• 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…
    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…
    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…
    Equus

    Free-Rain Theatre Company: Equus

    ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
    Equus by Peter Shaffer is an electric play about passion and worship. Equus is very confronting and sets out to shock, excite and captivate its audience. It is an exploration of the human condition with its confusions, paradoxes and unanswerable questions, blending the naturalistic with the surreal. The play exposes…
    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…
    Rising Water

    Three River Theatre: Rising Water

    Earl Arts Centre 10 Earl Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    The events of Rising Water take place over the course of one evening, on Australia Day on a marina in Fremantle. Col, Baxter and Jackie live side by side on their respective sailing vessels, which are moored fast and likely never to see the ocean. Each of them has their…
    So Young

    Outhouse Theatre Co: So Young

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    Summer 2021. Lockdown is over. Just. Three months ago Milo lost his wife to Covid. She was only forty-five. So young. Tonight he has invited his two oldest pals, Davie and Liane, to come round and drink some wine, listen to some tunes and reminisce about the old days. And…
    Editor's Choice The Play That Goes Wrong

    GMG Productions: The Play That Goes Wrong

    Regal Theatre 474 Hay St, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    If you just want a good laugh, look no further than The Play That Goes Wrong, in which the inept Cornley Drama Society attempts to stage a 1920s murder mystery. It’s not as clever as Michael Frayn’s inspired Noises Off, but it’s fun. Co-written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry…

    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…
    Red Ryder is Script Teasing

    Red Ryder Productions: Red Ryder is Script Teasing

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    This November the Blue Room Theatre is our salon, and you’re invited.  We love our playwrights sweating away in ivory towers (or at their Mum’s house). We love the words on the page. But our artform must, at its most essential, be heard. So, lend us your ears.  A range…