• Editor's Choice West Gate

    Melbourne Theatre Company: West Gate

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dennis McIntosh was 12 when Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapsed on 15 October, 1970. He and his friends heard the terrible thud from their school – something he has never forgotten. Thirty-five men died in what remains Australia’s deadliest industrial accident. For the past decade, McIntosh has been working on a play…
    My Brilliant Career

    Sydney Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “The holy grail of Australian musical theatre” The Age Miles Franklin’s classic novel as you’ve never seen it before, with a live soundtrack that’s equal parts contemporary pop, folksy bush band and barnstorming pub rock. Beloved by audiences and showered with five-star reviews, My Brilliant Career was Melbourne’s most in-demand ticket in 2024.…
    The Admiral Crichton

    Genesian Theatre Company: The Admiral Crichton

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What happens when Edwardian aristocrats and their unflappable butler, Crichton, are stranded on a desert island? In Barrie’s delicious satire, the social order flips upside-down in ways both hilarious and revealing. Think Downton Abbey meets Survivor: witty, playful, and packed with class-skewering fun. Light, bright, and utterly charming!

    PIP Theatre: Children’s Theatre: Detective Grimm: The Spell Of Stealing

    PIP Theatre 20 Park Road, Milton, QLD, Australia
    Live theatre fun these April School Holidays! See the magical show! Your ticket includes free arts and crafts before the show! When a mysterious green flash ingites the sky of Stonewood, valuables begin vanishing without a trace. Coins disappear from tills. Gems vanish from safes. Even cherished personal belongings start…

    PIP Theatre: Children’s Theatre: Detective Grimm: The Spell Of Stealing

    PIP Theatre 20 Park Road, Milton, QLD, Australia
    Live theatre fun these April School Holidays! See the magical show! Your ticket includes free arts and crafts before the show! When a mysterious green flash ingites the sky of Stonewood, valuables begin vanishing without a trace. Coins disappear from tills. Gems vanish from safes. Even cherished personal belongings start…
    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…
    Red Ticket

    The Blue Room Theatre: Red Ticket

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Does the past ever leave us? Set in the former Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, now a community arts centre, Red Ticket explores the shared connection of two women, a century apart, struggling with mental health issues after childbirth. Lily is a new mum drowning under the pressures of motherhood. In search of community…
    Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Isla and Violet are a ‘lethal combination’. Their self-righteous headmaster thinks that’s an insult. They think it’s a cute name for a girl group. Too smart, too precocious and way too outspoken, it’s no surprise when these self-proclaimed soulmates are SEPARATED until the end of the year. But the world outside…
    Eden

    Siren Theatre Co: Eden

    The Substation - Qtopia 136 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    'Eden' is a coming-of-age story about identity, transformation, and the quiet violence of becoming. One summer, Kit and Dan’s lives fizz with possibility—where desire, guilt, and the ache for belonging entwine. Infused with a distinctive theatrical language, 'Eden' is part confession, part elegy, part mystery. As myth dissolves, a landscape…
    Editor's Choice The River

    Sydney Theatre Company: The River

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades star in The River, a haunting three-hander by UK playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem). The mysterious, 80-minute play is set in a remote wooden cabin where a lovesick fisherman is playing host to a woman. It should be a weekend full of romance, but all…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE In Hollywood’s Golden Age, two queens reigned supreme – Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Before Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? lit up cinemas, their off-camera rivalry was already a blockbuster. Anton Burge’s deliciously wicked two-hander pulls back the curtain on the set where egos clashed, tempers flared, and…