• The Lester Prize – Main Awards 2025

    The Lester Prize: The Lester Prize – Main Awards 2025

    WA Museum Boola Bardip Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA, Australia
    The Lester Prize for Portraiture is pleased to announce the 2025 Main Awards, hosted by the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip. The 2025 Main Awards present exceptional talent and fascinating insights from creatives across Australia. Over 1,000 artists submitted their work for entry, with finalists in the running to win…
    Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy: Psychopomp and selected works

    Samstag Museum of Art: Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy: Psychopomp and selected works

    Samstag Museum of Art 55 North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    A cacophonous and vibrant moving image work that explores the porous relationship between science and mysticism. Turning their attention to rocket technology and its link to spirituality, the pair explore the expressive potential of motion, technology and pagan rituals.
    Linden Postcard Show 2025

    Linden Arts: Linden Postcard Show 2025

    Linden New Art 26 Acland Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Now in its 35th year, the Linden Postcard Show is a much-loved fixture of our annual program. It celebrates the breadth and diversity of artistic practice across Australia, welcoming hundreds of creatives to exhibit side by side. This year's Linden Postcard Show is proudly supported by local businesses and community…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Franck’s Symphony

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In addition to being a composer, César Franck was a renowned organist. This comes through brilliantly in his only Symphony, as he builds up to powerful climaxes throughout the work, pulling out all the stops on the way. Experience this remarkable work conducted by Chloé van Soeterstède.
    Editor's Choice Rebecca

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Rebecca

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel was adapted as a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This new production, adapted and directed by MTC Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, takes us back to Manderley, the grand mansion where Maxim de Winter returns home with his second…
    Editor's Choice The Shiralee

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Shiralee

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Kate Mulvany did a fabulous job adapting Ruth Park’s Harp in the South trilogy for Sydney Theatre Company. Now she has turned her attention to the 1955 Australian classic The Shiralee, written by D’Arcy Niland (who was married to Park). The story centres on Macauley, a rugged swagman, who roams Australia…
    Malacañang Made Us

    Queensland Theatre: Malacañang Made Us

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised. 1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change. On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young…
    Phar Lap The Musical

    Hayes Theatre Co: Phar Lap The Musical

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    Not just another absurdist, electro-swing musical comedy about a thoroughbred racehorse, Phar Lap is a rags-to-riches story with a big heart. If you’re thinking elaborate life-size puppetry and dazzling special effects, you couldn’t be more wrong (we don’t have the budget). Suspend your disbelief as an actor swaps his horseshoes…
    Mountain

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Mountain

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    After more than a decade of producing films, the ACO premiered Mountain in 2017 as one of its boldest explorations of music and nature. Only three centuries ago, the idea scarcely existed that wild landscapes might hold any sort of attraction. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty. An upper world…
    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…
    Mozart, Salieri & Pleyel

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Mozart, Salieri & Pleyel

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Experience the full force of the Brandenburg in a dramatic and large-scale Classical concert that pairs familiar brilliance with rediscovered treasure. Anchored by Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 — one of his most majestic and emotionally charged works — this program features the Australian premiere of a cracking Sinfonia by Antonio…