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Event Series The Wharf Revue: Pride in Prejudice

Soft Tread: The Wharf Revue: Pride in Prejudice

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
The Wharf Revue is back for another year of sensational value! Satirical content is up by 7% and the average laughter quotient is indexed at 8.3% over the forward estimates. With over twenty-three years experience in the political satire space, Australia’s most trusted revue-based practitioners continue the tradition with this year’s hilarious…
The Boy From Oz

Encore Theatre Company (TAS): The Boy From Oz

Princess Theatre, Launceston (Theatre North) 55/57 Brisbane Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
The Boy from Oz tells the dazzling, funny and heartbreaking story of the life of legendary Australian entertainer and songwriter, Peter Allen. From humble beginnings in the 1950s, growing up in Tenterfield NSW, Peter was singing in country pubs at age 11. He survived family tragedy, to become a local teenage…

Latitude 37: Meditations

Australian Digital Concert Hall 188 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Virtual Event Virtual Event
This program will take you from intricate ornamentations over slowly shifting harmonies by Rognoni, Bassano, and Selma y Salaverde, to works of transcendent loveliness by Cavalli and Erlebach. Nico Muhly’s Slow Twitchy Organs brings these special baroque instruments into the 21st century, alongside a calmly contemplative work specially commissioned for Latitude…
Up Close Sydney Theatre Company
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Sydney Dance Company: Up Close – Somos

Sydney Dance Company Studios Wharf 4/5, Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, 15 Hickson Rd, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela draws on his Spanish roots for this new work, created as part of SDC’s inaugural Up Close series. Comprising intimate solos, duos and trios, Somos (We are) is set to music by Latin musicians including Rosalía, Silvia Pérez Cruz, Buika, Arca, Chavela Vargas and Estrella Morente.…
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Event Series Hour of the Wolf

Malthouse Theatre: Hour of the Wolf

Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Building on the landmark success of Because the Night (2021), Malthouse Theatre ambitiously realises Australia’s next chapter of large-scale immersive theatre. Hour of the Wolf introduces you to Hope Hill, a town that is yours to freely explore on the longest night of the year. Interweaving stories unravel the disturbing disappearances occurring between the hours of…

Metro Arts: P.H.D.

Metro Arts 111 Boundary St, West End, QLD, Australia
Curated by Ella Ganza in association with Joshua Taliani, P.H.D. delivers a new chapter of queer storytelling, fusing together a one-of-a-kind show that investigates the ‘overlooked’ side of lived queer experiences through the multi-cultural lens of our queer siblings living in colonised Australia. Featuring the children of the house of…
Event Series In Between Moments

Shopfront Arts Co-Op: In Between Moments

Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
Young Company invite you to come see their performance of their work In Between Moments. If you’ve been looking at the main action, it’s now time to turn around and glance at what is happening just outside of frame. What are the slices of time that slip between the gaps,…
Final Statements
Event Series Final Statements

Selby & Friends: Final Statements

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
This extraordinary final program for the 2023 Season brings together two highly accomplished guest artists of the younger generation who are making great waves now they are back in Australia – the brilliant violinist Ike See, previously Assoc. Concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony and now a core member of the…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Ensemble Liaison & The Australian Wind Quintet

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Ensemble Liaison is internationally acclaimed for its spell-binding performances, innovative programs and brilliant collaborations with leading artists. Ensemble Liaison & Friends is a unique concert series renowned for imaginative and innovative programming, setting the trend for brilliant collaborations with leading artists. Combining some of Australia’s leading wind players, the Australian…

OzAsia Festival: The Bridal Lament

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
The Bridal Lament is an ambitious new performance and music project by award-winning vocalist, producer and multi-disciplinary artist Rainbow Chan 陳雋然. Drawing on her Weitou ancestry (first settlers of Hong Kong), the work reimagines a Weitou ritual known as the bridal lament, a public performance of grief in which a…
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Bell Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Washed up in a strange new land, determined to survive, Viola disguises herself as a man named Cesario and finds work with Duke Orsino, only to fall head over heels in love with him. But Orsino is in love with Olivia, who – grieving for her brother – refuses all…
The Visitors
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Sydney Theatre Company: The Visitors

The Story House 50 Little Malop St, Geelong, VIC, Australia
This award-winning play by Muruwari writer Jane Harrison has been reworked in a new production, directed by Wesley Enoch. On a sweltering day in January 1788, seven Eora clan leaders gather on an escarpment overlooking the harbour. A mysterious fleet of giant nawi (ships) has gathered just off the coast. What should…

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