• Lano & Woodley In Space

    Theatre Royal, Hobart: Lano & Woodley In Space

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Australia’s favourite comedy duo Lano & Woodley are all alone on a spaceship. Or are they? Commander Col is focused on their important mission. Co-pilot Woodley…isn’t. One thing is for sure, when Frank and Colin launch into space, the stage will come alive with an hour of sublime, inventive and…
    Griffin Theatre: Lacuna

    Griffin Theatre Company: Lacuna

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Claudia is jobless, cashless and flailing. Doomscrolling in the dark, ignoring emails from Centrelink, she wallows in the aftermath of an earth-shattering fight with her Mum. Why can’t Claudia just get a job like a good Chinese daughter? So, Claudia is delighted when a plum job opportunity falls right into…
    The Jungle & The Sea

    : The Jungle & The Sea

    The Playhouse
    From the visionary team behind the multi-award-winning Counting and Cracking – S. Shakthidharan and long-time collaborator Eamon Flack – comes ‘another achievement of sustained feeling and empathy’ (The Guardian). When an unexpected act of destruction splits her family apart, Gowrie takes a radical vow of defiance: she blindfolds herself, refusing to see the world again until…
    Casey and Diana

    Mi Todo Productions: Casey and Diana

    Qtopia Sydney The Loading Dock Theatre 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    October 1991. Inside Toronto’s Casey House hospice, Thomas has been asking himself questions like: why hasn’t his roommate seen Steel Magnolias? And how did that diner get these eggs to smell like cat food? But now, he’s asking himself the most important question of all: What is the perfect ice-breaking…
    William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs

    Theatre Works: William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    William Shakespeare's Reservoir Dogs brings together the iconic characters and dialogue from Shakespeare's plays with the gritty underworld of Quentin Tarantino's film. Telling the tale of six strangers brought together to commit a daring crime...plunder a coach of precious jewels; things go awry, and those who remain must fight to…
    The Lark

    Merrigong Theatre Company: The Lark

    Illawarra Performing Arts Centre 32 Burelli Street, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    In 2016, Noni Hazlehurst, beloved star of stage and screen, mesmerised Wollongong in Mother. Now, she makes a welcome return to our stage in The Lark, the acclaimed new work from the same creative team of writer, Daniel Keene and director, Matt Scholten. Rose Grey is saying her final goodbye…
    Lovesong by Abi Morgan

    Allentertainment: Lovesong by Abi Morgan

    PIP Theatre 20 Park Road, Milton, QLD, Australia
    “That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of… the end.” BAFTA-award winner Abi Morgan’s Lovesong is an extraordinary portrait of intimacy, tracing Billy and Maggie’s forty turbulent years of marriage. A fragile universe of promises and hope, where the optimism of youth gives way to…
    Second Coming

    La Boite: Second Coming

    La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
    It’s 2065, Earth is burning, and time is running out. Geneticist Evie and the crew of the ARK MARK II spaceship are humanity’s last hope, charged with rescuing every species they can, two by two, for a new beginning on Mars. Lions, Javan warty pigs, and creatures of all kinds…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her daughter was destined for superstardom. One day, Mackenzie and her best on-set friend Beau encounter a geriatric make-up artist…
    Editor's Choice Break Of Day

    Malthouse Theatre: Break Of Day

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    After stunning audiences with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, Kat Stewart and director Sarah Goodes reunite for the world premiere of Steve Rodgers’ play Break of Day. The gripping new drama – which won the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award and The Australian Writers Guild Prize for…
    Editor's Choice The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    Sydney Opera House - Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Alongside seasons of The Merry Widow (until 18 August) and Rigoletto (until 21 August), Opera Australia presents The Drover’s Wife, a new opera based on the play, novel and film by Leah Purcell, with music by George Palmer. First staged in Brisbane in May, Limelight described it as “a searing…