• BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…
    Your Song

    The Little Red Company: Your Song

    Sydney Opera House - Playhouse , Australia
    Your Song celebrates the unforgettable music of megastar Elton John and the memorable moments it evokes for everyday people, reimagining Elton’s biggest songs including Candle in the Wind, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, I’m Still Standing, Benny and the Jets, Rocket Man and Tiny Dancer using powerful stories and personal experiences…
    Editor's Choice Prima Facie

    Sydney Theatre Company: Prima Facie

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie had its world premiere at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in 2019. Directed by Lee Lewis, the riveting production starred Sheridan Harbridge (read our feature on page 30). Since then, the one-woman play has been produced in nearly 50 countries and published as a novel. Jodie…
    The Present

    Brown’s Mart Theatre: The Present

    Browns Mart 12 Smith Street, Darwin, NT, Australia
    At once comedic and cathartic, The Present unwraps a family’s history and their obsession with presents. You’ll meet half twins with different fathers; mother and son with unresolvable trust issues; a man with a rare gene that makes him extra tasty to sharks, and his long lost daughter who loves…
    Izzard – The Tragedy of Hamlet

    BOHM Presents: Izzard – The Tragedy of Hamlet

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Direct from triple-extended solo runs in New York, Chicago and London, Eddie Izzard brings her acclaimed one-person performance of Hamlet to Sydney. Nominated for New York’s Drama League Distinguished Performance Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, this production has captivated audiences around the world. Akin…
    Ganesh Versus the Third Reich

    Back to Back Theatre: Ganesh Versus the Third Reich

    Union Theatre, University of Melbourne University of Melbourne Arts & Cultural Building, 761 Swanston St,, Parkville, VIC, Australia
    The story begins with the elephant-headed god Ganesha travelling through Nazi Germany to reclaim the Swastika, an ancient Hindu symbol. As this intrepid hero embarks on his journey, a second narrative is revealed: the actors themselves begin to feel the weighty responsibility of storytellers, questioning the ethics of cultural appropriation. Challenging…
    Koal

    The Events Centre: Koal

    The Events Centre, Caloundra 20 Minchinton St, Caloundra, QLD, Australia
    Fresh off a hit run at Theatre Works in Melbourne and PhysFestNYC in New York City, KOAL is a one-woman climate-catastrophe-clown-show for the end of the world. As wildfires tear through Australia, a baby koala, a coal miner and an Indigenous girl desperately strive to hold onto their homes before…
    Corporare – Evan Task In Outer Space

    Theatre Works: Corporare – Evan Task In Outer Space

    Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Created and performed by Matthew Crosby, Corporare presents a gorgeously low horror sci-fi about a tech-bro and his rocket adrift in Martian dreams. Corporare is a kabarett extremis revealing the invisible corporate body in its colonising madness. The complexity of a celebrity ‘founder’ entrepreneur who governs a company seemingly whimsically with little…
    Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly)

    Merrigong Theatre Company: Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly)

    Illawarra Performing Arts Centre 32 Burelli Street, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    After receiving a rave response and standing ovations after its debut in the MerrigongX 2025 season, Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly), will enthral Wollongong audiences yet again, in storytelling that centres love, grief, and responses to the 2024 referendum - making space for sorrow and rage, while honouring joy as a…
    Truck Driver

    Sydney Opera House: Truck Driver

    Sydney Opera House - Studio
    Have you met Bev yet? Buckle up, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride and you’re riding shotgun. Bev's an outback oracle, dispensing diesel-fueled wisdom from his 18-wheeler pulpit. He’s clocked a million miles and has a story for everyone – some tall, some true, all a window into a life…
    The Wolves

    Theatre Works: The Wolves

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Before the whistle blows... we are the wolves. WE ARE THE WOLVES. Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack…
    Retrograde

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Retrograde

    Fairfax Studio
    Director Bert LaBonté (Topdog/Underdog) steers this alarmingly timely and ‘wickedly funny’ (The Standard) work starring newcomer Donné Ngabo (Last Days) and international screen star Alan Dale (24, The O.C.) to its blistering conclusion. It’s the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, fuelled by big money and heady ambition. Paranoia simmers beneath…