• Sugar

    Midsumma Festival: Sugar

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Theatrical, outrageous, silly and sexy, Tomáš Kantor’s award-winning debut is about Sugar – a radiantly-beautiful gender-fluid twink who discovers that there’s money to be made from ‘transactional relationships’ (though their primary source of information is Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman). What could go wrong? Tomáš veritably shimmers with charisma, and…
    Cluedo

    Crossroads Live Australia: Cluedo

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Professor Plum in the library with the wrench? The Australian cast for the game of whodunnit…
    Now You See Me Live

    QPAC: Now You See Me Live

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    This summer, four trailblazing illusionists will unleash a mind-blowing spectacle: Now You See Me Live. Inspired by Lionsgate’s global hit Now You See Me film franchise and brought to life by the producers of the record-breaking phenomenon The Illusionists, the cutting-edge production will take up residence in Queensland Performing Arts…
    Much Ado About Nothing

    John X Presents: Much Ado About Nothing

    Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Lower Domain Rd,, Hobart, TAS
    William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing comes alive in a fresh, enchanting production set amidst the lush beauty of Hobart’s Botanical Gardens. This sparkling comedy unfolds under the Tasmanian sky, where fragrant blooms and verdant landscapes become the perfect backdrop for witty banter, romantic mischief, and dramatic intrigue. The contrasting…
    Editor's Choice Turandot

    Opera Australia: Turandot

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    International director and choreographer Ann Yee has been recruited to stage a new production of Puccini’s Turandot in a way that is sensitive to issues of race and gender by focusing on the implacable princess’s courage, her ancestor’s trauma and the sacrificial love of another woman. Rebecca Nash, fresh from…
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Genesian Theatre: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Famous detective Famous detective Hercule Poirot is tempted out of retirement to solve the murder of wealthy widower, Roger Ackroyd. When the wealthy Roger Ackroyd is found dead in his study, every neighbour and relation in the quiet village of King’s Abbot becomes a suspect. Enter the legendary detective Hercule…
    Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, 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…

    Dissent Cafe and Bar: Lucas Abela

    Dissent Cafe and Bar 181 City Walk, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela’s (fka Justice Yeldham) performances on their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass are the stuff of legend. Their singular practice spawned from the noise music underground, where over twenty years the glass evolved from a means to create ecstatic free-noise cacophonies into an outsider instrument that produces…
    WAKE

    : WAKE

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In Ireland, a wake is no ordinary farewell. It's a ritual of release where music, stories, and laughter spill through the night into the dawn as community gathers to honour endings and embrace new beginnings. WAKE takes that spirit and transforms it into a contemporary spectacular. Come for a kaleidoscopic…
    Death by Powerpoint

    Queer Powerpoint: Death by Powerpoint

    Life Rites Funerals 118 Durham St, Hurstville, NSW, Australia
    This intriguing site-specific collaboration sees two fiercely independent queer-run Sydney organisations – Life rites holistic end-of-life care and performance platform Queer PowerPoint – team up to explore life's biggest unknown, one slide at a time. Queer artists from across Sydney have completed residencies at Hurstville's Life rites funeral home, going…
    Echo Mapping

    Sydney Festival: Echo Mapping

    Sydney Town Hall 483 George St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Hot off their show-stopping success Katma last year, composer Jack Prest and dancer Azzam Mohamed return with Echo Mapping - a new sound-movement duet exploring their shared passion for the cathartic power of music embodied. In these critically acclaimed performances, Jack Prest’s live score moves from transcendent textures to thundering…