Melbourne Shakespeare Company: Robin Hood

Central Park, Malvern East 148 Burke Rd, Malvern East, VIC, Australia
This March, Melbourne families are in for a rollicking good time with Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s latest laugh-out-loud family musical, Robin Hood. This 60-minute adventure follows Robin Hood and his Merry Band as they swap the green forests of Sherwood for the sunny landscapes of Australia! Along the way, they’ll face…

Sydney Opera House: Grug and the Rainbow

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
A magical adaptation of Ted Prior’s beloved picture books, Grug and the Rainbow sees our grassy little friend embark on an epic adventure to bask in the colours of the illusive rainbow. Featuring exquisite puppetry and heart-warming humour back to delight audiences, this smash hit is not one to miss…

Adelaide Fringe: That Knave

Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Following their five-star show, I, Elizabeth, award-winning Dyad Productions return to the Elizabethan era. To the famous and fabulous explorer, sailor, dandy and warrior, Sir Walter Raleigh. Elizabeth I’s favourite, James I’s knave. A journey through the astonishing highs and lows of one of history’s most famous men. But there’s…
Nucleus

Griffin Theatre Company: Nucleus

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Gabriel is a nuclear engineer. Cassie is an anti-nuclear campaigner. For nearly thirty years their lives have collided and entwined, with Cassie’s cause dominating public opinion across the decades. But with political change rumbling underfoot, Cassie’s life’s work could yet be undone—and it’s all led to this explosive night. Against…
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QPAC: Is That You, Ruthie?

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Following its acclaimed world premiere in 2023, the poignant play, written and directed by Leah Purcell, returns to QPAC. Adapted from Ruth Hegarty’s books, Is That You, Ruthie? and Buthalangi: A Maranoa Woman, this moving drama explores the enduring connection between a First Nations mother and her daughter, separated by a…
Editor's Choice Henry 5

Bell Shakespeare: Henry 5

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Returning to Bell Shakespeare after 15 years, Marion Potts directs a new production of Shakespeare’s famous war play with newcomer JK Kazzi in the title role. Young Prince Hal has turned his back on Falstaff, left his wild adolescence behind and taken on the mantle of monarch. When he is…

Black Swan State Theatre Company: August: Osage County

State Theatre Centre of WA Perth, WA, Australia
Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 2007. In the scorching heat of summer, the Weston family has come together following the disappearance of their alcoholic patriarch, Beverly, a world-class poet. While his wife, Violet, spirals into opiate addiction, the three daughters dutifully return to their childhood home with their spouses, children and unfinished business…

Forced Entertainment: Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Shakespeare’s 36 plays in eight days, as they’ve never been imagined before! Salt and pepper shakers for the king and queen. A ruler for the prince. A spoon for the servant. Lighter fluid for the innkeeper. Hamlet is a bottle of vinegar. One by one, over eight days, every Shakespeare…
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Sydney Theatre Company: 4000 Miles

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Nancye Hayes returns to the STC for the first time in two decades to perform in this uplifting, comic drama by American playwright Amy Herzog. When 21-year-old Leo (Shiv Palekar) suffers a major loss on a cross-country cycling trip, he turns up at the home of his feisty 91-year-old grandmother…

Sydney Theatre Company: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Five modern teenage girls recount a story burnt into the Australian psyche. In Tom Wright’s lyrical and daring adaptation, Joan Lindsay’s hypnotic classic becomes a form-shattering mix of storytelling, gossip, and reenactment. Seen through the eyes of STC Resident Director Ian Michael (Stolen, Constellations), “the most exciting new director of…
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Sydney Theatre Company: The Dictionary of Lost Words

Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
After delighting audiences in 2023, The Dictionary of Lost Words returns to Sydney then tours to Geelong, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra and Wollongong. Verity Laughton’s loving adaptation of Pip Williams’ bestseller is directed by Jessica Arthur. Beginning in 1886, the story follows Esme Nicoll as she grows into adulthood at the height of…
Trent Dalton’s Love Stories

Adelaide Festival: Trent Dalton’s Love Stories

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Sitting on a street corner with a typewriter, an author solicits love stories from passers-by. An exuberant and kaleidoscopic series of vignettes follows, based on stories told by real people. A man proposes to his girlfriend via flash mob; grandparents describe their love for their grandchildren; a woman reconnects with…

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