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Editor's Choice Event Series The Great Divide

Ensemble Theatre: The Great Divide

Ensemble Theatre Sydney
David Williamson may not always please the critics, but he has a hugely loyal audience. His latest comedy, The Great Divide, now playing at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre, addresses wealth inequality and human greed. Penny Poulter lives in the delightful, quiet town of Wallis Heads. But when the ruthless, obscenely wealthy…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Lewis Trilogy

Griffin Theatre Company: This Much is True

SBW Stables Theatre Sydney
The SBW Stables Theatre in Sydney’s Kings Cross, home to Griffin Theatre Company, is about to close for a major renovation. By way of a farewell, Griffin is staging one of its most ambitious projects – a triple bill of Louis Nowra’s semi-autobiographical plays that can be viewed individually or in one…
Event Series Holding the Man

Belvoir St Theatre: Holding the Man

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney
Belvoir is proud to bring Holding the Man, a deeply moving play adapted by Tommy Murphy from Tim Conigrave’s memoir, back to stage from 9th March to 14th April, 2024. Tim Conigrave's 1995 memoir changed Australia, and Tommy Murphy's 2006 adaptation became an instant hit, introducing a new audience to…
Event Series The Sun and The Hermit

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival: The Sun and The Hermit

The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton
Judge’s Pick 2023 Melbourne Fringe. A delectably nightmarish hour of character comedy you won’t want to wake up from. Squeeze a month’s worth of weird into a delightfully beautiful hour, all while Belinda quietly cradles you like the adult baby, lover of strangeness and person who thrives on constant stimulation…
Event Series Agapi & Other Kinds of Love

Riverside Theatres: Agapi & Other Kinds of Love

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta
The Ancient Greek types of love are revealed via timeless love stories told in rap and spoken word with live musicians. Based on Plato's The Symposium, Agapi & Other Kinds of Love begins with Socrates telling a banquet of friends everything he learned from a mysterious lover named: Diotima. The gods then…
Event Series Dissent

Arts House: Dissent

Arts House 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Four players take on the role of a fellow community member. As the rest of us watch on, an unnerving and hyperlocal world is created through imagination and play. The streets of North Melbourne become a site of escalating and discomforting choices, where the lines of responsibility between ‘individual’ and…
Event Series Mother Courage and her Children

John Curtin College of the Arts: Mother Courage and her Children

Ellen Street Theatre John Curtin College of the Arts, 90 Ellen St,, Fremantle
Every event, attitude, and emotion felt in this play is affected by the circumstances of war. Mother Courage’s livelihood is based on a canteen wagon through which she sells food and various goods to soldiers. She and her children pull the wagon, following the regiments to wherever the war takes…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Lewis Trilogy

Griffin Theatre Company: Summer of the Aliens

SBW Stables Theatre Sydney
The SBW Stables Theatre in Sydney’s Kings Cross, home to Griffin Theatre Company, is about to close for a major renovation. By way of a farewell, Griffin is staging one of its most ambitious projects – a triple bill of Louis Nowra’s semi-autobiographical plays that can be viewed individually or in one…

Bell Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Sydney Opera House Sydney
Love is in the air in Athens – and it’s contagious. Besides the royal wedding, which is just days away, there are young lovers dreaming of enchanted futures together. Hermia and Lysander are besotted with one another, while Helena adores Demetrius. The only snag is that Demetrius loves Hermia –…
Event Series Cowboy Mouth

Soft Shock Productions: Cowboy Mouth

Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville
Conceived on a typewriter in the chaotic infamy of New York’s Chelsea Hotel, Cowboy Mouth, is an urban fable about a woman who kidnaps a young man at gunpoint, taking him hostage from his wife and child to make him a pop prophet, ''like a rock-and-roll Jesus with a cowboy…

Base Entertainment: Ballroom Blitz

Lighthouse Theatre 185 Timor Street, Warrnambool
Get ready to experience the ultimate dance extravaganza with Ballroom Blitz, the latest sensation from the visionary producers of "Celtic Illusion." Choreographed by the remarkable Aric Yegudkin, three-time Dancing with the Stars champion, this show is a breathtaking fusion of elegance, energy and mind-blowing ballroom dance. Ballroom Blitz sees traditional ballroom dance meet…
Editor's Choice Event Series 37

Melbourne Theatre Company: 37

Southbank Theatre Southbank
The Cuttaway Currawongs have spent so long at the bottom of the footy ladder, they are the laughing stock of their small coastal town. But with the arrival of two talented Marngrook cousins, things might just turn around. But not everyone’s happy. Named after the number Adam Goodes wore on…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Great Divide

Ensemble Theatre: The Great Divide

Ensemble Theatre Sydney
David Williamson may not always please the critics, but he has a hugely loyal audience. His latest comedy, The Great Divide, now playing at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre, addresses wealth inequality and human greed. Penny Poulter lives in the delightful, quiet town of Wallis Heads. But when the ruthless, obscenely wealthy…
Event Series Atlantis

New Theatre: Atlantis

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown
A play about ovaries and climate change and pursuing your dreams. Australian writer ‘Lally’ is on a quest to make sense of her life, seeking to rediscover the lost innocence of her childhood in America, when things were simple, carefree and defined. Using both autobiographical fact and flights of imagination,…
Event Series Holding the Man

Belvoir St Theatre: Holding the Man

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney
Belvoir is proud to bring Holding the Man, a deeply moving play adapted by Tommy Murphy from Tim Conigrave’s memoir, back to stage from 9th March to 14th April, 2024. Tim Conigrave's 1995 memoir changed Australia, and Tommy Murphy's 2006 adaptation became an instant hit, introducing a new audience to…
Event Series Best of Times

The Company Theatre: Best of Times

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo
“No one cares if you get offended. Eat a teaspoon of cement and harden the f*ck up.” When reunions go very, very wrong. On an unusually warm evening in rural NSW, a group of former best friends reunite to pregame for their ten year high school reunion. As old wounds…

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