• Dancing at Lughnasa

    New Theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “I want to dance, Kate. It’s the Festival of Lughnasa. I’m only thirty-five. I want to dance.” It’s the summer of 1936, during the pagan festival of Lughnasa, and young Michael watches his five aunts navigate the fragile joys and looming hardships of rural Irish life. Brief moments of freedom,…

    TOSA Q: Live Music & Film – Blackmail (1929) – David Bailey

    Kelvin Grove State College 205 Victoria Park Rd, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
    Experience the brilliance of early cinema with Blackmail (1929), one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most important early films. Starring Anny Ondra and John Longden, this gripping thriller follows a young woman whose life unravels after a moment of self-defence leads to dangerous blackmail. Blackmail was released in two formats - both…
    Editor's Choice

    Blackheath Chamber Music Festival: Danses de Jeunesse

    Phillips Hall, Blackheath Blackheath, NSW, Australia
    The Blue Mountains’ summit plays host to some of our finest performers, with John Bell joining Elysian Fields for the world premiere of The Passionate Pilgrim, which features new works by Jennifer Eriksson and Matt McMahon, alongside pieces inspired by Shakespeare and Wyatt. Lloyd Van’t Hoff joins the Chroma Quartet for Brahms’…

    UKARIA: David Elton and Friends

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    David Elton is no stranger to either Australian or international audiences. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) Principal Trumpet, virtuosic soloist and esteemed chamber musician brings an engaging program that highlights the range and versatility of his instrument. David is joined in his explorations by three colleagues, each renowned musicians in…
    Editor's Choice Don Giovanni

    Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Suzanne Chaundy directs a new production of Don Giovanni, Mozart and Da Ponte’s tale of lust laid low by supernatural forces. Christopher Tonkin headlines as the diabolical rake, with Henry Shaw as his wily servant Leporello and Eleanor Greenwood as Donna Elvira, the woman who can’t quite give him up. Lee…

    Polifemy women’s vocal ensemble: Polifemy women’s vocal ensemble – One Woman’s War

    Wesley Uniting Church Forrest ACT 20 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT
    Renaissance music - Missa L'homme armé (Guerrera 1540) performed by Polifemy women's vocal ensemble (dir. Robyn Mellor), with readings of wartime letters from Australian Army Nursing Service Sister Ada Priscilla Smith (read by Liz McKenzie). "Everywhere it has been proclaimed that each man shall arm himself with a coat of…
    Invitation to the Dance

    Salut! Baroque: Invitation to the Dance

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “Music and dance are all you need.” Molière: Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) Dance and diplomacy were inseparable at Louis XIV’s opulent palace in Versailles. Every aspect of the palace was designed to reinforce the King’s absolute authority, and Louis protected his political power through pageantry. In appointing the Italian-born musician,…

    Brisbane Chamber Project: Wind Song

    All Saints Anglican Church Brisbane 32 Wickham Terrace Spring Hill, Brisbane (Corner of Ann and Wharf), Spring Hill, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Windsong bursts to life with the luminous colours of the wind quintet—flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn—celebrating Australian creativity and the excitement of new music. At its centre is the world premiere of Tomasz Holownia’s ‘The Enchanted Horse”, a vivid, imaginative work that sweeps listeners into a world of…
    Julius Caesar

    Bell Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Betrayal and chaos rock the republic as Rome teeters on the brink of collapse It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has triumphed…
    The Admirable Crichton

    Genesian Theatre: The Admirable Crichton

    St Joseph's Church Hall Gordon Street, Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What happens when Edwardian aristocrats and their unflappable butler are stranded on a desert island? In Barrie's delicious satire, the social order flips upside-down in ways both hilarious and revealing. Think Downtown Abbey meets Survivor: witty, playful and packed with class-skewering fun. Light, bright and utterly charming!
    The Admiral Crichton

    Genesian Theatre Company: The Admiral Crichton

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What happens when Edwardian aristocrats and their unflappable butler, Crichton, are stranded on a desert island? In Barrie’s delicious satire, the social order flips upside-down in ways both hilarious and revealing. Think Downton Abbey meets Survivor: witty, playful, and packed with class-skewering fun. Light, bright, and utterly charming!
    Gutenberg! The Musical!

    Hayes Theatre Co: Gutenberg! The Musical!

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    From the creators of Beetlejuice: The Musical, comes the Broadway smash hit Gutenberg! The Musical! – a love letter to the underdog, and to music theatre itself. This joyously funny and stupidly clever musical tells a story of friendship, ambition, and the kind of unshakable delusion that might just change…