• Rakali

    Lily Fish Theatre: Rakali

    Brunswick Mechanics Institute 270 Sydney Road, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Shapeshifting water rat wants to eat a baby… Rakali is an award winning horror-black comedy from the team behind Robert the Octopus. A millennial couple move from Melbourne to a houseboat in a remote part of Tasmania with their newborn. They think they’ve found paradise. But life in the sticks…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto

    Federation Concert Hall Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Forget everything you think you know about the tuba, as Vaughan Williams’ Concerto for Bass Tuba turns the spotlight on the orchestra’s biggest brass instrument. TSO’s Principal Tuba Rachel Kelly takes centre stage, revealing her instrument’s lyrical voice and astonishing agility. Also on the program: Doreen Carwithen’s cinematic Overture ODTAA…

    Tasmanian String Quartet: Livestream Event | Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto

    The Makers Technology and Innovation Hub, Parklands
    Forget everything you think you know about the tuba, as Vaughan Williams’ Concerto for Bass Tuba turns the spotlight on the orchestra’s biggest brass instrument. TSO’s Principal Tuba Rachel Kelly takes centre stage, revealing her instrument’s lyrical voice and astonishing agility. Also on the program: Doreen Carwithen’s cinematic Overture ODTAA…
    Land of 1000 Dances

    RISING: Land of 1000 Dances

    Flinders Street Station Ballroom Near 273 Flinders Street,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Salsa the night away, line up for some boot scooting, throw down the proverbial powder for the Melbourne Shuffle. From Bollywood to ballet, jazz to jive, vogueing to Polyswagg, these classes—led by Victorian dance legends and world champions—connect movers and shakers of all ages and abilities from all over Melbourne…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: MSO in Your Neighbourhood – Narre Warren

    Bunjil Place 2 Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren, VIC, Australia
    The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra returns to Bunjil Place with a powerful program of contemporary Australian music – alive with stories of land, water, memory and identity. Program James Howard Nyirrimar Ngamatyata | To lose yourself at sea Aaron Wyatt The Things Which are Most Important Don’t Always Scream the Loudest…
    RED by Dancenorth Australia

    RISING Festival: RED by Dancenorth Australia

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dancenorth Australia brings RED to RISING Festival as part of the inaugural Australian Dance Biennale this 3-7 June. ABOUT RED RED is an uncompromising duet set inside a large transparent inflatable dome - a modern parable of two bodies moving within a world that can no longer sustain them. As…
    Editor's Choice Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    IPAC 32 Burelli St, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    Steel Magnolias received glowing reviews when it began its tour in Brisbane, with critics saying that the production exudes humour, heart and plenty of emotion. Robert Harling wrote his 1987 play (later turned into a 1989 film) after his sister died from complications relating to diabetes following the birth of her son.…
    BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…
    BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…
    Editor's Choice Requiems

    Opera Australia: Fauré Requiem

    St James Church, Sydney 173 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Opera Australia continues its sidestep into choral repertoire with two great 19th-century Requiems. Completed in 1893, Fauré’s lyrical meditation on death is paired with Barber’s iconic Agnus Dei, the composer’s choral arrangement of his famous Adagio for Strings. The OA Chorus will be conducted by Paul Fitzsimon, with Michael Curtain playing the marvellous…
    Voyage Into Infinity

    RISING Festival: Voyage Into Infinity

    The Substation 1 Market Street, Newport, VIC, Australia
    A trio of dolls climb up from a rabbit hole. By the light of a candelabra, they explore a giant machine made of precariously placed ladders, planks and pylons. Then one burnt rope sends an old punching bag swinging... Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist who drives haunted carnival rides over tropes…
    The Supposed to Be

    Jewel Box: The Supposed to Be

    Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia
    Meet The Supposed To Be—fresh, new theatre that cuts through the nostalgic drift of migrant storytelling with laser-sharp sci-fi satire. Kaye is a Sri Lankan Tamil actor/OnlyFans star who discovers she’s not just adopted—she’s a clone. She’s been created to live out the dreams of her corporate executive original, Kavitha. But…