• Editor's Choice Lé Nør [the rain]

    The Last Great Hunt: Lé Nør [the rain]

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s lavishly staged, three-hour drama Lacrima moves from Sydney Festival to Perth where it is a highlight of Anna Reece’s festival program. Inventive Western Australian collective The Last Great Hunt gives a live performance of a faux foreign film Lé Nør , while WA Youth Theatre Company presents Scenes from the Climate Era,…
    Editor's Choice Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s lavishly staged, three-hour drama Lacrima moves from Sydney Festival to Perth where it is a highlight of Anna Reece’s festival program. Inventive Western Australian collective The Last Great Hunt gives a live performance of a faux foreign film Lé Nør , while WA Youth Theatre Company presents Scenes from the Climate Era,…
    Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A SMART NEW HIT PLAY ABOUT ART VERSUS POWER Adem’s a mechanic who’s written a play and naively submitted it for consideration. He’s called to the arts council by a bureaucrat, Čelik, who suspects Adem has potential – if only he can learn to write in the state-approved, patriotic way,…
    Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A SMART NEW HIT PLAY ABOUT ART VERSUS POWER Adem’s a mechanic who’s written a play and naively submitted it for consideration. He’s called to the arts council by a bureaucrat, Čelik, who suspects Adem has potential – if only he can learn to write in the state-approved, patriotic way,…
    Festival of Small Halls

    Woodfordia Inc: Festival of Small Halls

    Foster War Memorial Arts Centre 79 Main Street, Foster, VIC, Australia
    Irish/Canadian powerhouse Irish Mythen is joined by South Australian troubadour Kaurna Cronin on the Festival of Small Halls Victorian Summer/Autumn Tour - and we're headed to Foster for one night only.

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: MSO: Strauss and Mozart

    Frankston Arts Centre 27-37 Davey Street, Frankston, VIC, Australia
    Frankston Arts Centre brings the vibe, and Richard Strauss brings the laughs. His Le bourgeois gentilhomme is a musical comedy about a normal bloke who dreams of joining the upper classes, a bit like My Fair Lady but more satirical. As the character attempts to climb a dazzling social ladder, Strauss provides a score…
    Perfect Arrangement

    New Theatre: Perfect Arrangement

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “If I stay, it’s giving up the belief that things should be better” It’s 1950s America, and a new colour has been added to the Red Scare: lavender. The Lavender Scare saw LGBTQ+ people interrogated, outed, and dismissed from government service in a sweeping campaign of fear and moral panic.…
    The Music of John Williams

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra: The Music of John Williams

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Few composers have shaped the sound of modern cinema like John Williams. With soaring melodies, unforgettable motifs, and pure orchestral imagination, his music has become as iconic as the films themselves. Under the baton of Nicholas Buc, Queensland Symphony Orchestra brings his greatest scores to life – from the swells of…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: The Whitlams with the TSO

    Wrest Point Entertainment Centre 410 Sandy Bay Rd, Sandy Bay, TAS, Australia
    The Whitlams join the TSO at Wrest Point for the next performance in their renowned symphonic collaboration. This retrospective will showcase arrangements by eight of Australia’s finest composers – notably, Tasmanian great, the late Peter Sculthorpe, whose friendship with Tim Freedman is marked by two collaborations. Classics including No Aphrodisiac…
    Mayhem and Rapture

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Mayhem and Rapture

    Studio Underground 178 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Experience a captivating evening at the classical vanguard with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Benjamin Northey and featuring mezzo-soprano Jessica Aszodi. Enter the exhilarating world of John Adams’ hyper-dynamic Chamber Symphony, before delighting in Holly Harrison’s playful And Whether Pigs Have Wings. Then be transported by Osvaldo Golijov’s…
    Flexible Sky

    Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Flexible Sky

    The Clocktower Centre 750 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds, VIC, Australia
    Guitar virtuoso Slava Grigoryan takes centre stage in a dazzling season opener that celebrates innovation. Audiences will be delighted with a world premiere performance by Joe Chindamo, a composer celebrated for his cross-genre fluency. Grigoryan’s artistry then shines in Vivaldi’s D major Concerto, a baroque gem sparkling with charm and…
    Editor's Choice Turandot

    Opera Australia: Turandot

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    International director and choreographer Ann Yee has been recruited to stage a new production of Puccini’s Turandot in a way that is sensitive to issues of race and gender by focusing on the implacable princess’s courage, her ancestor’s trauma and the sacrificial love of another woman. Rebecca Nash, fresh from…