• Dark Erotica Quartet / Footfalls

    Blake Barnard and Keith Brockett: Dark Erotica Quartet / Footfalls

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Dark Erotica Quartet by James Hazelden A blackly comic take on kink, sexual proclivities and satisfaction. Three seemingly disparate scenes that fit together, Russian-doll style, into a celebration of the lost art of spoken erotica. A play about the kind of sex we think about, and not the kind we…
    Shakespeare In Love

    Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: Shakespeare In Love

    Geelong Arts Centre 81 Ryrie Street, Geelong, VIC, Australia
    Young Will Shakespeare has a bad case of writer’s block and desperately needs a muse.  His new comedy, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter, isn’t turning out how he’d hoped and he’s up against a tight deadline to deliver his next masterpiece. That is until he meets Viola de Lesseps,…
    Whitefella Yella Tree

    Griffin Theatre Company: Whitefella Yella Tree

    Union Theatre, University of Melbourne University of Melbourne Arts & Cultural Building, 761 Swanston St,, Parkville, VIC, Australia
    After a runaway debut at Sydney's Griffin Theatre in 2022, Whitefella Yella Tree makes its Victorian premiere in a strictly limited season. Once in a blue moon, in the middle of nowhere, two teenage boys meet under a lemon tree. After a rough start, a fragile friendship fruits into a heady romance. If…

    Ensemble Theatre: Fly Girl

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    It’s the late 70’s and the Australian Aviation Industry is a boy’s club. The only job women are allowed involves wearing heels, lighting smokes and serving nuts. Deborah Lawrie’s got the chops to fly the big jets, but Reg Ansett won’t let her. Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore use their…
    Present Laughter by Noel Coward

    New Theatre: Present Laughter by Noel Coward

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “Everybody worships me. It’s nauseating.” Actor Garry Essendine is possibly the most desired man in the world. He is handsome, charming, self-deprecating, self-obsessed, and in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Over the course of a few days, on the eve of an overseas tour, he finds his life bombarded…
    Editor's Choice Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Sydney Theatre Company: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    When Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre presented Edward Albee’s corrosive black comedy in late 2023, with Kat Stewart as Martha and her real-life husband David Whiteley as George, the season sold out before it opened and extended. Hailed as “electrifying”, the production, directed by Sarah Goodes, then had a commercial season at…
    It’s A Wonderful Life

    Genesian Theatre: It’s A Wonderful Life

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The classic and beloved Christmas film brought to life on stage! George Bailey who feels life has passed him by but discovers through his guardian angel that it might just be wonderful life after all. “Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings”. It’s Christmas Eve in Bedford…
    Castrati

    Kit Spencer: Castrati

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    The castrati avoid puberty entirely. Kit, a transman, has been through two. Explore the story of the intriguing resonance between two disparate voices. Since opera's inception in 1607, castrati-male singers, castrated before puberty to retain their high voices-were the stage's greatest stars. Their unique timbre, range and flexibility were unrivaled…
    Every Wild Idea

    Critical Path: Every Wild Idea

    Drill Hall 1c New Beach Rd, Darling Point, NSW, Australia
    Critical Path, Australia’s leading choreographic centre for research and development, turns 20 in 2025. To celebrate, the organisation will open its doors with a free program of performance, sound and film, Every Wild Idea, in Critical Path’s one-of-its-kind heritage listed dance space, the Drill Hall, Rushcutters Bay. The three day…
    Naturism

    Griffin Theatre Company: Naturism

    Wharf 2 Theatre The Wharf, Dawes Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    No internet. No intruders. No clothes. Far from the trappings of civilisation, a group of nudist baby boomers have created their very own off-grid bush eco-paradise. An unseasonably hot summer approaches, but no worries! They’ve got enough preserves, pickles, and Fleetwood Mac to get them through it… probably. Enter Evangeline—a…
    Editor's Choice Calamity Jane

    One Eyed Man Productions: Calamity Jane

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step inside the Golden Garter Saloon and enter the Wild West as Virginia Gay reprises the role of the legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane (for which she won a Sydney Theatre Award). Adapted from the much-loved film starring Doris Day, this stripped-back, rough-and-ready reimagining of the classic musical, directed by Richard…
    Editor's Choice The Shiralee

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Shiralee

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Kate Mulvany did a fabulous job adapting Ruth Park’s Harp in the South trilogy for Sydney Theatre Company. Now she has turned her attention to the 1955 Australian classic The Shiralee, written by D’Arcy Niland (who was married to Park). The story centres on Macauley, a rugged swagman, who roams Australia…