• Griffin Theatre: Afterglow

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Afterglow

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Every year after the Barbershop Singing National Championships, the men gather for the traditional “afterglow”. Whisky flows, dickie-bows are loosened, and quartets sing booze-soaked harmonies into the small hours. At the 2012 afterglow, Michael meets Tom. One is a barbershop purist with something to prove. The other is a first…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    The Neilson Nutshell, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, 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…
    Dealing With Clair

    Irregular Programming: Dealing With Clair

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    From the team that brought you Fewer Emergencies (Sydney Theatre Award nominee for Best Independent Production), Irregular Programming brings Martin Crimp back to the Old Fitz in 2026 with this psychological and satirical thriller that investigates the dark side of the property ladder. The property market is booming. Young real…

    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…
    Eddie Izzard Performs Shakespeare’s Hamlet

    BOHM Presents: Eddie Izzard Performs Shakespeare’s Hamlet

    Fairfax Studio
    This production comes directly from her critically acclaimed solo performances of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which were triple-extended in New York, Chicago, and London. Nominated for New York’s: Drama League’s Distinguished Performance Award and Outer Critic’s Circle Outstanding Solo Performance Award. Akin to the original performances of Hamlet, Eddie will perform on the blank…
    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…
    The Day Of The Triffids

    New Theatre: The Day Of The Triffids

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    London, 1951: In an attempt to solve the world’s energy crisis, scientists engineer the Triffids: a biofuel crop that is highly efficient, strangely sentient, and disturbingly carnivorous. When a freak cosmic event blinds most of the world’s population, one man wakes into a collapsing society where fear, opportunism, and chaos…
    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 Faith

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Losing Faith

    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…

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Uncle Vanya – but there’s ASMR soap cutting videos playing in the bottom right corner

    Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    While Melbourne Theatre Company stages a 2024 adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, State Theatre Company South Australia presents a radical new version by Mary Angley & Associates as part of its SPARK Program. Beginning as a faithful production of Chekov’s poignant play, it quickly spirals into “a meticulously crafted chaos…
    Editor's Choice Belvoir Theatre: The Jungle and the Sea

    Belvoir St Theatre: The Jungle and the Sea

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack’s acclaimed drama returns for a limited Sydney season. The three-hour, two-interval play is a sweeping saga following one family’s love and loss during the bloody chaos of the Sri Lankan civil war. When violence escalates between the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers…
    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…