• 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…
    Elder After Hours

    Elder Conservatorium: Tales of Two Cities

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Elder Conservatorium Chorale Carl Crossin OAM - conductor Karl Geiger - piano With special guests Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Choir Paul Stanhope - conductor Two of Australia’s finest collegiate choirs share the stage for a choral collaboration that offers a veritable smorgasbord of vibrant, varied and inspired choral music from across…
    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…
    Blackadder Live on Stage!

    Harbour Theatre: Blackadder Live on Stage!

    Harbour Theatre 16 Lochee Street, Mosman Park, WA, Australia
    Harbour Theatre brings the second series of the classic British comedy Blackadder to life at Camelot in Mosman Park this October. Join Edmund Blackadder, Queenie, Baldrick and Sir Percy in two favourite episodes set in Elizabethan England. In Potato, Blackadder’s attempt to outdo Sir Walter Raleigh at sea goes disastrously…

    Wesley Music Centre: Ronan Apcar

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Pianist Ronan Apcar returns to Canberra with his trademark scintillating piano playing in this virtuosic program, 'Brahms and the Opposite of Brahms.' Beloved Romantic composer Johannes Brahms' beautifully tender piano pieces are starkly contrasted by modern works from Australian and American composers in this exciting programme of pianistic extremes. Whiplash…
    We Are The Tigers

    Cheers Productions: We Are The Tigers

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    It’s the annual sleepover of the Giles Corey High Cheerleading Squad, and team captain Riley is determined to lead her squad to redemption after last year’s spectacular flop. But what starts as a night of pizza and team bonding in the basement quickly spirals into chaos — there’s a killer…
    Young Frankenstein

    Theatre Works: Young Frankenstein

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    From the outrageous mind of Mel Brooks comes Young Frankenstein, the gloriously silly, lightning-powered musical comedy that celebrates everything wonderfully ridiculous about classic horror and big Broadway spectacle. When the impeccably serious Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (…that’s “Fronk-en-steen,” if you please) inherits his family’s eerie Transylvanian estate, he is determined to…
    Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

    Western Australia Opera: Roméo et Juliette

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth 827-905 Hay St, Karboordup, WA, Australia
    WA Opera presents a co-production with State Opera South Australia and Irish National Opera of Gounod’s take on Shakespeare. The opera sticks pretty closely to the play, with a masked ball, duels and a lengthy balcony scene, not to mention a lilting coloratura waltz song for Juliette. Known for her psychologically driven…
    Editor's Choice Carmen

    State Opera South Australia: Carmen

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Rising star director Laura Hansford reimagines Bizet’s classic by applying “maximalist surrealism” to the original setting of 1825 Seville. It’s the latest attempt to rethink the problematic femme fatale by asking contemporary questions about autonomy, obsession and the cost of living freely. Dane Lam leads the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra through…
    Beethoven & Tchaikovsky

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven & Tchaikovsky

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is one of the most famous in the violin repertoire, breath-taking whether you’re hearing it for the first time or the hundredth. The thrilling climax of the first movement, where the soloist’s runs are picked up by the orchestra, feels like a fire catching. In her Sydney…

    Reb Fountain: ‘Water for Gasoline Album’ Tour

    The Curtin 29 Lygon Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    Reb Fountain's new album Water for Gasoline delivers another striking body of work from one of New Zealand's most acclaimed contemporary artists, a record that confronts the challenges of our times while searching for light, beauty and connection amongst the noise. The same artistic instinct and collective spirit that shapes…