• Opera for the Dead

    OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

    Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
    A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…

    Piano+: Wynona Yinuo Wang

    Phoenix Central Park NSW
    Chinese pianist Wynona Wang launched her career after winning the First Prize at the 2018 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Her recent North American performances include appearances with the Orchestra NOW, the Roswell Symphony Orchestra, the DuPage Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the California North State Symphony Orchestra,…
    HERE NOW Trilogy

    Vitalstatistix: HERE NOW Trilogy

    Vitalstatistix 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Performed together for the first time, Ryuichi Fujimura’s trilogy of solo dance works, How Did I Get Here?, How I Practice My Religion, and Fall! Falter!! Dance!!!, charts the artist’s 25-year journey as a contemporary dancer. Together they capture his journey reckoning with his body’s shifting capabilities and the passing of time.
    Incandescence

    Elder Conservatorium: Elder After Hours – Lumen Gala

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Our Lumen Gala ignites the stage with a program that celebrates the brilliance and boundless possibilities of chamber music. Guillaume Connesson’s electrifying Techno Parade launches the evening with pulsating energy and modern flair. Claude Debussy’s iconic Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, presented in a shimmering arrangement by Graeme…
    Naturism

    Griffin Theatre Company: Naturism

    Wharf 2 Theatre The Wharf, Dawes Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    No internet. No intruders. No clothes. Far from the trappings of civilisation, a group of nudist baby boomers have created their very own off-grid bush eco-paradise. An unseasonably hot summer approaches, but no worries! They’ve got enough preserves, pickles, and Fleetwood Mac to get them through it… probably. Enter Evangeline—a…
    Editor's Choice Shirley Valentine

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Shirley Valentine

    Twelfth Night Theatre 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
    Following seasons in Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra, Willy Russell’s life-affirming one-woman play, which premiered in 1986, is headed for Sydney and Brisbane with Natalie Bassingthwaighte as Shirley. It tells the story of a middle-aged, working-class Liverpool housewife who finds herself stuck in a rut. Talking to her kitchen wall, she…
    The Talented Mr Ripley

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Talented Mr Ripley

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Will McDonald (Heartbreak High) plays Tom Ripley, an orphan and a striver, barely scraping by in 1950s New York. But beneath his woebegone exterior, Tom cultivates certain talents that set him apart: an extraordinary capacity for mimicry and deception. He is a man with a face no-one remembers. Whereas no…
    The Breath of Kings

    Theatre Works: The Breath of Kings | Richard 3

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Shakespeare's Henry 6 plays are one of the great undiscovered gems of Western Literature. An intoxicating mix of violence, politics and romance, this civil war is as machiavellian as Succession and as brutal as Game of Thrones. Henry 6 is a rare thing - a religious pacifist in a time…
    Editor's Choice The Lovers

    shake & stir theatre co: The Lovers

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Laura Murphy’s electrifying musical The Lovers, inspired by The Bard’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was first staged by Bell Shakespeare in 2022. This new production by Shake & Stir Theatre Co won rave reviews when it premiered at this year’s Brisbane Festival and has now arrived in Sydney. Focusing on…
    MJ The Musical

    Michael Cassel Group: MJ the Musical

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne 219 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry is startin’ somethin’ in Melbourne, in the multiple Tony Award®-winning MJ the Musical. Centred around the making of his 1992 Dangerous World Tour, MJ the Musical goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the…
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DRAMATIC ART (NIDA) SPRING SEASON

    NIDA: Spring Season

    NIDA - National Institute of Dramatic Art 215 Anzac Parade, Kensingtion, NSW, Australia
    This Spring Season, NIDA lights up with royal battles, divine chaos, forgotten histories, and restless dreams. Mary Stuart pits two queens in a fight for one throne. Orpheus in the Underworld hurls us into a riotous, Can-Can-fuelled afterlife. The World Premiere of The Royal Experiment uncovers the women who held…