Ensemble Theatre: How To Plot A Hit In Two Days

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
It’s 1985. TV prime time. Across Australia, millions of tear-stricken eyes are glued to their television sets in disbelief. A Country Practice’s beloved Molly Jones takes her final breath. Fade to black and she’s gone. Inside the story room, in a creative flurry powered by coffee, cigarettes and Fantales, the…

Sydney Opera House: What the Ocean Said

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
What The Ocean Said is a relaxing storytelling experience for children and their grownups. You are invited to relax in a sea of pillows amidst a magical space of calm. Follow the journey of a humpback whale diving deep into the water, and expanding into the reaches of the ocean…
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)…
Once Upon a Grimm Night

Odyssey Theatre: Once Upon a Grimm Night

Old Government House, Parramatta Cnr Pitt and Macquarie St, Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Once Upon a Grimm Night is an intimate, interactive adventure inside Old Government House, Parramatta. The border between our world and Everafter is fraying; Grimm Volkov enlists you and other wayfarers after the Narrator sets the scene to follow clues, brew potions and uncover what binds the Maiden and the Witch.…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Dreamcrafters

Lecture Hall, Port Fairy Sackville Street, Port Fairy, VIC, Australia
Curators Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos have set out to examine our heritage and bloodlines, and to rejoice in “the miracle of how millions of notes in the hands of master musicians are crafted into stunning sonic stories,” all the while paying homage to the Ancient Greek mosaic and the…
Chip On Her Shoulder

Melbourne Fringe: Chip On Her Shoulder

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Single, Snacking, and Struggling: A Play About Chips, Comfort, and Coping Kate wishes she was all that — and a bag of chips. Spoiler: she’s not. She’s a mess, and she knows it. But she’s trying, sort of. She might even be a little bit salty — at life, at…
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…
Flesh Vessel

The Australian Ballet: Flesh Vessel

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Through, around and between, Flesh Vessel is a hypnotic flow of carefully designed physical narrative. Demanding acute awareness, interconnection and kinetic calculation of its three performers (Jayden Wall, Melissa Pham and Ashley Mclellan), Flesh Vessel is a movement piece that tests physical intensity, precision and intuition to generate states of both tranquillity and focus,…

Cameo Rascale Entertainment: Cirque Nouvelle – A New Evolution of Circus

The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
Following sell-out shows in 2024, the internationally acclaimed, all-star cast of Cirque Nouvelle are back and ready to present a truly unique and versatile production. This world-class line up of circus performers have combined their acrobatic, juggling, aerial and balancing talents to create a show like no other. Led by a quirky…
The Taming of the Shrew

The Playwrought Project: The Taming of the Shrew

Wharf 2 Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company
Get ready to witness Shakespeare’s infamous battle of the sexes in a bold 70-minute production packed with grand Elizabethan costumes, devilish jokes and fresh twists. In this reimagined 1594, it is a matriarchal world where the women do the taming. This is Shrew like you’ve never seen it before. In…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Mozart & Harrison

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Mozart was the first to explore this combination in his Clarinet Quintet of 1789, written for Anton Stadler, the most gifted clarinettist in Vienna at the time. Across four exquisite movements we hear a gentle lullaby, a lively dance and lyrical passages that could almost be opera arias; while the…
Burlesque: The (parody) Dinner Show

Talk and Tease Comedy Cabaret: Burlesque – The (parody) Dinner Show

Level 1 Level 1/ 33 darlinghurst Rd, Potts Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
This is an immersive musical theatre and culinary experience unlike any other! Relish the theatrical whirlwind of acting, dancing, singing and storytelling as it unfolds around you from the comfort of your cabaret table...all while wining and dining on delicious modern Australian cuisine. This is a parody adaptation of the…

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