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A deliriously dark, heart-stabbing, and hilarious queer ghost story about love, grief, and the demons we can’t quite exorcise — especially the leather-clad ones. After the death of his fiancé, Anthony retreats to their country house to grieve, only to be haunted — literally and figuratively — by loss, lust,…
State Theatre Company South Australia: Log Boy
Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide
A deliriously dark, heart-stabbing, and hilarious queer ghost story about love, grief, and the demons we can’t quite exorcise — especially the leather-clad ones. After the death of his fiancé, Anthony retreats to their country house to grieve, only to be haunted — literally and figuratively — by loss, lust,…
State Theatre Company South Australia: Log Boy
Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide
A deliriously dark, heart-stabbing, and hilarious queer ghost story about love, grief, and the demons we can’t quite exorcise — especially the leather-clad ones. After the death of his fiancé, Anthony retreats to their country house to grieve, only to be haunted — literally and figuratively — by loss, lust,…
Belvoir St Theatre: Stocktake at Belvoir 25A
Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney
Every day is your first day. Every night is Stocktake. It’s Stocktake night at The Store, and Teamies Ash, Jess, Fin, and Heidi are just doing their best to complete the tasks, get customers like Karen out on time, and collect their paychecks. But as the night wears on and…
Belvoir St Theatre: Stocktake at Belvoir 25A
Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney
Every day is your first day. Every night is Stocktake. It’s Stocktake night at The Store, and Teamies Ash, Jess, Fin, and Heidi are just doing their best to complete the tasks, get customers like Karen out on time, and collect their paychecks. But as the night wears on and…
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Girls & Boys
Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys
Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney
When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…
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The Unfriend
Sydney Theatre Company: The Unfriend
Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney
This deliciously dark comedy marked the stage debut of British TV titan Steven Moffat – the celebrated showrunner of Doctor Who and creator of Press Gang, Coupling, Sherlock and Douglas is Cancelled – and became a West End hit. While holidaying on a cruise ship, timorous, middle-class couple Peter and Debbie befriend…
Sydney Theatre Company: HOUSEWORK
Sydney Opera House - Drama Theatre
Playwright Emily Steel and director Shannon Rush pull back the curtain on the real Parliament House in this bold, black comedy hailed an “undeniably Australian and gloriously uncompromising” (The Conversation) future classic. Brought to brilliant life by some of Australia’s most beloved comic actors, Housework follows a group of political…
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A Room with a View
Belvoir St Theatre: A Room with a View
Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney
E. M. Forster’s 1908 novel has been adapted for stage and screen many times over the years. Merchant Ivory famously turned it into a 1985 film starring Helena Bonham Carter. Now comes a new stage version by Grace Chapple. Lucy Honeychurch could follow the path set out for her. But…
Mockingbird Theatre Company: Face To Face
Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen
In this story of rivalry and alliances with secrets bubbling away just beneath the surface, we followed Glen, a young construction worker who rams into the back of his boss’s prized Mercedes in a fit of anger after being sacked. Instead of heading straight to court, he is given the…
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Eliza
Melbourne Theatre Company: Eliza
Southbank Theatre Southbank
As society grapples with the implications and ethics of rapidly advancing artificial technologies, Melbourne Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Eliza by Tom Holloway. The psychological thriller about the birth of AI is based on real events. Dr Joseph Weizenbaum, a brilliant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, carries the trauma of…
Seymour Centre: Cruise
Seymour Centre Chippendale
Following its sold-out, five-star Australian premiere, Seymour and Fruit Box Theatre will join forces to return the acclaimed Cruise by Jack Holden to Sydney. This electrifying celebration of queer nightlife and a powerful tribute to a generation lost to the AIDS crisis, will run at the Seymour from 9th –…
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Small Mouth Sounds
Queensland Theatre Company: Small Mouth Sounds
Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane
Actions speak louder than words in this charming, wry comedy by American playwright Bess Wohl, set at a silent rural retreat. Six participants from the city, each with emotional baggage, gather for a week-long spiritual course run by a guru who still has some way to go on the transcendental…
Backbone Festival: RUA AND THE MOON
Ron Hurley Theatre 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills
Rua is not like the other dragons. The other dragons tell Rua that it's weird that they don't burn down any villages or capture any princesses. When adventurers come and steal gentle Rua's dearest treasures, books and stuffed animals, it creates a catalyst that sends Rua on a journey. On…
Little Train Creative: The Manager Is Me
The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne
A hilarious meltdown about invisible labour and losing your shit in a really organised way Blood type: CBF. Sex life: On Afterpay. The Situation: Three kids, one husband, minutes before school drop-off, and a woman in absolute command of her own collapse. The Manager Is Me is a fierce, hilarious…
Backbone Festival: HEMINGWAY
Ron Hurley Theatre 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills
“He had so many sides to him. He defied geometry.” It’s 1926. Ernest Hemingway has just published his breakthrough novel The Sun Also Rises. And yet Hemingway is coming home to an empty apartment in an abandoned sawmill. Drunk and broke, divorcing his first love and marrying the ‘other woman’,…
Australian Theatre for Young People: Islander
Pier 2/3, Suite 2/13A Hickson Rd Pier 2/3, Suite 2/13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point
New friends, ancient fractures, one mystical adventure. Eilidh lives on an island. Adrift and with one eye on the horizon, she is aimless. It seems every day someone is leaving for the mainland, even her own mother. And then a whale washes up on the shore, followed soon after by…
Backbone Festival: THE RATTURE!
