MBO and PV will present two astonishingly beautiful and rarely heard motets created by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Michel-Richard De Lalande for the great occasions of court life at Versailles. The orchestra, bursting with the exquisite sonorities of winds, violas (six of them), gamba, and…
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    Melbourne Recital Centre: Isata Kanneh-Mason

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The eldest of the Kanneh-Mason siblings and an Elton John Scholar at London’s Royal Academy of Music, Isata Kanneh-Mason makes her Australian debut performing Beethoven’s Moonlight and Waldstein Sonatas alongside Dobrinka Tabakova’s Nocturne and Halo. The program centrepiece, Ravel’s 1908 Gaspard de la nuit, draws on three poems by Aloysius…
    CLOUD BANK @ Backbone Festival

    Backbone Festival: CLOUD BANK

    Seven Hills Hub 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills QLD 4170, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Cloud Bank is at once both a lighting installation of a lightning storm inside a room and a bespoke venue to house new visual works for Young Audiences. Cloud Bank is a place of sanctuary, a store of wonder, and a repository of dreams; somewhere my armour falls off, and…
    Blackadder Live on Stage!

    Harbour Theatre: Blackadder Live on Stage!

    Harbour Theatre 16 Lochee Street, Mosman Park, WA, Australia
    Harbour Theatre brings the second series of the classic British comedy Blackadder to life at Camelot in Mosman Park this October. Join Edmund Blackadder, Queenie, Baldrick and Sir Percy in two favourite episodes set in Elizabethan England. In Potato, Blackadder’s attempt to outdo Sir Walter Raleigh at sea goes disastrously…
    We Are The Tigers

    Cheers Productions: We Are The Tigers

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    It’s the annual sleepover of the Giles Corey High Cheerleading Squad, and team captain Riley is determined to lead her squad to redemption after last year’s spectacular flop. But what starts as a night of pizza and team bonding in the basement quickly spirals into chaos — there’s a killer…
    Young Frankenstein

    Theatre Works: Young Frankenstein

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    From the outrageous mind of Mel Brooks comes Young Frankenstein, the gloriously silly, lightning-powered musical comedy that celebrates everything wonderfully ridiculous about classic horror and big Broadway spectacle. When the impeccably serious Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (…that’s “Fronk-en-steen,” if you please) inherits his family’s eerie Transylvanian estate, he is determined to…