• Shadow Boxing by James Gaddas

    Feet First Collective: Shadow Boxing by James Gaddas

    Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
    Raw, Riveting and Unmissable: Shadow Boxing  is a fierce solo performance exploring masculinity, violence, sexuality, and vulnerability. Following acclaimed seasons in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, Shadow Boxing, the award-winning solo work by James Gaddas, returns to Sydney for a strictly limited season at Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville, from 7 - 11 October…

    Red Stitch: Monument

    Princess Theatre, Launceston (Theatre North) 55/57 Brisbane Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    Edith Aldridge is the youngest woman to be elected leader of her country. In a lush presidential suite in a heritage listed hotel, she has just ninety minutes to get ready for the biggest day of her life. Enter Rosie, a twenty-two year old makeup artist from the David Jones…
    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)
    Manon

    The Australian Ballet: Manon

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel, Manon is a tragic romance unlike any other in ballet. From the echelons of high society 18th-century Paris to the gritty streets of New Orleans, Manon tells a story of a young girl desperate to rise above her lowly origins, seduced…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Journeys

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The MSO Chorus explores the music of Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, famous for his motets, and complementary modern works including Australian composer Joseph Twist’s motet that pays tribute to Victoria himself. Gabriel Jackson’s To The Field of Stars also makes a welcome return, originally co-commissioned and premiered by the MSO…
    Asher Fisch Conducts Dvořák 9

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Asher Fisch Conducts Dvořák 9

    Winthrop Hall Perth, WA, Australia
    Zoltán Kodály’s colourful Variations on a Hungarian Folksong sets the tone for this folk-inspired program. WASO’s own Principal Viola, Daniel Schmitt, takes centre stage for Bartók’s Viola Concerto, his final, elegiac work, full of the folk-music influences which so fascinated him. The sheer number of unforgettable melodies that fill Dvořák’s…
    Editor's Choice

    Adelaide Guitar Festival: Australian Guitar Quartet

    Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre 10 Watson Terrace, Mount Gambier, SA
    Curated by Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan, this year’s festival highlights include John Butler’s Prism tour, a double bill featuring Catalan virtuoso Lau Noah and Lior, a world-premiere extravaganza celebrating the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti with the Southern Cross Symphony Orchestra, and an evening of storytelling by Barkindji songwoman Nancy…
    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…
    Editor's Choice The 39 Steps

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: The 39 Steps

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps, was loosely based on John Buchan’s 1915 novel. Patrick Barlow’s stage adaptation of the same book combines Hitchcockian suspense with lashings of hilarity. The play, which features four actors playing 130 characters, has delighted audiences around the world. It returns to Australia…
    The Light Inside

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: The Light Inside

    Geelong Arts Centre 81 Ryrie Street, Geelong, VIC, Australia
    From two of the world’s great First Nations comes a new work: The Light Inside. Some call it a feeling, some call it the mother spirit. It’s the place where sea meets sky, the horizon we all look to, the compass that guides us home. In Bangarra’s first mainstage cross-cultural…

    Ruido: Dance of the Flames

    IPAC 32 Burelli St, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    The Dance of the Flames draws together the power of flamenco, the allure of belly dance and the flair of shadow theatre with LED pyrotechnics. In an instant, the flames flare. In the next breath, they’re tender and warm – performing dances, refrains, and beats from far away and long ago. Fusing…
    Romeo & Juliet

    Bell Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet

    Pilbeam Theatre Cnr Victoria Parade & Cambridge Street, Rockhampton City, QLD, Australia
    Did my heart love till now? After a chance meeting, an intense but forbidden love is ignited between two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet. And despite the unending, violent feud between their families, they will risk everything to be together. This raw portrayal of Romeo & Juliet will envelop you in the…