Editor's Choice GATSBY at The Green Light

Brisbane Festival: GATSBY at The Green Light

Twelfth Night Theatre 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
This year’s Brisbane Festival has plenty of theatre on offer. Take a seat at the hottest club in town with Gatsby at The Green Light, a circus-meets-cabaret soirée, inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, co-created and directed by Craig Ilott. Back to Bilo explores the grassroots campaign that brought…
Editor's Choice A Musical Awakening

Australian Chamber Orchestra: A Musical Awakening

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Directed by ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve, this soul-stirring concert explores music’s power to console, uplift and renew. Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey joins the ACO for the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang’s flute and echo. Spanning 900 years, the program moves from Hildegard von Bingen’s 12th-century hymn Ave…
The 39 Steps

Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: The 39 Steps

Comedy Theatre 240 Exhibition St,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Mix Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller with a dash of Monty Python-style chaos, and you get The 39 Steps — a turbo-charged, Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy smash. After thrilling more than 3 million fans across 39 countries — from London’s West End to Broadway — this international sensation is…

Loreto Toorak: 2025 Showcase Concert

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Experience the incredible virtuosity of Loreto Toorak. With an exciting program spanning from baroque to contemporary repertoire, hear the refined artistry of our talented instrumental, vocal and orchestral students in the stunning acoustic of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.
Beauty and the Beast the Musical

Disney: Beauty and the Beast the Musical

Crown Theatre Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
This enchanting and timeless tale has been brought to life in Disney's reimagined production boasting all the spectacle and grandeur audiences know and love. The incredible new production from the producers of The Lion King, Mary Poppins, Aladdin and Frozen will premiere at Crown Theatre in July 2025 for a…
Editor's Choice The Book of Mormon

JONES Theatrical Group: The Book of Mormon

Capitol Theatre, Sydney 13 Campbell St, Haymarket, NSW
Hello! The Mormons are back! First seen in Australia in 2017, The Book of Mormon is blasphemous, scurrilous, puerile, rude, satirical – and one of the funniest, sweetest, most joyous musicals ever staged. Written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with Robert Lopez, the 2011 show won…
In the Heights

Joshua Robson Productions: In the Heights

HOTA 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia
From the musical mastermind, Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana) comes the Tony Award®-winning musical sensation In The Heights – a vibrant and exhilarating production set in New York’s Washington Heights. In The Heights tells the story of a tight-knit community on the cusp of significant change. Full of hopes and aspirations,…
Draw Two

Theatre Works: Draw Two

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Back in her hometown, a woman stands in the ‘fifteen items or less’ line at the local Woolies. There, an old (now-hot) school friend, Kieran, mistakes her as Mia. And she doesn’t correct him. The thing is, Mia is her identical twin who recently died, leaving behind a son, Lucas.…
Editor's Choice Trent Dalton’s Love Stories

Riverside Theatres: Trent Dalton’s Love Stories

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta, NSW, Australia
A hit at the 2024 Brisbane Festival, the stage adaptation of Trent Dalton’s book Love Stories is now on tour. In 2021, Dalton spent two months on a street corner in Brisbane’s CBD gathering stories on his Olivetti typewriter. Speaking to Australians from all walks of life, he asked them to tell him…
Othello

Melbourne Shakespeare Company: Othello

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
A riveting new adaptation of Othello, directed by the acclaimed Tanya Gerstle. In her bold and immersive style, Shakespeare’s tragedy is distilled to its raw essence by Gerstle, with a powerful five-actor ensemble delivering an intense, deeply human exploration of jealousy, power, and betrayal. A gripping, unflinching take on one…
Peter/Wendy

Lexi Sekuless Productions: Peter/Wendy

The Mill 154 Angas Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Late one night, as all the stars watch on, Peter Pan lures Wendy Darling away from her home and her mother. Together, they journey to Neverland where she meets his eclectic crew: a swearing fairy, a perennial flower, and one very lost boy. But Neverland is not quite the magical…

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