As You Like It

Melbourne Shakespeare Company: As You Like It

St Kilda Botanical Gardens 11 Herbert St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
This December, the Melbourne Shakespeare Company are back in the Rose Garden, and things are getting gloriously out of hand. Get ready for an enchanting new musical reimagining of Shakespeare's As You Like It, an outdoor spectacular bursting with pop hits, slapstick shenanigans and more decadence than a Versailles tea…
A Christmas Carol

Comedy Theatre: A Christmas Carol

Comedy Theatre 240 Exhibition St,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The five-time Tony Award®-winning production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol returns to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre this festive season with Lachy Hulme, one of Australia’s most recognisable stage and screen actors stepping into the iconic role of Ebenezer Scrooge. Celebrated by audiences around the world, The Old Vic’s joyous and heartfelt production of A Christmas Carol is conceived…
Editor's Choice Much Ado About Nothing

Melbourne Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Talk about a battle of the sexes! Beatrice and Benedick are Shakespeare’s most modern couple. They love to hate each other, yet everyone knows they’re perfect for one another. For the first time in 30 years, MTC presents a brand-new production of The Bard’s razor-sharp comedy, directed by Associate Artist…
Two

Theatre Works: Two

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Up until this point Kit has loved being non-binary. But Kit is pregnant now - and people who used to be mostly okay about their gender are ready to start misgendering them to an obscene degree. Even more irritatingly, they beg Kit for details about their unborn child’s genitalia. Keen…
Hand to God

Everyman Theatre: Hand to God

ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
In the tiny, conservative town of Cypress, Texas, the shy, mild-mannered Jason is just trying to be a good son. When he joins his mother Margery’s Christian Puppet Ministry at the local church, Jason discovers a burgeoning talent for puppetry, and after his father’s sudden death it seems like things…
Soul of Possum by Brodie Murray

Brodie Murray: Soul of Possum by Brodie Murray

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
It’s 1853 on the Murray River. Swan Hill (Victoria), Wamba Wamba country. As the wildlife flees through the bush from an unseen threat, three Wamba Wamba warriors – Wirramanda, Warru and Dindi – must survive a cat-and-mouse chase across country to warn their people of the oncoming colonialists. Led by…
Dial M for Murder

Ensemble Theatre: Dial M for Murder

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
The ever-so-charming ex-tennis-pro Tony Wendice has his eye on the prize. The prize in question? His wife Margot’s eye-wateringly enormous inheritance. Fuelled by greed and revenge, he concocts the perfect plan to eliminate her from the equation. But after a small mishap, Tony must spin a web of lies to…
Coriolanus

Bell Shakespeare: Coriolanus

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Coriolanus is a ferocious warrior and defender of Rome. But his contempt for the public, and his refusal to play the political game, see him banished from the city he once protected. When he joins forces with his former enemy to seek vengeance against Rome, the fate of the city,…
Dial M for Murder

Ensemble Theatre: Dial M for Murder

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
The ever-so-charming ex-tennis-pro Tony Wendice has his eye on the prize. The prize in question? His wife Margot’s eye-wateringly enormous inheritance. Fuelled by greed and revenge, he concocts the perfect plan to eliminate her from the equation. But after a small mishap, Tony must spin a web of lies to…

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…
A Christmas Carol

Comedy Theatre: A Christmas Carol

Comedy Theatre 240 Exhibition St,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The five-time Tony Award®-winning production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol returns to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre this festive season with Lachy Hulme, one of Australia’s most recognisable stage and screen actors stepping into the iconic role of Ebenezer Scrooge. Celebrated by audiences around the world, The Old Vic’s joyous and heartfelt production of A Christmas Carol is conceived…
A Thing Called Birthday

Shopfront Arts Co-Op: A Thing Called a Birthday

Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
Do we need another hero? This is a much debated question but the answer is probably, yes! Do you like births? Do you like days? We've combined the two into one concept- a birthday! Do you like tights and mortality? Join us for our Birth Day celebration! Where:... When:... How:...…

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