• Editor's Choice Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Musica Viva Australia: Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    American-Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz and pianist John Novacek present a program spanning early Modernism to the present day, including Debussy’s Violin Sonata, Szymanowski’s Mythes and Stravinsky’s Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss. The program also features the Australian premiere of Charlotte Bray’s Mriya, commissioned by Musica Viva Australia and Wigmore Hall. Limelight…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Benjamin Beilman performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto doesn’t leave you waiting, with the soloist launching dramatically into its lyrical story from the start. Intimate and beautiful, the work captures all the sparkle of the Classical era while setting the tone for the expressive Romanticism of later masterpieces. It’s thrilling to hear live, and provides…
    Griffin Theatre: Afterglow

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Afterglow

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Every year after the Barbershop Singing National Championships, the men gather for the traditional “afterglow”. Whisky flows, dickie-bows are loosened, and quartets sing booze-soaked harmonies into the small hours. At the 2012 afterglow, Michael meets Tom. One is a barbershop purist with something to prove. The other is a first…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    The Neilson Nutshell, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her daughter was destined for superstardom. One day, Mackenzie and her best on-set friend Beau encounter a geriatric make-up artist…
    Editor's Choice

    Festival of Voices: All Out A Cappella

    Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Launceston 34 Cameron St, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    The Tasmanian celebration of all things vocal returns with a host of performers from Australia and overseas. Traditional and contemporary works rub shoulders with cabaret and educational workshops, while headline acts include Hobart-based vocal ensemble JESSA performing contemporary classical repertoire at the Port Arthur Asylum, and vocal works setting words…
    Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    The beloved film live on stage. The iconic story that made us laugh, cry, and fall in love with six extraordinary women is back — live on stage in a dazzling new Australian production. Written by Robert Harling, the timeless tale of STEEL MAGNOLIAS comes alive under the direction of Lee Lewis…
    Waitress

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Waitress

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne 219 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    If only life were as easy as pie… Broadway’s smash-hit musical WAITRESS is baking its way to Melbourne for the very first time! Inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s beloved film and brought to life by a trailblazing creative team, including a book by acclaimed screenwriter Jessie Nelson, an original, uplifting score…

    Mornington Peninsula Theatre Co: Rossum’s Universal Robots

    Bellamy Hall Albert Street, Mornington, VIC, Australia
    Before Artificial Intelligence dominated our daily headlines, one visionary play predicted it all. This season, Mornington Peninsula Theatre Company inc. brings Karel Čapek’s legendary sci-fi masterpiece, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), to the Mornington stage for a strictly limited season. Delivering a darkly comic and highly satirical look at what it…
    Gunawarra Re-Creation

    Ilbijerri Theatre Company: Gunawarra Re-Creation

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Murrun has returned to the watering hole. The same one Aunty Aggie used to take her to. The sacred one. There she meets her old friend Gunawarra. The Black Swan. Present and past collide. And there ensues their story. One of continuation of culture, creation, and stories of Blak women’s…
    Sheltering

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Sheltering

    QPAC - Glasshouse Theatre
    Three stories of Country. One message of hope. Beneath the constellation of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s creative and cultural legacy, experience a program of three powerful works: Keeping Grounded, Brown Boys, and Sheoak, which honour Bangarra’s past while looking to the future. An intergenerational thread connects this bold triple-bill, drawing deeply from First Nations perspectives, and…
    Engine

    Sydney Dance Company: Engine

    Sydney Opera House - Drama Theatre
    Engine unites three extraordinary choreographers; Rafael Bonachela, Fran Diaz and Melanie Lane, for an exhilarating performance that promises bold, fearless dance. Rafael Bonachela premieres The Journey Itself is Home, a new work featuring music by Grammy Award-winning composer Bryce Dessner and inspired by 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō. Engine sees the return…
    The Day Of The Triffids

    New Theatre: The Day Of The Triffids

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    London, 1951: In an attempt to solve the world’s energy crisis, scientists engineer the Triffids: a biofuel crop that is highly efficient, strangely sentient, and disturbingly carnivorous. When a freak cosmic event blinds most of the world’s population, one man wakes into a collapsing society where fear, opportunism, and chaos…