Shakespeare In Love

Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: Shakespeare In Love

Geelong Arts Centre 81 Ryrie Street, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Young Will Shakespeare has a bad case of writer’s block and desperately needs a muse.  His new comedy, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter, isn’t turning out how he’d hoped and he’s up against a tight deadline to deliver his next masterpiece. That is until he meets Viola de Lesseps,…
The Seven

Merrigong Theatre Company: The Seven

Wollongong Town Hall Crown St &, Kembla St,, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
In 1964, a group of seven friends are on their way home from seeing The Beatles concert in Sydney, when an incident on the train forces them to get off at Helensburgh station. Missing the last train, they decide to try and hitch a ride. In the morning light, it…

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…
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,…
Present Laughter by Noel Coward

New Theatre: Present Laughter by Noel Coward

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
“Everybody worships me. It’s nauseating.” Actor Garry Essendine is possibly the most desired man in the world. He is handsome, charming, self-deprecating, self-obsessed, and in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Over the course of a few days, on the eve of an overseas tour, he finds his life bombarded…
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Sydney Theatre Company: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Logie Award-winner Kat Stewart makes her Sydney Theatre Company debut with wit, authenticity, and unbridled fire in this celebrated production of the twentieth century’s most ferocious comedy of manners. A leading figure in American theatre and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, Edward Albee’s most famous play is a wild, brainy…
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

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…
The Cardinal Rules

Sydney Fringe Festival: The Cardinal Rules

PACT 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Thoroughly relatable humour, staggering humanity...and pushy Aunties from the ancestral plane! Engulfed by nostalgia, a woman stands at the funeral of a primary school friend that she hasn’t seen in years. As she remembers her 90’s childhood in a close-knit suburban Catholic community, she questions how their lives diverged. When…
Don’t Panic

Sam Bowden: Don’t Panic

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
Julius Caesar staged a coup when they wouldn't re-elect him. People thought the black plague was a Jewish conspiracy theory against personal freedoms. Europeans blamed the newly installed telephone poles for giving them the Spanish flu. The first gender-affirming surgery was performed in Berlin in 1930 before... well, you know…

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…
Romeo & Juliet

Bell Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
After a chance meeting, an intense but forbidden love is ignited between two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet. And despite the unending, violent feud between their families, they will risk everything to be together. This raw portrayal of Romeo & Juliet will envelop you in the passion, the intensity and…

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