• C*ck

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: C*ck

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    WHO ARE YOU… WHEN LOVE DEMANDS A CHOICE? A razor-sharp modern classic about identity, desire and the cruelties of indecision. Mike Bartlett’s C*ck has, in just over a decade, secured its place as a seminal modern classic — strong, startling, and unforgettable, it’s a play that confronts identity, desire and the cruelties…
    Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The five-star musical comedy sensation, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE* (*sort of), is finally heading Down Under. Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love…
    Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Bundayabba – the best little town in the world! You’ll never want to leave. And even if you did… You can’t. Well-heeled schoolteacher John Grant is en route to Sydney when a layover in the mining town of Bundanyabba turns into a three-week freefall. Stranded and starving, Grant…
    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Genesian Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird

    St Joseph's Church Hall Gordon Street, Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step into 1930s Alabama, where the trial of a young Black man accused of a terrible crime shakes a seemingly peaceful town to its core. Through the eyes of Scout Finch, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comes alive on stage in a moving story of prejudice, compassion and the fight…
    Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Secret House: Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Seymour Centre and Secret House present the Australian premiere of Shooting Hedda Gabler by Nina Segal—a darkly unsettling, wickedly funny examination of ambition, manipulation and coercive control. When offered the lead part in a Norwegian film adaptation of Hedda Gabler, an actress seizes the opportunity to escape her past and gain…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: ABC Classic 100 in Concert

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Each year, ABC Classic asks music lovers to nominate their favourite classical works on a particular theme, counting down the results across an exciting weekend in June. Join us for the fourth edition of the popular live edition featuring highlights from the countdown! Please note this performance will be recorded…

    Tempo Rubato: Ensemble Liber: Schumann, Clarke and Mendelssohn

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    This winter, Ensemble Liber returns to Tempo Rubato for the third time with a captivating program of music for strings and piano. Featuring Rebecca Clarke’s Dumka for violin, viola and piano, Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano, and Schumann’s Piano Quartet No. 1. Violist Haram Kim, cellist Josh…
    Uked! The First Play-Along Ukulele Musical

    Bondi Theatre Company: Uked! The First Play-Along Ukulele Musical

    Bondi Pavilion Theatre Queen Elizabeth Dr, Bondi, NSW, Australia
    A kooky ukey love story with unique audience engagement. Uked! by Jane Caferalla is the hilarious and poignant story of Karla, who is dumped on her 50th birthday by her violin-playing boyfriend, Brian. Desperate to belong and prove her musical worth, Karla buys a ukulele and joins a dating site…
    Editor's Choice STELLA – A New Australian Musical

    Matthew Henderson: Stella – A New Australian Musical

    Alexander Theatre, The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC, Australia
    We have recently seen a brilliant stage musical based on Miles Franklin’s famous novel My Brilliant Career. Now comes a new Australian musical called Stella, exploring Franklin’s life, which was marked by poverty, entrenched sexism, personal loss and the upheaval of two world wars. Seven years in the making, Stella…
    A Succulent Chinese Musical?!

    Flight Path Theatre: A Succulent Chinese Musical?!

    Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
    IT’S BACK: BIGGER. BETTER. MORE SUCCULENT. After a sold out Melbourne Fringe season and being named in TimeOut’s ‘Top 10’ for Melbourne International Comedy Festival, A Succulent Chinese Musical?! returns to Sydney, supersizing their hit fringe show into a full-scale two-act musical of epic portions. Bring your appetite for this…
    Queer Nights at Nightingale

    Nightingale Gallery: Fault Lines – Queer Nights at Nightingale #3

    Nightingale Gallery 909A High St, Armadale, VIC, Australia
    Curated by composer Robert McIntyre, Aether Duo presents Fault Lines, an evening of flute and piano works by LGBTQIA+ composers Robert McIntyre, Sally Whitwell, Sam Williams and more – dealing both subtly and directly with elements pertaining to the lived queer experience and the environments and space we rightly take…
    Editor's Choice

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Casey Donovan – This Is Me The Amy Winehouse Special

    Adelaide Festival Theatre King William Road, 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…