• Malacañang Made Us

    Queensland Theatre: Malacañang Made Us

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised. 1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change. On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young…
    Editor's Choice Shirley Valentine

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Shirley Valentine

    Twelfth Night Theatre 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
    Following seasons in Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra, Willy Russell’s life-affirming one-woman play, which premiered in 1986, is headed for Sydney and Brisbane with Natalie Bassingthwaighte as Shirley. It tells the story of a middle-aged, working-class Liverpool housewife who finds herself stuck in a rut. Talking to her kitchen wall, she…
    The Talented Mr Ripley

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Talented Mr Ripley

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Will McDonald (Heartbreak High) plays Tom Ripley, an orphan and a striver, barely scraping by in 1950s New York. But beneath his woebegone exterior, Tom cultivates certain talents that set him apart: an extraordinary capacity for mimicry and deception. He is a man with a face no-one remembers. Whereas no…
    Heart is a Wasteland

    Yirra Yaakin Theatre: Heart is a Wasteland

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Raye, is a country-music star in the making, playing in one back-water pub after another along Australia’s vast desert highways. Trying to make a living in the hope of returning home to her young son Elvis, her lyrics blaze through the landscapes of love and longing. A chance meeting and…
    The Play That Goes Wrong

    GMG Productions: The Play That Goes Wrong

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    The Play That Goes Wrong is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes, things go from bad to utterly disastrous when the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society performs a classic murder mystery. You all know the classic whodunnit story; there has been a murder at a country manor and…
    The Breath of Kings

    Theatre Works: The Breath of Kings | Henry 6

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Shakespeare's Henry 6 plays are one of the great undiscovered gems of Western Literature. An intoxicating mix of violence, politics and romance, this civil war is as machiavellian as Succession and as brutal as Game of Thrones. Henry 6 is a rare thing - a religious pacifist in a time…

    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…

    Genesian Theatre: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A fortune-teller tells Lord Arthur Savile that he sees murder ahead! The only logical course of action for Arthur is to try get this dreadfully embarrassing act out of the way before his wedding in three weeks' time. But staging the perfect murder proves not nearly as easy as he…
    Ken Ludwig’s MORIARTY

    Genesian Theatre: Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson have a new case to solve! An investigation into the Bohemian King’s stolen letters suddenly cascades into an international mystery filled with spies, blackmail and intrigue. With world peace at stake, Holmes and Watson join forces with American actress Irene…
    Fitz Happens: Home Is Where The Haunt Is

    New Ghosts Theatre Company: Fitz Happens: Home Is Where The Haunt Is

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    A terrifyingly good night of spooky monologues, raising vital funds for the Old Fitz Theatre’s newly launched Playwright Fund. This thrilling production unites six of Australia's leading playwrights and a star-studded cast to premiere a powerful collection of original monologues. Inspired by the themes of Act 3 - Loyalty, Lies, and…
    Embarking on a Drift to the Unknown

    Antinomy Company: Embarking on a Drift to the Unknown

    Nexus Arts Lion Arts Centre, 68 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    In 1957, a woman crossed the sea and vanished into an arranged marriage. Decades later, her granddaughter retells the story in an intimate, audio-immersive solo performance merging soundscapes, fragmented memory, archival media and carried through wireless headphones. Guided by “Zi Wei Dou Shu” (紫微斗數), a Chinese astrological system, the work…