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Salamanca Arts Centre: An Evening of Experimental Music

Salamanca Arts Centre 77 Salamanca Pl, Battery Point, TAS, Australia
This evening of new work from artists from Victoria and Tasmania spans music drawing from modular synthesis, drone, field recording and post-rock. The three artists will each play a solo set, concluding the night with an improvised collaborative piece.
Event Series Beauty & the Beast

Victorian State Ballet: Beauty & the Beast

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
A full-length classical ballet production of the traditional tale, Beauty & the Beast is one of the world’s most loved classics. Following sell-out seasons since its Australian premier in 2018, Victorian State Ballet (VSB) are proud to present this spectacular original ballet to audiences in 2024. This production is based…
Event Series Humans 2.0

CIRCA: Humans 2.0

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance. Towers grow and decay, bodies leap and are caught, as physical limits are pushed to their extreme. Can we ever find a perfect balance or is adapting…
Editor's Choice Event Series Barracking for the Umpire

Black Swan Theatre Company of WA: Barracking for the Umpire

Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
Andrea Gibbs’ debut play was a big hit when it premiered at Black Swan in 2022. In a four-and-a-half-star review, Limelight described it as “hilarious and heartbreaking”. Doug Williams is the greatest footballer Donnybrook has ever seen. His wife Delveen has been by his side through head knock after head…
Event Series The 13th Month

Flight Path Theatre: The 13th Month

Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
A political farce written by Greek-Australian playwright Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou, this work takes a scathing look at who really runs this country. Following a successful run of The Marvellous Life of Carlo Gatti at TheatreWorks in Melbourne, we are excited for our all-female cast to bring Cass's latest work to Sydney…
Event Series Misery Loves Company

Legit Theatre Co.: Misery Loves Company

KXT on Broadway Cnr Broadway & Bay St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Northern Ireland. 1977. The Glynne family gather to mourn and celebrate the life of Daphne, beloved mother to Jackie, daughter to George and sister to Dolores and Henry. Daphne is remembered for a keen passion for swing-dancing, a mighty collection of brooches and a new venture into lesbianism. Emerging Sydney…

JOLT Arts: Ecstatic

Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
JOLT Arts will showcase three ecstatic and legendary in-house acts. Prepare to levitate upon audio waves of delight and heightened awareness. Mesmerising and technically bedazzling, Bobby Singh is Australia’s master of the tabla and Indian Classical rhythmic flows. In a reimagining of what it means to be avant-garde, award-winning interabilities…
Event Series Études / Circle Electric

The Australian Ballet: Études / Circle Electric

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Études Harald Lander Études, French for ‘studies’, takes the dancer’s morning ritual of ballet class and transforms it for the stage. Designed to gradually warm up muscles and align the body for rehearsals and performance, the classical ballet class follows a standard order of exercises that start small and gradually…
Featured Featured Event Series Audra McDonald

Concertworks: Audra McDonald live in concert

Crown Perth Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
Audra McDonald, international singing phenomenon, television and film star, is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and actor. But her voice must be heard to be believed. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award, she…
Event Series The Wharf Revue: Pride in Prejudice

Soft Tread: The Wharf Revue: Pride in Prejudice

Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
The Wharf Revue is back for another year of sensational value! Satirical content is up by 7% and the average laughter quotient is indexed at 8.3% over the forward estimates. With over twenty-three years experience in the political satire space, Australia’s most trusted revue-based practitioners continue the tradition with this year’s hilarious…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Almighty Sometimes

Melbourne Theatre Company: The Almighty Sometimes

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Kendall Feaver’s knotty drama takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people. Anna threw herself out of a window when she was seven. The following year, having read her somewhat macabre stories, her worried mother Renée took her to see a child psychiatrist, who prescribed a…
Event Series The Front Page

New Theatre: The Front Page

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
Late at night, in the crowded press room at Chicago’s Criminal Courts, a group of reporters is waiting to cover a controversial execution the next morning. Then an unexpected event breaks through the banter and bravura, the cynicism and ennui, and suddenly a scoop is on the cards. This landmark…

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