• Daytime Deewane

    National Theatre of Parramatta: Daytime Deewane

    Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta, NSW, Australia
    Meet cousins Farhan and Sadiq. One quiet, one wild, both looking to escape. Set in the legendary daytime raves of the 1990s, Daytime Deewane is a tender portrait of what it means to be torn between respect and rebellion. As the dance floor fills and the afternoon unfolds, Farhan is still clutching…
    Chicken in a Biscuit

    Fixed Foot Productions: Chicken in a Biscuit

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    They’re watching. They’re judging. They still want dinner. Welcome to the hilarious, heartfelt world of your pet’s inner life. Ever wondered WTF your pet is thinking and feeling? Chicken In A Biscuit might just help you find out. From a grieving pug owner to a bunny-obsessed dentist, Chicken In A…
    Pride & Prejudice

    Bloomshed: Pride & Prejudice

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    In the plush ballrooms of high society, Mrs Bennet sees too well the value of a strategic union. But her five daughters all have ambitions of their own. Jane and Elizabeth want to marry for love (whatever that means). Mary’s stuck in a goth phase, Lydia’s hot for the local…
    Editor's Choice Calamity Jane

    One Eyed Man Productions: Calamity Jane

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step inside the Golden Garter Saloon and enter the Wild West as Virginia Gay reprises the role of the legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane (for which she won a Sydney Theatre Award). Adapted from the much-loved film starring Doris Day, this stripped-back, rough-and-ready reimagining of the classic musical, directed by Richard…
    The Lark

    Hey Dowling: The Lark

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, 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…
    Sincere Apologies

    Melbourne Fringe: Sincere Apologies

    Trades Hall, Melbourne 2 Lygon St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Say sorry. Really mean it. Experience a performance built from all the apologies that the world keeps offering — the famous, the ridiculous, the deeply personal and those that begin every second email in our inboxes. Part theatrical ritual, part social experiment, Sincere Apologies explores what it means to apologise…
    Work, But This Time Like You Mean It

    Canberra Youth Theatre: Work, But This Time Like You Mean It

    The Rebel Theatre, Pier 2/3 Suite 2/13A Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Canberra Youth Theatre's unhinged, deep-fryer dive into the lives of overworked, underpaid, teenage wage-slaves comes to Sydney following its sell-out debut season. Winner of the 2022 Emerging Playwright Commission, Work, But This Time Like You Mean It by Honor Webster-Mannison is a darkly surreal comedy about young people’s first experiences…
    Heart is a Wasteland

    Yirra Yaakin Theatre: Heart is a Wasteland

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Raye, is a country-music star in the making, playing in one back-water pub after another along Australia’s vast desert highways. Trying to make a living in the hope of returning home to her young son Elvis, her lyrics blaze through the landscapes of love and longing. A chance meeting and…
    Editor's Choice Plied and Prejudice

    Arts and Culture Trust: Plied and Prejudice

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in Regency England must be in want of a very stiff drink – or so they say in this raucous version of Jane Austen’s classic novel. Due to popular demand, the Perth season (which followed performances in Brisbane and London)…
    Editor's Choice Rebecca

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Rebecca

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel was adapted as a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This new production, adapted and directed by MTC Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, takes us back to Manderley, the grand mansion where Maxim de Winter returns home with his second…
    Malacañang Made Us

    Queensland Theatre: Malacañang Made Us

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised. 1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change. On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young…
    RUINS أطلال

    Seymour Centre: RUINS أطلال

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Grief-stricken by her late father’s sudden death, Amelia Alyssa embarks on a journey to her ancestral homeland, Lebanon. She bears witness to the ancient Baalbek ruins of the Beqaa Valley while lodging nearby at the Palmyra Hotel, a time capsule of a flourishing yesteryear. An exploration of migration and sacrifice…