• The Taming of the Shrew

    The Playwrought Project: The Taming of the Shrew

    Wharf 2 Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company
    Get ready to witness Shakespeare’s infamous battle of the sexes in a bold 70-minute production packed with grand Elizabethan costumes, devilish jokes and fresh twists. In this reimagined 1594, it is a matriarchal world where the women do the taming. This is Shrew like you’ve never seen it before. In…
    Ruins أطلال

    Seymour Centre: Ruins أطلال

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Seymour Centre and Clockfire Theatre Company are delighted to present the full-scale world premiere of Emily Ayoub and Madeline Baghurst’s RUINS أطلال at the Reginald Theatre from 25th September to 18th October. Grief-stricken by her father’s sudden death, Amelia Alissa travels to her ancestral homeland, Lebanon. Amid the ancient Baalbek…
    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…
    Night Night

    The Last Great Hunt: Night Night

    Newcastle Museum 6 Workshop Way,, Newcastle, NSW
    See a theatrical film created live each night through a blend of puppets, animation and DIY digital magic Highly visual and playfully cinematic, the newest creation from The Last Great Hunt tells the heartwarming story of life, death and other dimensions. Follow Pip, a downtrodden Antarctic scientist on a quest…
    I Met An Angel Named Jacques

    Footscray Community Arts: I Met An Angel Named Jacques

    Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia
    Set in a real world that is completely made up, I Met an Angel Named Jacques introduces us to L'or - a celebrated artist whose work is bold, unrelenting, and impossible to ignore. He’s at the top of his game, all eyes are on him, and under the public gaze…
    NIUSIA

    The Clocktower Centre: NIUSIA

    The Clocktower Centre 750 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds, VIC, Australia
    Written by Beth Paterson, Directed by Kat Yates Niusia was a Holocaust survivor. Charming, savvy, and–if you ask her granddaughter, Beth–a pretty mean lady. She is ready to learn who Niusia was, but soon discovers there is no straightforward story. Reading, interviewing, and weaving memories and handed-down stories, Beth sets…
    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…
    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…
    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…