• My Brilliant Apocalypse Part I

    : My Brilliant Apocalypse Part I

    Bluestone Church Arts Space 8A Hyde St, Footscray, VIC, Australia
    After twenty years of development, My Brilliant Apocalypse arrives in Footscray. It’s a funny, fast-paced exploration of what it is exist: within yourself, within the known Universe, or perhaps even within an alternative Universe that lives in someone else’s head! Themes of self as hero, pawn, sage and spirit all…
    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…
    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 Uncle Vanya

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chekov’s achingly sad yet mordantly funny play finds fresh life in this adaptation by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, first staged by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2024. Now, Anne-Louise Sarks directs a new production for MTC. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have spent years managing a run-down country estate in rural…
    Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre: Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    For Jane Fredericks, the fight for justice is personal. As a passionate legal aid solicitor, Jane risks everything to help an old flame, and her world quickly unravels – both in the courtroom and at home. Her husband Trevor, a prominent barrister, faces his own ethical conundrum: defend a powerful…

    Theatre North: Oh, What A Beautiful Morning!

    Albert Hall, Launceston 47 Tamar St, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    Starring Australian music theatre performer Ian Stenlake and vocalist Michelle Fitzmaurice, with Kym Dillon on piano, Oh, What a Beautiful Morning is a new ProMac production celebrating the work of three of the most prolific and influential musical theatre composers: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Lorenz Hart. Ian Stenlake, Michelle Fitzmaurice and Kym Dillon are the ideal ensemble to bring…
    Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…
    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…
    Editor's Choice Uncle Vanya

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chekov’s achingly sad yet mordantly funny play finds fresh life in this adaptation by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, first staged by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2024. Now, Anne-Louise Sarks directs a new production for MTC. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have spent years managing a run-down country estate in rural…
    Editor's Choice Do Not Go Gentle

    Queensland Theatre Company: Do Not Go Gentle

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Patricia Cornelius’s 2006 play, Do Not Go Gentle, which takes his title from Dylan Thomas’s poem, is a poetically powerful depiction of old age and dementia. Set in an aged care home, a group of residents imagine themselves taking part in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed 1911 expedition to the South…
    Editor's Choice Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    First seen at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2024, this Olivier Award-winning production, directed by Jordan Fein, transferred to the Barbican, where it became the venue’s best-selling musical of all time. Set in 1905, Tevye, a milkman in the tiny fictional village of Anatevka, tries to maintain his…
    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…