• 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…
    Ride or Die

    The Almost Collective: Ride or Die

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Strap yourself in for Perth’s latest and greatest attraction, Venture Land! Infiltrate the city’s greatest asset to experience dazzling grandeur, magical memories and thrilling free falls as your worries drift away … What’s that? The park is under attack?   Venture Land has been compromised on its opening day, rattling both…
    Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Bundayabba – the best little town in the world! You’ll never want to leave. And even if you did… You can’t. Well-heeled schoolteacher John Grant is en route to Sydney when a layover in the mining town of Bundanyabba turns into a three-week freefall. Stranded and starving, Grant…
    Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Secret House: Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Seymour Centre and Secret House present the Australian premiere of Shooting Hedda Gabler by Nina Segal—a darkly unsettling, wickedly funny examination of ambition, manipulation and coercive control. When offered the lead part in a Norwegian film adaptation of Hedda Gabler, an actress seizes the opportunity to escape her past and gain…
    Punk the beat! Let’s W_ack!

    Arts Centre Melbourne: Punk the beat! Let’s W_ack!

    The Showroom, Arts Centre Melbourne
    This series frames choreography from 8 teachers through a neurodiverse lens, transforming dance into a conceptual and social playground, dissolving boundaries between mind, body and community. Punking is a Queer-born club dance defined by pose, attitude and musical domination. W_acking is the action – it’s the way you move with…
    Losing Faith

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Losing Faith

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Pack your bags for a perimenopausal Weekend at Bernie’s: an outrageous and unforgettable trip directed by Leticia Cáceres (Erotic Stories, Bump) and starring Michala Banas (Upper Middle Bogan, The Odd Couple) and Genevieve Morris (Dying: A Memoir, Comedy Inc.). Losing Face is an absolutely unhinged and spikily clever new comedy about friendship and unmasking the true price of chasing the fountain of…
    My Fair Lawyer

    Bondi Theatre Company: My Fair Lawyer

    Bondi Pavilion Theatre Queen Elizabeth Dr, Bondi, NSW, Australia
    What do you get when you put together a pompous lawyer, his inebriated wife, his illegitimate daughter and an Indian shrink? Lots of laughs! Solicitor and comedic playwright Tony Laumberg's comedy centres on Henry Crowley - an outspoken lawyer too busy overseeing a prominent Sydney law firm to worry about…
    Editor's Choice The Almighty Sometimes

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Almighty Sometimes

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Kendall Feaver’s knotty drama takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people. Anna threw herself out of a window when she was seven. The following year, having read her somewhat macabre stories, her worried mother Renée took her to see a child psychiatrist, who prescribed a…
    Lose to Win

    QPAC: Lose to Win

    QPAC - Glasshouse Theatre
    From South Sudan to Egypt to our stage, this is the extraordinary journey of Mandela Mathia. Fleeing his war-torn home as a child, Mandela spent many years journeying, searching, and eventually finding his way to our stage. This is a joyful, poignant solo show, straight from the man who lived it.…
    Ride or Die

    The Almost Collective: Ride or Die

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Strap yourself in for Perth’s latest and greatest attraction, Venture Land! Infiltrate the city’s greatest asset to experience dazzling grandeur, magical memories and thrilling free falls as your worries drift away … What’s that? The park is under attack?   Venture Land has been compromised on its opening day, rattling both…
    Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Bundayabba – the best little town in the world! You’ll never want to leave. And even if you did… You can’t. Well-heeled schoolteacher John Grant is en route to Sydney when a layover in the mining town of Bundanyabba turns into a three-week freefall. Stranded and starving, Grant…
    Editor's Choice The Almighty Sometimes

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Almighty Sometimes

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Kendall Feaver’s knotty drama takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people. Anna threw herself out of a window when she was seven. The following year, having read her somewhat macabre stories, her worried mother Renée took her to see a child psychiatrist, who prescribed a…