Ron Hurley Theatre 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills
The Ratture! is a new dark comedy about two dingy roommates in an even dingier sewer apartment. Meth and Barf are just trying to survive on dwindling rations, keep the chore chart intact, and ignore the increasingly ominous signs coming from above, until a message from the Grate compels them…
Little Train Creative: The Manager Is Me
The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne
A hilarious meltdown about invisible labour and losing your shit in a really organised way Blood type: CBF. Sex life: On Afterpay. The Situation: Three kids, one husband, minutes before school drop-off, and a woman in absolute command of her own collapse. The Manager Is Me is a fierce, hilarious…
Melbourne Fringe Festival: FU*K! I Killed The Director
The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne
Blood-splattered silks, taut hairnets and two actors performing Romeo and Juliet moments after killing their director. Accidentally. DO NOT expect tap-dancing, a murder weapon, 39 mimed caged doves, silk underwear or an antigravity machine. This is a very traditional performance of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Kinda... Warnings: Flashing lights, simulated…
Backbone Festival: OUR DOG COMET
Ron Hurley Theatre 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills
It’s 1986. Five BMX bikers find a lost dog on their track, but this puppy is more than far from home. Our Dog Comet is an 80’s movie on stage, parodying the classic ‘all-boys, kids on bikes, riding around chasing adventure’ trope, except with a cast of witty girls- oh,…
Qtopia Sydney: Never the Sinner
Qtopia Sydney The Loading Dock Theatre 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia, Darlinghurst
Chicago, 1924. Two brilliant young men, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, believe themselves above the world. Entitled, reckless, and hungry to prove their superiority, they commit a crime that shocks a nation. Beneath the headlines lies something far more intimate: a dark and serpentine love story between two men whose…
Belvoir St Theatre: A Room with a View
Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney
E. M. Forster’s 1908 novel has been adapted for stage and screen many times over the years. Merchant Ivory famously turned it into a 1985 film starring Helena Bonham Carter. Now comes a new stage version by Grace Chapple. Lucy Honeychurch could follow the path set out for her. But…
Mockingbird Theatre Company: Face To Face
Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen
In this story of rivalry and alliances with secrets bubbling away just beneath the surface, we followed Glen, a young construction worker who rams into the back of his boss’s prized Mercedes in a fit of anger after being sacked. Instead of heading straight to court, he is given the…
Editor's Choice
Eliza
Melbourne Theatre Company: Eliza
Southbank Theatre Southbank
As society grapples with the implications and ethics of rapidly advancing artificial technologies, Melbourne Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Eliza by Tom Holloway. The psychological thriller about the birth of AI is based on real events. Dr Joseph Weizenbaum, a brilliant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, carries the trauma of…
Ensemble Theatre: The Elevator
Ensemble Theatre Sydney
Ensemble Theatre presents the world premiere of ‘The Elevator’ by Eloise Snape, a sharp, funny and fearless new Australian comedy, from 18 September - 18 October 2026. Starring Leeanna Walsman making her Ensemble debut and directed by Anthea Williams, ‘The Elevator’ is a no-fluff office satire filled with a whirlwind…
Seymour Centre: Cruise
Seymour Centre Chippendale
Following its sold-out, five-star Australian premiere, Seymour and Fruit Box Theatre will join forces to return the acclaimed Cruise by Jack Holden to Sydney. This electrifying celebration of queer nightlife and a powerful tribute to a generation lost to the AIDS crisis, will run at the Seymour from 9th –…
Editor's Choice
Small Mouth Sounds
Queensland Theatre Company: Small Mouth Sounds
Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane
Actions speak louder than words in this charming, wry comedy by American playwright Bess Wohl, set at a silent rural retreat. Six participants from the city, each with emotional baggage, gather for a week-long spiritual course run by a guru who still has some way to go on the transcendental…
