• Elastic Hearts

    Queensland Ballet: Elastic Hearts

    Thomas Dixon Centre 406 Montague Rd, West End, QLD, Australia
    Raw, radiant and unrelentingly human. Internationally acclaimed choreographer Garry Stewart joins forces with Queensland Ballet to create Elastic Hearts, a visually striking new work set to Sia’s music, reimagined in an orchestral score by Elliott Wheeler and recorded by Queensland Symphony Orchestra. At its centre is Gaia, the goddess of…
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    Canberra International Music Festival: Inheritance and Invention

    Wesley Music Centre 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…
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    Canberra International Music Festival: Wagner Lieder

    Wesley Music Centre 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…
    BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…
    BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…
    The Book of Mormon

    JONES Theatrical Group: The Book of Mormon

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Hello! The Mormons are back! First seen in Australia in 2017, The Book of Mormon is blasphemous, scurrilous, puerile, rude, satirical – and one of the funniest, sweetest, most joyous musicals ever staged. Written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with Robert Lopez, the 2011 show won…

    Opera Queensland: The Birth of Belcanto

    St Brigid's Church, Red Hill 78 Musgrave Rd, Red Hill, QLD, Australia
    The Birth of Bel Canto traces the roots of bel canto opera back to the madrigal.  Known for its romantic poetry, intricate musical textures, and emotive vocal lines, the madrigal forms the basis of the bel canto operatic style. Five solo voices, accompanied by continuo (cello and harpsichord), will bring…
    Editor's Choice Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Robert Harling wrote his 1987 play Steel Magnolias after his sister died from complications relating to diabetes following the birth of her son. The tragicomedy is set in Truvy’s beauty parlour in a small Southern town in Louisiana, where a group of women support each other through life’s ups and…
    Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Isla and Violet are a ‘lethal combination’. Their self-righteous headmaster thinks that’s an insult. They think it’s a cute name for a girl group. Too smart, too precocious and way too outspoken, it’s no surprise when these self-proclaimed soulmates are SEPARATED until the end of the year. But the world outside…

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Spirit of the Violin

    HOTA Home of the Arts 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
    Queensland Symphony Orchestra in a violin showcase of electrifying flair. Led by conductor Jessica Gethin and featuring Principal First Violin Johnny van Gend, this concert is a celebration of elegance and remarkable virtuosity. Waxman’s Carmen Fantasie and Tchaikovsky’s sparkling Valse-Scherzo offer thrilling moments for solo violin, before Glazunov’s Scènes de ballet closes the concert with rhapsodic…

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Spirit of the Violin: Gold Coast

    HOTA Home of the Arts 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
    Beauty, brilliance, and music that dances Led by conductor Jessica Gethin and featuring Principal First Violin Johnny van Gend, this concert is a celebration of elegance and remarkable virtuosity. Waxman’s Carmen Fantasie and Tchaikovsky’s sparkling Valse-Scherzo offer thrilling moments for solo violin, before Glazunov’s Scènes de ballet closes the concert…

    Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS): Sonorous XIII: Ros Bandt & Vijay Thillaimuthu

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A liberation of sonics from the shackles of stereo, Sonorous welcomes audiences to go beyond a traditional listening experience into an expanded sonic universe. Marking the thirteenth edition of its Sonorous series, Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) invites internationally acclaimed sound artist Ros Bandt and Tamil-Australian electronic composer Vijay Thillaimuthu…