• A Thing Called Birthday

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op: A Thing Called a Birthday

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
    Do we need another hero? This is a much debated question but the answer is probably, yes! Do you like births? Do you like days? We've combined the two into one concept- a birthday! Do you like tights and mortality? Join us for our Birth Day celebration! Where:... When:... How:...…
    Julius Caesar

    Bell Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Betrayal and chaos rock the republic as Rome teeters on the brink of collapse It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has triumphed…
    The Other Side Of Me

    BlakDance: The Other Side Of Me

    Theatre Royal
    One mother’s love, another’s loss. Between them a child grows into manhood but can never return home. The Other Side of Me by Gary Lang NT Dance Company, shares the tragedy of Stolen Generations through the true story of an Aboriginal man stranded between two families, continents and cultures – specifically…
    Editor's Choice The River

    Sydney Theatre Company: The River

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades star in The River, a haunting three-hander by UK playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem). The mysterious, 80-minute play is set in a remote wooden cabin where a lovesick fisherman is playing host to a woman. It should be a weekend full of romance, but all…
    Beyond The Neck

    Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
    Editor's Choice RBG – Of Many, One

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE In Hollywood’s Golden Age, two queens reigned supreme – Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Before Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? lit up cinemas, their off-camera rivalry was already a blockbuster. Anton Burge’s deliciously wicked two-hander pulls back the curtain on the set where egos clashed, tempers flared, and…

    Belvoir St Theatre: Drive Your Plough Over The Bones Of The Dead

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
      PAMELA RABE AND EAMON FLACK TAKE ON THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNERS’ WHODUNNIT This is Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece, now a theatrical tour-de-force led by the great Pamela Rabe. Janina Duszejko, a woman of retiring age, lives quietly in a remote village. But one winter, men start being murdered in her district,…
    Stage Kiss

    New Theatre: Stage Kiss

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “When I kissed you just now, did it feel like an actor kissing an actor or a person kissing a person…?” Two actors, and former lovers, unexpectedly reunite when cast opposite each other in a forgotten 1930s melodrama. As rehearsals progress and onstage romance echoes their past, the lines between…
    Editor's Choice West Gate

    Melbourne Theatre Company: West Gate

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dennis McIntosh was 12 when Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapsed on 15 October, 1970. He and his friends heard the terrible thud from their school – something he has never forgotten. Thirty-five men died in what remains Australia’s deadliest industrial accident. For the past decade, McIntosh has been working on a play…
    My Brilliant Career

    Sydney Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “The holy grail of Australian musical theatre” The Age Miles Franklin’s classic novel as you’ve never seen it before, with a live soundtrack that’s equal parts contemporary pop, folksy bush band and barnstorming pub rock. Beloved by audiences and showered with five-star reviews, My Brilliant Career was Melbourne’s most in-demand ticket in 2024.…

    Genesian Theatre: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A fortune-teller tells Lord Arthur Savile that he sees murder ahead! The only logical course of action for Arthur is to try get this dreadfully embarrassing act out of the way before his wedding in three weeks' time. But staging the perfect murder proves not nearly as easy as he…