• Editor's Choice West Gate

    Melbourne Theatre Company: West Gate

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dennis McIntosh was 12 when Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapsed on 15 October, 1970. He and his friends heard the terrible thud from their school – something he has never forgotten. Thirty-five men died in what remains Australia’s deadliest industrial accident. For the past decade, McIntosh has been working on a play…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Fabulous Diva – The Music Of Dr Nina Simone

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    Ruth Rogers-Wright evokes the spirit of Nina Simone in a concert featuring original music, poetry and storytelling. Her smouldering vocals inject Simone’s music with soul, accompanied by a stellar trio featuring jazz pianist Mark Fitzgibbon and Craig Fermanis on electric guitar. Ruth Rogers-Wright is a singer/songwriter originally from Brixton, London…
    Julius Caesar

    Bell Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Betrayal and chaos rock the republic as Rome teeters on the brink of collapse It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has triumphed…
    My Brilliant Career

    Sydney Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “The holy grail of Australian musical theatre” The Age Miles Franklin’s classic novel as you’ve never seen it before, with a live soundtrack that’s equal parts contemporary pop, folksy bush band and barnstorming pub rock. Beloved by audiences and showered with five-star reviews, My Brilliant Career was Melbourne’s most in-demand ticket in 2024.…
    Editor's Choice Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour – The Phantom of the Opera

    Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: The Phantom of the Opera

    Mrs Macquaries Point Sydney, NSW, Australia
    On its 40th anniversary, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster musical returns to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. When it premiered there in 2022, it was the first fully-staged outdoor production anywhere in the world – which excited the composer enough to attend the opening. And what a dazzling night it was! Directed…
    Jayne Steer – Addickted

    Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Jayne Steer – Addickted

    Underground Comedy 210 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Jayne Steer lost her mum, her fiancé and her mind – in that order, all two weeks before her nine-night Melbourne International Comedy Festival debut. After a psychotic episode on her 35th birthday led to a cPTSD diagnosis, Jayne decided to escape to a luxury treatment facility in Thailand for…
    The Music of Hans Zimmer

    Star Entertainment: The Music of Hans Zimmer & Others

    AANT Centre Darwin, NT, Australia
    The Music of Hans Zimmer & Others – presented by a pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean! Experience the unique and best film scores from Top Gun, James Bond, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar and many other top productions – in a…
    Editor's Choice Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Multi-award-winning violinist Leonidas Kavakos performs Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto on his 1734 ‘Willemotte’ Stradivarius. Composed in 1947 for David Oistrakh, it reflects the composer’s intensely personal voice against a backdrop of Stalinist purges and rising antisemitism. It is coupled with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, which was completed shortly after a European tour and…
    Editor's Choice Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Opera House - Concert Hall
    Multi-award-winning violinist Leonidas Kavakos performs Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto on his 1734 ‘Willemotte’ Stradivarius. Composed in 1947 for David Oistrakh, it reflects the composer’s intensely personal voice against a backdrop of Stalinist purges and rising antisemitism. It is coupled with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, which was completed shortly after a European…
    Chris Demos: Chips in the Night

    Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Chris Demos: Chips in the Night

    Storyville Melbourne 185 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Do you spend your nights bathed in blue light, staring at screens and eating chips? Then you deserve a break. So come join me on my potato-ship and we'll sail across the seven seas of hilarities in this stand-up show about gastroenterologists, double vanities and so many more things. Please…
    George Rigden – Self-Inflicted

    Melbourne International Comedy Festival: George Rigden – Self-Inflicted

    The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    Nominee Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 Nominee Best Musical Comedy Show 2018 Leicester Comedy Festival In 2020, George Rigden was roundly (and rightly) cancelled, and his life fell apart. In 2025, he was finally diagnosed with autism, finally sobered up – and began to put his life back together. Now,…