• 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,…
    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…
    Flora, The Red Menace

    Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Flora, The Red Menace

    Footbridge Theatre The University Of Sydney, Parramatta Rd,, Sydney, NSW
    Do you believe that theatre and the arts are fundamental to society when times are tough? Do you believe our political ideologies mean nothing without creativity, community and love? Then come experience The Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s third year Musical Theatre cohort as they present Flora, The Red Menace, the very…

    Odyssey Theatre: Murder You Seek

    Seeker Brewing Unit 3/1 Industrial Road, Unanderra, NSW, Australia
    Step into a world of intrigue with Odyssey Theatre’s Murder You Seek, an interactive murder mystery at Seeker Brewing. Two rival teams compete for the Callaghan Lawn Bowl Cup - the fiercely fought over and coveted laurel of the lawn bowl world. Will you be a member of the Berkeley…

    Queensland Academy of Excellence in Musical Theatre: Carrie: The Musical

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Carrie White is a teenage misfit. She’s an outcast who is bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she’s dominated by her loving but cruelly controlling and overprotective mother. What none of them know is that Carrie’s just discovered she’s got a special power,…

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