Australia’s master of political satire, Jonathan Biggins is Paul Keating — visionary, reformer and rabble-rouser. Due to popular demand, this unmissable one-man comedy is returning to office for a final term following a critically acclaimed sell-out season.
From home, from Country Five adults stand in a darkened room, their childhoods playing out across the walls like shadows. Five suitcases in their hands, each filled with painful memories and forgotten histories. Five beds, perfectly made and ready to receive five children who have been torn away from their families. Five lives, stolen.
The Archibald Prize for portrait painting is Australia’s most celebrated and democratic – sometimes controversial – art award. Open to any artist living in Australia or New Zealand, since 1921 it has reflected the unique experiences of the people who live in this region, highlighting figures from all walks of life. As equally exciting for… Read More »Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024
Horizon joins cultural forces across oceans and eons There is a place between sea and sky—a sacred realm, where the sun rises and falls and the light is new. From two of the world’s great First Nations comes a brand-new work: Horizon. Some call it a feeling, some call it the mother spirit. It’s the… Read More »Horizon – Bangarra Dance Theatre
Inspired by the turbulent life of renowned opera singer Maria Callas, Terrence McNally’s Tony Award-winning play MASTER CLASS is an explosive ode to the incomparable talents of one of the world’s greatest performers. Class is in session at the prestigious Julliard School of the Arts as Maria Callas takes centre stage once again to deliver… Read More »Master Class
Shakespeare's epic of the imagination, King Lear, creates a portrait of a family and a country torn apart. King Lear has ruled for a lifetime. He has plans for succession – the Kingdom is to be shared among his three daughters. But when he is challenged, Lear’s reaction unravels his family and ultimately the country,… Read More »King Lear
Bright lights, big city In the high-powered and super competitive offices of a top-tier management consultancy firm, our unnamed protagonist is struggling to stand out. Unlike many of her colleagues, she doesn’t descend from money, nor does she find the long hours and crushing workload a breeze, like the others seem to. She also happens… Read More »American Sign
One of art’s great stylistic innovators, Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) created some of most instantly recognisable and best-loved works in modern European art. In seductive, sinuous compositions, he developed a new language that defined the look of late 19th-century Paris to be the very spirit of art nouveau. Realised in close cooperation with the Mucha Foundation,… Read More »Alphonse Mucha – Spirit of Art Nouveau
In the Spotlight Dance Festival celebrates the dance programs in primary and high schools across the NSW Department of Education Metropolitan, South and Regional Directorates and beyond. Showcasing 4000 Kindergarten to Year 12 students, In The Spotlight Dance Festival is proud to present the talents of students and teachers; the dancers and choreographers from our… Read More »In The Spotlight Dance Festival
It’s the biggest night of the Academic calendar, the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament, the all-boys team from St Imperium College are ready to ‘totally annihilate’ their sister school until … Performed by a female and non-binary cast, the show unfolds in real time as the boys are locked in a… Read More »Trophy Boys
Berlin-based Australian artist Emily Hunt draws inspiration from the extraordinary history of the occult and spiritualism in Australia. In this exhibition, Hunt presents six handmade marionettes, which incorporate sculpture, ceramics, costume, woodwork, silk painting and printing on fabric. Each is modelled on an esoteric individual whose spiritual convictions defied social conventions, including artist Rosaleen Norton… Read More »Emily Hunt
Todd McKenney is back at Ensemble Theatre to celebrate 40 years in showbiz with his dazzling new show! Exuberant, entertaining, and bursting with energy… just a few traits Todd has in common with his idol, Peter Allen. Praised for his stellar performance as Peter Allen in the original Australian production of THE BOY FROM OZ,… Read More »Todd Mckenney: Peter Allen and Me
It started as a play and Broadway laughed. A movie and a TV series followed and the whole world laughed. Now, laugh all over again with this hilarious new Australian stage production of The Odd Couple. Felix and Oscar, two divorced men, decide to share an apartment. The only problem is they’re as different as… Read More »The Odd Couple
On the banks of the Georges River, Radha and her son Siddhartha release the ashes of Radha’s mother – their final connection to the past, to Sri Lanka and its struggles. Now they are free to embrace their lives in Australia. But a phone call from Colombo brings the past spinning back to life, and… Read More »Counting and Cracking