• Cruise

    Seymour Centre: Cruise

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Following its sold-out, five-star Australian premiere, Seymour and Fruit Box Theatre will join forces to return the acclaimed Cruise by Jack Holden to Sydney. This electrifying celebration of queer nightlife and a powerful tribute to a generation lost to the AIDS crisis, will run at the Seymour from 9th –…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Christian Li plays Brahms

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    MSO Young Artist in Association Christian Li returns to Melbourne to perform Brahms’ riveting Violin Concerto, the perfect showcase for our homegrown virtuoso. Our former Assistant Conductor Tianyi Lu is another familiar face in this exciting event. The Chinese-born New Zealand conductor has worked with orchestras across the globe, and…
    Editor's Choice Girls & Boys

    Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…
    Editor's Choice Girls & Boys

    Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…
    Editor's Choice Girls & Boys

    Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…
    Pekka Kuusisto – Legends & Luminaries

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Pekka Kuusisto – Legends & Luminaries

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Pekka Kuusisto returns to the ACO after nearly a decade to direct music from four prodigious talents. Kuusisto is an artist unbound by convention, who embodies an artistic freedom that is unexpected and thrilling. As a renowned virtuoso and boundary-crossing composer, he pushes the limits of performance into exciting new…
    The Sleeping Beauty

    The Stuttgart Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Performing in Australia for the first time in decades, Germany’s premier ballet company, The Stuttgart Ballet, brings Marcia Haydée’s The Sleeping Beauty exclusively to Melbourne, by special invitation from The Australian Ballet. Proving that dreams do come true, guest company The Stuttgart Ballet bring The Sleeping Beauty to Melbourne. At the Regent…
    Editor's Choice The Spare Room

    Victorian Opera: The Spare Room

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    In composer Jane Hammond and librettist Therèsa Borg’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, Helen has offered her spare room to her friend Nicola, who is coming to Melbourne for an unconventional treatment that she believes will cure her cancer. Over three weeks, Helen becomes nurse, judge and guardian angel…
    Editor's Choice The Unfriend

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Unfriend

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    This deliciously dark comedy marked the stage debut of British TV titan Steven Moffat – the celebrated showrunner of Doctor Who and creator of Press Gang, Coupling, Sherlock and Douglas is Cancelled – and became a West End hit. While holidaying on a cruise ship, timorous, middle-class couple Peter and Debbie befriend…
    And Then There Were None

    John X Presents: And Then There Were None

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Ten strangers are lured to a solitary mansion off the coast, each harbouring a dark secret. When a recorded message accuses them all of unpunished crimes, the tension becomes palpable. One by one, they begin to die in accordance with a sinister nursery rhyme, and the realisation sets in that…
    Editor's Choice A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Paul Dainty, Ken Davenport & Bob Gaudio: A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Created in consultation with Neil Diamond himself, the jukebox musical, A Beautiful Noise, charts his rise to superstardom through the songs that defined his life and career, among them Cracklin’ Rosie, Forever in Blue Jeans and Sweet Caroline. Famous for his swaggering sexuality and velvet-meets-gravel voice, Diamond is conjured by two…

    Melbourne Baroque Orchestra: Lully and De Lalande at Versailles

    Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park 210-218 Richardson St, Middle Park, VIC, Australia
    Directed by the much-acclaimed Michael Fulcher, MBO and PV will present two astonishingly beautiful and rarely heard motets created by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Michel-Richard De Lalande for the great occasions of court life at Versailles. The orchestra, bursting with the exquisite sonorities of winds, violas (six of them), gamba, and…