• Editor's Choice Prima Facie

    Sydney Theatre Company: Prima Facie

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie had its world premiere at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in 2019. Directed by Lee Lewis, the riveting production starred Sheridan Harbridge (read our feature on page 30). Since then, the one-woman play has been produced in nearly 50 countries and published as a novel. Jodie…
    The Present

    Brown’s Mart Theatre: The Present

    Browns Mart 12 Smith Street, Darwin, NT, Australia
    At once comedic and cathartic, The Present unwraps a family’s history and their obsession with presents. You’ll meet half twins with different fathers; mother and son with unresolvable trust issues; a man with a rare gene that makes him extra tasty to sharks, and his long lost daughter who loves…

    Adelaide Festival Centre: Lime Cordiale with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

    Adelaide Festival Theatre King William Road, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    From ARIA chart-topping tracks to quirky and treasured favourites, conductor Vanessa Scammell and arranger Alex Turley give the band’s catalogue a majestic, high-brow makeover. It’s a nostalgic return to their nerd roots and a full-circle journey back to the orchestras where it all began. Enchanting, intimidating, and utterly epic, this is…
    Editor's Choice Stravinsky’s The Firebird

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky’s The Firebird

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Former Music & Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Andrey Boreyko conducts a program of elemental drama and orchestral colour. Grounded in the traditions that shaped Stravinsky, Liadov’s Kikimora is followed (on 12 & 13 June) by Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, performed here by ECHO Klassik-winning cellist Maximilian Hornung in…
    Izzard – The Tragedy of Hamlet

    BOHM Presents: Izzard – The Tragedy of Hamlet

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Direct from triple-extended solo runs in New York, Chicago and London, Eddie Izzard brings her acclaimed one-person performance of Hamlet to Sydney. Nominated for New York’s Drama League Distinguished Performance Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, this production has captivated audiences around the world. Akin…
    Griffin Theatre: Savior

    Griffin Theatre Company: Savior

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A typhoon hits the Philippines, and local project officer Michelle lands her dream assignment. It’s her first time coordinating a global relief effort for a sleek American NGO. A chance to change lives, to be the changemaker she always dreamed of!  All she has to do is smash her KPI’s…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    The Neilson Nutshell, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her daughter was destined for superstardom. One day, Mackenzie and her best on-set friend Beau encounter a geriatric make-up artist…
    The Big Chillout

    Good Company Entertainment: The Big Chillout

    MEMO Music Hall 88 Acland Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Get ready to relive the music that defined a generation in The Big Chillout, a joyous, soul-stirring celebration of the legendary Big Chill soundtrack and the Motown revival it sparked. This powerful live show brings to life the timeless classics of Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin,…
    Tootsie

    Teatro at the Italian Forum: Tootsie

    Teatro at the Italian Forum 23 Norton St, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
    Described by The New York Post as “Broadway’s funniest new musical” and praised by Rolling Stone as “musical comedy heaven”, Tootsie is the laugh-out-loud story of a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until one show-stopping act of desperation lands him the role of a lifetime. Based…
    Editor's Choice Jay Laga’aia - Unscripted

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Jay Laga’aia - Unscripted

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    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…
    Katma

    Carriageworks: Katma

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Co-created and directed by Azzam “Shazam” Mohamed with the Katma team, Katma is an immersive performance that captures the charged intensity of an underground dancefloor, drawing inspiration from Sudanese and Australian party scenes as well as legendary dance spaces like The Loft in New York. With no seats and the…
    Skank Sinatra: The Name on Everybody’s Lips

    Qtopia Sydney: Skank Sinatra: The Name on Everybody’s Lips

    The Loading Dock Theatre 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    Award-winning cabaret sensation Skank Sinatra returns with a BRAND NEW glittering cabaret spectacle bursting with powerhouse vocals, biting comedy and Broadway bangers turned deliciously sideways. Prepare for an hour with one of Australia’s most magnetic live cabaret performers, featuring big hair, a live pianist and more costume reveals than Liza…