• Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…
    Editor's Choice Do Not Go Gentle

    Queensland Theatre Company: Do Not Go Gentle

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Patricia Cornelius’s 2006 play, Do Not Go Gentle, which takes his title from Dylan Thomas’s poem, is a poetically powerful depiction of old age and dementia. Set in an aged care home, a group of residents imagine themselves taking part in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed 1911 expedition to the South…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Rubiks Collective and Jane Sheldon

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The nested problems of being human. Experience an evening of music that is intimate and unexpectedly moving. Praised for her ‘mesmerising emotional truth’ (The Australian), acclaimed vocalist Jane Sheldon and Rubiks Collective explore what it means to love, hope, and navigate an increasingly complex world. Featuring three bold works by…

    Rubiks Collective: the nested problems of being human

    Primrose Potter Salon 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Experience an evening of music that is intimate and unexpectedly moving. Praised for her ‘mesmerising emotional truth’ (The Australian), acclaimed vocalist Jane Sheldon and Rubiks Collective explore what it means to love, hope, and navigate an increasingly complex world. Featuring three bold works by leading contemporary composers, Laura Bowler's award-winning…
    Editor's Choice Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…
    Griffin Theatre: Mum Club

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Mum Club

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Mum Club. Rule One: Every mum is held with love and kindness, no matter who they are. Rule Two:  Drink cow’s milk, and you’re OUT. Sadie’s just moved to Sydney. She’s a young Yuin mum, completely fried from trying to settle a screaming baby in a rental the…
    Mum Club

    Griffin Theatre Company: Mum Club

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Mum Club. Rule One: Every mum is held with love and kindness, no matter who they are. Rule Two: Drink cow’s milk and you’re OUT. Sadie’s just moved to Sydney. She’s a young Yuin mum, completely fried from trying to settle a screaming baby in a rental the…
    The Deplorables

    Theatre Works: The Deplorables

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    If they’re playing cricket, who is making the sandwiches? Written by Christine Davey and presented by award-winning regional theatre company – Skin of our Teeth Productions – this joyous, musical explores the first women’s cricket match in the country and what it means for all of us. A sharp, funny,…

    Theatre North: A Night with Opera Australia

    Albert Hall, Launceston 47 Tamar St, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    An evening of extraordinary storytelling and song. Join us as Opera Australia, one of the world’s most celebrated opera companies, takes over the historic Albert Hall for an evening that promises passion and peril, heroes and monsters, lovers and liars. Whether you’re an opera devotee or simply curious, this is…
    Editor's Choice Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Paris-based American violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as Guest Director in an intimate program dedicated to Venetian orphanage virtuoso Anna Maria della Pietà. With ABO Artistic Director Paul Dyer on harpsichord, the program explores Baroque chamber works, revealing a rare portrait of this overlooked multi-instrumentalist who inspired music…
    Commentary

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Commentary

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Helpmann Award-nominated writer Ash Flanders’ Commentary is a sharp, provocative play that interrogates the ethics of artmaking, accountability, and memory in an era of public reckoning. The story centres on Nick, played by Gyton Grantley (Underbelly, House Husbands), a once-promising filmmaker turned university lecturer, whose controversial debut feature Low is…