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David M. Hawkins: La Cage Aux Folles

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
A timeless and enduring story of love, commitment, family, and acceptance; that the Hollywood movie The Birdcage was based on. An all-new Australian production starring five-time Helpmann Award winner Paul Capsis (Cabaret The Musical, Head-On) in the role of Albin and Michael Cormick (The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast) as Georges…
Event Series Of People and Song

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Of People and Song

Riverlinks Eastbank, Shepparton 70 Welsford St, Shepparton, VIC, Australia
For as long as there have been people, there has been song. Song is at the heart of rich musical traditions that bind people together, and attest to the spirit of time and place. Eliding ideas of East and West, high and low, past and present, the music of renowned…
Event Series Woolah!

Yirra Yaakin Theatre: Woolah!

Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
Yirra Yaakin presents Woolah!, a theatre production showcasing the plays and Aboriginal playwrights that Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company has championed over the last thirty years. We celebrate our achievements and the joy that we have brought to Western Australian, Australian, and international audiences with a vignette-style performance drawing on scenes…

The Street Theatre: This Rough Magic By Helen Machalias

The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
It begins, as always, with a storm. Sit still and hear of my sea-sorrow. A chaotic storm erupts. A disastrous shipwreck ensues. Refugees Prospero, Miranda and Ariel are washed ashore on Christmas Island seeking asylum in Australia. But this side of the story is yet to be seen. Award-winning playwright…
Editor's Choice Event Series Oil

Sydney Theatre Company: Oil

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Brooke Satchwell makes her STC debut in this time-bending, globetrotting epic from British playwright Ella Hickson. Opening in Cornwall in the late 19th century, the ambitious play moves to the Middle East in the 1920s and on to today. Focusing on a woman called May, it explores the price that…
Event Series The Dictionary of Lost Words

Sydney Theatre Company: The Dictionary of Lost Words

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller and book club favourite, The Dictionary of Lost Words, will be brought to vivid life in a new adaptation for the stage by Verity Laughton and directed by one of Australia’s best directors, Jessica Arthur (Grand Horizons, Wonnangatta). It’s 1886 and the very…
Event Series Company by Stephen Sondheim

Wanneroo Repertory: Company by Stephen Sondheim

Limelight Theatre Civic Drive, Wanneroo, WA, Australia
A sensational Broadway musical comes alive at Limelight Theatre this November, full of wit and charm while exploring the complexities of modern relationships. Written by popular composer Stephen Sondheim and directed by Gillian Binks, Company focuses on Bobby who, after celebrating his 35th birthday, still can’t commit to a steady…

Three River Theatre: Things I Know To Be True

Earl Arts Centre 10 Earl Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
As beautifully touching as it is funny and bold, Things I Know to be True is a powerful family drama from one of Australia’s master playwrights. Funny, poignant, and heartbreaking, Andrew Bovell’s complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family, and a marriage, through the eyes of four…
Event Series Wicked

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Wicked

Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
The Broadway sensation Wicked looks at what happened in the Land of Oz… but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another young woman, born with emerald-green skin, who is smart, fiery, misunderstood and possessing an extraordinary talent. When she meets a bubbly blonde who is exceptionally popular,…
Event Series Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

TEG Dainty: Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Direct from Broadway, this smash-hit musical phenomenon is a celebration of an unstoppable woman who became the Queen of Rock n’ Roll. With 37 award nominations including Best New Musical (Olivier Awards) and Best Musical (Tony Awards), this heart-pumping production is guaranteed to raise the roof at Theatre Royal Sydney…
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Opera Australia: Miss Saigon

Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne 219 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
This Cameron Mackintosh production, presented by Opera Australia, is electrifying on every front. Written by Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schönberg (Les Misérables), the 1989 musical is based on Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Set in Saigon in the dying days of the Vietnam War, it tells the heartbreaking story of the doomed love affair between Chris, an…

The Blue Room Theatre: Everything Flickers

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
Art and storytelling transcends peoples, cultures and crises. Yet in the past decade Australia’s arts sector has suffered relentless funding cuts and a consequent cultural devaluation of arts as a career. Through a rich tapestry of images, Everything Flickers laments what has been lost. All the while, the work searches for the…

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