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Australian Dance Theatre - G

'G' is presented by the Perth Theatre Trust, State Theatre Centre and Australian Dance Theatre. Garry Stewart is one of the world's best known choreographers. He redefined Swan Lake into the wry and action packed Birdbrain, which went on to become Australia's most performed contemporary dance work. And now he completely reinvents the ballet Giselle with G. Fusing the technical prowess of classical ballet with explosive choreography, the eleven formidable dancers of Australian Dance Theatre em...

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Australian Irish Dancing Championships

More than 1,500 dancers will be competing for the title of 2013 National Champion in 54 individual championship sections. Four international musicians will accompany the dancers, who will come from all states and territories of Australia for six days of dancing. World champions and world finalists, all Ireland, England and American Nationals finalists and past Australian champions make this event the most spectacular display of Irish dancing seen in Perth since the 2007 championships were held...

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Ballet Revolucion

Ballet Revolución's young Cuban dancers let their athletic bodies do the talking anywhere in the world: audiences cannot get enough of their exuberant energy and contagious joy of life. With breathtaking twists, daring jumps and sensual moves, Ballet Revolución has already impressed audiences in sold-out shows from Sydney and Singapore to Berlin, Vienna and London.

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Day One, A Hotel, Evening

Forty-somethings Sam and Tom are not just business partners, but good friends, as are their wives, Madeleine and Stella. Their privileged lives of business deals, dinners and squash games are the usual urbane rituals of the middle-class. But as boredom sneaks up on them, each of the four embarks on a thrilling adventure, finding their destinies on a collision course with the beguiling young strangers, Ray and Rose. The result is a web intricate and far-reaching, where erotic thrill-seeking beco...

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Death of a Salesman

The great American father-son drama. Willy Loman spent his entire life as a travelling salesman chasing his fortune and never succeeding. Now, suffocated by debt, discarded by his boss and losing his grasp on reality, his hopes continue to rest on his son Biff, the golden boy who never lived up to the promise he showed in high school. In an unforgiving present, Willy grasps at the straws of a past he idealises and refuses to let go of false dreams for his son, despite the fact that Biff, who o...

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Midsummer - A Play with Songs

Helena is a divorce lawyer who can't keep her hands off other women's husbands. Bob is a small time crook who is getting far too old to be on the wrong side of the law. They meet in a bar on a Friday night. They have nothing in common and should never sleep with each other. But they do. Their one night stand turns into a crazy and wonderful weekend full of ruined weddings, bags of money, car chases, Japanese rope bondage, sex and stubborn hangovers. Punctuated by devious and wistful songs on g...

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Other Desert Cities

After a six-year absence, Brooke returns to her parents' home in Palm Springs, California, with a bombshell. She is about to publish a memoir about a terrible event in her family's past, a tragedy that her parents do not want to remember. Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her family to cross it. Her brother won't play her game, her aunt knows way too much and her parents fall into all their old routines as they plead with her to keep their story quiet. In this family...

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Shrine

Shrine is set above the rocky headlands of the South Coast of Western Australia, between a forest and the sea. It's wine country, and a privileged young man, Jack, has been killed driving friends back to Perth from his parents' beach house. Jack leaves in his wake a wreck of a father, a shadow of a mother, and the promise of a love affair that never quite happened. A year later, Jack's father Adam meets the small town girl, June, who shared a strange and life changing night with Jack hours befo...

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Boris Performing Flood

Life is Noise presents Boris at the Rosemount Hotel. Bone-shakingly loud Japanese outfit, Boris, return to Perth - this time performing in their classic trio line-up to play their cult third album, Flood. With over 20 studio albums in the last 15 years, not to mention EPs and collaborative records, the band have drawn from everything from metal, noise and stoner rock. Local support comes from Eleventh He Reaches London. This is an 18 plus event.

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Cats

For more than 25 years, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats has been a global phenomenon - and it's being staged at the Regal Theatre in July. Based on TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the Tony Award-winner is the second longest-running show in Broadway history and the fourth longest-running West End musical. It also gave the world the song Memory, now a standard because of the show's popularity. Presented by the ICW Performing Arts Association (a charity that helps perform...

