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Editor's Choice Event Series Medea

Queensland Theatre: Medea

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
When Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks adapted Euripides’ Greek tragedy Medea, they told it from the perspective of Medea’s two doomed children, seen playing in a contemporary bedroom. The extraordinary, award-winning play premiered at Belvoir in 2012 and was staged overseas with Sarks directing. Now, Daniel Evans directs it for…
Event Series Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

Everyman Theatre: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne,…
Event Series Captain Moonlite

Liverpool Performing Arts Ensemble: Captain Moonlite

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Powerhouse Rd, Casula, NSW, Australia
Captain Moonlite  tells the captivating true story of the Irish-born, Australian bushranger, Captain Moonlite, AKA Andrew ‘George’ Scott, who led a ragged bunch of young misfits to stage a siege and shoot out near Gundagai, NSW. The musical is set in a death cell of Sydney’s Darlinghurst Gaol (today’s National…
Editor's Choice Event Series Gaslight

Queensland Theatre: Gaslight

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
Bella Manningham thinks she’s losing her mind. In the evenings, she hears strange noises and the sitting-room gas lamps dim for no apparent reason. Her husband Jack is becoming exasperated by her anxiety. But is he the man he claims to be? Set in London in 1901, Patrick Hamilton’s 1938…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Almighty Sometimes

Melbourne Theatre Company: The Almighty Sometimes

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Kendall Feaver’s knotty drama takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people. Anna threw herself out of a window when she was seven. The following year, having read her somewhat macabre stories, her worried mother Renée took her to see a child psychiatrist, who prescribed a…
Event Series The Mousetrap

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: The Mousetrap

Civic Theatre Newcastle 375 Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is the world’s longest-running play. This thrilling West End production is the genre-defining murder mystery from the best-selling novelist of all time … case closed! As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves snowed in at a remote countryside…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Odd Couple

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: The Odd Couple

Comedy Theatre 240 Exhibition St,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Having delighted audiences as married couple Edna and Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray, long-time friends Shane Jacobson and Todd McKenney leapt at the opportunity to perform together again in The Odd Couple. Neil Simon’s Tony Award-winning comedy opened on Broadway in 1965 and was made into a hit film starring Jack Lemmon…
Editor's Choice Event Series Lucia di Lammermoor

Melbourne Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor

Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Following its success with the Bendigo Ring Cycle, Melbourne Opera turns its attention to one of the pinnacles of  bel canto. Donizetti’s most popular work – a well-crafted adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s Highland family drama The Bride of Lammermoor – features a string of memorable arias and, of course, the famous…

BEMAC (Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre): The First Creatives – Ya’Djin Spirit Women

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main St, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia
For The First Creatives first full-length production, a multidisciplinary, intergenerational cast of First Nations’ women share stories of colonial violence, dispossession, abuse, motherhood, blak joy, connection, country and healing, woven together with song, dance and video. The show will feature performances by The First Creatives founders, dancers Allirah and Maddy…
Event Series Switzerland

Ensemble Theatre: Switzerland

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Frigid winds of the Swiss Alps whistle past the cabin windows of best-selling crime author Patricia Highsmith as she retreats away from the world in her beloved fortress of solitude. Surrounded by a towering collection of books with only the company of cats, Patricia’s peace is disturbed when an intriguing…
Event Series The State

The Blue Room Theatre: The State

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
Look at the state of this place! Four states are lorded over by foppish drag-king Daddies, all under the thumb of an elusive and shadowy figure known as Mummy. Democracy is falling apart at the seams. A series of increasingly absurd catastrophes launches young rebel Flung on a nationwide quest…
Event Series Amor

D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective: Amor

Black Box Theatre at The Old Ambulance Station 80 Howard Street, Nambour, QLD, Australia
Amor, by D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective, is an exploration of love's subtle nuances, defying conventions to celebrate the beauty of the unfamiliar emotional territory. Inspired by the intricacies of human existence, this production is a vivid testament to the power of experiencing love from unusual perspectives. In a captivating audio-visual landscape,…

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