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…
Nihilistic Optimism on Trampolines

Theatre Works: Nihilistic Optimism on Trampolines

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
A wildly weird reimagining of the origin of Frankenstien, featuring a theatrically gruesome battle on trampolines to a soundtrack of existential dread and an entire swimming pool worth of sweat. It’s an unbearably boring afternoon at Trampoline World. Thunder crashes overhead, some kid has thrown up in the bathroom, AND…
Shakespeare In Love

Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: Shakespeare In Love

Geelong Arts Centre 81 Ryrie Street, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Young Will Shakespeare has a bad case of writer’s block and desperately needs a muse.  His new comedy, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter, isn’t turning out how he’d hoped and he’s up against a tight deadline to deliver his next masterpiece. That is until he meets Viola de Lesseps,…
The Seven

Merrigong Theatre Company: The Seven

Wollongong Town Hall Crown St &, Kembla St,, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
In 1964, a group of seven friends are on their way home from seeing The Beatles concert in Sydney, when an incident on the train forces them to get off at Helensburgh station. Missing the last train, they decide to try and hitch a ride. In the morning light, it…
Coriolanus

Bell Shakespeare: Coriolanus

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Coriolanus is a ferocious warrior and defender of Rome. But his contempt for the public, and his refusal to play the political game, see him banished from the city he once protected. When he joins forces with his former enemy to seek vengeance against Rome, the fate of the city,…
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…
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Sydney Theatre Company: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Logie Award-winner Kat Stewart makes her Sydney Theatre Company debut with wit, authenticity, and unbridled fire in this celebrated production of the twentieth century’s most ferocious comedy of manners. A leading figure in American theatre and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, Edward Albee’s most famous play is a wild, brainy…
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

Genesian Theatre: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
A fortune-teller tells Lord Arthur Savile that he sees murder ahead! The only logical course of action for Arthur is to try get this dreadfully embarrassing act out of the way before his wedding in three weeks' time. But staging the perfect murder proves not nearly as easy as he…
Ken Ludwig’s MORIARTY

Genesian Theatre: Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty

Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson have a new case to solve! An investigation into the Bohemian King’s stolen letters suddenly cascades into an international mystery filled with spies, blackmail and intrigue. With world peace at stake, Holmes and Watson join forces with American actress Irene…
The Cardinal Rules

Sydney Fringe Festival: The Cardinal Rules

PACT 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Thoroughly relatable humour, staggering humanity...and pushy Aunties from the ancestral plane! Engulfed by nostalgia, a woman stands at the funeral of a primary school friend that she hasn’t seen in years. As she remembers her 90’s childhood in a close-knit suburban Catholic community, she questions how their lives diverged. When…
Dial M for Murder

Ensemble Theatre: Dial M for Murder

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
The ever-so-charming ex-tennis-pro Tony Wendice has his eye on the prize. The prize in question? His wife Margot’s eye-wateringly enormous inheritance. Fuelled by greed and revenge, he concocts the perfect plan to eliminate her from the equation. But after a small mishap, Tony must spin a web of lies to…

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…

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