• Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Bundayabba – the best little town in the world! You’ll never want to leave. And even if you did… You can’t. Well-heeled schoolteacher John Grant is en route to Sydney when a layover in the mining town of Bundanyabba turns into a three-week freefall. Stranded and starving, Grant…
    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Genesian Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird

    St Joseph's Church Hall Gordon Street, Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step into 1930s Alabama, where the trial of a young Black man accused of a terrible crime shakes a seemingly peaceful town to its core. Through the eyes of Scout Finch, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comes alive on stage in a moving story of prejudice, compassion and the fight…
    Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Secret House: Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Seymour Centre and Secret House present the Australian premiere of Shooting Hedda Gabler by Nina Segal—a darkly unsettling, wickedly funny examination of ambition, manipulation and coercive control. When offered the lead part in a Norwegian film adaptation of Hedda Gabler, an actress seizes the opportunity to escape her past and gain…
    Toy Symphony

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre: Toy Symphony

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
    Roland Henning has writer’s block. Unlike the creative torment Roland experiences in Michael Gow’s earlier play Furious, he is frozen, trapped by an artist’s worst fear: the inability to put pen to paper. Guided by his therapist, Roland moves between past and present, revisiting key memories from his childhood in…

    Red Stitch: The Doll Trilogy: Part 3 – Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat 17 Lydiard St, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
    PART 3: SUMMER OF THE SEVENTH DOLL - 1953 For sixteen summers, Roo and Barney have returned to Melbourne to share a life of laughter, love and independence with Olive and Nancy. But this seventeenth summer feels different. Nancy is gone, Roo is weary, Barney restless, and Olive is determined to…
    To Kill A Mockingbird

    Genesian Theatre Company: To Kill A Mockingbird

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step into 1930s Alabama where the trial of a young Black man accused of a terrible crime shakes a seemingly peaceful town to its core. Through the eyes of Scout, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comes alive on stage in a moving story of prejudice, compassion and the fight for…
    The Deep Blue Sea

    ACT Hub: The Deep Blue Sea

    ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
    Chaika Theatre presents a fresh, emotionally charged interpretation of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, a timeless exploration of love, loss, and personal struggle. Set in the post-war austerity of 1950s London, the play follows Hester Collyer, a woman trapped in a turbulent affair with a passionate but troubled ex-fighter…
    Editor's Choice The Almighty Sometimes

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Almighty Sometimes

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Kendall Feaver’s knotty drama takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people. Anna threw herself out of a window when she was seven. The following year, having read her somewhat macabre stories, her worried mother Renée took her to see a child psychiatrist, who prescribed a…
    Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    It begins with the four most famous notes in music. The legendary motif propels the entire first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth. The power of this symphony never relents, from those iconic opening moments to the bright light of the finale. The end of the third movement is electric, strings hovering…
    Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show

    Sydney Opera House: Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show

    Sydney Opera House - Drama Theatre
    The return of the hit stage show. This is Bluey’s Big Play, for real life! From New York’s Madison Square Garden to London’s Royal Festival Hall, Bluey’s Big Play has delighted fans across the globe - and now it returns home to Australia for an encore tour. Bluey’s Big Play…
    Editor's Choice Prima Facie

    Sydney Theatre Company: Prima Facie

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie had its world premiere at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in 2019. Directed by Lee Lewis, the riveting production starred Sheridan Harbridge (read our feature on page 30). Since then, the one-woman play has been produced in nearly 50 countries and published as a novel. Jodie…