• Heartbreak Hotel

    Arts Centre Melbourne: Heartbreak Hotel

    Fairfax Studio
    Karin McCracken is someone you want by your side on that walk down lonely street to Heartbreak Hotel – a weird, fun place to confront your heartache.Dressed in lavender tassels and backed by covers of breakup songs (Elvis, Celine, the real heavy hitters), Karin takes us on a tour through the aching…
    Sheltering

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Sheltering

    QPAC - Glasshouse Theatre
    Three stories of Country. One message of hope. Beneath the constellation of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s creative and cultural legacy, experience a program of three powerful works: Keeping Grounded, Brown Boys, and Sheoak, which honour Bangarra’s past while looking to the future. An intergenerational thread connects this bold triple-bill, drawing deeply from First Nations perspectives, and…
    The Day Of The Triffids

    New Theatre: The Day Of The Triffids

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    London, 1951: In an attempt to solve the world’s energy crisis, scientists engineer the Triffids: a biofuel crop that is highly efficient, strangely sentient, and disturbingly carnivorous. When a freak cosmic event blinds most of the world’s population, one man wakes into a collapsing society where fear, opportunism, and chaos…
    Editor's Choice DOUBT

    Sydney Theatre Company: DOUBT

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    John Patrick Shanley’s powerful play won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. Marion Potts directs a new production for STC, starring Pamela Rabe as Sister Aloysisus, the headmistress of St Nicholas Church School. Set in the Bronx in 1964, the severe, rigidly conservative…
    Women of Wit

    Comedy Victoria: Women of Wit

    Phee Broadway Theatre Mechanics Lane, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
    Comedy is returning to Castlemaine with the 2026 Women of Wit. Starting in 2018, Women of Wit showcases the best new, emerging and established women in stand-up comedy. This year comedians coming to the Phee Broadway Theatre include: Janty Blair (Winner 2022 Deadly Funny Grand Final, Melbourne International Comedy Festival…

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Uncle Vanya – but there’s ASMR soap cutting videos playing in the bottom right corner

    Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    While Melbourne Theatre Company stages a 2024 adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, State Theatre Company South Australia presents a radical new version by Mary Angley & Associates as part of its SPARK Program. Beginning as a faithful production of Chekov’s poignant play, it quickly spirals into “a meticulously crafted chaos…
    Editor's Choice Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Musica Viva Australia: Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
    American-Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz and pianist John Novacek present a program spanning early Modernism to the present day, including Debussy’s Violin Sonata, Szymanowski’s Mythes and Stravinsky’s Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss. The program also features the Australian premiere of Charlotte Bray’s Mriya, commissioned by Musica Viva Australia and Wigmore Hall. Limelight…
    Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The five-star musical comedy sensation, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE* (*sort of), is finally heading Down Under. Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love…
    THREE McCartney / Ritchie-Jones / Bray

    Australasian Dance Collective: THREE McCartney / Ritchie-Jones / Bray

    Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
    Australasian Dance Collective presents an exhilarating showcase of contemporary dance in a new triple bill. “A show which will remind you what it feels like to be human – to be alive,” — Returning in 2026 for its fourth iteration, ADC’s much-loved THREE features two world premieres and an immersive…
    Don Giovan

    State Opera South Australia: Don Giovan

    Barossa Arts Centre 130 Magnolia Road, Tanunda, SA
    It’s the last day of Don Giovanni’s life, but he doesn’t know that. For opera’s own Casanova, it’s just another day of pleasure seeking. Seducing a bride on her wedding day. Breaking into a woman’s bedroom in the dead of night. Killing her furious father. Even before the curtain rises,…
    Maestro 5: Ravel & MacMillan

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Maestro 5: Ravel & MacMillan

    QPAC - Concert Hall
    Let the rhythm guide you. Led by guest conductor Jaime Martín, QSO presents an evening of sonic wonder. At its centre is Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé, a sweeping ballet score of shimmering harmonies and luminous orchestration. Featuring full choir with Voices of Birralee and an expansive percussion section, this musical fresco of colour and…
    Rabbit & Watson

    Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Rabbit & Watson

    Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Award winning playwright Shane Woon blends Chinese mythology, Boy Love drama and the AFL in Rabbit & Watson, an epic queer love story that transcends space and time. Directed by Keith Brockett, the play follows Rabbit God Tu’er Shen as he abandons heaven time and again to reunite with his…