• Malacañang Made Us

    Queensland Theatre: Malacañang Made Us

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised. 1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change. On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young…
    RUINS أطلال

    Seymour Centre: RUINS أطلال

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Grief-stricken by her late father’s sudden death, Amelia Alyssa embarks on a journey to her ancestral homeland, Lebanon. She bears witness to the ancient Baalbek ruins of the Beqaa Valley while lodging nearby at the Palmyra Hotel, a time capsule of a flourishing yesteryear. An exploration of migration and sacrifice…

    Circa: Duck Pond

    Griffith Regional Theatre Neville Place, Griffith, NSW, Australia
    The world's most romantic ballet is re-imagined as a circus spectacular, full of Circa’s signature physicality and shot through with cheeky humour and a thoroughly contemporary energy. Be swept away by this tale of swans and hapless princes sparkling with quirky touches like the sequinned flipper-wearing duck army and a…
    Irish Goodbye

    The Wedge: Irish Goodbye

    The Wedge 100 Foster Street, Sale, VIC, Australia
    Misha and her friends have been through it all – long nights, big laughs, and plenty of wine-fueled poker games. But even the closest of friendships have their secrets. As Misha wrestles with a life-changing decision, she holds her cards close to her chest, waiting for the right moment to…
    Editor's Choice Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

    Lyric Opera of Melbourne: Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Melbourne’s intrepid Lyric Opera presents the Australian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar. Set to a libretto by Royce Vavrek, the chamber opera tells the story of Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss-Algerian explorer, writer and mystic. Born in 1877, Eberhardt travelled to North Africa where she lived an adventurous, defiant…
    Editor's Choice The 39 Steps

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: The 39 Steps

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps, was loosely based on John Buchan’s 1915 novel. Patrick Barlow’s stage adaptation of the same book combines Hitchcockian suspense with lashings of hilarity. The play, which features four actors playing 130 characters, has delighted audiences around the world. It returns to Australia…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s First

    Federation Concert Hall Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Finnish musician Pekka Kuusisto is one of the freshest and most original talents in orchestral music today. In this concert he takes on the dual role of soloist and director, giving the Australian première of Time and Tides, a violin concerto specially written for him by Anna Clyne and co-commissioned…
    Editor's Choice Il trovatore

    West Australian Opera: Il trovatore

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Elke Neidhardt’s classic staging of Verdi’s opera comes to Perth. The plot – involving sibling rivalry, mixed-up babies and vengeful mothers – may have more twists and turns than a gypsy’s fandango, but it boasts a back-to-back run of opera’s greatest hits, from the Anvil Chorus to the tenor’s heroic Di quella pira. Asher…
    JUBILEE: Celebrating 150 years of Gilbert and Sullivan

    Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: JUBILEE: Celebrating 150 years of Gilbert and Sullivan

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    This production in the heart of Melbourne’s theatre district celebrates 90 glorious years of ‘innocent merriment’ from one of Australia's oldest performing arts groups, Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria, and 150 years of Trial By Jury, which began the most successful partnership that the theatre has known.