Editor's Choice Shirley Valentine

Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Shirley Valentine

Twelfth Night Theatre 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
Following seasons in Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra, Willy Russell’s life-affirming one-woman play, which premiered in 1986, is headed for Sydney and Brisbane with Natalie Bassingthwaighte as Shirley. It tells the story of a middle-aged, working-class Liverpool housewife who finds herself stuck in a rut. Talking to her kitchen wall, she…
Opera for the Dead

OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…

OzAsia Festival: Sofia Menguita

OzAsia Festival Stage, Lucky Dumpling Market Elder Park, King William Rd, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Emerging from Adelaide's western suburbs in 2019 at the ripe age of fourteen, Manila-born Sofia Menguita has been quietly building an intimate and personal discography that documents the highs, lows, and in-betweens of "teen-hood".
Elastic Hearts

HOTA: Elastic Hearts

HOTA 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia
Step into a powerful new dance experience with Elastic Hearts — a bold fusion of contemporary ballet and the chart-topping music of pop icon Sia, brought to life with a cinematic score specially recorded by Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Choreographed and directed by Garry Stewart, the visually stunning production is a…
HERE NOW Trilogy

Vitalstatistix: HERE NOW Trilogy

Vitalstatistix 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide, SA, Australia
Performed together for the first time, Ryuichi Fujimura’s trilogy of solo dance works, How Did I Get Here?, How I Practice My Religion, and Fall! Falter!! Dance!!!, charts the artist’s 25-year journey as a contemporary dancer. Together they capture his journey reckoning with his body’s shifting capabilities and the passing of time.
Beethoven’s Eighth

Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven’s Eighth

Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Corner of Clarence and Hay Streets, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Ah, those summer nights in Eastern Europe, 1812. A week after Napoleon invades Russia, Ludwig van Beethoven almost certainly says “Yes, tonight Josephine” to the love of his life, the unhappily married and recently jilted but socially impossible match, Countess Jozefina Brunszvik. Three days later he pours forth - with…
Naturism

Griffin Theatre Company: Naturism

Wharf 2 Theatre The Wharf, Dawes Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
No internet. No intruders. No clothes. Far from the trappings of civilisation, a group of nudist baby boomers have created their very own off-grid bush eco-paradise. An unseasonably hot summer approaches, but no worries! They’ve got enough preserves, pickles, and Fleetwood Mac to get them through it… probably. Enter Evangeline—a…
Editor's Choice Shirley Valentine

Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Shirley Valentine

Twelfth Night Theatre 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
Following seasons in Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra, Willy Russell’s life-affirming one-woman play, which premiered in 1986, is headed for Sydney and Brisbane with Natalie Bassingthwaighte as Shirley. It tells the story of a middle-aged, working-class Liverpool housewife who finds herself stuck in a rut. Talking to her kitchen wall, she…
Editor's Choice Calamity Jane

One Eyed Man Productions: Calamity Jane

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Step inside the Golden Garter Saloon and enter the Wild West as Virginia Gay reprises the role of the legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane (for which she won a Sydney Theatre Award). Adapted from the much-loved film starring Doris Day, this stripped-back, rough-and-ready reimagining of the classic musical, directed by Richard…
The Talented Mr Ripley

Sydney Theatre Company: The Talented Mr Ripley

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Will McDonald (Heartbreak High) plays Tom Ripley, an orphan and a striver, barely scraping by in 1950s New York. But beneath his woebegone exterior, Tom cultivates certain talents that set him apart: an extraordinary capacity for mimicry and deception. He is a man with a face no-one remembers. Whereas no…
The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio)

OzAsia Festival: The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio)

Nexus Arts Lion Arts Centre, 68 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Live cello, electronics and sounds of the Bornean Forest meet storytelling and hip hop in The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio). A nameless water spirit on an endless plastic ocean searches for lost memories and ultimately, humanity. Exploring family, ecological collapse, and Southeast Asian colonial history, The Offering is a…
The Breath of Kings

Theatre Works: The Breath of Kings | Henry 6

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Shakespeare's Henry 6 plays are one of the great undiscovered gems of Western Literature. An intoxicating mix of violence, politics and romance, this civil war is as machiavellian as Succession and as brutal as Game of Thrones. Henry 6 is a rare thing - a religious pacifist in a time…

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