• Ensemble Theatre: Fly Girl

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    It’s the late 70’s and the Australian Aviation Industry is a boy’s club. The only job women are allowed involves wearing heels, lighting smokes and serving nuts. Deborah Lawrie’s got the chops to fly the big jets, but Reg Ansett won’t let her. Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore use their…

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Pre Concert 18th Century Unpacked – Beethoven Arranged

    State Library of NSW 1 Shakespeare Pl,, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Enhance your concert experience with our exclusive five-part pre-concert series, designed for anyone passionate about 18th-century music, historical performance, and period instruments. Held in conjunction with the State Library of NSW and alongside our 2025 season, this program offers you five curated pre-concert events, each including a glass of wine…
    Heart is a Wasteland

    Yirra Yaakin Theatre: Heart is a Wasteland

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Raye, is a country-music star in the making, playing in one back-water pub after another along Australia’s vast desert highways. Trying to make a living in the hope of returning home to her young son Elvis, her lyrics blaze through the landscapes of love and longing. A chance meeting and…
    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…
    Malacañang Made Us

    Queensland Theatre: Malacañang Made Us

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised. 1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change. On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young…
    Editor's Choice Calamity Jane

    One Eyed Man Productions: Calamity Jane

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step inside the Golden Garter Saloon and enter the Wild West as Virginia Gay reprises the role of the legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane (for which she won a Sydney Theatre Award). Adapted from the much-loved film starring Doris Day, this stripped-back, rough-and-ready reimagining of the classic musical, directed by Richard…
    Phar Lap The Musical

    Hayes Theatre Co: Phar Lap The Musical

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    Not just another absurdist, electro-swing musical comedy about a thoroughbred racehorse, Phar Lap is a rags-to-riches story with a big heart. If you’re thinking elaborate life-size puppetry and dazzling special effects, you couldn’t be more wrong (we don’t have the budget). Suspend your disbelief as an actor swaps his horseshoes…
    EFA Presents: Environmental Film Festival 2025

    Environmental Films Australia: Environmental Film Festival 2025

    The Kino, Melbourne 45 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Environmental Film Festival is back, running 16-23 October and celebrating our 15th year. Enjoy Australia's premier environmental cinema showcase, with features, shorts, documentaries, cine-art, talks, community activities and more. Join us in exploring how 'Environment Is Everywhere', through stories of urban living, nature and beyond, with the best eco-cinema from…

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: ACO Up Close – Baroque Resonance with ACO & Pinchgut Opera

    The Neilson, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    We are thrilled to be collaborating with our friends at Pinchgut Opera for this Baroque celebration led by Erin Helyard, featuring star soprano Samantha Clarke. Clarke’s performances in Handel’s Julius Caesar with Pinchgut Opera last year were described as “superb” (Daily Telegraph). For her ACO On The Pier debut, the Australian/British soprano…

    Melbourne International Jazz Festival: Liv Andrea Hauge’s Australian Trio

    The JazzLab 27 Leslie St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Pianist and composer Liv Andrea Hauge (Norway) is at the forefront of contemporary Scandinavian jazz. Performing in Australia for the first time, Hauge builds on her long-time trans-continental collaboration with Sydney-based improvising drummer Chloe Kim, forming a special trio with double bassist Jacques Emery. Hague’s compositions blend singable, pop-adjacent melodies…
    Mozart, Salieri & Pleyel

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Mozart, Salieri & Pleyel

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Experience the full force of the Brandenburg in a dramatic and large-scale Classical concert that pairs familiar brilliance with rediscovered treasure. Anchored by Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 — one of his most majestic and emotionally charged works — this program features the Australian premiere of a cracking Sinfonia by Antonio…