• The Jungle & The Sea

    : The Jungle & The Sea

    The Playhouse
    From the visionary team behind the multi-award-winning Counting and Cracking – S. Shakthidharan and long-time collaborator Eamon Flack – comes ‘another achievement of sustained feeling and empathy’ (The Guardian). When an unexpected act of destruction splits her family apart, Gowrie takes a radical vow of defiance: she blindfolds herself, refusing to see the world again until…
    Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…
    Editor's Choice The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    Sydney Opera House - Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Alongside seasons of The Merry Widow (until 18 August) and Rigoletto (until 21 August), Opera Australia presents The Drover’s Wife, a new opera based on the play, novel and film by Leah Purcell, with music by George Palmer. First staged in Brisbane in May, Limelight described it as “a searing…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her daughter was destined for superstardom. One day, Mackenzie and her best on-set friend Beau encounter a geriatric make-up artist…
    Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…
    Griffin Theatre: Lacuna

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: 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…
    Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre: Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    For Jane Fredericks, the fight for justice is personal. As a passionate legal aid solicitor, Jane risks everything to help an old flame, and her world quickly unravels – both in the courtroom and at home. Her husband Trevor, a prominent barrister, faces his own ethical conundrum: defend a powerful…
    My Brilliant Apocalypse Part I

    : My Brilliant Apocalypse Part I

    Bluestone Church Arts Space 8A Hyde St, Footscray, VIC, Australia
    After twenty years of development, My Brilliant Apocalypse arrives in Footscray. It’s a funny, fast-paced exploration of what it is exist: within yourself, within the known Universe, or perhaps even within an alternative Universe that lives in someone else’s head! Themes of self as hero, pawn, sage and spirit all…
    The Jungle & The Sea

    Belvoir St Theatre: The Jungle & The Sea

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    From the visionary team behind the multi-award-winning Counting and Cracking – S. Shakthidharan and long-time collaborator Eamon Flack – comes ‘another achievement of sustained feeling and empathy’ (The Guardian). When an unexpected act of destruction splits her family apart, Gowrie takes a radical vow of defiance: she blindfolds herself, refusing to see the world again until…
    The Jungle & The Sea

    : The Jungle & The Sea

    The Playhouse
    From the visionary team behind the multi-award-winning Counting and Cracking – S. Shakthidharan and long-time collaborator Eamon Flack – comes ‘another achievement of sustained feeling and empathy’ (The Guardian). When an unexpected act of destruction splits her family apart, Gowrie takes a radical vow of defiance: she blindfolds herself, refusing to see the world again until…
    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…