Discover the work of the most influential artists of the modern era and how they changed the course of art forever. Experimenting with colour and form, these artists explored exciting new ways of seeing and imagining. This major exhibition of over 150 paintings, drawings and prints reveals how abstract art emerged around the world. On loan from 59 of the most prestigious art collections in the world including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museu Picasso Barcelona, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou.

Hailed by critics as the great American play of our time, August: Osage County is a rare gem of a drama. In the tradition of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, playwright Tracy Letts tells a story of grand scale that is at once entertaining, funny and deeply moving. By showing us this family in meltdown Letts' play holds a magnifying glass up to American society today, revealing its tragic dysfunction and lost idealism.

Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years. WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award® winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman.

The inimitable Anthony Warlow dons his cutlass for another voyage as Gilbert & Sullivan's foot-stomping, wise-cracking, feel-good show sails back into town, complete with its crazy cartoons, swashbuckling heroes and dainty heroines, performed by the stars of Opera Australia.

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!

It's Friday night. Stag Lee is 17, bored and figuring out how to make fast money from a life of crime. Silent Leila is at the all-night superstore feeling stupid and ugly, wishing she lived inside the pages of a celebrity magazine. A chance meeting. A life-changing event. In a heartbeat the duo are headed north in search of refuge. Marooned in an unforgiving landscape, this unlikely Bonnie and Clyde are forced to hunker down and confront who they really are.

From the broken asphalt of the open-air Galiwinku Saturday Night Disco, the teenage Chooky Dancers of Elcho Island captured 1.4 million YouTube fans worldwide with their exuberant interpretation of Zorba the Greek. Just off the coast of Arnhem Land, Elcho Island is a remote Northern Territory community of little more than 2,000 where the majority of islanders are under 21- yet their Yolngu culture is connecting profoundly with peoples everywhere.