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…
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…
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…

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…
Dangerous Liaisons

New Theatre: Dangerous Liaisons

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
“These events have shown us how much misery can be caused from a single dangerous intimacy.” For decades, the sharp-tongued Marquise de Merteuil and rakish Vicomte de Valmont have delighted in emotional manipulation and psychological warfare, with seemingly no regard for those who get swept up in their games. However,…
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,…
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…
WHAT OF IT

bring the dog: WHAT OF IT

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
It’s three days ‘til the end of the world. And there’s only one thing for certain… We won’t be dying as no fuckn’ virgin. WHAT OF IT is a gender-flip, explosive, and energetic comedy drama that follows the lives of three females as they venture out to make sure that…

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…
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…
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…

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