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Childrens Corner - The Magic Of Musical Storytelling

Don't miss out on the special 'Children's Corner' Musical Storytelling family opening event with wonderfully interactive musical stories for children presented by Narrator Michael Harding, Cellist Melinda Gourlay and Pianist Irina Vasileva. A.A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh - Best Loved and Favourite Stories. Roald Dahl: Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts - Great storyteller's twist on nursery rhymes and poems about unsuspecting animals. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

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Circus Oz

Get ready for the beautiful and the absurd, the downright kooky and the breathtakingly brilliant as Circus Oz thrills you with their renowned collective mayhem that never stops from the moment the band strikes up until the last curtain call. Powerful acrobatics will contest gravity, graceful aerial artists will win your heart, the knock-about comedy will bowl you over and live musicians will save the day with the last beat. Each show, like every Circus Oz performance in 35 years, will be a o...

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Darcy James Argue with the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra

One of the most exciting big band composers in recent history, Darcy James Argue blends the full breadth of jazz tradition with raw, modern musical energy and classical finesse. His ground-breaking work with his 18-piece big band 'Secret Society' has won international critical acclaim and placed him in the forefront of the contemporary jazz scene. During his first ever visit to Australia, Darcy James Argue and the West Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra (WAYJO) will exclusively present this progr...

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DJ Rashad and DJ Manny

Life is Noise presents DJ Rashad and DJ Manny at The Bakery. Chicago's Juke, Footwork and Ghetto House legend, DJ Rashad and the genres youngest-in-charge, DJ Manny are heading to Perth to speed-up and weird-out The Bakery's dance floor. DJ Manny is without a doubt Chicago's most up and coming Footwork producer and he has all the moves to prove it. He also has his own dance crew Take Ova Gang (aka T.O.G. aka Taliban) and is part of Footwork OG super-group Red Legends alongside the likes of Ag...

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Fat Pig

Tom meets Helen and falls for her pretty face and great laugh. Helen is 'plus-sized'. 'Big-boned.' 'Jolly.' Tom's colleagues don't get it. He's a catch and you run with your own kind. It's one of the laws of nature. Beast. Pig. Fat bitch. At what point do you take a stand? Beautifully sweet, wickedly funny, and heart-breakingly cruel, Neil LaBute's award-winning Fat Pig looks at our slavish addiction to 'ideals' of beauty and how being a hero is a tough gig. Red Ryder Productions (Dealer's ...

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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Ellenbrook

Basil, Sybil and Manuel return to Western Australia this autumn to serve more of their madness in lucky venues around the state - or should that be plucky venues?! Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is part of an internationally-acclaimed, sell-out world tour that continues to delight critics and audiences alike. This pitch perfect tribute to Faulty Towers starts as the audience waits to be seated then hurtles along for two hours of fully immersive, highly improvised and site-specific comedy ...

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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Marmion

Basil, Sybil and Manuel return to Western Australia this autumn to serve more of their madness in lucky venues around the state - or should that be plucky venues?! Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is part of an internationally-acclaimed, sell-out world tour that continues to delight critics and audiences alike. This pitch perfect tribute to Faulty Towers starts as the audience waits to be seated then hurtles along for two hours of fully immersive, highly improvised and site-specific comedy ...

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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Ocean Reef

Basil, Sybil and Manuel return to Western Australia this autumn to serve more of their madness in lucky venues around the state - or should that be plucky venues?! Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is part of an internationally-acclaimed, sell-out world tour that continues to delight critics and audiences alike. This pitch perfect tribute to Faulty Towers starts as the audience waits to be seated then hurtles along for two hours of fully immersive, highly improvised and site-specific comedy ...

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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Perth

Basil, Sybil and Manuel return to Western Australia this autumn to serve more of their madness in lucky venues around the state - or should that be plucky venues?! Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is part of an internationally-acclaimed, sell-out world tour that continues to delight critics and audiences alike. This pitch perfect tribute to Faulty Towers starts as the audience waits to be seated then hurtles along for two hours of fully immersive, highly improvised and site-specific comedy ...

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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Success

Basil, Sybil and Manuel return to Western Australia this autumn to serve more of their madness in lucky venues around the state - or should that be plucky venues?! Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is part of an internationally-acclaimed, sell-out world tour that continues to delight critics and audiences alike. This pitch perfect tribute to Faulty Towers starts as the audience waits to be seated then hurtles along for two hours of fully immersive, highly improvised and site-specific comedy ...

