Sincere Apologies

Melbourne Fringe: Sincere Apologies

Trades Hall, Melbourne 2 Lygon St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Say sorry. Really mean it. Experience a performance built from all the apologies that the world keeps offering — the famous, the ridiculous, the deeply personal and those that begin every second email in our inboxes. Part theatrical ritual, part social experiment, Sincere Apologies explores what it means to apologise…
Work, But This Time Like You Mean It

Canberra Youth Theatre: Work, But This Time Like You Mean It

The Rebel Theatre, Pier 2/3 Suite 2/13A Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Canberra Youth Theatre's unhinged, deep-fryer dive into the lives of overworked, underpaid, teenage wage-slaves comes to Sydney following its sell-out debut season. Winner of the 2022 Emerging Playwright Commission, Work, But This Time Like You Mean It by Honor Webster-Mannison is a darkly surreal comedy about young people’s first experiences…
Whitefella Yella Tree

Griffin Theatre Company: Whitefella Yella Tree

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
First love: joyous, sweet and youthful. Two boys from neighbouring mobs, puffed up with teenage giddiness, poised on the edge of a world about to change. Their budding love taking root in Country that is about to be declared ‘Australia’. In the early years of colonisation, a young Aboriginal man,…
La Ronde

Strut & Fret: La Ronde

The Grand Electric 199 Cleveland St, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia
NEWCASTLE, IT’S YOUR TURN TO BE SEDUCED BY THE WORLD’S VERY BEST VARIETY ARTISTS. Blending the exquisite, the elegant and the extraordinary, with the twisted and the utterly delightful. Taking home 14 five-star reviews in its debut season at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, La Ronde is set to dazzle…
Playhouse Week 2

: Playhouse Week 2

Playhouse Theatre Bangarra Dance Theatre, Yuldea (Excerpts) The Australian Ballet and Tim Harbour, New Work by Tim Harbour West Australian Ballet, Extension to Boom Stephanie Lake Company, Auto Cannibal
Heart is a Wasteland

Yirra Yaakin Theatre: Heart is a Wasteland

Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
Raye, is a country-music star in the making, playing in one back-water pub after another along Australia’s vast desert highways. Trying to make a living in the hope of returning home to her young son Elvis, her lyrics blaze through the landscapes of love and longing. A chance meeting and…
Jeromaia Detto: When I Grow Up…

Sydney Fringe Festival: Jeromaia Detto – When I Grow Up…

Erskineville Town Hall 104 Erskineville Road, Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Full of absurd characters, wild whimsy and a healthy sprinkle of silliness, multi award winning master of play, Jeromaia Detto, returns with a fringe experience like none other - creating a brand new show each night based on your childhood dreams. What did you want to be when you grew…
Editor's Choice Plied and Prejudice

Arts and Culture Trust: Plied and Prejudice

His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in Regency England must be in want of a very stiff drink – or so they say in this raucous version of Jane Austen’s classic novel. Due to popular demand, the Perth season (which followed performances in Brisbane and London)…

Classical Guitar Society Sydney: Harold Gretton – Old Friends

Mosman Art Gallery 1 Art Gallery Way, Mosman, NSW, Australia
The Classical Guitar Society Sydney presents leading Australian classical guitarist Harold Gretton in concert on Saturday 18 October, under the title “Old Friends”. Every musician has their own scrapbook of Old Friends: pieces they love coming back to, pieces they’ve always wanted to play and pieces with a personal connection.…

Lyric Opera of Melbourne: Song from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne’s multi-award-winning Lyric Opera returns to fortyfivedownstairs to present the Australian premiere of this “dazzlingly original score”. First staged at The Kitchen in New York, it has been hailed as a masterpiece of modern opera, drawing influences from baroque to minimalism to indie rock. Isabelle Eberhardt’s journals were a rich…

Melbourne International Jazz Festival: The Tamil Rogeon Orchestra

The Night Cat 137-141 Johnston St, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia
The violinist, composer, producer and genre-chameleon best known for blending cosmic jazz, hip hop, Brazilian choro, orchestral soul and deep house, takes audiences into his ever-expanding, multi-dimensional universe in this immersive one-off show. For over two decades, Rogeon has built a colourful body of work – from hip-hop and funk LPs to…
Manon

The Australian Ballet: Manon

Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel, Manon is a tragic romance unlike any other in ballet. From the echelons of high society 18th-century Paris to the gritty streets of New Orleans, Manon tells a story of a young girl desperate to rise above her lowly origins, seduced…

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