• Beetlejuice The Musical

    Michael Cassel Group: Beetlejuice The Musical

    QPAC - Lyric Theatre
    Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. With an irreverent book, an astonishing set, and a score that’s out of…
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    Get ready to be seduced, swindled, and swept off your feet — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels hits the Hayes in a glittering new production that’s all charm, chaos, and con artistry at its most delicious. Based on the hit 1988 film starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, this Tony-nominated musical comedy…
    Editor's Choice Sarah McLeod

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Sarah McLeod

    Banquet Room
    Reuben Kaye, the new Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has chosen the theme of Delicious Revolution for his inaugural program. (Read our interview with him on page 65.) Speaking to Limelight, he says, “From Aussie icons and international acts of immense fame to basement-dwelling unknowns . . . this is a…

    UKARIA: James Ehnes with Orion Weiss

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Superstar Canadian violinist James Ehnes joins forces with his longtime duo partner, the celebrated American pianist Orion Weiss, to present a recital of duo repertoire. Ehnes is one of the great violinists on the global stage: a fixture as concerto soloist with orchestras like the New York and London Philharmonics and the Boston…
    Uked! The First Play-Along Ukulele Musical

    Bondi Theatre Company: Uked! The First Play-Along Ukulele Musical

    Bondi Pavilion Theatre Queen Elizabeth Dr, Bondi, NSW, Australia
    A kooky ukey love story with unique audience engagement. Uked! by Jane Caferalla is the hilarious and poignant story of Karla, who is dumped on her 50th birthday by her violin-playing boyfriend, Brian. Desperate to belong and prove her musical worth, Karla buys a ukulele and joins a dating site…

    Chimera Ensemble: Light and Shade

    Church of the Resurrection, Swanbourne 105 Shenton Road, Swanbourne, WA, Australia
    Join Chimera Ensemble for a beautiful concert full of contrasts, performed by Rebecca Glorie (violin), Daniel Schmitt (viola), Melinda Forsythe (cello) and Liam Wooding (piano). The concert includes light refreshments.

    Zelman Symphony: Beethoven 256

    James Tatoulis Auditorium 207 Barkers Rd, Kew, VIC, Australia
    Beethoven fans were left disappointed in 2020 with a somewhat curtailed 250th Anniversary celebration. We make up for it with this concert devoted to the bad-boy of Classical music. The Coriolan Overture was written as an introduction to Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s tragedy about the legendary, defiant Roman general, Coriolanus.…
    Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025, and fresh from a sell out season at London’s West End, Garry Starr returns with a literary adventure like no other through the world’s most iconic works of fiction. In just one hour, the comic wunderkind, hell-bent on saving books from extinction, must…
    Editor's Choice Festival Talks and Masterclasses

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Festival Talks and Masterclasses

    Quartet Bar by Corryton Burge
    Reuben Kaye, the new Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has chosen the theme of Delicious Revolution for his inaugural program. (Read our interview with him on page 65.) Speaking to Limelight, he says, “From Aussie icons and international acts of immense fame to basement-dwelling unknowns . . . this is a…

    Australian Chamber Choir: Great Romantic Voices: Middle Park

    Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park 210-218 Richardson St, Middle Park, VIC, Australia
    Middle Park In the hands of Romantics like Bruckner and Brahms, music became increasingly expressive, harmonically inventive, passionate and theatrical. In the twentieth century, composers like Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Amy Beach and Samuel Barber resisted the atonality and serialism embraced by their contemporaries and continued to explore the…
    Glories of Baroque Opera

    Arioso Chamber Ensemble: Glories of Baroque Opera

    Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 115 Eumundi Road, Noosaville, QLD, Australia
    From the heart-rending 'Lascia ch’io pianga'(Let me weep) from Handel’s opera Rinaldo to the dramatic Frost aria from Kind Arthur by Purcell, this program of quintessential Baroque arias is sure to transport and delight audiences. Dance music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Rameau’s Danse des sauvages will have audiences…

    Brisbane Chorale: A Sea Symphony

    Brisbane City Hall 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
    Experience an unforgettable afternoon of majestic choral and symphonic music as Brisbane Chorale and Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra join forces for a celebration of British musical masterworks, a musical feast not to be missed! This concert, conducted by Steven Moore, features Vaughan Williams’ monumental A Sea Symphony, with soprano Rebecca Cassidy…