• Queen Hades Productions: Posh

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    At an exclusive Oxford dining club, ten wealthy young men gather for a night of indulgence, revelry, and destruction. Fueled by privilege, arrogance, and an unwavering belief in their own power, they’re ready to take on the world—until the night spirals out of control. Laura Wade’s Posh is a razor-sharp,…
    Sorry For Your Loss

    YIRRAMBOI: Sorry For Your Loss

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A heartfelt and hilarious story about growing up on the mean streets of Aotearoa with a sometimes-there-mostly-not Dad. Sorry For Your Loss is about the power of wāhine (women); and the gift of strength from one woman to another. Cian Parker shares her story about reclaiming her heritage when she…
    UPU

    Sydney Opera House: UPU

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    UPU – meaning ‘word’ in many different languages of the Pacific Islands– is a collection of voices from a people who live on a sea of islands connected by the largest body of water on earth, known as Te moana Nui a Kiwa, or the Pacific Ocean. Through the words of…

    Yirra Yaakin Theatre: Thirst

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Thirst is a funny and tender comedy that explores why some people leave, some stay, and some return to regional towns. Thirst is set in the Glass Slipper Tavern, the community hub of Yellow Springs. Lola, a former popstar, and her entrepreneurial long-term partner and band member, Chico, never thought…

    Melbourne Theatre Company: The Black Woman of Gippsland

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A woman is tossed ashore from the sea, bedraggled and lost. A century and a half later, another finds herself diving deep into the truth behind a lingering legend. Jacinta’s family is driving her up the wall and her academic career is floundering, but amongst the books, something doesn’t feel…
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    Belvoir St Theatre: The Wrong Gods

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    S. Shakthidharan enjoyed international success with his epic 2019 play Counting and Cracking about a Sri Lankan-Australian family across four generations. His latest stage work is a more intimate, 90-minute piece, featuring four performers. Co-produced with Melbourne Theatre Company, The Wrong Gods explores the tension between tradition and progress in…

    Sydney Theatre Company: Happy Days

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Stage and screen icon Pamela Rabe (The Children, The War of The Roses, The Lost Echo) immerses herself in one of the greatest roles ever written, Happy Days’ eternal optimist, Winnie. Conceived and directed by award-winning theatre designer Nick Schlieper – Lighting Designer on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr…
    Scenes From The Climate Era

    Belvoir St Theatre: Scenes From The Climate Era

    Hothouse Theatre Lincoln Causeway,, Wodonga, VIC, Australia
    A frog, the last of its species, starts calling for a mate, but there’s no-one to hear. A group of friends reminisce about the last time they took a flight, before all that came to an end. Landholders in Borneo confront western environmentalists over who owns the forest. A scientist…
    And Then There Were None

    Crossroads Live Australia: And Then There Were None

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Agatha Christie’s breathtaking masterpiece, And Then There Were None opens at the Comedy Theatre in February. From the producers of the hugely successful Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap comes a brand-new production of the best-selling crime novel of all time. Ten strangers are lured to a solitary mansion on an island…
    Upside Down at the Bottom of the World

    Sydney Acting Studio: Upside Down at the Bottom of the World

    Sydney Acting Studio 11 Cope Street, Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Following our successful productions of In a Little Room and Mad For You, Ad Hoc Theatre in association with the Sydney Actors Studio presents a revival of David Allen’s award winning play about DH Lawrence and his wife Frieda during the time they spent in Australia in the 1920s. Very…

    FloMo Creative: Shakespeare’s R&J

    Salamanca Arts Centre 77 Salamanca Pl, Battery Point, TAS, Australia
    This multi-award winning play won great critical acclaim earning a Lortel Award as the longest-running, Off-Broadway version of Romeo and Juliet in New York history. Calarco’s R&J is the story of five senior boys living in a rigid, religious boarding school in the 1950s. One night, they discover a copy…

    Theatre Works: The Machine Stops

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    From the team that brought you The Human Voice and Moth comes the radical 1909 dystopian epic that predicted the internet.Be transported by this world premier of a new adaptation of the brilliant novella The Machine Stops by EM Forster (A Room with a View).In this chilling tale of a…

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