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Australian Chamber Orchestra: Chopin & the Mendelssohns

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Polina Leschenko’s deep affinity with Chopin is a rare gift; so too is her remarkable rapport with Richard Tognetti and the ACO. Polina makes a long-awaited return to the Orchestra with one of the most beloved Romantic works for piano and orchestra, Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2. The second movement has…
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The Australian Ballet: The Dream / Marguerite and Armand

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Our national ballet company’s 60th anniversary continues with this double bill of iconic works by the legendary choreographer Frederick Ashton. Based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ashton’s 1964 adaptation marked the Bard’s 400th birthday. It is coupled with the tragic Marguerite and Armand, created especially for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf…

Ensemble Theatre: The Memory of Water

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Shelagh Stephenson’s poignant and painfully funny comedy is about conflicting memories, life and loss. Mary, Catherine and Teresa are sisters who share a common past. A world of disputed bicycles, midnight ice-cream sodas, cocktail dresses and their Mum’s perfumed advice. A seaside…
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Belvoir St Theatre: The Master & Margarita

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
An actor enters with a battered copy of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita and begins to read aloud from the opening chapter . . . Written in secret in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940, during Stalin’s regime, Bulgakov’s manuscript wasn’t published as a book until 1967 in Paris. Now regarded…

Musica Viva Australia: Wildschut & Brauss

Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Not one new discovery, but two! Hiding in plain sight in the great halls of Europe, violinist Noa Wildschut and pianist Elisabeth Brauss make one of the most exciting musical partnerships heard in years, and Musica Viva Australia is thrilled to present their first Australian concerts. Violin and piano is…

Seymour Centre: The Lost Boys

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
From Little Eggs Collective comes The Lost Boys, a devised, multidisciplinary, ensemble-based theatre work inspired by the classic text, Peter and Wendy, by J.M. Barrie. Peter and Wendy's Neverland presents an opportunity for unending play, real magic, joyous chaos, and intoxicating ferocity—an opportunity to experiment with elements of the classic to…
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Queensland Theatre: Vietgone

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Billed as “a wild road-trip romance through the heartland of America”, Qui Nguyen’s new play is “an irreverent, pulp fiction-style take on the love story that may (or may not) have led to his own birth.” Saigon has fallen. Helicopter pilot Quang and strong-willed Tong have both narrowly escaped the…

New Theatre: The Ballad of Maria Marten

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
“The battle between good and evil is full of grey areas… but I think he’s firmly on the devil’s side.” The notorious ‘Red Barn Murder’ of 1827 has entered the annals of British folklore, the subject of prurient gossip and grim speculation. A young woman, Maria Marten, goes to a…
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Theatre Works: What Is This?

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
1 director 1 creative consultant 1 Korean foodie 1 sports model 1 audiobook fanatic 1 queer red head 1 well spoken skinhead 1 rom com lover 1 angsty clown And 1 Israeli ballerina with army training. A diverse group of performers from all over the world come together to tell…
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Melbourne Theatre Company: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
It’s 1959. In a small, run-down bar in Philadelphia, Billie Holliday gives one of her final performances, a few months before her death at age 44. As the jazz songs and standards flow, so do the reminiscences. Zahra Newman stars in Lanie Robertson’s musical play, directed by Mitchell Butel. When…
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Melbourne Theatre Company: A Very Jewish Christmas Carol

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Elysheva Scroogeavitz inherited a bakery from her grandmother Bubi but has run it into the ground. Her family is adamant that she needs to close its doors. However, Ely is not letting anything get in the way of fulfilling customer demand for her Bubi’s famous Polish gingerbread. Not her family’s impending Chrismukkah celebrations, not the imminent…

David M. Hawkins: La Cage Aux Folles

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
A timeless and enduring story of love, commitment, family, and acceptance; that the Hollywood movie The Birdcage was based on. An all-new Australian production starring five-time Helpmann Award winner Paul Capsis (Cabaret The Musical, Head-On) in the role of Albin and Michael Cormick (The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast) as Georges…

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