Editor's Choice The Lark

Hey Dowling: The Lark

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, 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…
Dorothy in Oz: An Immersive Cocktail Adventure

Black Prince Productions: Dorothy in Oz – An Immersive Cocktail Adventure

Marrickville Town Hall 303 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
A.K Wregg's 'Dorothy in Oz: An Immersive Cocktail Adventure' will enjoy its world premiere as part of the 2025 Sydney Fringe Festival, headlining the brand-new Cabaret Hub at Marrickville Town Hall. From the brilliant mind of A.K. Wregg - creator of the international smash hit The Alice: An Immersive Cocktail…

Ensemble Theatre: How To Plot A Hit In Two Days

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
It’s 1985. TV prime time. Across Australia, millions of tear-stricken eyes are glued to their television sets in disbelief. A Country Practice’s beloved Molly Jones takes her final breath. Fade to black and she’s gone. Inside the story room, in a creative flurry powered by coffee, cigarettes and Fantales, the…
Mass Effect

HIMHERANDIT: Mass Effect

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
With high intensity, constant movement and complex running formations, the performers push their physical limits, deal with exhaustion and motivation. Pumping the theatre full of energy, pulse, vitality and joy. Pushing past the limit! Mass Effect is an award-winning, high-intensity performance. Together, the cast push their physical limits, deal with…
The Cadaver Palaver

Sydney Fringe Festival: The Cadaver Palaver

PACT 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hearts will flutter. Monocles will plummet. Corsets may become strained. Combining the finest elements of a Sherlock Holmes novel, an Oscar Wilde soirée, and the best night between the sheets you've ever had, The Cadaver Palaver is a ripping yarn, sumptuously told by a master storyteller. Recently escaped from a…
Orlando

Belvoir St Theatre: Orlando

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Virginia Woolf’s most beloved and brilliant novel takes to the stage in a joyous new adaptation. Orlando is young, rich and handsome. A courtier in the time of Elizabeth, he sets out in search of love, life, and a fabulous destiny – but he has to travel through 400 years…
Romeo & Juliet

Bell Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet

State Theatre Centre of WA Perth, WA, Australia
Did my heart love till now? After a chance meeting, an intense but forbidden love is ignited between two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet. And despite the unending, violent feud between their families, they will risk everything to be together. This raw portrayal of Romeo & Juliet will envelop you in the…
Life is a Dream

FERVOUR.: Life is a Dream

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Imagine your entire life has been confined to one room. Your only source of entertainment is the man who holds you captive, and the footage he’s taken of you 24 hours a day since the moment you were born. For eighteen years, this has been your life. Then one day…
And What Will People Say?

Sydney Fringe Festival: And What Will People Say?

Pottery Lane Performance Space 1 Pottery Ln, Lane Cove, NSW, Australia
A powerful fusion of Indian dance, music, and poetry, this immersive theatre work confronts domestic violence with raw honesty, cultural depth, and the courage to discuss uncomfortable truths. What happens when silence is survival—but speaking out is freedom? And What Will People Say? is an electrifying 60-minute immersive theatre experience…
A FEAST OF MUSIC

Neil Gooding Productions: Anne Being Frank

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
This multi-award-winning play is a complete reimagining of the iconic Anne Frank story. It asks us to consider what “could have been” and moves between three worlds - the secret annex where Anne's family are in hiding; Bergen Belsen where, sick and starving, she lives out her final days; and…
The 39 Steps

Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: The 39 Steps

Comedy Theatre 240 Exhibition St,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Mix Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller with a dash of Monty Python-style chaos, and you get The 39 Steps — a turbo-charged, Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy smash. After thrilling more than 3 million fans across 39 countries — from London’s West End to Broadway — this international sensation is…
Draw Two

Theatre Works: Draw Two

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Back in her hometown, a woman stands in the ‘fifteen items or less’ line at the local Woolies. There, an old (now-hot) school friend, Kieran, mistakes her as Mia. And she doesn’t correct him. The thing is, Mia is her identical twin who recently died, leaving behind a son, Lucas.…

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