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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…
Editor's Choice Tivoli Lovely by Eddie Perfect

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): Tivoli Lovely by Eddie Perfect

State Theatre Centre of WA Perth, WA, Australia
In a coup for Perth audiences, Eddie Perfect’s new musical has its world premiere at WAAPA. Developed over three years, with the support of the Minderoo Foundation, Tivoli Lovely will be performed by the second and third-year Music Theatre students under the direction of Dean Bryant – who like Perfect is…
Prism

The Australian Ballet: Prism

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
An earth-shattering experience from three of the world’s most inspired choreographers, Prism will leave you breathless with its raw intensity and revolutionary design. Inspired by the three sides of a prism, each work is a reflection of the visionary choreographer behind it. Prism encompasses the spectrum of contemporary dance and…
Dying: A Memoir

Melbourne Theatre Company: Dying: A Memoir

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017. Taylor’s wry insights into the rituals, language and taboos surrounding mortality can be witty, provocative or eye-opening…
Editor's Choice Piotr Anderszewski

Musica Viva Australia: Piotr Anderszewski

Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Fresh from his triumphant performances at the Edinburgh Festival, pianist Piotr Anderszewski brings his intelligence, restless curiosity and joy to Brahms’ 12 pieces from Opp. 116– 119, selections from JS Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major. Known for his uncompromising standards – he famously walked out…
Bladderwrack

Theatre Works: Bladderwrack

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
In the underdeck chilldrippery of a sunken galleon, in its deepest bowels, two ancient pirates dwell in suspended misery: Saucy Jack and Bagfoot, their lives sustained by the ecosystem that has overtaken the bilge around them. Thanks to the bile-green phosphorescent bladderwrack that thrives on the flooded deck, their air…
Equus

Free-Rain Theatre Company: Equus

ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
Equus by Peter Shaffer is an electric play about passion and worship. Equus is very confronting and sets out to shock, excite and captivate its audience. It is an exploration of the human condition with its confusions, paradoxes and unanswerable questions, blending the naturalistic with the surreal. The play exposes…
Dark Erotica Quartet / Footfalls

Blake Barnard and Keith Brockett: Dark Erotica Quartet / Footfalls

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Dark Erotica Quartet by James Hazelden A blackly comic take on kink, sexual proclivities and satisfaction. Three seemingly disparate scenes that fit together, Russian-doll style, into a celebration of the lost art of spoken erotica. A play about the kind of sex we think about, and not the kind we…

Monash Performing Arts Centres: Paul Williamson vs Paul Williamson

The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Two of Melbourne’s finest jazz artists will take the stage for a one-night-only showdown at The Count’s. Saxophonist Paul Williamson of the legendary Hammond Combo and trumpetist Dr Paul Williamson from Monash University will deliver swinging standards, inventive solos, and a thrilling display of ensemble mastery.

Ensemble Theatre: Fly Girl

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
It’s the late 70’s and the Australian Aviation Industry is a boy’s club. The only job women are allowed involves wearing heels, lighting smokes and serving nuts. Deborah Lawrie’s got the chops to fly the big jets, but Reg Ansett won’t let her. Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore use their…
Coriolanus

Bell Shakespeare: Coriolanus

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Coriolanus is a ferocious warrior and defender of Rome. But his contempt for the public, and his refusal to play the political game, see him banished from the city he once protected. When he joins forces with his former enemy to seek vengeance against Rome, the fate of the city,…
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Sydney Theatre Company: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Logie Award-winner Kat Stewart makes her Sydney Theatre Company debut with wit, authenticity, and unbridled fire in this celebrated production of the twentieth century’s most ferocious comedy of manners. A leading figure in American theatre and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, Edward Albee’s most famous play is a wild, brainy…

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