Music

Adelaide Guitar Festival announces 2025 program
Adelaide Guitar Festival program features world premieres, first-time appearances and a broad celebration of guitar-led music.

Music review: Beth Gibbons, RISING, Hamer Hall
The celestial vocal stylings of Portishead's lead singer shone in a concert drawn from her first solo album.

Performance review: Vandemonian Lags, Melbourne Recital Centre
A reprisal of a musical production by Mick Thomas and friends about Tasmanian convicts and their stories.

The TikTokification of classical music
Young musicians are trading the concert hall for the scroll, using short-form video to reshape the future of classical music…

Mr Squiggle and K-pop megastars heading to Canberra in 2 new exhibitions
What do Mr Squiggle – a famous puppet – and Korean pop culture have in common?

Musical review: Nice Work If You Can Get It, The National Theatre
Socialites and bootleggers jive to the songs of George and Ira Gershwin.

Music review: Theremin & Beyond, City Recital Hall
The haunting, unusual theremin collides with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in this spellbinding concert.

Musical review: Beetlejuice the Musical, Regent Theatre
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is now playing in Melbourne.

Musical review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Hayes Theatre
A melodramatic musical farce set in Madrid in the late 1980s.

Musical theatre favourite starring Tim Rogers, Brian Nankervis, Mick Thomas and more returns
The Victorian tour of Vandemonian Lags features stories of Tasmania's convict history.