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…

HIT Productions: The Sunshine Club

Albany Entertainment Centre 2 Toll Pl,, Albany, WA, Australia
The Sunshine Club is a gloriously energetic, thought provoking and above all entertaining night of theatre! It's the summer of 1946, and the war is over. Aboriginal soldier Frank Doyle has spent years fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with troops from all over Australia, but when he steps onto the Brisbane wharf he…
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 Things I Know To Be True

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…

Belvoir St Theatre: 25A – Darwin’s Reptilia

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
In the pool area of a run-down motel, Darwin Australia, a motley crew of five characters contemplate the bizarre circumstances that led them there. It’s the height of summer and the small-city has been overrun by a once in a lifetime crocodile infestation, leaving the group confined to the dull…

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…
Event Series Bright

Footscray Community Arts: Bright

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia
Footscray Community Arts presents Bright – a joyful art exhibition that ignites the senses, inviting audiences to touch, explore and connect from 10 October to 12 December 2023. The exhibition’s radical curatorial process brings together five installations without a defined beginning or end, each beckoning the artlover to interact with…

PICA: The Purple Shall Govern

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 51 James Street, Perth, WA, Australia
Artist Roberta Joy Rich delves into South Africa and Australia’s histories of segregation, oppression and resilience. Featuring archival material, Roberta asks, "How does power define public space?"

Maningrida Arts and Culture: mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape

Flinders University Museum of Art Flinders University, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
An exquisite collection of 48 works spotlighting contemporary painting practice in central and western Arnhem Land and the recent rise and recognition of women in this realm. It comprises paintings on bark and on carved and woven objects, featuring imagery that has its roots in ancient rock art and ceremonial…

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