• Editor's Choice Requiems

    Opera Australia: Brahms Requiem

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Opera Australia continues its sidestep into choral repertoire with two great 19th-century Requiems. Completed in 1893, Fauré’s lyrical meditation on death is paired with Barber’s iconic Agnus Dei, the composer’s choral arrangement of his famous Adagio for Strings. The OA Chorus will be conducted by Paul Fitzsimon, with Michael Curtain playing the marvellous…
    Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks: Garry Starr – Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025, and fresh from a sell out season at London’s West End, Garry Starr returns with a literary adventure like no other through the world’s most iconic works of fiction. In just one hour, the comic wunderkind, hell-bent on saving…
    Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025, and fresh from a sell out season at London’s West End, Garry Starr returns with a literary adventure like no other through the world’s most iconic works of fiction. In just one hour, the comic wunderkind, hell-bent on saving books from extinction, must…
    Punk the beat! Let’s W_ack!

    Arts Centre Melbourne: Punk the beat! Let’s W_ack!

    The Showroom, Arts Centre Melbourne
    This series frames choreography from 8 teachers through a neurodiverse lens, transforming dance into a conceptual and social playground, dissolving boundaries between mind, body and community. Punking is a Queer-born club dance defined by pose, attitude and musical domination. W_acking is the action – it’s the way you move with…

    The Ellington Jazz Club: Gemma Farrell Quintet

    The Ellington Jazz Club 191 Beaufort Street, Perth, WA, Australia
    After a brief hiatus while Gemma finishes her PhD, the Gemma Farrell Quintet returns to the stage at the Perth Women’s International Jazz Festival with a powerful set of original music. Led by saxophonist and composer Gemma Farrell, this acclaimed Perth ensemble brings together some of Western Australia’s most compelling…
    Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

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

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The five-star musical comedy sensation, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE* (*sort of), is finally heading Down Under. Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love…
    Editor's Choice The Gesualdo Six

    Australian Boys Choir: The Gesualdo Six – Crossing the Bar

    St Andrew's Anglican Church, Brighton 228 New St, Brighton, VIC, Australia
    Renowned for its consort singing, The Gesualdo Six begins its Australian tour at MONA’s Elektra – Anselm Kiefer’s colossal concrete amphitheatre. In Sydney, Lux Aeterna spans Tallis, Gesualdo, Tavener and contemporary composers including Joanna Marsh and Richard Rodney Bennett, while Hemispheres is a collaborative program of luminous polyphony with St James’ Choir. The British vocal…
    House of Rot: Grey Gardens

    Hayes Theatre Co: House of Rot: Grey Gardens

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    Headlining the 2026 Winter Cabaret Season is the premiere of HOUSE OF ROT: GREY GARDENS, starring über-talents Paul Capsis (Cabaret) and Adam Noviello (Hedwig and the Angry Inch). HOUSE OF ROT is inspired (loosely, dangerously) by Grey Gardens, the documentary that introduced the world to Big and Little Edie; two eccentric…
    Losing Face

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Losing Face

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Pack your bags for a perimenopausal Weekend at Bernie’s: an outrageous and unforgettable trip directed by Leticia Cáceres (Erotic Stories, Bump) and starring Michala Banas (Upper Middle Bogan, The Odd Couple) and Genevieve Morris (Dying: A Memoir, Comedy Inc.). Losing Face is an absolutely unhinged and spikily clever new comedy about friendship and unmasking the true price of chasing the fountain of…
    Isles of Light

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Isles of Light

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    The British Isles boast a magnificent anthology of music grounded in lush, poetic landscapes and thriving cities. This concert will transport you there. British violin and viola virtuoso Lawrence Power makes his ACO debut directing music from Thomas Tallis’ evocative theme - made famous by Vaughan Williams - to the…
    Copland Dance Episodes

    The Australian Ballet: Copland Dance Episodes

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    In a stunning explosion of colour and music, New York City Ballet Resident Choreographer Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes arrives in Australia. Featuring Choctaw/Cherokee painter and sculptor Jeffrey Gibson's set designs, former New York City Ballet dancer Ellen Warren’s costumes and lighting design by Brandon Stirling Baker, Copland Dance Episodes is…