• Chimera Ensemble: Light and Shade

    Church of the Resurrection, Swanbourne 105 Shenton Road, Swanbourne, WA, Australia
    Join Chimera Ensemble for a beautiful concert full of contrasts, performed by Rebecca Glorie (violin), Daniel Schmitt (viola), Melinda Forsythe (cello) and Liam Wooding (piano). The concert includes light refreshments.

    Zelman Symphony: Beethoven 256

    James Tatoulis Auditorium 207 Barkers Rd, Kew, VIC, Australia
    Beethoven fans were left disappointed in 2020 with a somewhat curtailed 250th Anniversary celebration. We make up for it with this concert devoted to the bad-boy of Classical music. The Coriolan Overture was written as an introduction to Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s tragedy about the legendary, defiant Roman general, Coriolanus.…
    Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025, and fresh from a sell out season at London’s West End, Garry Starr returns with a literary adventure like no other through the world’s most iconic works of fiction. In just one hour, the comic wunderkind, hell-bent on saving books from extinction, must…
    Editor's Choice Festival Talks and Masterclasses

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Festival Talks and Masterclasses

    Quartet Bar by Corryton Burge
    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…

    Australian Chamber Choir: Great Romantic Voices: Middle Park

    Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park 210-218 Richardson St, Middle Park, VIC, Australia
    Middle Park In the hands of Romantics like Bruckner and Brahms, music became increasingly expressive, harmonically inventive, passionate and theatrical. In the twentieth century, composers like Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Amy Beach and Samuel Barber resisted the atonality and serialism embraced by their contemporaries and continued to explore the…
    Glories of Baroque Opera

    Arioso Chamber Ensemble: Glories of Baroque Opera

    Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 115 Eumundi Road, Noosaville, QLD, Australia
    From the heart-rending 'Lascia ch’io pianga'(Let me weep) from Handel’s opera Rinaldo to the dramatic Frost aria from Kind Arthur by Purcell, this program of quintessential Baroque arias is sure to transport and delight audiences. Dance music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Rameau’s Danse des sauvages will have audiences…

    Brisbane Chorale: A Sea Symphony

    Brisbane City Hall 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
    Experience an unforgettable afternoon of majestic choral and symphonic music as Brisbane Chorale and Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra join forces for a celebration of British musical masterworks, a musical feast not to be missed! This concert, conducted by Steven Moore, features Vaughan Williams’ monumental A Sea Symphony, with soprano Rebecca Cassidy…

    Red Stitch: The Doll Trilogy: Part 3 – Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat 17 Lydiard St, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
    PART 3: SUMMER OF THE SEVENTH DOLL - 1953 For sixteen summers, Roo and Barney have returned to Melbourne to share a life of laughter, love and independence with Olive and Nancy. But this seventeenth summer feels different. Nancy is gone, Roo is weary, Barney restless, and Olive is determined to…

    Bloomsday in Melbourne: Between The Lines – The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Now in their 32nd year of celebrating this much-loved worldwide event, Bloomsday in Melbourne proudly brings their latest season to fortyfivedownstairs, Between The Lines - The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters. A young scholar makes the discovery of the century – letters between James Joyce and comedy legend Groucho Marx –…
    Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show

    Sydney Opera House: Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show

    Sydney Opera House - Drama Theatre
    The return of the hit stage show. This is Bluey’s Big Play, for real life! From New York’s Madison Square Garden to London’s Royal Festival Hall, Bluey’s Big Play has delighted fans across the globe - and now it returns home to Australia for an encore tour. Bluey’s Big Play…
    Izzard – The Tragedy of Hamlet

    BOHM Presents: Izzard – The Tragedy of Hamlet

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Direct from triple-extended solo runs in New York, Chicago and London, Eddie Izzard brings her acclaimed one-person performance of Hamlet to Sydney. Nominated for New York’s Drama League Distinguished Performance Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, this production has captivated audiences around the world. Akin…
    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…