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    • Canberra Theatre Centre: Saltbush

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Saltbush is an extraordinary interactive performance designed to captivate young audiences while offering parents a chance to witness something truly special. This one-of-a-kind experience invites children to play, explore, and perform as they embark on a journey through Australia’s diverse landscapes—river country, bustling cities, deserts, and the sea—guided by the story…

    Queen Hades Productions: Posh

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    At an exclusive Oxford dining club, ten wealthy young men gather for a night of indulgence, revelry, and destruction. Fueled by privilege, arrogance, and an unwavering belief in their own power, they’re ready to take on the world—until the night spirals out of control. Laura Wade’s Posh is a razor-sharp,…
    Editor's Choice Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular

    Cameron Mackintosh: Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular

    ICC Sydney 14 Darling Drive, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Boublil and Schönberg’s landmark musical has been thrilling audiences around the world since its 1985 London premiere. As Les Mis celebrates its 40th anniversary, Cameron Mackintosh has created a spectacular new production, specially designed for large-scale venues. It arrives in Australia with a star-studded cast. Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly…
    Hold Me Closer Tony Danza

    The Farm: Hold Me Closer Tony Danza

    Black Box Theatre at The Old Ambulance Station 80 Howard Street, Nambour, QLD, Australia
    Hold Me Closer Tony Danza is bold, brash, and non-conforming dance-theatre work that – just like a pop song that you can’t get out of your head – is also deeply seductive. Reflecting a modern minefield of potential misrepresentations, ‘Tony’ confronts our awkward reality of responsibility through a choreography of…

    Artspace: Amongst the clouds at Artspace

    Artspace The Gunnery, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Roadway,, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    Amongst the clouds (digital materialities in the 21st century) profiles Australian and international artists who explore the ways in which digital realms are determinedly tied to the physical world. As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, how we think about art, society and technology…
    Editor's Choice The Lyrebird’s Voice

    Victorian Opera: The Lyrebird’s Voice

    The Round 379 - 399 Whitehorse Road,, Nunawading, VIC
    Peter Rutherford’s family-friendly opera tells the story of a trickster lyrebird whose pranks go a step too far. Banished by the other birds, he’s forbidden to speak or sing except in mimicry. His subsequent adventures feature an assortment of Australian animals in a celebration of what it means to be…
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    Sydney Theatre Company: Bloom

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    This new Australian musical played to sold-out houses when it premiered at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2023. The fact that Tom Gleisner of Working Dog fame (The Castle, The Dish, Utopia, Have You Been Paying Attention?) wrote the book and lyrics was doubtless part of the appeal. Bloom (with music…
    The piano women

    Emma Knights: The Piano Women

    The Butterfly Club 5 Carson Place, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The Piano Women is a captivating celebration of female pianists throughout history. From Fanny Hensel to Alicia Keys, join Emma Knights on a journey through four centuries of music, celebrating the talent and resilience of women who shaped the world of piano. Premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019,…
    Featured Editor's Choice Rapture

    Australian String Quartet: Rapture

    Hackett Hall, WA Museum Boola Bardip Perth Cultural Centre, Perth WA 6000, Perth, WA, Australia
    ASQ lifts the lid on our deepest fears and desires, from the unrequited love expressed in Janáček’s Intimate Letters to Osvaldo Golijov’s juxtaposition of pain and beauty in Tenebrae and Beethoven’s triumph over adversity in Serioso. The program also includes the world premiere of Vanessa Perica’s No Feeling is Final, which…
    Beauty and the Beast

    Disney: Beauty and the Beast

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    We proudly invite you to 'Be Our Guest' as Disney’s new production of Beauty and the Beast comes to Adelaide for the very first time, arriving at Adelaide Festival Centre in May 2025. This enchanting and timeless tale has been brought to life in a ‘★★★★★ remarkable reimagination’ (Daily Telegraph)…
    Hollywood Songbook

    Musica Viva Australia: Hollywood Songbook

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Signum Saxophone Quartet and renegade opera star, Ali McGregor, reclaim the Hollywood Songbook in a journey from moody monochrome to vibrant technicolour. Trip the light fantastic from Berlin to Hollywood, via a Shakespearean tragedy, a Broadway musical and a Wild West rodeo in this sonic documentary of turbulent times.
    UPU

    Sydney Opera House: UPU

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    UPU – meaning ‘word’ in many different languages of the Pacific Islands– is a collection of voices from a people who live on a sea of islands connected by the largest body of water on earth, known as Te moana Nui a Kiwa, or the Pacific Ocean. Through the words of…

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