Editor's Choice The Wrong Gods

Melbourne Theatre Company: The Wrong Gods

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, 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 Belvoir, The Wrong Gods explores the tension between tradition and progress in a valley in India. The…
Happy Days

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…
Eureka Day

Outhouse Theatre Co: Eureka Day

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Screamingly funny and wildly topical, Eureka Day lasers in on the poverty of modern discourse and our inability to listen to those with whom we disagree. It's 2019 and Eureka Day, a private primary school in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, gender identity, social justice. The parents on…
Eureka Day

Seymour Centre: Eureka Day

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Outhouse Theatre Co and Seymour Centre present the hotly anticipated Sydney premiere of Jonathan Spector’s shrewd social satire, Eureka Day. It's 2018 and Eureka Day, a private primary school in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, gender identity, social justice. The parents on the Executive Committee value…

Flight Path Theatre: Christ Almighty: A comedy of biblical proportions!

Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
Meet Jesus - a biblical millennial frittering away his thirties on his parents’ couch. It isn’t until God turns up and dishes out his destiny that he decides to pull his finger out. With some fresh superpowers, Jesus heads for Jerusalem and teams up with twelve pseudo-revolutionary students and a…

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…
Editor's Choice Prima Facie

Black Swan State Theatre Company: Prima Facie

Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
Suzie Miller’s one-person play Prima Facie debuted in Sydney in 2019 when Lee Lewis directed the world premiere for Griffin Theatre Company, starring Sheridan Harbridge. The play has since had triumphant seasons in London’s West End and on Broadway, starring Jodie Comer as Tessa, a skilled barrister who specialises in…
Mackenzie

Hayes Theatre Co: Mackenzie

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
What if Macbeth was a tween actress on a huge D*sney channel show in 2006? And what if Lady Macbeth was her ruthless stage mum who believed that her baby deserves to have it ALL!!!!? For one night only – come see an early reading of this new play with…
LEGENDS (Of the Golden Arches)

Melbourne Theatre Company: LEGENDS (Of the Golden Arches)

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
This funeral will be the death of them. A rip-roaring ride plunging two best friends into the depths of the Chinese afterlife, LEGENDS vaults across genres, realities and theatrical convention with an infectious zest. Merlynn and Joe are used to fiery clashes – but what old friends aren’t? As they…
Mary Jane

Mi Todo Productions: Mary Jane

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
As Mary Jane navigates both the mundane and the unfathomable realities of caring for Alex, her chronically ill young son, she finds herself building a community of women from many walks of life. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, Mary Jane relies on unflagging optimism and humour, along with the wisdom…
Editor's Choice And Then There Were None

Crossroads Live Australia: And Then There Were None

His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
In 2022, Robyn Nevin directed Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit, The Mousetrap. Now, she’s taken on Christie’s And Then There Were None, adapted by the author from her 1939 novel. In the thriller, eight people receive an unexpected invitation to a small, isolated island, where they are met by the butler…
Heartbreak Hotel

RISING Festival: Heartbreak Hotel

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Karin McCracken is someone you want by your side on that walk down lonely street to the Heartbreak Hotel. The Wellington-based company EBKM’s newest work is a look at what heartbreak does to our bodies and minds. It’s a room with a view, that lets us in with pitch-perfect sketches,…

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