• 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…
    Evil Dead The Musical

    Stoddart Entertainment Group: Evil Dead the Musical

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    From the producers of The Play That Goes Wrong, comes Evil Dead The Musical: a hilariously gory, blood-soaked rock musical based on the iconic 80’s Evil Dead cult film franchise. When five college students venture to an abandoned cabin in the woods, they accidentally unleash an evil force that turns…
    Editor's Choice The Normal Heart

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Normal Heart

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Larry Kramer’s award-winning, semi-autobiographical play, set in 1980s New York during the first few years of the AIDS crisis, had its Australian debut at Sydney Theatre Company in 1989. Nearly 40 years later, it returns to STC in a State Theatre Company South Australia production, which opened in Adelaide in 2022. Directed…
    18 Eden Avenue

    Genesian Theatre: 18 Eden Avenue

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The Australian Premiere of an original musical, ’18 Eden Avenue’ charts the fortunes of three generations of women. They share life under one roof in a run-down, historic house - until a handsome young boarder arrives. He brings changes to the dynamic in the house, stirring up laughter, romance and…
    Purpose

    Sydney Theatre Company: Purpose

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In an exciting coup, the most awarded new American play of 2025 is heading this way. Fresh from winning the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2025 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, Purpose comes directly from Broadway to Sydney Theatre Company in the…
    Editor's Choice Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Crown Theatre Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
    The 2017 Broadway musical, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Terrence McNally, is based on the much-loved 1997 animated film. It centres on the mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna who was rumoured to have escaped (since disproved) when the Russian Imperial family…
    unmothered

    Dead Darling Theatre: Unmothered

    Goodwood Theatre & Studios 166 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood, SA, Australia
    A lyrical, memory-driven song cycle that traces three generations of women through love, silence, and inherited trauma. Told in three acts across the daughter’s life, the “unforgettable modern musical” (The Scoop) moves fluidly through live music to blur reality with recollection. From the award-winning team behind 'Bimbo' (Holden Street Theatres…
    Editor's Choice Anna Lapwood

    City of Melbourne: Anna Lapwood live at Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ

    Melbourne Town Hall 90-130 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    In her first Australian engagement, UK organist Anna Lapwood commands the famed Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ in two solo recitals, before appearing with Sydney Symphony Orchestra in two different programs. The first features Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony under Alexander Soddy; the second, conducted by André de Ridder, includes the Australian premieres of two…
    The Arcadians

    Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: The Arcadians

    the round studio 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading, Victoria, Australia
    A London restaurateur crash lands his plane in Arcadia and is transformed from a wicked man to a guileless youth by the innocent rural idyll of the locals. Horrified by the idea of city life, the magical Arcadians travel to London to convert the miserable city-dwellers. Premiering in 1909, The…
    Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s ADHD

    Adelaide Fringe: Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s ADHD

    Gluttony, Rymill Park Rymill Park, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Sound familiar? It will if you're part of the 1 in 20 people who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. QUIT READING AHEAD! This show explores a lifetime of experiences in living with ahdh* to help understand family, friends, partners or colleagues with a condition YOU NEED TO…

    Adelaide Fringe: George Rigden – Self-Inflicted

    Mylk Bar on Waymouth 82 Waymouth Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    In 2020, George Rigden was roundly (and rightly) cancelled, and his life fell apart. In 2025, he was finally diagnosed with autism, finally sobered up - and began to put his life back together. Now, more than half a decade on from his life falling apart, he’s finally stable (and…