• Editor's Choice Orfeo by Luigi Rossi

    Adelaide Festival: Orfeo by Luigi Rossi

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo is a pivotal work in the history of the Baroque, bridging the gap between Venetian opera with its vocal virtuosity and the spectacle of French ballet. Commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin in 1646 to bring Italian style to the French court, it premiered in Paris in an elaborate…
    As You Like It

    Fingerless Theatre: As You Like It

    Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
    The days are dark and dangerous. Orlando’s brother is treating him like a slave, and is plotting to kill him. Also fearing for her life, Rosalind has to flee the cold and controlling French court. Disguised as a man, she heads to the Forest of Arden, where she finds, under…
    Editor's Choice Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Crown Theatre Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
    The 2017 Broadway musical, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Terrence McNally, is based on the much-loved 1997 animated film. It centres on the mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna who was rumoured to have escaped (since disproved) when the Russian Imperial family…
    B*tch Boxer

    Dead Darling Theatre: B*tch Boxer

    Goodwood Theatre & Studios 166 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood, SA, Australia
    Raw. Fierce. Unstoppable. Chloe is a boxer training for the Olympics while grieving the sudden loss of her dad. Fast-paced and physical, this one-woman show is about rage, love, grief, and fighting to take up space in a world that keeps knocking you back. Sweat, storytelling and guts collide in…
    AFTERGLOW

    Midnight Theatricals: AFTERGLOW

    Eternity Playhouse 39 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    The climax is just the beginning. S. Asher Gelman international hit play AFTERGLOW is finally heading to Sydney! When Josh and Alex, a married couple in an open relationship, invite Darius to share their bed for a night, a new and intimate connection is ignited. As all three men come…
    Editor's Choice Black Light

    Malthouse Theatre: Black Light

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    In a family home on the outskirts of Darwin, four Larrakia mothers find themselves stuck together on the precipice of a drastically changing world. The eldest, Nan, has dementia and finds it difficult to make sense of the world. The youngest, Bub, is separated from their wife and struggling to…
    Black Light

    Malthouse Theatre: Black Light

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    In a family home on the outskirts of Darwin, four Larrakia mothers find themselves stuck together, on the precipice of a drastically changing world. Black Light is a play about finding our way back to ourselves, to Country and to the people we love, when everything else tries to tear us…
    The Social Ladder

    Ensemble Theatre: The Social Ladder

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Ensemble Theatre presents Australian playwright David Williamson’s brand-new social satire, The Social Ladder, a cutting dissection of the fragile performance of status and the outrageous lengths we’ll go to just to be seen. Katie doesn’t want a taste of the high life — she wants a seat at the table.…
    Festival of Small Halls

    Woodfordia Inc: Festival of Small Halls

    Ballan Neighbourhood House Mechanics Hall 143 Inglis St, Ballan, VIC, Australia
    Irish/Canadian powerhouse Irish Mythen is joined by South Australian troubadour Kaurna Cronin on the Festival of Small Halls Victorian Summer/Autumn Tour – and we’re headed to Foster for one night only.

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Bleak Squad

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Bleak Squad is a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty. Featuring Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque) Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time…
    Editor's Choice Turandot

    Opera Australia: Turandot

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    International director and choreographer Ann Yee has been recruited to stage a new production of Puccini’s Turandot in a way that is sensitive to issues of race and gender by focusing on the implacable princess’s courage, her ancestor’s trauma and the sacrificial love of another woman. Rebecca Nash, fresh from…
    Evil Dead The Musical

    Stoddart Entertainment Group: Evil Dead the Musical

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    From the producers of The Play That Goes Wrong, comes Evil Dead The Musical: a hilariously gory, blood-soaked rock musical based on the iconic 80’s Evil Dead cult film franchise. When five college students venture to an abandoned cabin in the woods, they accidentally unleash an evil force that turns…