JERSEY BOYS, the Tony Award®-winning, worldwide hit musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi - is coming to Sydney's Theatre Royal from 3 September. This is the story of how four boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were thirty!

New York City's hottest dance company, Complexions Contemporary Ballet performs at Sydney's Parade Theatre for 8 performances from October 5. Conceived in 1994 by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, Complexions Contemporary Ballet is New York City's most daring contemporary ballet company. A sensational program celebrating excellence in dance inspires its audiences through passion, physicality and the power of it virtuosic performers.

A small American town like any other; simple, sleepy and cheerful. People here are like people anywhere else: they are born, they fall in love, they die. Ordinary people leading ordinary lives. Or so we might believe, until the Stage Manager - our guide for the evening - takes us on a tour of the town and we begin to glimpse how extraordinary even the most ordinary of lives can be.

For over 150 years, on ships and sledges, in one of the planet's most hostile places, explorers risked their lives to plant a flag at a shifting point on the Earth's surface. The search for the South Magnetic Pole obsessed explorers and scientists long before the Geographic Pole.