• 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 Symphonic Stories

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Symphony Under the Stars – Cairns

    Munro Martin Parklands 123 Sheridan St, Cairns, QLD, Australia
    Enjoy the artistry of Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti in the QSO’s final concert for August, presented by Ed Le Brocq. Copland’s Clarinet Concerto – featuring QSO Section Principal Irit Silver – anchors a program including Bacewicz’s Overture, Gershwin’s Promenade (Walking the Dog; The Real McCoy), Bernstein’s Three Dance Variations from Fancy Free, Mozart’s Turkish March (arr. Pascal),…

    The Queensland Choir: From Darkness into Light

    Cathedral of St. Stephen's, Brisbane 249 Elizabeth St., Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    You don't want to miss the beautiful sounds created in the Cathedral of St Stephens Brisbane. Moving from shadow into radiance, this program traces a human journey of grief, hope, and renewal. Fauré’s Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 offers a vision of peace and gentle consolation, transforming darkness not…
    12 Angry Actors

    Asamina Theatre Company: 12 Angry Actors

    Meat Market Stables 2 Wreckyn St, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Asamina Theatre Company presents 12 Angry Actors" a gripping new Australian play by Celine Khoury and award-winning playwright Brian Vriends, directed by Glen Kalem and Bethany Griffiths, with Assistant Director Carlia Capozza. Playing for a strictly limited season from 20–30 August at the Meat Market Stables, North Melbourne, "12 Angry…
    The Book of Everything

    Belvoir St Theatre: The Book of Everything

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Thomas isn’t an ordinary 9-year-old – he can see the extraordinary: canals bursting with tropical fish, hailstorms in summer, plagues of hopping frogs. He draws them all in his book, The Book of Everything. And in that book he also writes a promise to himself: When I grow up, I’m…
    Editor's Choice A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Paul Dainty, Ken Davenport & Bob Gaudio: A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Created in consultation with Neil Diamond himself, the jukebox musical, A Beautiful Noise, charts his rise to superstardom through the songs that defined his life and career, among them Cracklin’ Rosie, Forever in Blue Jeans and Sweet Caroline. Famous for his swaggering sexuality and velvet-meets-gravel voice, Diamond is conjured by two…
    Editor's Choice Do Not Go Gentle

    Queensland Theatre Company: Do Not Go Gentle

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Patricia Cornelius’s 2006 play, Do Not Go Gentle, which takes his title from Dylan Thomas’s poem, is a poetically powerful depiction of old age and dementia. Set in an aged care home, a group of residents imagine themselves taking part in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed 1911 expedition to the South…
    How to Train Your Dragon 2 in Concert

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: How to Train Your Dragon 2 in Concert

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon 2 is that rare sequel that’s a worthy successor to the original. Hailed by critics and audiences alike, the acclaimed adventure continues featuring ground-breaking animation, brilliant storytelling and stirring emotion. When Hiccup and…
    Editor's Choice Into the Woods

    State Opera South Australia: Into the Woods

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Happily ever after . . . and then what? Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer James Lapine ask the question in their stunning 1986 musical Into the Woods. The witty, whimsical, poignant show interweaves fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm – Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel – with an…
    How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

    LPD Productions: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    You can achieve anything if you just set everyone's mind to it. Armed with a quirky instructional guide, J. Pierrepont Finch is set on climbing the corporate ladder—without breaking a sweat. With equal parts cunning and charm, he sidesteps snares, outwits obstacles, and plots his rise to the top. How…