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The Music of Joe Hisaishi

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: The Music of Joe Hisaishi

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
From Studio Ghibli classics My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Spirited Away to over 100 works for the screen and concert hall, Joe Hisaishi is one of the most prolific and beloved composers worldwide. With a career featuring legendary collaborations with director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, multi-award winning scores for films, tv…
Whitefella Yella Tree

La Boite: Whitefella Yella Tree

La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
Once in a blue moon, in the middle of nowhere, two teenage boys meet under a lemon tree. When they look at each other, it’s tense, exciting, and strange. Ty and Neddy fall madly in love, as teenagers are wont to do. After a rough start, a fragile friendship fruits…
Pandaemonium

West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Pandaemonium

Studio Underground 178 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
Explore the exhilarating diversity of music by six of Australia’s most creative composers, led by one of the most exciting young conductors in the country. Works by Lachlan Skipworth, Olivia Davies and Melody Eötvös will be accompanied by evocative moving images. Jordan Moore and Stephen de Filippo will unleash powerful,…
Featured Editor's Choice Meow Meow’s Red Shoes

Belvoir St Theatre: Meow Meow’s Red Shoes

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
After wowing audiences with her deliciously dark takes on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl and The Little Mermaid, the cabaret superstar, chanteuse and comedienne extraordinaire turns her attention to another of his fairy tales, The Red Shoes. When a young orphan girl wears red shoes to church, she…
Bladderwrack

Theatre Works: Bladderwrack

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
In the underdeck chilldrippery of a sunken galleon, in its deepest bowels, two ancient pirates dwell in suspended misery: Saucy Jack and Bagfoot, their lives sustained by the ecosystem that has overtaken the bilge around them. Thanks to the bile-green phosphorescent bladderwrack that thrives on the flooded deck, their air…

QPAC: Reuben Kaye – enGORGEd

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Fast, on the edge and brutally funny, multi-award-winning Australian comedian, singer, writer, Reuben Kaye returns to Brisbane with the Queensland premiere of enGORGEd. Taking over the QPAC Concert Hall with an 18-piece orchestra in his flashiest, funniest and most fearless endeavour yet, Reuben is bigger and better than ever (it’s…
The Pajama Game

Neglected Musicals: The Pajama Game

Foundry Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd,, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
Winner of the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical—and more than 50 years later, the Tony Award for Best Revival—The Pajama Game is a timeless tale of love, labour, and laughter. With an fantastic score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross the musical features beloved theatre standards including Hey There,…
The Nutcracker

BIG Live Pty Ltd: The Nutcracker

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
Journey to the Land of Sweets this Christmas and indulge in the spirit of Christmas tradition. After a sell-out 2024 season, BIG Live returns to Canberra Theatre Centre. Witness BIG Live’s world-class dancers from around the globe perform ballet’s greatest Christmas show. Be mesmerised by the breathtaking snowflakes and the…

Monash University Performing Arts Centres: Leigh Barker Presents – Cross Street Album Launch

The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Bassist, bandleader, composer Leigh Barker returns from Paris to launch his latest album Cross Street at The Count’s. A fixture of the Australian and international jazz scene, Baker has performed at venues including the Sydney Opera House, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Festival in Iowa, and collaborated…

Ensemble Theatre: Fly Girl

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
It’s the late 70’s and the Australian Aviation Industry is a boy’s club. The only job women are allowed involves wearing heels, lighting smokes and serving nuts. Deborah Lawrie’s got the chops to fly the big jets, but Reg Ansett won’t let her. Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore use their…
Coriolanus

Bell Shakespeare: Coriolanus

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Coriolanus is a ferocious warrior and defender of Rome. But his contempt for the public, and his refusal to play the political game, see him banished from the city he once protected. When he joins forces with his former enemy to seek vengeance against Rome, the fate of the city,…
Romeo & Juliet

Bell Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet

Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat 17 Lydiard St, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
Did my heart love till now? After a chance meeting, an intense but forbidden love is ignited between two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet. And despite the unending, violent feud between their families, they will risk everything to be together. This raw portrayal of Romeo & Juliet will envelop you in the…

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