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Fourteen Nights At Sea

Life is Noise presents Fourteen Nights At Sea at the Rosemount Hotel. Melbourne's premier instrumental post-rock horde, Fourteen Nights At Sea, are for the very first time bringing their epic post-rock tunes to Perth's Rosemount Hotel. Fourteen Nights at Sea is a ship with no captain. Borne of the tides, some untold force propels them, ever gaining momentum. The five-piece has become a fearsome, thoughtful force to be drank in, wholly, willingly. Having just returned from a journey with US po...

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Great White

Ocean. Stillness. Dinner. What scares you? Being alone? Feeling alone? Written by Equity Award winner Will O'Mahony, Great White is the terrifying new play about two tiny people trapped in a too huge ocean with a too hungry fish. From the creators of the Fringeworld smash hit The Improved, Great White is a love story that explores fate, human frailty and every swimmer's worst nightmare. Featuring: Adriane Daff, Mikala Westall, Will O'Mahony ; Director and Writer Will O'Mahony; Set and Co...

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Grove Classics

The Grove Classics Concert Series is a great opportunity for people from all walks of life to be introduced to classical music, in the exquisitely designed surrounds of The Grove. The Grove Library environment provides an excellent acoustical space for the enjoyment of the live music performed by some of the brightest and best of the Perth musical scene, including WASO's Associate Principal Cello Louise McKay and Assistant Principal Second Violin Kylie Liang, one of Australia's most exciting gu...

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Hairspray

Hairspray is a bold and brash musical - with big hearts and beehives - and will make Limelight Theatre's stage come alive this June. Adapted from the original 1988 John Waters movie, Hairspray is set in 1962 Baltimore and follows 'pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad and her dream to dance on The Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, she becomes an overnight celebrity and launches a campaign to let the African-American teens dance with the white kids. Described as a social co...

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He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

Written by John Birmingham and adapted by Simon Bedak, Steve Le Marquand and Michael Neaylon, Groovy Boots Theatre is bringing it to life and taking the show back to its pub origins. Described as one of the funniest Australian novels ever written with sales of more than 300,000 and counting, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand also has the record of the longest-running stage play in Australian history. He Died with a Felafel in His Hand is the tale of JB and the various dubious house mates he...

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Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys, The Story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, is the story of how four blue collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop sensations of all time. Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi joined forces to become The Four Seasons, writing their own hits and developing their unique sound to sell over 175 million records before they were 30! Jersey Boys features 20 Four Seasons hit songs including 'Sherry', 'Big Girls Don't Cry', ...

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KickstART Festival

Unearth your creativity. Unleash your imagination. The KickstART Festival offers a smorgasbord of events and opportunities. Uncover your artistic potential at one of the spectacular workshops, explore the hidden treasures and delights at the KickstART markets, let your imagination run wild in the wondrous hub space and immerse yourself in magnificent performances and exhibitions throughout the festival. National Youth Week is the largest celebration of young people in Australia with numerous e...

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Maul of the Dead - Phoenix Theatre

A Dark Horror Comedy presented by Phoenix Theatre Inc and supported by Dark Psychic Productions. Directed by Jayde Clark and Shaun Griffin, written by Mitch Brian. Be warned: zombies will be on the loose this May - and they're accompanied by disco music. Pop culture, apocalypse mayhem and the decade fashion forgot come together in Maul of the Dead, a dark horror comedy presented by Phoenix Theatre and Dark Psychic Productions. The show is set in the late 1970s and embraces a tr...

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Morning Melodies - Opera Concert

Enjoy the rising stars of West Australian Opera's Young Artist Programme as they treat you to some of the most memorable moments in opera. Patrons who have attended the concerts over the past four years have witnessed these gifted young performers perfect their craft on His Majesty's Theatre stage and will have the pleasure of seeing them in principal and chorus roles as part of the West Australian Opera 2013 season. Featuring 2013 WA Opera Young Artists. 'As soloists they shone; as ensemble ...

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Mozart For Mother`s Day presented by the West Australian Mozarteum

Celebrate the magic of Mozart with this exciting Mothers Day concert! 'Mozart and Friends' brings to life the musical world of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most loved of all composers. Enjoy a variety of Mozart's chamber music, complemented by works composed by his friends, colleagues and pupils, interspersed with readings from Mozart's own letters and other contemporary writings. Discover the musicians who influenced and inspired him - and even a few rivals and enemies! The programme f...

