• Editor's Choice Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…
    Griffin Theatre: Mum Club

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Mum Club

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Mum Club. Rule One: Every mum is held with love and kindness, no matter who they are. Rule Two:  Drink cow’s milk, and you’re OUT. Sadie’s just moved to Sydney. She’s a young Yuin mum, completely fried from trying to settle a screaming baby in a rental the…
    The Deplorables

    Theatre Works: The Deplorables

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    If they’re playing cricket, who is making the sandwiches? Written by Christine Davey and presented by award-winning regional theatre company – Skin of our Teeth Productions – this joyous, musical explores the first women’s cricket match in the country and what it means for all of us. A sharp, funny,…

    Theatre North: A Night with Opera Australia

    Albert Hall, Launceston 47 Tamar St, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    An evening of extraordinary storytelling and song. Join us as Opera Australia, one of the world’s most celebrated opera companies, takes over the historic Albert Hall for an evening that promises passion and peril, heroes and monsters, lovers and liars. Whether you’re an opera devotee or simply curious, this is…
    Editor's Choice Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Paris-based American violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as Guest Director in an intimate program dedicated to Venetian orphanage virtuoso Anna Maria della Pietà. With ABO Artistic Director Paul Dyer on harpsichord, the program explores Baroque chamber works, revealing a rare portrait of this overlooked multi-instrumentalist who inspired music…
    Commentary

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Commentary

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Helpmann Award-nominated writer Ash Flanders’ Commentary is a sharp, provocative play that interrogates the ethics of artmaking, accountability, and memory in an era of public reckoning. The story centres on Nick, played by Gyton Grantley (Underbelly, House Husbands), a once-promising filmmaker turned university lecturer, whose controversial debut feature Low is…
    Editor's Choice Break Of Day

    Malthouse Theatre: Break Of Day

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    After stunning audiences with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, Kat Stewart and director Sarah Goodes reunite for the world premiere of Steve Rodgers’ play Break of Day. The gripping new drama – which won the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award and The Australian Writers Guild Prize for…
    The Book Of Mormon

    QPAC: The Book Of Mormon

    QPAC - Glasshouse Theatre
    The New York Times calls it “the best musical of this century.” The Washington Post says, “It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals.” And Entertainment Weekly says, “Grade A: the funniest musical of all time.” It’s THE BOOK OF MORMON, the nine-time 
Tony Award®-winning Best Musical.…
    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 Hansel and Gretel

    State Opera South Australia: Hansel and Gretel

    His Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide
    Constantine Costi applies his fertile brain to Humperdinck’s Wagnerian family favourite based on a typically gory story from the Brothers Grimm. With its haunted forest, gingerbread house and child-gobbling witch, there’s plenty for a director to get their teeth into, and while the marketing hyperbole suggests that this will be Hansel…
    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…

    The Concourse: Sydney Mozart Society – Flinders Quartet

    The Concourse Concert Hall 409 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
    Over 25 years challenging and championing the string quartet, Flinders Quartet has won the hearts of audiences as a leading ensemble of artistic integrity.  It is known for its tight ensemble, impeccable intonation, and insightful, deeply human interpretations.  The warmth and generosity of its members shine through every endeavour.  In…