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La Mama: Prisoner At The World’s End

La Mama HQ 205 Faraday St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
Prisoner at the World’s End is a theatrical meditation on truth and the imprisonment of Julian Assange. The play explores Assange’s predicament through the eyes of three very different women who work in a volunteer café at His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh. Over the course of their day, as they work…
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Belvoir St Theatre: The Master & Margarita

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
An actor enters with a battered copy of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita and begins to read aloud from the opening chapter . . . Written in secret in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940, during Stalin’s regime, Bulgakov’s manuscript wasn’t published as a book until 1967 in Paris. Now regarded…
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State Theatre Company South Australia: Welcome to Your New Life

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
When Anna, a pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, she is both excited and daunted. Acclaimed pianist Anna Goldsworthy has turned her captivating memoir into a new play with live songs that looks at the love that binds families together. Shannon Rush directs this world-premiere production, featuring…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Nutcracker

West Australian Ballet: The Nutcracker

His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
Christmas isn’t complete without Tchaikovsky’s fairytale ballet. Clara, Uncle Drosselmeyer, the Mouse King and the Sugarplum Fairy are back, on both sides of the continent. The QB and WAB Nutcrackers are calling cards for their respective Artistic Directors, Li Cunxin and Aurélien Scannella. Both are stepping down at the end of this year, and these much-loved…

Seymour Centre: The Lost Boys

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
From Little Eggs Collective comes The Lost Boys, a devised, multidisciplinary, ensemble-based theatre work inspired by the classic text, Peter and Wendy, by J.M. Barrie. Peter and Wendy's Neverland presents an opportunity for unending play, real magic, joyous chaos, and intoxicating ferocity—an opportunity to experiment with elements of the classic to…
Event Series Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
Beethoven's Violin Concerto is sublimely lyrical, tender and moving. Internationally renowned for her compelling and captivating interpretations, Emily Sun brings the perfect balance of sophistication and expression to one of the greatest of all concertos. Schumann's First Symphony was astonishingly conceived in just four days but perfectly captures the warmth…

Theatre Works: Every Lovely Terrible Thing

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Widowed matriarch Jerica just wants to sell the decaying family home and go on her cruise. Her conservative son Charles wants to win back his seat from the latest teal independent. His wife Phoebe doesn’t know what she wants… except that it’s probably not Charles. Their genderqueer, Twitch-streaming son Coop…
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Queensland Theatre: Vietgone

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Billed as “a wild road-trip romance through the heartland of America”, Qui Nguyen’s new play is “an irreverent, pulp fiction-style take on the love story that may (or may not) have led to his own birth.” Saigon has fallen. Helicopter pilot Quang and strong-willed Tong have both narrowly escaped the…
Event Series The Messiah

Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: The Messiah

Woodbin Theatre 15 Coronation St, Geelong West, VIC, Australia
Everyone knows the story of the Nativity, yes? You may have performed as Mary or Joseph or an Angel or even a stable animal at school? Well, forget all that. Have you ever seen the Nativity performed by a travelling troupe of two highly energetic, eccentric and slightly combative travelling…

New Theatre: The Ballad of Maria Marten

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
“The battle between good and evil is full of grey areas… but I think he’s firmly on the devil’s side.” The notorious ‘Red Barn Murder’ of 1827 has entered the annals of British folklore, the subject of prurient gossip and grim speculation. A young woman, Maria Marten, goes to a…

Theatre Works: What Is This?

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
1 director 1 creative consultant 1 Korean foodie 1 sports model 1 audiobook fanatic 1 queer red head 1 well spoken skinhead 1 rom com lover 1 angsty clown And 1 Israeli ballerina with army training. A diverse group of performers from all over the world come together to tell…
Editor's Choice Event Series Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Melbourne Theatre Company: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
It’s 1959. In a small, run-down bar in Philadelphia, Billie Holliday gives one of her final performances, a few months before her death at age 44. As the jazz songs and standards flow, so do the reminiscences. Zahra Newman stars in Lanie Robertson’s musical play, directed by Mitchell Butel. When…

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