• Teddy Bear’s Picnic

    Melbourne Shakespeare Company: Teddy Bear’s Picnic

    St Kilda Botanical Gardens 11 Herbert St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Pack your teddies and your picnic baskets and join us for a beary special day out! Start your adventure in the heart of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens, where you’ll set up your picnic rugs and meet Ms Place, Sam, and a host of hilarious characters at the Annual Teddy…
    Teddy Bear’s Picnic

    Melbourne Shakespeare Company: Teddy Bear’s Picnic

    St Kilda Botanical Gardens 11 Herbert St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Pack your teddies and your picnic baskets and join us for a beary special day out! Start your adventure in the heart of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens, where you’ll set up your picnic rugs and meet Ms Place, Sam, and a host of hilarious characters at the Annual Teddy…
    Teddy Bear’s Picnic

    Melbourne Shakespeare Company: Teddy Bear’s Picnic

    St Kilda Botanical Gardens 11 Herbert St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Pack your teddies and your picnic baskets and join us for a beary special day out! Start your adventure in the heart of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens, where you’ll set up your picnic rugs and meet Ms Place, Sam, and a host of hilarious characters at the Annual Teddy…

    Belvoir St Theatre: The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear & His Three Daughters

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Shakespeare’s greatest play, in an energised, classic Belvoir production, featuring the grit and power of Colin Friels. It’s time to retire. Lear has a plan – he’ll divide the kingdom between his three daughters, they’ll work in harmony with each other, he’ll live with them, there will be a seamless transition…

    Sydney Theatre Company: Congratulations, Get Rich! (恭喜发财, 人日快乐)

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Penned and performed by Merlynn Tong, this larger-than-life musical comedy celebrates the richness of Singaporean culture, while asking universal questions about the complexity of mother-daughter relationships and the healing power of vulnerability. It’s a big night for Mandy (Tong), her last ever at the helm of her beloved karaoke bar.…
    Born On A Thursday

    New Ghosts Theatre Company: Born On A Thursday

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    After years abroad, April returns to her family home in Western Sydney to a brother irrevocably changed and a mother unyieldingly the same. What begins as a strained homecoming slowly unravels into a desperate reckoning with memory, guilt, and the crippling weight of things left unsaid. Set across four seasons,…
    Scenes with Girls

    Deus Ex Femina: Scenes with Girls

    Goodwood Theatre & Studios 166 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood, SA, Australia
    Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what? Tosh and Lou have each other. They’ll never be like the other girls. They won’t sit in a narrative someone else thought up. This is love. This is enough. Scenes with Girls is a love story, but not the kind…
    Editor's Choice Carol

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: Carol

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Carol is Christmas personified. Born on 25 December, she’s been holding the whole Christmas shebang together for decades – and she’s loved every minute of it. But this year, things are looking a lot less jolly. Now 60, she suddenly finds herself living in her car, with council move-on notices…
    Editor's Choice Much Ado About Nothing

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Talk about a battle of the sexes! Beatrice and Benedick are Shakespeare’s most modern couple. They love to hate each other, yet everyone knows they’re perfect for one another. For the first time in 30 years, MTC presents a brand-new production of The Bard’s razor-sharp comedy, directed by Associate Artist…
    Cowbois

    Siren Theatre Co: Cowbois

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    A rollicking queer Western like nothing you've seen before. In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the goldrush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. In fact, the town is…
    Hand to God

    Everyman Theatre: Hand to God

    ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
    In the tiny, conservative town of Cypress, Texas, the shy, mild-mannered Jason is just trying to be a good son. When he joins his mother Margery’s Christian Puppet Ministry at the local church, Jason discovers a burgeoning talent for puppetry, and after his father’s sudden death it seems like things…
    Present Laughter by Noel Coward

    New Theatre: Present Laughter by Noel Coward

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “Everybody worships me. It’s nauseating.” Actor Garry Essendine is possibly the most desired man in the world. He is handsome, charming, self-deprecating, self-obsessed, and in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Over the course of a few days, on the eve of an overseas tour, he finds his life bombarded…

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