• Editor's Choice Girls & Boys

    Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…
    Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane – Night III

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A trilogy through time. Pieter Wispelwey's concert trilogy concludes as he and Piers Lane delve into music's most profound emotional territories, anchored by Benjamin Britten's haunting Third Cello Suite. César Franck's radiant Violin Sonata, equally compelling on cello, unfolds with soaring expression. Frédéric Chopin's final published work, his only Cello…
    Editor's Choice Strong Is The New Pretty

    Queensland Theatre Company: Strong Is The New Pretty

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    The inaugural program of Artistic Director Ebony Bott includes the world premiere of Suzie Miller’s latest play Strong is the New Pretty about the creation of the AFL Women’s Competition, and a new movement piece about mortality from The Farm called No One Gets Out of Here Alive (see page…
    Lord Of The Flies

    Theatre Works: Lord Of The Flies

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When a plane crashes and a group of boys find themselves alone on a remote island, they begin, with youthful optimism and a sense of adventure, to build order from the chaos. They make rules, elect leaders, and imagine a world where fairness and cooperation will keep them safe. But…
    The Book Of Mormon

    QPAC: The Book Of Mormon

    QPAC - Glasshouse Theatre
    The New York Times calls it “the best musical of this century.” The Washington Post says, “It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals.” And Entertainment Weekly says, “Grade A: the funniest musical of all time.” It’s THE BOOK OF MORMON, the nine-time 
Tony Award®-winning Best Musical.…
    Editor's Choice Macbeth

    West Australian Ballet: Macbeth

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth 827-905 Hay St, Karboordup, WA, Australia
    Choreographer Alice Topp reimagines Shakespeare’s tragedy in a contemporary world of politics, media and influence. Six years in the making, this co-production with Royal New Zealand Ballet had its world premiere in Wellington in February. Drawing on 1940s big band, 1970s funk, progressive rock and electronic dance music, Christopher Gordon’s score combines…
    Day (After Day) In The Life Of The Useless

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: Day (After Day) In The Life Of The Useless

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    THERE ARE BAD DAYS AND THERE ARE BAD DAYS. AND THEN THERE ARE VERY, VERY, VERY BAD DAYS. Pete’s been dumped. Days before the wedding, his fiancée calls him “a robot”, and bails for a new lover. So, he does what anyone would do: turns to AI for advice. “The best revenge…
    Monty Python’s Spamalot

    Drew Anthony Creative: Monty Python’s Spamalot

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The legendary search for the Holy Grail is officially headed for Australia! After a spectacular season at Perth's Planet Royale in May, Drew Anthony Creative has announced that the Tony Award®–winning Best Musical, Monty Python's Spamalot, will gallop into Melbourne for a limited engagement during September and October. This riotous…
    The Book of Everything

    Belvoir St Theatre: The Book of Everything

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Thomas isn’t an ordinary 9-year-old – he can see the extraordinary: canals bursting with tropical fish, hailstorms in summer, plagues of hopping frogs. He draws them all in his book, The Book of Everything. And in that book he also writes a promise to himself: When I grow up, I’m…
    Editor's Choice FuturesPast

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: FuturesPast

    Illawarra Performing Arts Centre 32 Burelli Street, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    Ahead of its Mexican tour, Bangarra Dance Theatre presents FuturesPast in Wollongong, an Australian-exclusive drawing on the choreographic career of its Artistic Director, Mirning woman Frances Rings, as well as the company’s 36 years of creative and cultural songlines. Structured in three acts – Old World, People and Country – Rings’ work…
    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Soundworks Productions: Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Chapel off Chapel 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, VIC, Australia
    Sweeney Todd finally returns home after 15 years in an Australian penal colony, seeking vengeance against the corrupt Judge who destroyed his life. Hearing his wife is dead and his daughter is now the Judge’s ward; Todd reopens his barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s struggling meat pie business. Here, his…
    Editor's Choice A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Paul Dainty, Ken Davenport & Bob Gaudio: A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Created in consultation with Neil Diamond himself, the jukebox musical, A Beautiful Noise, charts his rise to superstardom through the songs that defined his life and career, among them Cracklin’ Rosie, Forever in Blue Jeans and Sweet Caroline. Famous for his swaggering sexuality and velvet-meets-gravel voice, Diamond is conjured by two…