Fitz Happens: Home Is Where The Haunt Is

New Ghosts Theatre Company: Fitz Happens: Home Is Where The Haunt Is

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
A terrifyingly good night of spooky monologues, raising vital funds for the Old Fitz Theatre’s newly launched Playwright Fund. This thrilling production unites six of Australia's leading playwrights and a star-studded cast to premiere a powerful collection of original monologues. Inspired by the themes of Act 3 - Loyalty, Lies, and…
Daytime Deewane

National Theatre of Parramatta: Daytime Deewane

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Meet cousins Farhan and Sadiq. One quiet, one wild, both looking to escape. Set in the legendary daytime raves of the 1990s, Daytime Deewane is a tender portrait of what it means to be torn between respect and rebellion. As the dance floor fills and the afternoon unfolds, Farhan is still clutching…
American Song

Flying Penguin Productions: American Song

Goodwood Theatre & Studios 166 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood, SA, Australia
Seemingly ripped straight out of today’s headlines, American Song is an intimate and deeply moving meditation on what it means to be a parent in a changing world and a searing and unforgettable exploration of the story and song that is America. As Andy heads off to work to give…
Editor's Choice Calamity Jane

One Eyed Man Productions: Calamity Jane

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Step inside the Golden Garter Saloon and enter the Wild West as Virginia Gay reprises the role of the legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane (for which she won a Sydney Theatre Award). Adapted from the much-loved film starring Doris Day, this stripped-back, rough-and-ready reimagining of the classic musical, directed by Richard…
The Lark

Hey Dowling: The Lark

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Noni Hazlehurst delivered an unforgettable performance in Daniel Keene’s one-woman play Mother – a heartbreaking story of loneliness and isolation. Now, she stars in the world premiere of The Lark, another solo drama by Keene, written especially for her. Hazlehurst plays 75-year-old Rose Grey, who is having to farewell The Lark, a small inner-city pub in…
1984 by George Orwell

shake & stir theatre co: 1984 by George Orwell

The Events Centre, Caloundra 20 Minchinton St, Caloundra, QLD, Australia
Big Brother is back. Strap in for an electrifying take on the George Orwell classic – from the multi-award winning creative minds at Shake & Stir (Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Animal Farm and Dracula). It was a bright cold day, and the clocks were striking thirteen...  Winston Smith, an editor at the Ministry…
Heart is a Wasteland

Yirra Yaakin Theatre: Heart is a Wasteland

Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
Raye, is a country-music star in the making, playing in one back-water pub after another along Australia’s vast desert highways. Trying to make a living in the hope of returning home to her young son Elvis, her lyrics blaze through the landscapes of love and longing. A chance meeting and…
Control by Keziah Warner

flatpack.: Control

Theatre Works Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
For the first time since its original Red Stitch production in 2019, Keziah Warner's epic sci-fi odyssey makes its return to Melbourne. In the not-so-distant future, a heavily pregnant ex-ballerina, a child detective, a bitter puppeteer and a feminist pop princess hurtle towards Mars in a Big Brother-style spaceship. The…
Editor's Choice Rebecca

Melbourne Theatre Company: Rebecca

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel was adapted as a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This new production, adapted and directed by MTC Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, takes us back to Manderley, the grand mansion where Maxim de Winter returns home with his second…
Whitefella Yella Tree

La Boite: Whitefella Yella Tree

La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
Once in a blue moon, in the middle of nowhere, two teenage boys meet under a lemon tree. When they look at each other, it’s tense, exciting, and strange. Ty and Neddy fall madly in love, as teenagers are wont to do. After a rough start, a fragile friendship fruits…
Malacañang Made Us

Queensland Theatre: Malacañang Made Us

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised. 1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change. On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young…
The Play That Goes Wrong

GMG Productions: The Play That Goes Wrong

Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Corner of Clarence and Hay Streets, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
The Play That Goes Wrong is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes, things go from bad to utterly disastrous when the Cornley Drama Society performs a classic murder mystery. Join the waitlist to stay up to date.

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