• Hair

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Hair

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Celebrating the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory, one of the most famous musicals of all time featuring “Aquarius,” “Good Morning, Starshine,” “Hair,” “I Got Life” and “Let The Sunshine In.” Identity, community, global responsibility and peace, HAIR remains relevant as ever as it examines what…
    Editor's Choice The Almighty Sometimes

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Almighty Sometimes

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Kendall Feaver’s knotty drama takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people. Anna threw herself out of a window when she was seven. The following year, having read her somewhat macabre stories, her worried mother Renée took her to see a child psychiatrist, who prescribed a…
    Editor's Choice The Coronation of Poppea

    Victorian Opera: The Coronation of Poppea

    Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Monteverdi’s opera, heard here in Elena Kats-Chernin’s jazz-influenced orchestral rearrangement, is one of the masterpieces of the early Baroque. Set in Nero’s Rome, it’s an amoral feast of treachery, sexual shenanigans and unbounded ambition in which Poppea sets out to win a place on the Imperial throne. Sam Strong directs a new production with baritone…
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    Festival of Voices: All Come Out to Play

    Rosny Farm Lot 2 Rosny Hill Road,, Rosny Park, TAS
    The Tasmanian celebration of all things vocal returns with a host of performers from Australia and overseas. Traditional and contemporary works rub shoulders with cabaret and educational workshops, while headline acts include Hobart-based vocal ensemble JESSA performing contemporary classical repertoire at the Port Arthur Asylum, and vocal works setting words…
    Mind Games: Art Alive

    Baeu Medina: Mind Games: Art Alive

    154 Broadway 154-160 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    A new, woman-led, interactive, immersive and independent experiential playground has opened in Chippendale, in Sydney’s inner suburbs – at a scale and level of detail that has not been done in Australia. Comprising multisensory installations such as holographic moon rooms to upside-down trains, mirrored mazes, and perception puzzles, Mind Games:…
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    Festival of Voices: Harmony by the Bay

    Sandford Hall
    The Tasmanian celebration of all things vocal returns with a host of performers from Australia and overseas. Traditional and contemporary works rub shoulders with cabaret and educational workshops, while headline acts include Hobart-based vocal ensemble JESSA performing contemporary classical repertoire at the Port Arthur Asylum, and vocal works setting words…
    Tim Credible’s Family Magic Show

    Tim Credible the Magician: Tim Credible’s Family Magic Show

    Arrow on Swanston Arrow on Swanston, 488 Swanston Street,, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    Tim Credible’s Family Magic Show is a lively, family-friendly performance presented as part of the Melbourne Magic Festival. Blending comedy, magic and audience interaction, the show offers an engaging experience for younger audiences while maintaining a pace and humour that appeals to adults. Children are invited to participate throughout, creating…
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    Festival of Voices: Voices in the Valley

    St Matthews Anglican Church, New Norfolk 6 Bathurst Street,, New Norfolk, TAS, Australia
    The Tasmanian celebration of all things vocal returns with a host of performers from Australia and overseas. Traditional and contemporary works rub shoulders with cabaret and educational workshops, while headline acts include Hobart-based vocal ensemble JESSA performing contemporary classical repertoire at the Port Arthur Asylum, and vocal works setting words…
    Editor's Choice Gil Shaham performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Gil Shaham performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    American violinist Gil Shaham returns with former Chief Conductor David Robertson to perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. The timpani feature prominently in this program, beginning with the opening taps of the concerto, which proved a striking gesture at its 1806 premiere. Later, in Carl Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony – the first Robertson…
    Mitch Cairns: Artist’s Mouth

    National Art School: Mitch Cairns: Artist’s Mouth

    National Art School Corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    From 1 May to 11 July 2026, the National Art School Gallery will present  Mitch Cairns: Artist's Mouth, a major survey exhibition of work by Sydney-based painter and Archibald Prize winner Mitch Cairns, celebrating his twenty-year artistic career since graduating from the National Art School (NAS) in 2006. It features some 48 works, mostly from institutional and…
    Tim Credible’s Family Magic Show

    Tim Credible the Magician: Tim Credible’s Family Magic Show

    Arrow on Swanston Arrow on Swanston, 488 Swanston Street,, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    Tim Credible’s Family Magic Show is a lively, family-friendly performance presented as part of the Melbourne Magic Festival. Blending comedy, magic and audience interaction, the show offers an engaging experience for younger audiences while maintaining a pace and humour that appeals to adults. Children are invited to participate throughout, creating…
    Snow White

    Ballet Theatre Queenland: Snow White

    The Star Brisbane 33 William St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
    Mirror Mirror on the wall … who’s the fairest of them all? Be transported to the land of fantasy in this highly acclaimed return season of Snow White. After losing her mother at an early age, Snow White discovers that her new mother is not all who she seems to…