• Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Snare Drum Award

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Established by MSO percussionist Robert Cossom in 2004, the MSO Snare Drum Award is designed to encourage the pursuit of excellence in snare drum performance in Australia and New Zealand. Join us to see the next generation of percussionists compete! The MSO Snare Drum Award is supported by Cecilie Hall…
    Editor's Choice Romeo and Juliet

    The Australian Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    When Artistic Director David Hallberg restored John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet to The Australian Ballet’s repertoire in 2022, 19 years had passed since its last outing. We haven’t had to wait as long this time. The iconic 1962 production is back, lavishly designed by Cranko’s longtime collaborator Jürgen Rose and brimming with…
    Break Of Day

    Malthouse Theatre: Break Of Day

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Sometimes you get stuck with the cards you’ve been dealt, but Pam is determined to shuffle the deck for her daughter. Out on the edge of a satellite city, is Burra Creek, home to the world’s largest online retail warehouse, and tonight Pam (Kat Stewart) is working the nightshift, while…
    Editor's Choice Uncle Vanya

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chekov’s achingly sad yet mordantly funny play finds fresh life in this adaptation by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, first staged by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2024. Now, Anne-Louise Sarks directs a new production for MTC. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have spent years managing a run-down country estate in rural…
    Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Musica Viva Australia: Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    In the intricate weave of sounds that make up a baroque ensemble, the lute is central. It’s fitting, then, that French-American lutenist Thomas Dunford is at the centre of some of the most exciting early music making of the moment. A regular collaborator with everyone from Les Arts Florissants to…
    Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre: Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    For Jane Fredericks, the fight for justice is personal. As a passionate legal aid solicitor, Jane risks everything to help an old flame, and her world quickly unravels – both in the courtroom and at home. Her husband Trevor, a prominent barrister, faces his own ethical conundrum: defend a powerful…
    Editor's Choice Rigoletto

    Opera Australia: Rigoletto

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Verdi’s embittered jester makes a welcome return in Elijah Moshinsky’s typically insightful production. Celebrated Czech baritone Dalibor Jenis dons the twisted clown greasepaint as he reprises the title role, with Korean-Australian soprano Gemma Nha making her OA debut as his daughter Gilda and Australian-Chinese tenor Kang Wang as the dissolute…
    Mind Games: Art Alive

    Baeu Medina: Mind Games: Art Alive

    154 Broadway 154-160 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    A new, woman-led, interactive, immersive and independent experiential playground has opened in Chippendale, in Sydney’s inner suburbs – at a scale and level of detail that has not been done in Australia. Comprising multisensory installations such as holographic moon rooms to upside-down trains, mirrored mazes, and perception puzzles, Mind Games:…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…
    Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…
    Second Coming

    La Boite: Second Coming

    La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
    It’s 2065, Earth is burning, and time is running out. Geneticist Evie and the crew of the ARK MARK II spaceship are humanity’s last hope, charged with rescuing every species they can, two by two, for a new beginning on Mars. Lions, Javan warty pigs, and creatures of all kinds…
    Editor's Choice Uncle Vanya

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chekov’s achingly sad yet mordantly funny play finds fresh life in this adaptation by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, first staged by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2024. Now, Anne-Louise Sarks directs a new production for MTC. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have spent years managing a run-down country estate in rural…