The Amazing Lucas Girls

HerStory Arts Festival: The Amazing Lucas Girls

Wharf 2 Theatre The Wharf, Dawes Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The Amazing Lucas Girls is a beautiful story of women courageously and caringly banding together in adversity. Herstory Arts Festival invites you to their art display and readings in poetry, short story, memoir and essay in the foyer one hour prior to performances. After sellout audiences of Forgotten (based on the Parramatta female…
DOG MAN: THE MUSICAL

CDP Kids: Dog Man: The Musical

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Best buddies George and Harold have been creating comics for years, but now that they’re in 5th grade, they figure it's time to level up and write a musical based on their favourite character, Dog Man, the crime-biting sensation who is part dog, part man and ALL HERO!!  How hard…
Shadow of Doubt | The Blue Room Theatre

Fine Comb Theatre Company: Shadow of Doubt

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
What Lies Beneath The Surface? David and Heather Andrews seem like the perfect couple. Nestled in the Kalamunda hills, their newlywed life appears flawless – cooking dinner together, hiking scenic trails, and even building Ikea furniture with ease. It is the picture of suburban bliss, a white picket dream. But…
Abigail Williams

HerStory Arts Festival: Abigail Williams

Wharf 2 Theatre The Wharf, Dawes Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
After a sold-out season at NIDA’s Festival of Emerging Artists in 2023, the hauntingly beautiful Abigail Williams makes its wharf debut as part of the HERStory Art Festival in 2025. A 17-year-old girl has an affair with a 35-year-old married man. Her master. A father. A leader in his community. And she’s…
Brown Women Comedy

Riverside Theatres: Brown Women Comedy

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Laugh your heart out to an award-winning bold & besharam (shameless) line-up of Indian & South Asian Australian comedians living in Australia. No topic is too taboo. These women won’t be holding back. Your parents probably won’t approve as you trauma bond watching these women turn family expectations & life…
Big GIrls Don’t Cry

Belvoir St Theatre: Big Girls Don’t Cry

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Redfern 1966. Cheryl, Lulu and Queenie are young and life is glorious, full of hilarity and joy, even if jobs are precarious, the police harass them, and racism seeps into everything. But as they gear up for the biggest night of the year – the Deb Ball – their lives,…
RBG: Of Many, One

Sydney Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
After a triumphant premiere season in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, the smash-hit RBG: Of Many, One returns to the Sydney stage once more in 2025, due to popular demand. The brilliant Heather Mitchell will be reviving her award-winning and critically acclaimed “virtuosic performance” (The Conversation) of the woman…

Shauna Beesley: Lest We Forget: Music and poetry for ANZAC Day

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Join Shauna Beesley and friends for an evening of music and poetry written for, by and about our ANZACS. This concert features the Australian première of Shauna Beesley’s song cycle Lest We Forget, sung by dynamic baritone Nicholas Beecher, with the composer at the piano. Also on the program is the…
The Glass Menagerie

Ensemble Theatre: The Glass Menagerie

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Following the success of Suddenly Last Summer, Ensemble Theatre is thrilled to present one of the most iconic dramas of the 20th century, the timeless Tennessee Williams masterpiece, The Glass Menagerie, on from Friday 21st March to Saturday 26th April. Directed by Liesel Badorrek (Master Class), Williams’ first great theatrical…
SNAKEFACE

Fruit Box Theatre: SNAKEFACE

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
“I’m scrapin’ Andrew’s floor with Gumption, list’nin” to a podcast ‘bout diet culture, when I realise I might technic’lly be a serial killer.” At age 23 Snakeface is cursed by her ex to live her life as a monster. Reclaiming the violence forced upon her, she rampages through the queer…
The Amazing Lucas Girls

HerStory Arts Festival: The Amazing Lucas Girls

Wharf 2 Theatre The Wharf, Dawes Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The Amazing Lucas Girls is a beautiful story of women courageously and caringly banding together in adversity. Herstory Arts Festival invites you to their art display and readings in poetry, short story, memoir and essay in the foyer one hour prior to performances. After sellout audiences of Forgotten (based on the Parramatta female…

Sydney Opera House: Grug and the Rainbow

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
A magical adaptation of Ted Prior’s beloved picture books, Grug and the Rainbow sees our grassy little friend embark on an epic adventure to bask in the colours of the illusive rainbow. Featuring exquisite puppetry and heart-warming humour back to delight audiences, this smash hit is not one to miss…

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