• Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, 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 Uncle Vanya

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chekov’s achingly sad yet mordantly funny play finds fresh life in this adaptation by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, first staged by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2024. Now, Anne-Louise Sarks directs a new production for MTC. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have spent years managing a run-down country estate in rural…

    Therese Milanovic: Winter Stars

    Plant Empire 15/55 Lofter St Tennyson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    WINTER STARS: a mid-winter violin, cello and piano recital that travels through time and space performed by Daniel Lopez, Eleanor Streatfeild and Therese Milanovic on violin, cello and piano. This concert features a new vivid and imaginative violin sonata by Australian composer, Alex Turley, amidst timeless works by Beethoven, Handel,…
    Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…
    Logan St

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Logan St

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    In the backyard of an Adelaide mosque, an unlikely alliance takes root between Goolie, an Afghan cameleer and mosque caretaker, and Dulcie, a young Aboriginal woman navigating life, loss and love on Kaurna Country. As war, racism and bureaucracy press in from all sides, their bond — anchored in storytelling,…
    Lovesong by Abi Morgan

    Allentertainment: Lovesong by Abi Morgan

    PIP Theatre 20 Park Road, Milton, QLD, Australia
    “That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of… the end.” BAFTA-award winner Abi Morgan’s Lovesong is an extraordinary portrait of intimacy, tracing Billy and Maggie’s forty turbulent years of marriage. A fragile universe of promises and hope, where the optimism of youth gives way to…
    The Oresteia

    Carriageworks: The Oresteia

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Electra, Cassandra, Orestes, Clytemnestra and Agamemnon are hereby summoned to relive their murderous tragedies in Liza Lim‘s first opera, The Oresteia. Sydney Chamber Opera, the acclaimed company that created Aphrodite (2025) and Gilgamesh (2024), returns with a searing distillation of the foundational Greek tragedy in an explosive, hour-long masterpiece of Australian music. Performed for the first…

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Divine Bohemain – Haydn, Richter, Mysliveček & Beethoven

    Primrose Potter Salon 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Composers hailing from the now proud Czech Republic were surprisingly numerous in the 18th century and, while far from household names today, had a significant impact on some that are. These Bohemians were neither the free’n’easy chums who kissed tiny frozen hands in garrets nor the future pictorial romantics devoted…
    Editor's Choice Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

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

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…
    Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 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…
    Casey and Diana

    Mi Todo Productions: Casey and Diana

    Qtopia Sydney The Loading Dock Theatre 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    October 1991. Inside Toronto’s Casey House hospice, Thomas has been asking himself questions like: why hasn’t his roommate seen Steel Magnolias? And how did that diner get these eggs to smell like cat food? But now, he’s asking himself the most important question of all: What is the perfect ice-breaking…
    Vista

    Stephanie Lake Company: Vista

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    One moment can splinter into infinite perceptions A brand new work from Stephanie Lake Company (Manifesto, Monsters), VISTA is a dance in two halves, bound together by a pulsing through-line of rhythm, invention and design. Act One unfolds in stark black and white, as a precise, razor-edged world of dualities. Doubt and…