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Nevermore - Edgar Allen Poe

Playlovers presents the Western Australia premiere of Nevermore, a mysterious musical based on the life, loves and creative passions of Edgar Allen Poe opening in May. This imaginative musical uses Poe's poetry and short stories as its base and his shifting obsession with the women in his life as its catalyst. Nevermore brings to life the man, Edgar Allen Poe. Through the women he loved and the women he lost, Poe takes us on a mysterious journey filled from passionate elation to trappings of h...

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OVO by Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil returns to Perth with a spectacular production for the whole family, playing under the blue-and-yellow Big Top at Langley Park. OVO is a headlong rush into a colourful eco-system teeming with life where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, fight and look for love. The incredible cast of 54 artists from across the globe will astound you with their jaw-dropping acrobatics. 'OVO is spectacular and exciting in its imagination and artistry.' - The Age '... a magical blend of ...

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Perth Comedy Fest - The Dark Room

The Dark Room is the world's only live interactive video game, fresh from a tour of Australia and the UK and finally back in John Robertson's home town. Winners get prizes, losers are punished. Which will you be? Completely mental, utterly unhinged, totally interactive and immersive - The Dark Room is the ultimate test of skill, wit and cunning - complete with prizes, pitfalls and punishment. 'Watching audience members try to complete the challenge is one of the funniest things around... don...

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Perth International Burlesque Festival

The Perth International Burlesque Festival is an annual Burlesque event held in Perth, Western Australia. The festival will feature two weeks of shows, parties, markets, workshops, and other Burlesque related activities and entertainment in Perth and also will include a regional tour to Mandurah, Bunbury and Albany. Immediately following the Australian Burlesque Festival, the Perth International Burlesque Festival brings world-class international, interstate and local Burlesque acts to the Pert...

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Purity Mallet Quartet

Versatile percussionist Louise Devenish and the Purity Mallet Quartet (Louise Devenish, Paul Tanner, Robyn Gray and Joshua Webster), with the program centred around marimba and vibraphone with a fair portion of Australian music by Nigel Westlake, James Ledger, Paul Tanner and Kevin Man, plus some Flamenco and African pieces. Proudly sponsored and supported by Zenith Music.

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Rigbys Bar and Bistro Dinner Theatre

Rigby's Bar and Bistro would like to announce that Rigby's Dinner Theatre is here to stay with a number of home-grown dinner shows to amaze Perth audiences again and again. Exciting Burlesque Cabaret, Saucy Boylesque, hilarious Dirty Dicks, the talented Chris Murphy and more! Rigby's Dinner Theatre has something for the whole family, at a price everyone will love. Offering a three-course meal and show for one great price, you can't find a better priced night out in Perth. 'It's Cabaret at it...

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Robots versus Art

The future is here - robots have taken control of the planet and humans are an endangered species. The survivors have been put to work extracting the mineral deposits that power robot society. The robots go about their daily routines, until one of them writes a play. Executive Producer Master Bot summons former theatre director Giles back from the mines to help the robots create their very first piece of art. Will Giles succeed in showing them how to feel? Directed by Phil Miolin and featuring...

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Romancero de la Guitarra

Acclaimed Australian classical guitarist Jonathan Paget presents an eclectic musical journey through Spain and Latin America, from well-known Hispanic favourites to lesser-known musical gems. The Grove Classics Concert Series is a great opportunity for people from all walks of life to be introduced to classical music, in the exquisitely designed surrounds of The Grove. Grove Classics 2013 Concert Series is proudly sponsored and supported by Zenith Music.

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam – Heroic

Internationally regarded by audiences and critics alike as the world's greatest symphony orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra begins its historic premier tour of Australia at the Perth Concert Hall in this their 125th anniversary year, under the baton of their renowned and inspiring Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons. Performing over two evenings with programs that will excite and mesmerise, you will be astonished and delighted by their superlative musicianship as they bring to Perth the so...

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam – Legendary

Internationally regarded by audiences and critics alike as the world's greatest symphony orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra begins its historic premier tour of Australia at the Perth Concert Hall in this their 125th anniversary year, under the baton of their renowned and inspiring Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons. Performing over two evenings with programs that will excite and mesmerise, you will be astonished and delighted by their superlative musicianship as they bring to Perth the so...

