• Second Coming

    La Boite: Second Coming

    La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
    It’s 2065, Earth is burning, and time is running out. Geneticist Evie and the crew of the ARK MARK II spaceship are humanity’s last hope, charged with rescuing every species they can, two by two, for a new beginning on Mars. Lions, Javan warty pigs, and creatures of all kinds…
    Logan St

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Logan St

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    In the backyard of an Adelaide mosque, an unlikely alliance takes root between Goolie, an Afghan cameleer and mosque caretaker, and Dulcie, a young Aboriginal woman navigating life, loss and love on Kaurna Country. As war, racism and bureaucracy press in from all sides, their bond — anchored in storytelling,…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her daughter was destined for superstardom. One day, Mackenzie and her best on-set friend Beau encounter a geriatric make-up artist…
    Editor's Choice Break Of Day

    Malthouse Theatre: Break Of Day

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    After stunning audiences with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, Kat Stewart and director Sarah Goodes reunite for the world premiere of Steve Rodgers’ play Break of Day. The gripping new drama – which won the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award and The Australian Writers Guild Prize for…
    Editor's Choice The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    Sydney Opera House - Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Alongside seasons of The Merry Widow (until 18 August) and Rigoletto (until 21 August), Opera Australia presents The Drover’s Wife, a new opera based on the play, novel and film by Leah Purcell, with music by George Palmer. First staged in Brisbane in May, Limelight described it as “a searing…
    Editor's Choice Uncle Vanya

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chekov’s achingly sad yet mordantly funny play finds fresh life in this adaptation by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, first staged by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2024. Now, Anne-Louise Sarks directs a new production for MTC. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have spent years managing a run-down country estate in rural…
    Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre: Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    For Jane Fredericks, the fight for justice is personal. As a passionate legal aid solicitor, Jane risks everything to help an old flame, and her world quickly unravels – both in the courtroom and at home. Her husband Trevor, a prominent barrister, faces his own ethical conundrum: defend a powerful…
    Back to Bilo

    Darwin Festival: Back to Bilo

    AANT Centre Darwin, NT, Australia
    Priya and Nades left war-torn Sri Lanka and found each other in regional Queensland. The Biloela community welcomed them with open arms, until four years later a knock at the door changed everything. In a pre-dawn raid, they were taken from their home. Their story could have ended there. Instead,…
    The Girl On The Train

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: The Girl On The Train

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and…
    Editor's Choice Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    First seen at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2024, this Olivier Award-winning production, directed by Jordan Fein, transferred to the Barbican, where it became the venue’s best-selling musical of all time. Set in 1905, Tevye, a milkman in the tiny fictional village of Anatevka, tries to maintain his…
    Griffin Theatre: Lacuna

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Lacuna

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Claudia is jobless, cashless and flailing. Doomscrolling in the dark, ignoring emails from Centrelink, she wallows in the aftermath of an earth-shattering fight with her Mum. Why can’t Claudia just get a job like a good Chinese daughter? So, Claudia is delighted when a plum job opportunity falls right into…