• Monsteen

    RISING Festival: Monsteen

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Monsteen, a participatory theatre work where teens create characters and face off with friends and enemies at a supernatural high school. Vampires, werewolves, sirens, and witches. It’s just another school day for teenagers in the world of Monsteen. But, as heatwaves hits, tensions bubble to the surface. Inspired by cosplay and…
    AN ILIAD

    Sydney Theatre Company: AN ILIAD

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A wry, witty and world-weary poet introduces himself as a storyteller, bound to recount the myth of the Trojan War until humanity can overcome its rage for violence and destruction. Award-winning international star David Wenham returns to Sydney Theatre Company as the Poet: a man who has spent millennia walking…
    Editor's Choice Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    IPAC 32 Burelli St, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    Steel Magnolias received glowing reviews when it began its tour in Brisbane, with critics saying that the production exudes humour, heart and plenty of emotion. Robert Harling wrote his 1987 play (later turned into a 1989 film) after his sister died from complications relating to diabetes following the birth of her son.…

    Redland Perfomance Arts Centre: Redland Sinfonia – Beautiful Beethoven

    RPAC Concert Hall
    Celebrate Queensland Day in full symphonic style with Redland Sinfonia At the heart of the program is the uplifting serenity of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” — beloved masterpiece inspired by the beauty of nature and the joy of the countryside. The afternoon also shines a spotlight on emerging talent, with dazzling piano…
    Company

    Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): Company

    State Theatre Centre of WA Perth, WA, Australia
    Over half a century after Company premiered on Broadway and blitzed the Tony Awards, Sondheim’s groundbreaking 1970 musical about relationships is still remarkably relevant – as proven by the hit 2022 Broadway revival. A series of comedic vignettes tell the story of Bobby, a single Manhattanite who’s about to turn…

    Allegri Ensemble: Echoes of Venice

    St. Mary's Cathedral, Hobart 180 Harrington St, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Allegri Ensemble are excited to announce this performance of renaissance masterpieces, often for not one, not two, but up to three choirs simultaneously! This programme is a homage to a particular style of multi-choir composition – exemplified in the music of Giovanni Gabrieli – which made dramatic use of the…

    RISING Festival: We Come To Collect : A Flirtation, With Capitalism

    The Showroom, Arts Centre Melbourne
    Baltimore-born chaos merchant Jenn Kidwell and her co-conspirator/ASL artist Brandon Kazen-Maddox invite you to roll with them in the pigsty of global capitalism. Beneath the light of a crooked chandelier, they skewer myths of American economic might, hold our conceptions of value up to the gilded mirror, and shimmy-shake between topics like time, race,…
    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…
    Nowhere

    RISING Festival: Nowhere

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Actor Khalid Abdalla (from Netflix’s The Crown & The Kite Runner) invites us inside a new kind of “anti-biography”. An audacious and lively show that tells the story of his life, set against the shifting cartographies of seismic world events. From his involvement in the Egyptian revolution, and his experience of the counter-revolution.…

    Glen Street Theatre: Mark Vincent | Amoré with The Australian Symphony Orchestra

    Glen Street Theatre Belrose, NSW, Australia
    Fresh from his acclaimed star turn as Old Deuteronomy in the 40th Anniversary Australian Tour of CATS, produced by John Frost for Crossroads Live, Mark brings his signature passion and power to a breathtaking evening of song. Under the baton of conductor Shannon Brown, a founding member of The Ten…
    Belvoir Theatre: The Birds

    Belvoir St Theatre: The Birds

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    PAULA ARUNDELL GOES WILD IN A NEW TAKE ON DAPHNE DU MAURIER’S CLASSIC “How many millions of years of memory are stored in those brains? Behind the stabbing beaks. Behind the piercing eyes.” Nature isn’t behaving. The weather is doing strange things, the sea and sky sound different, and things…

    RISING: we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism

    The Showroom, Arts Centre Melbourne
    Baltimore-born chaos merchant Jenn Kidwell and her co-conspirator/ASL artist Brandon Kazen-Maddox invite you to roll with them in the pigsty of global capitalism. Beneath the light of a crooked chandelier, they skewer myths of American economic might, hold our conceptions of value up to the gilded mirror and shimmy-shake between…