• Playhouse Week 1

    The Australian Ballet: Playhouse Week 1

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Playhouse Theatre Royal New Zealand Ballet, Te Ao Mārama The Australian Ballet and The Australian Ballet School, Allegro Brillante by George Balanchine ©The George Balanchine Trust Restless Dance Theatre, Seeing Through Darkness The Australian Ballet and Lucy Guerin, Ground Control Dancenorth Australia, Wayfinder (Excerpt)
    Brahms Before and After

    Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Brahms Before and After

    Sydney Conservatorium of Music 1 Conservatorium Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    This piano solo recital program by Daniel Herscovitch revolves around the music of Johannes Brahms, beginning with the delightful Sonata in B major D.575 by Franz Schubert, who had a big influence on Brahms. It is followed by one of Brahms’s earliest big masterpieces, the dramatic Sonata in F sharp…
    Editor's Choice Rebecca

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Rebecca

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel was adapted as a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This new production, adapted and directed by MTC Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, takes us back to Manderley, the grand mansion where Maxim de Winter returns home with his second…
    Editor's Choice The Shiralee

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Shiralee

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Kate Mulvany did a fabulous job adapting Ruth Park’s Harp in the South trilogy for Sydney Theatre Company. Now she has turned her attention to the 1955 Australian classic The Shiralee, written by D’Arcy Niland (who was married to Park). The story centres on Macauley, a rugged swagman, who roams Australia…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM Concerto Competition Final with TSO

    Federation Concert Hall Hobart, TAS, Australia
    The finalists of the ANAM Concerto Competition perform with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, with the winner announced on the night. The culmination of a series of competitive rounds, ANAM Musicians get the rare and exciting privilege of performing with a professional orchestra – and this is your chance to hear and see the…
    Anything You Can Do

    Pony Cam: Anything You Can Do

    Hothouse Theatre Lincoln Causeway,, Wodonga, VIC, Australia
    A joyful reminder that you don’t know sh*t about age. Anything You Can Do is a community-engaged performance. Beginning remotely, two months out, Pony Cam will bring together a group of 5-10 local community members aged 55+. Then, over ten days, Pony Cam will run a playful and provocative creative…
    The Witches of Eastwick

    Hayes Theatre Co: The Witches of Eastwick

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    Comedy, drama, and horror collide in this spellbinding musical adaptation of The Witches of Eastwick. Originally a 1984 novel by John Updike, the story was famously brought to the screen in the 1987 dark fantasy comedy film directed by George Miller, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon.…
    Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    Messy With the Pen: Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Manes, meltdowns and masculinity collide in this unhinged equestrian brom-com road trip coming to fortyfivedownstairs this October. Quinn is a middle-aged dressage diva in distress. Loyal groom and live-in lover to top rider Randall James Beaumont-Smythe III, Quinn’s idyllic Daylesford life is shattered when Randy dumps him for a younger…
    RENT

    Opera Australia: RENT

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Experience Jonathan Larson’s electrifying, multi-Tony® Award winning musical, in this electrifying, critically-acclaimed new production. Step into the vibrant streets of New York City’s East Village, where dreams are born, friendships are tested, and the power of love prevails against all odds. Featuring the iconic songs Seasons of Love, Take Me…
    CATS

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: CATS

    Crown Theatre Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
    Adapted from TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, this “groundbreaking musical” (Daily Express) comes together in a sparkling fusion of music, dance and verse. On just one special night of the year, all Jellicle cats meet at the Jellicle Ball where Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader,…

    A Daylight Connection: THE BLOK!

    Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    A Daylight Connection, led by Kamarra Bell-Wykes and Carly Sheppard, make work that bucks theatre convention. Hilarious and irreverent, this motley crew of visionary renegades are hell-bent on reimagining what First Nations performance can be. THE BLOK! is a wild, satirical battle for creative control. An artist known as The…