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She Threaded Dangerously

Senseless Productions: She Threaded Dangerously

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
Within the charged confines of an all-girls school, four friends spiral into dangerous relationships with blurred boundaries, as they navigate shifting power dynamics, desire, and the murky lines between agency and victimhood. She Threaded Dangerously is an ensemble work that shifts between heightened naturalism and lyrical prose - shot through…
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…
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…
Sabra- One Woman Show

Sydney Fringe Festival: Sabra

Jewish Falk Centre 5 Saber st, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
The one-woman show Sabra unravels the story behind the wave of immigration from the USSR during the 1970s, told from the perspective of Zhenia,  a newcomer and married mother of three. In humorous, honest, authentic and juicy language, Zhenia tells of her hardships, worries, dreams and relationship with her teenage…
Piss Be With You

Cleo Rapture: Piss Be With You

Qtopia Sydney 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
“If you've got one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're p*ssing on today.” - Psalm 6:9 Seeking a Golden Gaytime in the big city; Ms Rapture is armed with a glow in her heart and a drip between her thighs. She is thirsty to meet…
Whitefella Yella Tree

Griffin Theatre Company: Whitefella Yella Tree

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
First love: joyous, sweet and youthful. Two boys from neighbouring mobs, puffed up with teenage giddiness, poised on the edge of a world about to change. Their budding love taking root in Country that is about to be declared ‘Australia’. In the early years of colonisation, a young Aboriginal man,…
Colour and Light: The Art of Sondheim

Theatre Works: Colour and Light: The Art of Sondheim

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
An intimate, new, revue celebrating the maestro of musical theatre. Step into the dazzling world of Stephen Sondheim with Colour & Light: The Art of Stephen Sondheim, a spellbinding new revue from Australia’s Sondheim repertory company, Watch This. After 10 acclaimed productions, Watch This invites you on a journey through…
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.…
Editor's Choice Trent Dalton’s Love Stories

Canberra Theatre Centre: Trent Dalton’s Love Stories

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
A hit at the 2024 Brisbane Festival, the stage adaptation of Trent Dalton’s book Love Stories is now on tour. In 2021, Dalton spent two months on a street corner in Brisbane’s CBD gathering stories on his Olivetti typewriter. Speaking to Australians from all walks of life, he asked them to tell him…
Othello

Melbourne Shakespeare Company: Othello

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
A riveting new adaptation of Othello, directed by the acclaimed Tanya Gerstle. In her bold and immersive style, Shakespeare’s tragedy is distilled to its raw essence by Gerstle, with a powerful five-actor ensemble delivering an intense, deeply human exploration of jealousy, power, and betrayal. A gripping, unflinching take on one…
Peter/Wendy

Lexi Sekuless Productions: Peter/Wendy

The Mill 154 Angas Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Late one night, as all the stars watch on, Peter Pan lures Wendy Darling away from her home and her mother. Together, they journey to Neverland where she meets his eclectic crew: a swearing fairy, a perennial flower, and one very lost boy. But Neverland is not quite the magical…
The Natural Horse

PIP Theatre: The Natural Horse

PIP Theatre 20 Park Road, Milton, QLD, Australia
The Natural Horse is a dark comedy about power, family, and how far we’ll go to maintain a myth. The Kareninas, a family of ex-Soviet immigrants, struggle to maintain their familial relationships after their eldest daughter, Masha, adopts a feral horse named Goodboy and brings him to live in their…

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