• Red Ticket

    The Blue Room Theatre: Red Ticket

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Does the past ever leave us? Set in the former Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, now a community arts centre, Red Ticket explores the shared connection of two women, a century apart, struggling with mental health issues after childbirth. Lily is a new mum drowning under the pressures of motherhood. In search of community…
    A Thing Called Birthday

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op: A Thing Called a Birthday

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
    Do we need another hero? This is a much debated question but the answer is probably, yes! Do you like births? Do you like days? We've combined the two into one concept- a birthday! Do you like tights and mortality? Join us for our Birth Day celebration! Where:... When:... How:...…
    ArtsLab: Overflow

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op: ArtsLab: Overflow

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
    Shopfront Arts ArtsLab: Overflow, is a festival of seven new creative works by emerging artists. With bold new performance works spanning installation, theatre, puppetry, carving, performance art and film – this year’s ArtsLab is an exciting blend of young voices.⁠ This year, we’re also thrilled to welcome two incredible emerging…
    Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Isla and Violet are a ‘lethal combination’. Their self-righteous headmaster thinks that’s an insult. They think it’s a cute name for a girl group. Too smart, too precocious and way too outspoken, it’s no surprise when these self-proclaimed soulmates are SEPARATED until the end of the year. But the world outside…
    Eden

    Siren Theatre Co: Eden

    The Substation - Qtopia 136 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    'Eden' is a coming-of-age story about identity, transformation, and the quiet violence of becoming. One summer, Kit and Dan’s lives fizz with possibility—where desire, guilt, and the ache for belonging entwine. Infused with a distinctive theatrical language, 'Eden' is part confession, part elegy, part mystery. As myth dissolves, a landscape…
    Editor's Choice The River

    Sydney Theatre Company: The River

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades star in The River, a haunting three-hander by UK playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem). The mysterious, 80-minute play is set in a remote wooden cabin where a lovesick fisherman is playing host to a woman. It should be a weekend full of romance, but all…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE In Hollywood’s Golden Age, two queens reigned supreme – Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Before Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? lit up cinemas, their off-camera rivalry was already a blockbuster. Anton Burge’s deliciously wicked two-hander pulls back the curtain on the set where egos clashed, tempers flared, and…
    Editor's Choice RBG: Of Many, One

    State Theatre Company South Australia: RBG: Of Many, One

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
    The Admirable Crichton

    Genesian Theatre: The Admirable Crichton

    St Joseph's Church Hall Gordon Street, Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What happens when Edwardian aristocrats and their unflappable butler are stranded on a desert island? In Barrie's delicious satire, the social order flips upside-down in ways both hilarious and revealing. Think Downtown Abbey meets Survivor: witty, playful and packed with class-skewering fun. Light, bright and utterly charming!
    Stage Kiss

    New Theatre: Stage Kiss

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “When I kissed you just now, did it feel like an actor kissing an actor or a person kissing a person…?” Two actors, and former lovers, unexpectedly reunite when cast opposite each other in a forgotten 1930s melodrama. As rehearsals progress and onstage romance echoes their past, the lines between…
    Editor's Choice West Gate

    Melbourne Theatre Company: West Gate

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dennis McIntosh was 12 when Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapsed on 15 October, 1970. He and his friends heard the terrible thud from their school – something he has never forgotten. Thirty-five men died in what remains Australia’s deadliest industrial accident. For the past decade, McIntosh has been working on a play…