• Richard Tognetti at ANAM

    Australian National Academy of Music: Richard Tognetti – Central Park in the Dark

    St Kilda Town Hall 99a Carlisle St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    In the first of two concerts during his residency at ANAM, superstar violinist Richard Tognetti brings together the fascinating sound worlds of American composers Charles Ives and Ruth Crawford-Seeger, alongside a current new voice in Australian music, Alex Turley, and the sumptuous late-Romantic sounds of Arnold Schoenberg’s early masterpiece Verklärte…
    The Lark

    Hey Dowling: The Lark

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Noni Hazlehurst, beloved star of stage and screen, takes centre stage in this new work written by Daniel Keene and directed by Matt Scholten. Rose Grey is saying her final goodbye to The Lark, a small inner-city pub in Melbourne. It’s been closed for six months and will be demolished…
    How to Train Your Dragon 2 in Concert

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: How to Train Your Dragon 2 in Concert

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon 2 is that rare sequel that’s a worthy successor to the original! Hailed by critics and audiences alike, the acclaimed adventure continues featuring ground-breaking animation, brilliant storytelling and stirring emotion. When Hiccup and Toothless discover…
    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…
    Nails The Musical: In Concert

    Little Triangle: Nails The Musical: In Concert

    Eternity Playhouse 39 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    Set inside the elite North’s Netball Institute, Nails follows rising star Bec, whose carefully curated, picture-perfect life is thrown into chaos when a group of queer, take-no-prisoners recruits crash the court. As rivalries ignite, alliances fracture, and sparks fly, Bec must confront some uncomfortable truths. Can she take the heat?…
    Editor's Choice Rusalka

    Opera Queensland: Rusalka

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Following her admired staging of La traviata, Sarah Giles turned her attention to Dvořák’s fairytale opera about a water sprite who barters away the power of speech to follow her heart and enter the world of humans. Soprano Eleanor Lyons takes on the title role. Rosario La Spina plays her fickle…
    Genesis

    West Australian Ballet: Genesis

    Dolphin Theatre 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, Australia
    What started as a creative incubator for our dancers to branch out, increase their skills and choreograph works on their peers, has now become one of the most popular seasons in the West Australian Ballet calendar. It’s your chance to get in on the ground level and see new works,…
    Corporare – Evan Task In Outer Space

    Theatre Works: Corporare – Evan Task In Outer Space

    Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Created and performed by Matthew Crosby, Corporare presents a gorgeously low horror sci-fi about a tech-bro and his rocket adrift in Martian dreams. Corporare is a kabarett extremis revealing the invisible corporate body in its colonising madness. The complexity of a celebrity ‘founder’ entrepreneur who governs a company seemingly whimsically with little…
    In Shadows (Dalam Bayang-Bayang)

    Darebin Arts Speakeasy: In Shadows (Dalam Bayang-Bayang)

    Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    A ghost story told through shadow puppetry, live music and dance, In Shadows (Dalam Bayang-Bayang) reimagines a classic tale from Southeast Asian folklore and immerses audiences in a world of shadow, sound and memory. Created by visual artist Liang Luscombe, musician and ethnomusicologist Isobel D’Cruz Barnes, and writer–producer Haneen Mahmood…

    fortyfivedownstairs: MR BIG aka Tatay, A Transwoman and That Tiring Tune!

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    A ghost that will not stop singing. A bride with a funeral to plan. A 90s love song that refuses to die. From award-winning playwright Dax Carnay-Hanrahan, MR BIG aka Tatay, A Transwoman and That Tiring Tune! is a darkly comedic and musically haunted new theatre work. Set between 1990s Manila and…
    LOUDER Gravity and Other Myths

    Sydney Opera House: LOUDER Gravity and Other Myths

    Sydney Opera House - Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The intensity is turned up as the beauty and precision of classical music meet the daring physical mastery of circus. When these two disciplines collide, tradition isn’t abandoned, it’s reimagined and brought thrillingly to life. Created by multi-award-winning Australian circus company Gravity and Other Myths in collaboration with the Brandenburger…
    Engine

    Sydney Dance Company: Engine

    Sydney Opera House - Drama Theatre
    Engine unites three extraordinary choreographers; Rafael Bonachela, Fran Diaz and Melanie Lane, for an exhilarating performance that promises bold, fearless dance. Rafael Bonachela premieres The Journey Itself is Home, a new work featuring music by Grammy Award-winning composer Bryce Dessner and inspired by 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō. Engine sees the return…