• Heartbreak Hotel

    Merrigong Theatre Company: Heartbreak Hotel

    Illawarra Performing Arts Centre 32 Burelli Street, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    Check-in to this cathartic comedy from Aotearoa New Zealand — a fun, vibrant place to confront your heartbreak. Fresh from acclaimed seasons at RISING Festival Melbourne, the Edinburgh Festival, and Soho Theatre London, Heartbreak Hotel is a room with a view. Razor-sharp writing and compelling performances lead us into the…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…
    Two Blood

    Carriageworks: Two Blood

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A Tagalaka woman and Cantonese man embark on a forbidden love affair forged in the flames of a burning country. Centuries later, their remains are discovered in a forever embrace, setting into motion a sprawling exploration of belonging and identity. Created by visionary artists S. Shakthidharan (Counting and Cracking), Daniel Riley and Jasmin Sheppard, who…
    Saplings

    Theatre Royal: Saplings

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Some seeds need support to grow. What would you risk for a packet of Mi Goreng? Lachlan's out on bail from his youth detention centre but he’s hungry, too. His life’s about to change in less time than it takes to cook a packet of instant noodles. Saplings tells the story…
    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…
    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: 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…
    William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs

    Theatre Works: William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    William Shakespeare's Reservoir Dogs brings together the iconic characters and dialogue from Shakespeare's plays with the gritty underworld of Quentin Tarantino's film. Telling the tale of six strangers brought together to commit a daring crime...plunder a coach of precious jewels; things go awry, and those who remain must fight to…
    The Ballad of Dan O’Malley: A Football Tragedy

    Theatre Works: The Ballad of Dan O’Malley: A Football Tragedy

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia +1 more
    The Ballad of Dan O’Malley: A Football Tragedy is based on the true story of AFL club Melbourne’s 2009 ‘tanking saga’. Bright-eyed Dan O’Malley takes the reins as coach of the Central Leopards in 2008. But the club is bottoming out financially and on-field – so administrators call for shady…
    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…
    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 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…