• Editor's Choice Trent Dalton’s Love Stories

    Darwin Entertainment Centre: Trent Dalton’s Love Stories

    AANT Centre Darwin, NT, 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…
    WA Youth Theatre Company Presents: Made in Boorloo

    WA Youth Theatre Company: Made in Boorloo

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    WAYTCo partners with The Blue Room Theatre to elevate its playwriting opportunities for West Australian youth. Made in Boorloo is an annual WA Youth Theatre Company (WAYTCo) program for young and emerging playwrights that will see the development and presentation of two new plays. Strongest Patient by Adam Snyman, directed…
    1984 by George Orwell

    shake & stir theatre co: 1984 by George Orwell

    Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Dr, Araluen, NT, Australia
    Big Brother is back. Strap in for an electrifying take on the George Orwell classic – from the multi-award winning creative minds at Shake & Stir (Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Animal Farm and Dracula). It was a bright cold day, and the clocks were striking thirteen...  Winston Smith, an editor at the Ministry…
    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…
    Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    Messy With the Pen: Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Manes, meltdowns and masculinity collide in this unhinged equestrian brom-com road trip coming to fortyfivedownstairs this October. Quinn is a middle-aged dressage diva in distress. Loyal groom and live-in lover to top rider Randall James Beaumont-Smythe III, Quinn’s idyllic Daylesford life is shattered when Randy dumps him for a younger…
    Looking for Alibrandi

    Brink Productions: Looking for Alibrandi

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Josie Alibrandi is in her final year of high school. Whip-smart and aspirational, she is a third-generation Italian teenager and scholarship kid, with the shadow of a family curse and a penchant for rule-breaking. Juggling grades, boys, and the claustrophobia of an overbearing nonna and saintly mother, Josie’s life becomes tangled in…

    Ensemble Theatre: How To Plot A Hit In Two Days

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    It’s 1985. TV prime time. Across Australia, millions of tear-stricken eyes are glued to their television sets in disbelief. A Country Practice’s beloved Molly Jones takes her final breath. Fade to black and she’s gone. Inside the story room, in a creative flurry powered by coffee, cigarettes and Fantales, the…
    Once Upon a Grimm Night

    Odyssey Theatre: Once Upon a Grimm Night

    Old Government House, Parramatta Cnr Pitt and Macquarie St, Parramatta, NSW, Australia
    Once Upon a Grimm Night is an intimate, interactive adventure inside Old Government House, Parramatta. The border between our world and Everafter is fraying; Grimm Volkov enlists you and other wayfarers after the Narrator sets the scene to follow clues, brew potions and uncover what binds the Maiden and the Witch.…
    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)…

    RMIT future play lab: Reworlding: City North

    Cardigan St, Carlton Cnr Cardigan St and Victoria St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Reworlding City North is an immersive climate action game where players live through the climate polycrisis together in Naarm Melbourne 2050. Registration is open for this site-specific, live action roleplaying game (LARP) focussed on hope and connection, building community and making place together during a climate emergency. Play the Future…
    Where to Hide a Star

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Where to Hide a Star

    The Neilson, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    From the creative team that brought you the smash-hit production How to Catch a Star, comes a brand-new theatrical adventure based on Oliver Jeffers’ sequel, Where to Hide a Star – a sparkling celebration of imagination, friendship, empathy, courage and love. In this delightful new ACO Families production, we reunite…
    Dog Man: The Musical

    CDP Kids: Dog Man: The Musical

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    When evil cats and cyborg fish threaten the city, it's time to call in the ultimate good boy… Dog Man! With the head of a dog and the body of a policeman, Dog Man loves to fight crime and chew on the furniture. But while trying his best to be…