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RTRFM Full Frequency presents Altered States

RTRFM's flagship dance music program Full Frequency will come to life at Altered States - a huge club night showcasing Perth's thriving house, techno and electro scene with an all-out assault on the dance floor. The Altered States line-up features Perth's most innovative producers, and finest house and techno music DJs: Joe Stawarz (Soma Records) (LIVE), Reece Walker and Emerald Cabal (LIVE), Basic Mind (LIVE), Allstate, El Dario aka Dario Krsic (PDMA Best House DJ 2012), Declan Doherty (RTRFM ...

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Sea Inside

Open your mind. This immersive theatrical experience will transport you into a world of sea and sky. A sensual, highly visual performance combining aerial work, sound, spectacular imagery, and physical movement, Sea Inside invites you on a contemplative journey through a mysterious underwater landscape. Transforming the theatre space, Sea Inside is a reminder of the beauty that can be experienced through the most primal and basic relationship of all: between us and the natural world around us...

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Sesame Street - Elmos World Tour - Burswood

Don't miss Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird, Grover, Zoe, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie, and The Count live on stage as they use the letters of the alphabet to navigate a voyage through the imagination! Elmo and his friends have fun learning how people sing and dance and say hello in different places, but things don't go to plan when Cookie Monster eats a letter of the alphabet. Can Abby Cadabby find the right spell to help? Featuring a bunch of classic Sesame Street songs alongside catchy new t...

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Sir Francis Burt Memorial Recital

St George's Cathedral welcomes Jean-Christophe Geiser, Organist of Lausanne Cathedral, Switzerland, to perform this year's Sir Francis Burt Memorial Recital. This brilliant young organist has performed in 30 countries and now you have a chance to see him in Australia. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster. Please note: Some seating has restricted viewing.

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Sisters SongSuite

Warm up your Wednesdays with Sisters SongSuite. HMS PopUp Productions will be curating a women's song space at four5nine Bar and Lounge, Rosemount Hotel, monthly. Some of Perth's most inspiring female performers and girl fronted bands will perform their original tunes (perhaps interspersed with very original interpretations of their favourite classics and covers). These incredible musicians will bring a broad range of influences to the song space, from country and rockabilly, to soul, blu...

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Slavas Snowshow

Slava's Snowshow returns to Australia. Slava's Snowshow, the multi award-winning international sensation which has delighted and thrilled audiences in more than 120 cities around the world, from London's West End to Sydney and from New York to Moscow, returns to Australia beginning this June. Slava's Snowshow brilliantly creates a world of wonderment and fantasy that transports the audience to a joyous dream-like place, where a bed becomes a boat in a storm-tossed sea; a woman is wrapped in ce...

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South Pacific

The breathtaking Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific marks Opera Australia's first season in Perth for 23 years, bringing a Perth native with them - Lisa McCune - for their long awaited return. Considered one of the finest musicals ever written, the score includes Some Enchanted Evening, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair and There is Nothin' Like a Dame.

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Spirit - Pipe Organ Plus

Delivering music for the soul, this lustrous performance passes on the mysticism of the Holy Spirit directly to the audience, its transcendental luminosity spreading from each carefully scribed note. Renowned pipe organist Dominic Perissinotto is joined by St Paul's Chapel Choir from John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School, directed by Jamil Osman and featuring school organist Jonathan Bradley present a stunning programme opener built around Louis Vierne's Messe Solennelle. The piece for t...

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Stomp

Stomp is back, and it's better than ever! Following their acclaimed performance at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, Stomp returns to Australia with new routines, new choreography and new music. Wordless, witty and fun, Stomp has become a global phenomenon over the last 22 years. Its universal language of rhythm, theatre, comedy and dance has resonated with audiences throughout the world, setting feet stamping, fingers drumming and adrenaline rushing for more than 15 million p...

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Storm Boy

Colin Thiele's Storm Boy has to be one of Australia's best loved stories for young people. A boy's last childhood summer before beginning the long trek to adulthood is spent with his reclusive dad Hideaway Tom in the wild freedom of South Australia's Coorong. Storm Boy roams the savage landscape, navigating the waters and searching for debris and wildlife. Along the way he picks up some unlikely friends including the enigmatic Fingerbone Bill and a family of orphaned pelicans, including his fa...

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