• Editor's Choice Daniel Verstappen: The Cinematic Piano Experience

    Big Deal Touring: Daniel Verstappen: The Cinematic Piano Experience

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Belgian pianist-composer Daniel Verstappen returns following his 2024 debut, performing alongside Melbourne-based violinist Yena Choi. The program combines Verstappen’s own works with film music staples including Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission and Cinema Paradiso by Ennio Morricone, Time from Inception and Now We Are Free from Gladiator by Hans Zimmer,…
    Trophy Boys

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Trophy Boys

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    St Imperium College’s all-boys team think they’ve got the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament in the bag. It’s the most important night of the academic year and the private school lads believe they’re about to intellectually own their sister school. The topic up for debate: “feminism…

    WA Youth Jazz Orchestra: Women in Big Band

    Margaret River HEART 47 Wallcliffe Road, Margaret River, WA, Australia
    Big band jazz has always been shaped by extraordinary women as composers, arrangers, instrumentalists, and bandleaders, even when their contributions haven’t always been given the spotlight. Women & Big Band celebrates the powerful legacy and ongoing influence of women in large-ensemble jazz. Featuring music by trailblazers such as Melba Liston,…
    Howl

    Omega Ensemble: Howl

    ACO on the Pier Suite 3/13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    Howl presents a performance of musical defiance and untamed brilliance. Best known as the musical mind behind Tim Burton's dark cinematic worlds, Danny Elfman’s mischievous Piano Quartet is a rare and revealing gem, written with the same sardonic humour and manic intensity that define his film scores. Celebrating the strange…
    Chicago The Musical

    Darwin Musical Theatre Inc.: Chicago The Musical

    Browns Mart 12 Smith Street, Darwin, NT, Australia
    In roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap... until he finds out he's been dumped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the…

    City Recital Hall: Melodies of Gallipoli

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Melodies of Gallipoli is a powerful symphonic production that brings to life the human experiences of the Gallipoli campaign through music, narration and visual storytelling. Blending history with artistry, the production invites audiences to reflect on one of the most defining chapters shared by Australia and Türkiye. Following its sold-out premiere…
    Editor's Choice Audible Edge ’26

    Tone List: Audible Edge ’26 — A festival of exploratory music (Saturday Night)

    Victoria Hall 179 High St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
    Artist-led, international and delightfully unpredictable, this annual festival of exploratory music is housed in Fremantle’s Victoria Hall, creating a space for virtuosic and “anti-virtuosic” improvisation, forward-thinking club sets and participatory play. Seed-funded artists include composer Simon Charles and poet John Kinsella, experimental electronic music producers Lia T and R. Glacken,…
    Beyond The Neck

    The Clocktower Centre: Beyond The Neck

    The Clocktower Centre 750 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds, VIC, Australia
    A mother. A teenager. A tour guide. A man who can’t outrun the past. Their lives don’t intersect – until they do, in the aftershock of one day Australia won’t forget. Tom Holloway’s Beyond the Neck is a profoundly compassionate portrait of a community living with loss. Four individual stories…
    35MM: A Musical Exhibition

    QPAC: 35MM: A Musical Exhibition

    QPAC - Cremorne Theatre
    A picture is worth 1,000 words – what about a song? Can a picture inspire a song or fifteen? In 35MM: A Musical Exhibition, each photo creates a unique song, moments frozen in time; a glimmer of a life unfolding, a glimpse of something happening. A stunning new multimedia musical which explores a…
    Editor's Choice The River

    Sydney Theatre Company: The River

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades star in The River, a haunting three-hander by UK playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem). The mysterious, 80-minute play is set in a remote wooden cabin where a lovesick fisherman is playing host to a woman. It should be a weekend full of romance, but all…
    Mara

    Theatre Works: Mara

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    A fearlessly inventive retelling of the Cinderella story from the stepmother’s perspective. Single mother of two Mara struggles to find work, before marrying a wealthy widower. Her new husband still grieves his first wife, buried beneath a cherry blossom tree in the garden – a tree whose branches tap relentlessly…
    Editor's Choice

    Canberra International Music Festival: Tissages du Temps

    Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, Canberra, 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…