• Editor's Choice Brisbane Bel Canto: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

    Opera Queensland: Brisbane Bel Canto: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    This year’s celebration of ‘beautiful singing’ replicates last year’s program with two performances at QPAC of La Cenerentola, Rossini’s fizzy take on the classic Cinderella story. Richard Mills conducts Laura Hansford’s staging, which stars Margarita Gritskova as Angelina (Cinderella), Mert Süngü as Don Ramiro (Prince Charming) and Jeremy Kleeman as Dandini. Other…
    Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
    Anastasia The Broadway Musical, the romantic and adventure-filled hit musical inspired by the beloved film, is coming to Australia for the first time! This dazzling production, by the Tony Award winning team Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Darko Tresnjak, transports you from the twilight years of the Imperial…
    Editor's Choice The River

    Sydney Theatre Company: The River

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades star in The River, a haunting three-hander by UK playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem). The mysterious, 80-minute play is set in a remote wooden cabin where a lovesick fisherman is playing host to a woman. It should be a weekend full of romance, but all…
    Mara

    Theatre Works: Mara

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    A fearlessly inventive retelling of the Cinderella story from the stepmother’s perspective. Single mother of two Mara struggles to find work, before marrying a wealthy widower. Her new husband still grieves his first wife, buried beneath a cherry blossom tree in the garden – a tree whose branches tap relentlessly…
    ENGLISH

    Outhouse Theatre Co: ENGLISH

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    eymour Centre and Outhouse Theatre Co present the Sydney premiere of Pulitzer prize-winning English, by Sanaz Toossi, a wickedly funny and deeply moving look at the chaos of learning a new language. Iran, 2008 In a classroom in Karaj, four students seek to expand their horizons and opportunities by learning…
    AN ILIAD

    Sydney Theatre Company: AN ILIAD

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A wry, witty and world-weary poet introduces himself as a storyteller, bound to recount the myth of the Trojan War until humanity can overcome its rage for violence and destruction. Award-winning international star David Wenham returns to Sydney Theatre Company as the Poet: a man who has spent millennia walking…
    Gutenberg! The Musical!

    Hayes Theatre Co: Gutenberg! The Musical!

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    From the creators of Beetlejuice: The Musical, comes the Broadway smash hit Gutenberg! The Musical! – a love letter to the underdog, and to music theatre itself. This joyously funny and stupidly clever musical tells a story of friendship, ambition, and the kind of unshakable delusion that might just change…
    Editor's Choice The Last Ship

    QPAC: The Last Ship

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    International superstar Sting comes to Brisbane to play  a lead role in this deeply personal musical, for which he wrote music and lyrics. Inspired by Sting’s childhood in the industrial town of Wallsend in the UK, The Last Ship tells the moving story of a community facing the closure of…
    Editor's Choice Romeo and Juliet

    The Australian Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    When Artistic Director David Hallberg restored John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet to The Australian Ballet’s repertoire in 2022, 19 years had passed since its last outing. We haven’t had to wait as long this time. The iconic 1962 production is back, lavishly designed by Cranko’s longtime collaborator Jürgen Rose and…
    Dancing at Lughnasa

    New Theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “I want to dance, Kate. It’s the Festival of Lughnasa. I’m only thirty-five. I want to dance.” It’s the summer of 1936, during the pagan festival of Lughnasa, and young Michael watches his five aunts navigate the fragile joys and looming hardships of rural Irish life. Brief moments of freedom,…
    Editor's Choice Don Giovanni

    Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Suzanne Chaundy directs a new production of Don Giovanni, Mozart and Da Ponte’s tale of lust laid low by supernatural forces. Christopher Tonkin headlines as the diabolical rake, with Henry Shaw as his wily servant Leporello and Eleanor Greenwood as Donna Elvira, the woman who can’t quite give him up. Lee…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Mina Yu

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    Experience the brilliance of Mina Yu, a pianist and composer whose performances captivate with elegance, sensitivity and lyrical beauty. Based in Melbourne after seven years in NYC, Mina has built a reputation as a top-tier pianist and educator. Over the last three years, she has appeared on a number of…