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Heaven

Bitchen Wolf: Heaven

Qtopia Sydney 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
Bitchen Wolf presents the Australian premiere of Irish playwright Eugene O’Brien’s Heaven at Qtopia Sydney’s Loading Dock Theatre from 14 to 31 May. 'Heaven' is a hilarious yet heart-wrenching examination of identity, regret, and the lives we secretly long for. On the weekend of a wedding in rural Ireland, Mal and…
Fair Punishment

Brown’s Mart Theatre: Fair Punishment

Browns Mart 12 Smith Street, Darwin, NT, Australia
Based on the translation of the novel La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes by Gaëtan Soucy 1998 Éditions du Boréal. Adapted by Nicky Fearn and Gail Evans Directed by Susie Dee Presented by Brown’s Mart and Business Unusual. A Gothic tale of intrigue, revelation, survival and hope.
Featured This Mirror Has Three Faces

Selby & Friends: This Mirror Has Three Faces

The Chapel, Charles Sturt University 15 Blackall St, Barton, ACT
A breathtaking concert program which begins in stunning fashion with the second piano trio by important Soviet-born Austrian-American classical composer, conductor and concert pianist Lera Auerbach. One of today’s most sought-after and exciting creative voices, her performances and music are featured on the world’s leading stages – from Vienna’s Musikverein…
Featured Editor's Choice Rapture

Australian String Quartet: Rapture

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
ASQ lifts the lid on our deepest fears and desires, from the unrequited love expressed in Janáček’s Intimate Letters to Osvaldo Golijov’s juxtaposition of pain and beauty in Tenebrae and Beethoven’s triumph over adversity in Serioso. The program also includes the world premiere of Vanessa Perica’s No Feeling is Final, which…

Australian National Academy of Music: Dark Full Ride

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
"Take a wild ride on the highway of American percussion music, all the way from LA to New York City! Danny Elfman – famous for his many award winning scores for Hollywood (including Batman) – shines in a beautiful mallet quartet and Julia Wolfe  translates the pulse of down-town Manhattan into…
Annie (Melbourne)

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Annie

Capitol Theatre, Sydney 13 Campbell St, Haymarket, NSW
The beloved tale of Annie has been capturing the hearts of theatregoers around the globe for generations. And now the production returns to the Capitol Theatre from March for a strictly limited season. Starring the incomparable Anthony Warlow as “Daddy” Warbucks, the show-stopping Debora Krizak as the infamous Miss Hannigan,…
Editor's Choice

GWB Entertainment: The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale

Comedy Theatre 240 Exhibition St,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Condensing J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy novel into a three-hour musical takes some doing, but the main plot points are here as Frodo Baggins and three fellow Hobbits set out on a dangerous journey to save Middle-earth by destroying the all-powerful One Ring. Most of the performers are actor-musicians and it’s…

Red Bull Australia: Red Bull Symphonic with RUEL – Live in Sydney

Sydney Town Hall 483 George St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Critically acclaimed series Red Bull Symphonic is returning to Sydney, featuring multi-Platinum, global sensation RUEL. On Friday 16 May at Sydney Town Hall, the songwriter will reimagine his catalogue of beloved hits alongside trailblazers Ensemble Apex, an orchestra made up of Australia’s most exciting young orchestral musicians. Amplified by electronic…
Shadow Boxing

Theatre Works: Shadow Boxing

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Meet Flynn: a strong, rugged boxer whose world is shattered when he realises he is gay and is then brutally outed. Stripped of his dignity, Flynn fights back. ‘Shadow Boxing‘ by James Gaddas is a challenging solo work that explores identity; through examining masculinity, violence, sexuality and vulnerability. In a…
Storked

Theatre Works: Storked

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
An electric exploration of the choice to choose, living in a body that constantly betrays you, and finding the people in your life who matter most, STORKED interrogates the expectation upon AFAB people to have children and the growing awareness that it might not be such a hot idea in…
1984

Arts Centre Melbourne: 1984

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Presented by JMC Academy Graduating Actors Ensemble. April, 1984...? 13:00. Winston Smith is about to start a diary. If detected, it would be punished by death. Big brother is always watching. A contemporary exploration of control, surveillance, fear, and the will to keep finding human connections. A vision of the…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Pete Murray

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Revered Australian singer-songwriter Pete Murray is set to embark on a mammoth 55-date run that will see Pete expansively tour the country in solo acoustic mode for the first time ever, commencing this May and supported nationally by Rachael Fahim and Brett Wood. Pete’s largest tour ever and with most…

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