• Artsite Contemporary: Judy Trick – Full Circle

    Artsite Contemporary 165-167 Salisbury Road, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
    Full Circle, is the most personal show Judy’s to date. The title borrows from the Japanese concept of Sunyata and the meditative Enso circle — an emptying out, a return to origins. Over the past two years, Judy found herself moving through quiet contemplation and back out into renewed energy…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…
    Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…
    Second Coming

    La Boite: Second Coming

    La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
    It’s 2065, Earth is burning, and time is running out. Geneticist Evie and the crew of the ARK MARK II spaceship are humanity’s last hope, charged with rescuing every species they can, two by two, for a new beginning on Mars. Lions, Javan warty pigs, and creatures of all kinds…
    Editor's Choice Uncle Vanya

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chekov’s achingly sad yet mordantly funny play finds fresh life in this adaptation by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, first staged by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2024. Now, Anne-Louise Sarks directs a new production for MTC. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have spent years managing a run-down country estate in rural…
    Editor's Choice Death of a Salesman

    Andrew Henry & GWB Entertainment: Death of a Salesman

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne 219 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    When Neil Armfield directed a new production of Arthur Miller’s timeless tragedy, Death of a Salesman, in 2023 with Anthony LaPaglia as Willy Loman and Alison Whyte as his long-suffering wife Linda, the reviews were ecstatic. In a five-star rave, Limelight said the “outstanding” production is “so gripping the audience doesn’t make…
    Editor's Choice Do Not Go Gentle

    Queensland Theatre Company: Do Not Go Gentle

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Patricia Cornelius’s 2006 play, Do Not Go Gentle, which takes his title from Dylan Thomas’s poem, is a poetically powerful depiction of old age and dementia. Set in an aged care home, a group of residents imagine themselves taking part in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed 1911 expedition to the South…
    Heathers The Musical

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Heathers The Musical

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Direct from London and New York, the wickedly funnyHeathers the Musical is coming to Gold Coast in July! Welcome to Westerberg High, where Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…

    Australian Vocal Ensemble: AVÉ – The Long Moment

    Nexus Arts Lion Arts Centre, 68 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Founded by Katie Noonan, AVÉ brings together four of the country’s leading singers, with a mission to champion 21st-century Australian vocal works and foster community connections. AVÉ has emerged as a unique force in the Australian arts landscape. With vocal works that respond to Winton’s unmistakable language in music that…
    Editor's Choice Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…
    Editor's Choice Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Paris-based American violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as Guest Director in an intimate program dedicated to Venetian orphanage virtuoso Anna Maria della Pietà. With ABO Artistic Director Paul Dyer on harpsichord, the program explores Baroque chamber works, revealing a rare portrait of this overlooked multi-instrumentalist who inspired music…