• Mornington Peninsula Theatre Co: Rossum’s Universal Robots

    Bellamy Hall Albert Street, Mornington, VIC, Australia
    Before Artificial Intelligence dominated our daily headlines, one visionary play predicted it all. This season, Mornington Peninsula Theatre Company inc. brings Karel Čapek’s legendary sci-fi masterpiece, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), to the Mornington stage for a strictly limited season. Delivering a darkly comic and highly satirical look at what it…
    Editor's Choice DOUBT

    Sydney Theatre Company: DOUBT

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    John Patrick Shanley’s powerful play won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. Marion Potts directs a new production for STC, starring Pamela Rabe as Sister Aloysisus, the headmistress of St Nicholas Church School. Set in the Bronx in 1964, the severe, rigidly conservative…
    Losing Face

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Losing Face

    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…
    Gia Ophelia

    JB Theatre Co: Gia Ophelia

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Struggling with the uncertainty of her future and a stalled acting career, Gia wants to play Ophelia one last time. But when a disastrous acting residency sends this dream spiraling out of control, she has to reckon with herself, and her identity as a woman and an artist. Heartbreaking and…
    The Dapto Chaser

    Ensemble Theatre: The Dapto Chaser

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Ensemble Theatre is excited to present the quintessentially Australian play by award-winning playwright Mary Rachel Brown, The Dapto Chaser, a biting black comedy about chasing dreams, racking up debts, and the cut-throat world of greyhound racing. The Dapto Chaser was commissioned and originally produced by Merrigong Theatre Company. Directed by Anna…
    Koal

    Brisbane Powerhouse: Koal

    Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
    KOAL is an original interactive solo show by Jacinta Yelland, immersing audiences in the heart of the 2019 Australian bushfires. Through the intertwined stories of a baby koala, a coal miner, and an Indigenous girl, the performance shifts from moments of laughter to deep empathy, revealing what is lost when homes…
    The Dapto Chaser

    Ensemble Theatre: The Dapto Chaser

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Ensemble Theatre is excited to present the quintessentially Australian play by award-winning playwright Mary Rachel Brown, The Dapto Chaser, a biting black comedy about chasing dreams, racking up debts, and the cut-throat world of greyhound racing. The Dapto Chaser was commissioned and originally produced by Merrigong Theatre Company. Directed by Anna…

    Sydney Opera House: Andy Griffiths’ YOU & ME and The Land of Lost Things

    Sydney Opera House - Playhouse , Australia
    YOU and ME have lost something important Well… actually, lots of things. A guinea pig. A lucky rabbit’s foot. Possibly the plot! So they’re off on a wild quest through the Land of Lost Things – a world of snapping turtles, flying socks, treasure-hungry pirates and a very anxious bull.…
    Pigeon Fool

    Bondi Festival: Pigeon Fool

    Bondi Pavilion Theatre Queen Elizabeth Dr, Bondi, NSW, Australia
    Can you really tell human from AI? Put yourself to the test in this theatrical game show meets Turing Test, exploring humanness in the midst of the AI revolution. The earliest known robot was a steam-powered pigeon created in 400BC. It was said to have been successful because it fooled…
    Gunawarra Re-Creation

    ILBIJERRI Theatre Company: Gunawarra Re-Creation

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Murrun has returned to the watering hole. The same one Aunty Aggie used to take her to. The sacred one. There she meets her old friend Gunawarra. The Black Swan. Present and past collide. And there ensues their story. One of continuation of culture, creation, and stories of Blak women’s…