Love and Information

Theatre Works: Love and Information

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
In this fast-moving kaleidoscope, over 100 spirited characters search for meaning in their lives. Through sex, death, feeling, taxidermy and karaoke they discover each other and couched within their whispers, exchanges, and revelations, we see ourselves and the people we love. One of the world’s foremost living playwrights, Caryl Churchill’s…
Looking for Alibrandi

Brink Productions: Looking for Alibrandi

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta, NSW, Australia
The beloved Australian classic novel and groundbreaking film comes alive on stage. Josie Alibrandi is in her final year of high school. Whip-smart and aspirational, she is a third-generation Italian teenager and scholarship kid, with the shadow of a family curse and a penchant for rule-breaking. Juggling grades, boys, and…
L’Hôtel

Foundry Theatre: L’Hôtel

Foundry Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd,, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
Welcome To L’Hôtel: A Tryst Into Temptation. Enter a lobby brimming with bohemian verve, an immersive theatrical world of French intrigue. Savour the champagne, graze on a French cheese board and meet the cast of characters who call L’Hôtel home – a crème de la crème of performers from the…
Timon of Athens

Sport for Jove: Timon of Athens

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
The highly anticipated return of Sport for Jove's 5-star smash hit, Timon of Athens, to Seymour Centre in 2025. Be honest now. Do your friends suck? Not always. But, come on, sometimes...? Do they secretly love it when you screw up, fall down, miss out, give in? Do you do…
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…
Editor's Choice Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica

Queensland Theatre: Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
Georgie Parker and Glenn Hazeldine reprise their roles in David Williamson’s light-hearted romantic comedy. First performed at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2010, directed by Sandra Bates, it was given a new production by the Ensemble’s current Artistic Director, Mark Kilmurry, in 2023, and it’s that version which now takes the…
Editor's Choice The Spare Room

Belvoir St Theatre: The Spare Room

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Belvoir’s Artistic Director Eamon Flack directs his own adaptation of Helen Garner’s novel. When Helen’s old friend, Nicola, comes to town for treatment, it makes sense she should stay in the spare room. Nicola has put her faith in a shady alternative cancer clinic. Helen is determined to be a…
Scenes From The Climate Era

Belvoir St Theatre: Scenes From The Climate Era

Manning Entertainment Centre 33 Manning River Drive, Taree, NSW, 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…
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…
The Selkie Project

Liminal Theatre: The Selkie Project

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
The Selkie: creature of myth; a seal who removes her sealskin to enjoy the pleasures of the human body for a night. But when the man she meets steals her sealskin, she is imprisoned on land. Grotesquely animal, bewildered by the human world, she is trapped in the wrong skins…

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