Editor's Choice
Girls & Boys
Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys
Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney
When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…
Editor's Choice
Girls & Boys
Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys
Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney
When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…
Editor's Choice
Girls & Boys
Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys
Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney
When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…
Editor's Choice
The Unfriend
Sydney Theatre Company: The Unfriend
Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney
This deliciously dark comedy marked the stage debut of British TV titan Steven Moffat – the celebrated showrunner of Doctor Who and creator of Press Gang, Coupling, Sherlock and Douglas is Cancelled – and became a West End hit. While holidaying on a cruise ship, timorous, middle-class couple Peter and Debbie befriend…
Harbour Theatre: Blackadder Live on Stage!
Harbour Theatre 16 Lochee Street, Mosman Park
Harbour Theatre brings the second series of the classic British comedy Blackadder to life at Camelot in Mosman Park this October. Join Edmund Blackadder, Queenie, Baldrick and Sir Percy in two favourite episodes set in Elizabethan England. In Potato, Blackadder’s attempt to outdo Sir Walter Raleigh at sea goes disastrously…
Monash Uni Student Theatre: The Heart Beats in Counts of Eight
MUST Theatre Space 21 Chancellors Walk, Clayton
Be human. Be synthetic. Be better. Realise your humanity. MUST presents the world premiere of The Heart Beats in Counts of Eight, a visionary new play by Madeleine Willshire, in The MUST Space October 15 - 24. In the not too distant future, after a synthetic revolution, Lou, Jamie and…
Theatre Works: Young Frankenstein
Theatre Works St Kilda
From the outrageous mind of Mel Brooks comes Young Frankenstein, the gloriously silly, lightning-powered musical comedy that celebrates everything wonderfully ridiculous about classic horror and big Broadway spectacle. When the impeccably serious Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (…that’s “Fronk-en-steen,” if you please) inherits his family’s eerie Transylvanian estate, he is determined to…
Backbone Festival: Suzie Sex Binge
Seven Hills Hub 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills QLD 4170, Brisbane
Suzie has always been the breaker-upper. Until now. Suddenly dumped, Suzie’s armed with a Narrator turned dating coach, early 2000s dating advice, and the gospel of diet culture self-improvement - she is going to win him back! No matter what it takes. As reality and fantasy blur, Suzie’s attempts to…
Backbone Festival: SUZIE SEX BINGE
Ron Hurley Theatre 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills
Suzie has always been the breaker-upper. Until now. Suddenly dumped, Suzie’s armed with a Narrator turned dating coach, early 2000s dating advice, and the gospel of diet culture self-improvement - she is going to win him back! No matter what it takes. As reality and fantasy blur, Suzie’s attempts to…
Theatre Works: Smoke
Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda
An early morning in an inner city club starts to meld into the surreal as its smoking area becomes a stage for ghosts of the past, inter-dimensional drug dealers and good old fashion existential dread. Follow several partygoers at the end of their night as the come to terms with…
Melbourne Fringe Festival: Piss Be With You
Grouse Melbourne 171 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Stepping out pelvis-proud with a glow in her heart; Cleo's thirsty to meet babes and make it rain. While riding the pleasure pipeline, cracks appear and leaks form. Things get wetter and wilder as she dives deeper. Can she swim through the Punani Tsunami to the place that is warm…
Melbourne Fringe: SLUGS
Meat Market Stables 2 Wreckyn St, North Melbourne
It’s about nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. We promise. An electro-punk concert, a play, a clown show, and a basement puppet nightmare all rolled into one from award-winning performance/comedy duo Creepy Boys (S.E. Grummett & Sam Kruger). Join us for a technocolour acid trip where you’ll meet…
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