• Editor's Choice Ursula Yovich Sings Nina Simone

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Ursula Yovich Sings Nina Simone

    Banquet Room
    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…

    Nightingale Performing Arts: Mina’s Kadō (華道)

    Nightingale Gallery 909A High St, Armadale, VIC, Australia
    Nightingale Performing Arts Australia is proud to present Mina’s Kadō (華道), a solo piano program by Australian Music Prize and APRA Music Award nominated Korean-Australian pianist and composer Mina Yu, inspired by the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy. Mina Yu’s performance is combined with storytelling, surrounding artwork and ambient field recordings of…
    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…
    Your Song

    The Little Red Company: Your Song

    Sydney Opera House - Playhouse , Australia
    Your Song celebrates the unforgettable music of megastar Elton John and the memorable moments it evokes for everyday people, reimagining Elton’s biggest songs including Candle in the Wind, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, I’m Still Standing, Benny and the Jets, Rocket Man and Tiny Dancer using powerful stories and personal experiences…

    RISING Festival: We Come To Collect : A Flirtation, With Capitalism

    The Showroom, Arts Centre Melbourne
    Baltimore-born chaos merchant Jenn Kidwell and her co-conspirator/ASL artist Brandon Kazen-Maddox invite you to roll with them in the pigsty of global capitalism. Beneath the light of a crooked chandelier, they skewer myths of American economic might, hold our conceptions of value up to the gilded mirror, and shimmy-shake between topics like time, race,…
    Nowhere

    RISING Festival: Nowhere

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Actor Khalid Abdalla (from Netflix’s The Crown & The Kite Runner) invites us inside a new kind of “anti-biography”. An audacious and lively show that tells the story of his life, set against the shifting cartographies of seismic world events. From his involvement in the Egyptian revolution, and his experience of the counter-revolution.…
    Griffin Theatre: Savior

    Griffin Theatre Company: Savior

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A typhoon hits the Philippines, and local project officer Michelle lands her dream assignment. It’s her first time coordinating a global relief effort for a sleek American NGO. A chance to change lives, to be the changemaker she always dreamed of!  All she has to do is smash her KPI’s…
    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…

    RISING: we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism

    The Showroom, Arts Centre Melbourne
    Baltimore-born chaos merchant Jenn Kidwell and her co-conspirator/ASL artist Brandon Kazen-Maddox invite you to roll with them in the pigsty of global capitalism. Beneath the light of a crooked chandelier, they skewer myths of American economic might, hold our conceptions of value up to the gilded mirror and shimmy-shake between…
    Legally Blonde

    Theatre Royal: Legally Blonde

    Theatre Royal
    Case Dismissed? Not Until You’ve Seen This! Get ready to trade your school uniform for something a little more... pink. This year, The Friends’ School is thrilled to present the high-energy, hilarious, and heart-warming sensation: Legally Blonde the Musical! Based on the beloved movie, the story follows the transformation of Elle Woods…

    Odyssey Theatre: We Didn’t Start the Pyre – A Medieval Murder Mystery

    HP Bowlo 6 Crinan Street, Hurlstone Park, New South Wales, Australia
    Welcome to the town of Dork: your average 14th century village where everyone is about to die. As whispers of plague spread across the countryside, frightened villagers gather at the Dork Inn awaiting the arrival of mysterious Plague Doctors summoned by the City Council. But while sickness creeps ever closer,…
    The Pirates of Penzance.

    Hayes Theatre Co: The Pirates of Penzance.

    Foundry Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd,, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
    For the first time ever, Hayes Theatre Co brings one of its landmark productions to the Foundry Theatre stage. Five actors. Every role. After a sold-out extended season at Hayes, plus stops in Wyong, Wollongong and Canberra, this acclaimed, irreverent adaptation of The Pirates of Penzance returns — madcap, hilarious,…