• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    Get ready to be seduced, swindled, and swept off your feet — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels hits the Hayes in a glittering new production that’s all charm, chaos, and con artistry at its most delicious. Based on the hit 1988 film starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, this Tony-nominated musical comedy…
    Isles of Light

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Isles of Light

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The British Isles boast a magnificent anthology of music grounded in lush, poetic landscapes and thriving cities. This concert will transport you there. British violin and viola virtuoso Lawrence Power makes his ACO debut directing music from Thomas Tallis’ evocative theme - made famous by Vaughan Williams - to the…

    UKARIA: Maximilian Hornung

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    German cellist Maximilian Hornung presents a program uniquely suited to our intimate space. Hornung’s sophisticated musicality and virtuosity have enabled him to forge a unique career path. Following his 2007 win of Germany’s prestigious ARD competition (with his Tecchler Piano Trio), Hornung served for four years as principal cellist of…

    Bach Akademie Australia: Collegium Musicum

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    An atmosphere of musical and scientific enlightenment. In 1702 in Leipzig, Bach’s great friend and colleague Telemann recognised the need for an environment in which his students could perform in public and where musical and academic pursuits could be fostered. The Collegium Musicum was born. When Bach arrived in 1723,…

    Adelaide Baroque: Bach And Handel By The Waters Of Babylon

    St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide 27 King William Rd, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
    A program of great masterworks, we open with Bach’s uplifting 1st Orchestral Suite, leading into Handel’s wonderful Ode for the birthday of Queen Anne of England. From 1713, it is subtitled ‘Ode for the Peace’ in reference to the Treaty of Utrecht which the monarch was about to sign, marking…
    U>N>I>T>E>D

    Carriageworks: U>N>I>T>E>D

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Chunky Move return to Sydney for the first time since 2022 with U>N>I>T>E>D, the latest boundary-pushing work from Artistic Director Antony Hamilton. Performed by six masterful dancers, this epic vision of machine mysticism fuses sophisticated choreography, propulsive sound and science-fiction-inspired design in a powerful synthesis of body, machine and spirit. A major international collaboration, the…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Cave Song

    The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Experience the immersive sound world of Cave Song, a new musical work by Karen Berger, Kate Neal and Anthony Lyons that journeys into the mysterious realms of caves, myth and deep time. Combining live and recorded voices, original texts and rare instruments including contraforte bassoon, Buchla synthesiser and resonant stalactites,…
    Editor's Choice Festival Talks and Masterclasses

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Festival Talks and Masterclasses

    Quartet Bar by Corryton Burge
    Reuben Kaye, the new Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has chosen the theme of Delicious Revolution for his inaugural program. (Read our interview with him on page 65.) Speaking to Limelight, he says, “From Aussie icons and international acts of immense fame to basement-dwelling unknowns . . . this is a…
    Editor's Choice

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Mahalia Barnes 

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Reuben Kaye, the new Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has chosen the theme of Delicious Revolution for his inaugural program. (Read our interview with him on page 65.) Speaking to Limelight, he says, “From Aussie icons and international acts of immense fame to basement-dwelling unknowns . . . this is a…

    Southern Cross Soloists: Carnival of the Animals

    QPAC - Concert Hall
    Birds flock, a swan glides elegantly, a mob of kangaroos hops by. And in the distance, a dinosaur comes to life for the first time in 100 million years. Robert Davidson draws on groundbreaking research for his Carnival of the Extinct Animals, including the work of Anthony Romilio, named Australia’s…
    Glories of Baroque Opera

    Arioso Chamber Ensemble: Glories of Baroque Opera

    St Pauls' Anglican Church, East Brisbane 554 Vulture Street East, East Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    From the heart-rending 'Lascia ch’io pianga'(Let me weep) from Handel’s opera Rinaldo to the dramatic Frost aria from Kind Arthur by Purcell, this program of quintessential Baroque arias is sure to transport and delight audiences. Dance music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Rameau’s Danse des sauvages will have audiences…