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Footscray Community Arts: Bright

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia
Footscray Community Arts presents Bright – a joyful art exhibition that ignites the senses, inviting audiences to touch, explore and connect from 10 October to 12 December 2023. The exhibition’s radical curatorial process brings together five installations without a defined beginning or end, each beckoning the artlover to interact with…

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Waru – journey of the small turtle

Goulburn Performing Arts Centre NSW
Under the star-illuminated skies of the Torres Strait, a green turtle navigates her way back to the beach where she was born. The season has started, the turtles are returning to nest, and soon the island will welcome a new generation of hatchlings—amongst them, our small turtle friend, Migi! In…
Claire Edwardes

Musica Viva Australia: Morning Masters | Claire Edwardes

The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Av, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
Claire Edwardes dishes up a feast for the senses in her colourful and entrancing percussion recital. Mallets twirl and cymbals splash as she tackles giants like Bach and Stockhausen alongside an impressive range of spectacular Australian works.

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Waru – journey of the small turtle

Goulburn Performing Arts Centre NSW
Under the star-illuminated skies of the Torres Strait, a green turtle navigates her way back to the beach where she was born. The season has started, the turtles are returning to nest, and soon the island will welcome a new generation of hatchlings—amongst them, our small turtle friend, Migi! In…
The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race

Queensland Theatre: The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
Welcome to Appleton, a tidy country town with a population of 1557. Stop in at the pub in the arvo, try your luck with the pokies and why not stay for the annual Potato Race? It’s the highlight of the year. Only this year Dr Penny Anderson is back home…
Event Series Wicked

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Wicked

Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
The Broadway sensation Wicked looks at what happened in the Land of Oz… but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another young woman, born with emerald-green skin, who is smart, fiery, misunderstood and possessing an extraordinary talent. When she meets a bubbly blonde who is exceptionally popular,…
Swan Lake
Editor's Choice Event Series Swan Lake

The Australian Ballet: Swan Lake

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Celebrating the company’s 60th anniversary, Artistic Director David Hallberg restores Anne Woolliams’ iconic 1977 staging of Swan Lake to the repertoire. Featuring lavish new sets and costumes, this signature production has been completely funded by donations from the ballet community and promises to be a jewel in The Australian Ballet’s crown for…
Elvis: A Musical Revolution
Event Series Elvis – A Musical Revolution

David Venn Enterprises: Elvis – A Musical Revolution

Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Featuring over 40 hit songs, Elvis: A Musical Revolution celebrates the extraordinary life of award winning, cultural icon, Elvis Presley. From his childhood in Mississippi, to his triumphant ‘68 Comeback Special, and ascent to become ‘The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’, this brand-new high-energy production explores the pivotal moments in…
NTC Casablanca

Newcastle Theatre Company: Don’t Mention Casablanca

Wiles Auditorium 90 De Vitre St, Lambton, NSW, Australia
Playwright Michelanne Forster is the granddaughter of Michael Curtiz, the director of Casablanca. 'Don't mention Casablanca' exposes the unknown side of this Hollywood genius and compulsive womanizer. The play is set amongst the growing menace of Nazi Germany and follows the story of the author's grandmother Thilde Foerster, a screenwriter,…
A woman in a pink dress and green and pink sweater crouches and looks at the camera.
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Melbourne Theatre Company: My Sister Jill

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Set against the backdrop of 1950s and 60s suburban Melbourne, Patricia Cornelius’s new play, adapted from her novel of the same name, unpacks the shadow of war and the trauma it leaves behind. Jack and Martha’s five children were once fascinated by their father’s war stories, but the reminiscences have…
A woman dressed like Billie Holiday with white roses in her hair looks over her shoulder into the camera.
Editor's Choice Event Series Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Melbourne Theatre Company: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
It’s 1959. In a small, run-down bar in Philadelphia, Billie Holliday gives one of her final performances, a few months before her death at age 44. As the jazz songs and standards flow, so do the reminiscences. Zahra Newman stars in Lanie Robertson’s musical play, directed by Mitchell Butel. When…
Border
Event Series Borderlands

Van Diemen’s Band: Borderlands

Van Diemen’s Band invites you to explore the historic borderlands of Europe. For centuries, generations of composers wrote music as their homelands changed ownership under their feet. Cultural overlaps at the border fringes created a fascinating musical backdrop to the tumult of the Thirty Years War and the meeting of…

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