• 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…
    Dancing at Lughnasa

    New Theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “I want to dance, Kate. It’s the Festival of Lughnasa. I’m only thirty-five. I want to dance.” It’s the summer of 1936, during the pagan festival of Lughnasa, and young Michael watches his five aunts navigate the fragile joys and looming hardships of rural Irish life. Brief moments of freedom,…
    Gruesome Playground Injuries

    Unorthodox Productions: Gruesome Playground Injuries

    TAP gallery 259 Riley Street, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
    Why do we hurt ourselves? Kayleen and Doug are destined for each other. After a chance encounter in the school sick bay, they find themselves pulled back together again and again, like stitches over an open wound. Messy, complicated, funny and deeply painful, Gruesome Playground Injuries asks whether a relationship…
    Constellations

    Free-Rain Theatre Company: Constellations

    ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
    Theoretical physics tangles with a love of nature when an improbable romance evolves between a physicist, Marianne and a beekeeper, Roland. Their chance encounter and the relationship that follows explores moments of grace and grit and the familiar highs and lows experienced when we connect with another human being. Constellations…
    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.…
    Stellarphant by James Foley

    Barking Gecko Arts: Stellarphant by James Foley

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Stella the elephant has one big dream: to become an astronaut. The only problem is that Space Command says elephants can’t go to space. Every time Stella applies, she’s told “no” for a different reason, but she won’t give up. With courage, creativity and the help of some unexpected friends,…
    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre: 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…
    Mara

    Theatre Works: Mara

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    A fearlessly inventive retelling of the Cinderella story from the stepmother’s perspective. Single mother of two Mara struggles to find work, before marrying a wealthy widower. Her new husband still grieves his first wife, buried beneath a cherry blossom tree in the garden – a tree whose branches tap relentlessly…
    Stellarphant by James Foley

    Barking Gecko Arts: Stellarphant by James Foley

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Stella the elephant has one big dream: to become an astronaut. The only problem is that Space Command says elephants can’t go to space. Every time Stella applies, she’s told “no” for a different reason, but she won’t give up. With courage, creativity and the help of some unexpected friends,…

    Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir 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,…
    The Bookbinder

    Trick of the Light: The Bookbinder

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    An old man sits down to read the tale of an erstwhile bookbinding apprentice. As he speaks the story spills from the pages and into the bindery. The Bookbinder weaves shadow play, paper art, puppetry, and music into an original dark fairytale in the vein of Coraline and Jonathon Strange and Mr…
    BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…