In 2022, Perth Festival celebrates the theme of Wardan (Ocean) across music, dance, theatre, visual arts, film and writing events.

Features this month include summer reads for music lovers, the Limelight Artists of the Year for 2021, the transformation Simone Young will bring to the SSO, and Henry Handel Richardson's love of music and her treasure trove of songs.

With a wary eye on borders closures, the TSO has programmed six months of concerts starring their own principal musicians as featured soloists.

From May, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will hit the stage in Melbourne in a newly reimagined, condensed play. Muggles who want to see the original two-play version need to get a wriggle on.

Sydney’s musical mavericks launch a season filled with commissions, collaborations, and concerts all over the country and – literally – in their own backyards.

The 30th Anniversary WOMADelaide will be led by legendary Australian musicians Paul Kelly and Courtney Barnett, and feature Emma Donovan, Eishan Ensemble, Dancenorth, Restless Dance Theatre and Balkan Ethno Orchestra.

Returning for its third year, the festival gathers a superb roster of Australia’s finest musicians for five days of music making in Bendigo.

With three Australian works, two world premieres, two classics of the operatic canon and two very different musicals, VO’s 2022 program is an eclectic treat.

Former Principal Conductor Nicholas Braithwaite takes on the new title in recognition of his more than three-decade association with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

The Australian Ballet and Telstra have announced the finalists in the new award introduced to nurture aspiring choreographers.

After two long and agonising years, it's time to play the music and light the lights in Melbourne tonight.

Renowned as passionate, fiercely intelligent, formidable yet warm and caring, leading arts administrator Chrissy Sharp has died at the age of 70.