In 2019 the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre is presenting a plethora of works across the spectrum of performance, offering great discounts for show subscribers and whisking audiences away on a captivating journey through the performing arts: from symphonies to circus, puppetry to stand-up and stories.
The Joan’s 2019 Season explores the finest in music, both contemporary and classical, and features some of the greatest new theatre works in Australia. It will feature a cracking bunch of talented artists, including Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Kenny Broberg, Naomi Price, Lisa Crouch and an entirely new solo show by Jonathan Biggins.
Start the year by taking a trip into the deep south with Sun Rising: The Songs That Made Memphis on January 18 and 19 January. Designed to inform and educate the audience while rocking them senseless, Sun Rising revisits Memphis’ famed Sun Records, focusing on the early period of 1950-57 with music from artists BB King, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and more.
On February 23, The Orava Quartet with Greta Bradman features one of the most exciting string quartets of its generation. Known for their passionate and engaging performances, they have been hailed by The Australian as “the future of Australian chamber music, the real deal”.
On March 8 and 9, one of Australia’s favourite performers, Jonathan Biggins, is Paul Keating - visionary, reformer and rabble-rouser. With an abundance of intelligence and wit, The Gospel According to Paul is a new and anticipated comedy about a critical time in Australian history and the man who shaped it.
Join adored entertainer and Australian national treasure Christine Anu on March 16 for a night of conversation and song.
On April 6, take a dizzying ride through love’s collision course in I Want To Know What Love Is. Based on 800 anonymous love stories submitted by you, your friends and your exes, this dedicated theatre show throws a spotlight on long-buried memories, bedroom fantasies, crushes and conquests.
Lisa Crouch stars in Constant Craving: The Music of k.d. lang on April 13.
Enjoy an intimate evening with Mozart and Schubert on May 31 in this special performance by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Emma Matthews.
Heating things up for winter, on June 1 fire and circus become an instrument of the orchestra in Concertos on Fire. Musicians perform daring acrobatic stunts, taming and manipulating fire while music literally springs to life from all corners of the concert hall.
On June 1, experience the ultimate expression of Shakespeare's theatrical trickery in A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Sport for Jove. In the heat of the shortest night of the year, young lovers and work-a-day dreamers plunge into a world between sleep and waking, warning us that family, love and friendship are fragile – and that’s just the mortal world.
Bruce brings low-fi puppetry on June 14 and 15, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow preps for their tour on June 18 and in July is Australia’s internationally acclaimed drumming ensemble Taikoz.
The latter half of the year includes Diplomacy with John Gaden and John Bell, pianist Kenny Broberg, a new comedy-drama called Spencer, Bell again in September teaming up with pianist Simon Tedeschi, Lady Beatle, The Wharf Revue and more.
Subscriptions are again available in 2019 See www.thejoan.com.au or phone 4723 7600.