• 10 Nights in Port 2026

    City of Fremantle: 10 Nights in Port 2026

    Fremantle Town Hall 8 William St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
    The much-loved winter arts festival 10 Nights in Port returns. This August, 10 Nights in Port returns to Walyalup | Fremantle, transforming the city with a diverse program of visual art, performance, storytelling and installation. Centred on the 2026 theme of huddle, the festival invites audiences to experience warmth, light…
    Editor's Choice Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof is a much-loved classic for good reason. The glorious score by Bock and Harnick includes songs such as Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, Matchmaker, Matchmaker and Sunrise, Sunset. Meanwhile, its plotline about religious persecution and displacement, foreshadowing The Holocaust, is depressingly timely –…

    Van Diemen’s Band: Meyers and Yap

    Burnie Arts and Function Centre 77-79 Wilmot Street,, Burnie, TAS, Australia
    Acclaimed fiddlers Katie Yap and Rachel Meyers bring their new duo project to the Lunchbox Concerts. Together they explore the confluence of folk and baroque music: haunting traditional tunes and songs sit alongside intricate original compositions and their own arrangements of pieces by baroque composers Henry Purcell and Diego Ortiz, all delivered with warmth,…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Niggunim – Music of the Jewish Soul

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Step into a sound world that evokes memory, longing, and imagination. Solo Piano and Cantorial Voice Recital. Niggunim from the Jewish High Holy Day Tradition. Yitzhak Yedid’s solo piano performances draw listeners into an immersive world of textures, colours, and emotion. Deceptively simple, his music reaches deep, touching a place…
    Animal Farm

    Arts Centre Melbourne: Animal Farm

    Fairfax Studio
    This isn’t the farm you thought you knew. Orwell’s classic allegory is unleashed with a sharp Australian political twist – a story for an era of climate crisis, corporate greed, relentless media spin and a revolving door of leadership. Farmer Jones has lost control. The animals of Manor Farm rise…
    Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…
    Animal Farm By Bloomshed

    Bloomshed: Animal Farm

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Green Room award-winning theatre company Bloomshed stage an epic rework of the famous Orwell fable Animal Farm at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio.Farmer Jones has lost control. The animals of Manor Farm rise up to seize the means of production, convinced that freedom is finally within reach. But revolution…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…
    Editor's Choice There’s nothing like a Dame

    Opera Queensland: There’s nothing like a Dame

    RPAC Concert Hall
    Soprano Alexandra Flood lets her much-admired coloratura loose in three concerts of arias to celebrate the centenary of Australia’s very own Dame Joan Sutherland. She’s joined in an as yet unannounced program by pianist Vatche Jambazian and flautist Jonathan Henderson (which suggests that Lucia’s mad scene will be on the…
    The Lark

    Theatre Royal: The Lark

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Noni Hazlehurst, beloved star of stage and screen, takes centre stage in this new work written by Daniel Keene and directed by Matt Scholten. Rose Grey is saying her final goodbye to The Lark, a small inner-city pub in Melbourne. It’s been closed for six months and will be demolished…
    Old. New. Borrowed. Blue.

    Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra: Old. New. Borrowed. Blue.

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Dive into a kaleidoscope of sound. Featuring Brisbane-born international pianist Anthony Romaniuk, you will be treated to a curation of musical gems from the baroque elegance of JS Bach to the modern vision of Olli Mustonen and everything in between. Lovers of jazz will delight in the opportunity to hear…