• 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…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Metropolis – Sounds of Cinema

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A celebration of some of Australia’s – and the world’s – finest living composers, Metropolis showcases the MSO’s commitment to contemporary symphonic music. In 2026, the MSO explores the fascinating world of Foley – the art of creating sound effects for film – in Thomas Meadowcroft's remarkable concerto. You'll also…
    The Music and Life of Barbra Streisand

    GK Live: The Music and Life of Barbra Streisand

    QPAC - Concert Hall
    Celebrate the timeless music of Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were, a dazzling new concert event starring Melinda Schneider. More than a tribute, The Way We Were is a heartfelt journey through the songs and stories that defined an era and an icon. A spectacular celebration of Barbra Streisand’s…
    Cut Chilli by Chenturan Aran

    Darebin Arts: Cut Chilli by Chenturan Aran

    Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Jamie was abandoned as a baby in Sri Lanka. At least that’s what Katherine told him, as she raised him in the beach town of Mandurah, Western Australia. But when Jamie falls for Zahra, an activist and podcaster who tells him about the shady history of international adoption, he begins…
    Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre: Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    For Jane Fredericks, the fight for justice is personal. As a passionate legal aid solicitor, Jane risks everything to help an old flame, and her world quickly unravels – both in the courtroom and at home. Her husband Trevor, a prominent barrister, faces his own ethical conundrum: defend a powerful…
    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…
    12 Angry Actors

    Asamina Theatre Company: 12 Angry Actors

    Meat Market Stables 2 Wreckyn St, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Asamina Theatre Company presents 12 Angry Actors" a gripping new Australian play by Celine Khoury and award-winning playwright Brian Vriends, directed by Glen Kalem and Bethany Griffiths, with Assistant Director Carlia Capozza. Playing for a strictly limited season from 20–30 August at the Meat Market Stables, North Melbourne, "12 Angry…
    Beethoven’s Seventh

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Seventh

    Winthrop Hall Perth, WA, Australia
    Asher Fisch returns to Winthrop Hall with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, celebrated for its sense of joy, vibrant rhythms, and unstoppable energy. The yearning romance and fateful tragedy of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture will leave you spellbound, while Prokofiev’s glittering First Piano Concerto comes alive in the hands of Konstantin Shamray.

    Albany Entertainment Centre: NOIR

    Albany Entertainment Centre 2 Toll Pl,, Albany, WA, Australia
    Michelle Nicolle and Paul Grabowsky have been aware of each other for a very long time. As Michelle says, she ‘grew up’ watching Paul on television and was aware of his work with the great Vince Jones and others; somewhat later Paul became aware of Michelle’s trajectory toward becoming, in…
    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…
    The Girl On The Train

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: The Girl On The Train

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and…
    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…