Editor's Choice The Wrong Gods

Melbourne Theatre Company: The Wrong Gods

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
S. Shakthidharan enjoyed international success with his epic 2019 play Counting and Cracking about a Sri Lankan-Australian family across four generations. His latest stage work is a more intimate, 90-minute piece, featuring four performers. Co-produced with Belvoir, The Wrong Gods explores the tension between tradition and progress in a valley in India. The…
Editor's Choice Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica

Queensland Theatre: Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
Georgie Parker and Glenn Hazeldine reprise their roles in David Williamson’s light-hearted romantic comedy. First performed at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2010, directed by Sandra Bates, it was given a new production by the Ensemble’s current Artistic Director, Mark Kilmurry, in 2023, and it’s that version which now takes the…
Editor's Choice The Spare Room

Belvoir St Theatre: The Spare Room

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Belvoir’s Artistic Director Eamon Flack directs his own adaptation of Helen Garner’s novel. When Helen’s old friend, Nicola, comes to town for treatment, it makes sense she should stay in the spare room. Nicola has put her faith in a shady alternative cancer clinic. Helen is determined to be a…
Eureka Day

Outhouse Theatre Co: Eureka Day

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Screamingly funny and wildly topical, Eureka Day lasers in on the poverty of modern discourse and our inability to listen to those with whom we disagree. It's 2019 and Eureka Day, a private primary school in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, gender identity, social justice. The parents on…
Eureka Day

Seymour Centre: Eureka Day

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Outhouse Theatre Co and Seymour Centre present the hotly anticipated Sydney premiere of Jonathan Spector’s shrewd social satire, Eureka Day. It's 2018 and Eureka Day, a private primary school in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, gender identity, social justice. The parents on the Executive Committee value…
A Tender Thing

Tasmanian Shakespeare Company: A Tender Thing

Earl Arts Centre 10 Earl Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
The 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 proudly presents " 𝑨 𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈" by Ben Power! What if Romeo and Juliet grew old together? This stunning reimagining transforms Shakespeare's tragic tale into a profound meditation on lifelong love. First staged by the 𝑅𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦, now coming to Tasmania. Performances begin June 13th…
LEGENDS (Of the Golden Arches)

Melbourne Theatre Company: LEGENDS (Of the Golden Arches)

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
This funeral will be the death of them. A rip-roaring ride plunging two best friends into the depths of the Chinese afterlife, LEGENDS vaults across genres, realities and theatrical convention with an infectious zest. Merlynn and Joe are used to fiery clashes – but what old friends aren’t? As they…
Koreaboo

Griffin Theatre Company: Koreaboo

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hannah had her trip all planned out. Travel to Korea. Visit her birth mother. Spend a golden summer creating precious memories. But when she arrives in Seoul reality hits hard. Her Umma works in a convenience store day and night, barely taking a break. She seems more interested in stacking…
Editor's Choice And Then There Were None

Crossroads Live Australia: And Then There Were None

His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
In 2022, Robyn Nevin directed Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit, The Mousetrap. Now, she’s taken on Christie’s And Then There Were None, adapted by the author from her 1939 novel. In the thriller, eight people receive an unexpected invitation to a small, isolated island, where they are met by the butler…
Heartbreak Hotel

RISING Festival: Heartbreak Hotel

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Karin McCracken is someone you want by your side on that walk down lonely street to the Heartbreak Hotel. The Wellington-based company EBKM’s newest work is a look at what heartbreak does to our bodies and minds. It’s a room with a view, that lets us in with pitch-perfect sketches,…
The Half-Life of Marie Curie

Ensemble Theatre: The Half-Life of Marie Curie

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
When two Nobel Prizes prove inadequate armour against a scandalous affair, Marie Curie turns to fellow scientist and trusted confidant Hertha Ayrton for literal and emotional sanctuary. Together they weather the storm of heartbreak, public scrutiny, and self-doubt. Written with heart and humour, Lauren Gunderson — America’s most-produced living playwright…
Jekyll & Hyde

A Slightly Isolated Dog: Jekyll & Hyde

Hothouse Theatre Lincoln Causeway,, Wodonga, VIC, Australia
Meet the most delightfully evil man alive, Mr Hyde. A man so evil he punches the cleaning lady, drop-kicks a precious puffin and yells ‘shark’ at the beach. This mad-cap rendition of Jekyll & Hyde celebrates the darkness within us all. A completely reworked version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella,…

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