The Glass Menagerie

State Theatre Company South Australia: The Glass Menagerie

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are. In a small apartment in 1930s St Louis, Amanda Wingfield and her two children, Tom and Laura, spin singular and separate dreams. Tom is torn between his obligation to his family and his desire to break away from the suffocating…
Carol

Black Swan State Theatre Company: Carol

Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
Carol’s got Christmas running through her veins. Born on the 25th of December, it’s not just a date to her − it’s a bloody big deal. For decades, she’s been the one wrapping the presents, dishing out the pav, and holding the whole Christmas shebang together. This year, however, nothing…
A Few Good Men

Queensland Theatre: A Few Good Men

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Long before Hollywood, this sizzling legal drama from the masterful Aaron Sorkin dominated Broadway, and now court is in session in the Playhouse for QPAC’s 40th Birthday celebrations. One misfit US Marine is dead, two others stand accused of killing him, and the whole corps is on trial as a…
Romeo & Juliet

Bell Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
After a chance meeting, an intense but forbidden love is ignited between two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet. And despite the unending, violent feud between their families, they will risk everything to be together. This raw portrayal of Romeo & Juliet will envelop you in the passion, the intensity and…

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…
And What Will People Say?

Sydney Fringe Festival: And What Will People Say?

Pottery Lane Performance Space 1 Pottery Ln, Lane Cove, NSW, Australia
A powerful fusion of Indian dance, music, and poetry, this immersive theatre work confronts domestic violence with raw honesty, cultural depth, and the courage to discuss uncomfortable truths. What happens when silence is survival—but speaking out is freedom? And What Will People Say? is an electrifying 60-minute immersive theatre experience…
Scenes with Girls

Deus Ex Femina: Scenes with Girls

Goodwood Theatre & Studios 166 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood, SA, Australia
Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what? Tosh and Lou have each other. They’ll never be like the other girls. They won’t sit in a narrative someone else thought up. This is love. This is enough. Scenes with Girls is a love story, but not the kind…
Cowbois

Siren Theatre Co: Cowbois

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
A rollicking queer Western like nothing you've seen before. In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the goldrush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. In fact, the town is…
Born On A Thursday

New Ghosts Theatre Company: Born On A Thursday

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
After years abroad, April returns to her family home in Western Sydney to a brother irrevocably changed and a mother unyieldingly the same. What begins as a strained homecoming slowly unravels into a desperate reckoning with memory, guilt, and the crippling weight of things left unsaid. Set across four seasons,…

Sydney Theatre Company: Congratulations, Get Rich! (恭喜发财, 人日快乐)

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Penned and performed by Merlynn Tong, this larger-than-life musical comedy celebrates the richness of Singaporean culture, while asking universal questions about the complexity of mother-daughter relationships and the healing power of vulnerability. It’s a big night for Mandy (Tong), her last ever at the helm of her beloved karaoke bar.…
Much Ado About Nothing

Melbourne Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Beatrice and Benedick are the most modern of Shakespeare’s couples. They have history. They love to hate each other, yet everyone around them knows they’re perfect for each other. Can love really conquer all? This brutally funny battle of the sexes is brought ferociously to life by Helpmann Award-winner Alison…
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…

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