• 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…
    The Doll Trilogy: Part 2 – Other Times

    Red Stitch: The Doll Trilogy: Part 2 – Other Times

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat 17 Lydiard St, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
    PART 2: OTHER TIMES - 1945 It’s 1945, and the world has shifted. Returning from war, Roo and Barney confront the lasting effects of global conflict, while Bubba matures and Emma embraces new possibilities. When a German-Jewish refugee enters the picture, Australia’s evolving relationship with migration comes to the fore.…
    Hamlet

    Queensland Ballet: Hamlet

    Talbot Theatre, Thomas Dixon Centre 406 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    A Kingdom in Mourning. A Son Obsessed. A Revenge Set in Motion. Love turns deadly and power corrupts all in Hamlet — a gripping dance drama by international choreographer Leo Mujić, where every choice carries a cost. Set to the sweeping music of Tchaikovsky and Saint‑Saëns, Mujić’s Hamlet transforms Shakespeare’s…
    Waitress

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Waitress

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne 219 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    If only life were as easy as pie… Broadway’s smash-hit musical WAITRESS is baking its way to Melbourne for the very first time! Inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s beloved film and brought to life by a trailblazing creative team, including a book by acclaimed screenwriter Jessie Nelson, an original, uplifting score…
    Hamlet

    Queensland Ballet: Hamlet

    Thomas Dixon Centre 406 Montague Rd, West End, QLD, Australia
    The tragedy you know, retold in a gripping ballet for the ages. Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy becomes a gripping dance drama in Leo Mujić’s Hamlet. Classical ballet technique fuses with visceral storytelling to capture the prince’s struggle with grief, revenge, and truth. Ensemble-driven choreography builds intensity, weaving a tapestry of…
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    Get ready to be seduced, swindled, and swept off your feet — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels hits the Hayes in a glittering new production that’s all charm, chaos, and con artistry at its most delicious. Based on the hit 1988 film starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, this Tony-nominated musical comedy…
    To Kill A Mockingbird

    Genesian Theatre Company: To Kill A Mockingbird

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, 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, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comes alive on stage in a moving story of prejudice, compassion and the fight for…