• So Young

    Outhouse Theatre Co: So Young

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    Summer 2021. Lockdown is over. Just. Three months ago Milo lost his wife to Covid. She was only forty-five. So young. Tonight he has invited his two oldest pals, Davie and Liane, to come round and drink some wine, listen to some tunes and reminisce about the old days. And…
    Naturism

    Griffin Theatre Company: Naturism

    Wharf 2 Theatre The Wharf, Dawes Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    No internet. No intruders. No clothes. Far from the trappings of civilisation, a group of nudist baby boomers have created their very own off-grid bush eco-paradise. An unseasonably hot summer approaches, but no worries! They’ve got enough preserves, pickles, and Fleetwood Mac to get them through it… probably. Enter Evangeline—a…
    Editor's Choice Calamity Jane

    One Eyed Man Productions: Calamity Jane

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step inside the Golden Garter Saloon and enter the Wild West as Virginia Gay reprises the role of the legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane (for which she won a Sydney Theatre Award). Adapted from the much-loved film starring Doris Day, this stripped-back, rough-and-ready reimagining of the classic musical, directed by Richard…
    Every Wild Idea

    Critical Path: Every Wild Idea

    Drill Hall 1c New Beach Rd, Darling Point, NSW, Australia
    Critical Path, Australia’s leading choreographic centre for research and development, turns 20 in 2025. To celebrate, the organisation will open its doors with a free program of performance, sound and film, Every Wild Idea, in Critical Path’s one-of-its-kind heritage listed dance space, the Drill Hall, Rushcutters Bay. The three day…
    Rising Water

    Three River Theatre: Rising Water

    Earl Arts Centre 10 Earl Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    The events of Rising Water take place over the course of one evening, on Australia Day on a marina in Fremantle. Col, Baxter and Jackie live side by side on their respective sailing vessels, which are moored fast and likely never to see the ocean. Each of them has their…
    Why Can’t Women Be Like Men?

    Wordsworth Productions: Why Can’t Women Be Like Men?

    MC Showroom Level 1, 48 Clifton Street, Prahran, VIC, Australia
    Love. Loss. Religion. Sexuality. Pleasure. Pain. At a pivotal point in all their lives, four women come together to celebrate a birthday. As the bubbly flows, the façades fall away and expose the many ways in which each woman’s life is anything but ‘normal’. But should it have to be?…
    Editor's Choice Tivoli Lovely by Eddie Perfect

    Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): Tivoli Lovely by Eddie Perfect

    State Theatre Centre of WA Perth, WA, Australia
    In a coup for Perth audiences, Eddie Perfect’s new musical has its world premiere at WAAPA. Developed over three years, with the support of the Minderoo Foundation, Tivoli Lovely will be performed by the second and third-year Music Theatre students under the direction of Dean Bryant – who like Perfect is…
    Dying: A Memoir

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Dying: A Memoir

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017. Taylor’s wry insights into the rituals, language and taboos surrounding mortality can be witty, provocative or eye-opening…
    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…
    Bladderwrack

    Theatre Works: Bladderwrack

    Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    In the underdeck chilldrippery of a sunken galleon, in its deepest bowels, two ancient pirates dwell in suspended misery: Saucy Jack and Bagfoot, their lives sustained by the ecosystem that has overtaken the bilge around them. Thanks to the bile-green phosphorescent bladderwrack that thrives on the flooded deck, their air…
    Titus Andronicus

    Theatre Works: Titus Andronicus

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Roman General Titus returns from war victorious against the Goths, rejects the political power offered him and sets in motion his own violent demise. After begging in vain for the life of her eldest son, fed by Titus to the sacrificial flame, Tamora, Queen of the Goths, embarks on an…
    The Talented Mr Ripley

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Talented Mr Ripley

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Will McDonald (Heartbreak High) plays Tom Ripley, an orphan and a striver, barely scraping by in 1950s New York. But beneath his woebegone exterior, Tom cultivates certain talents that set him apart: an extraordinary capacity for mimicry and deception. He is a man with a face no-one remembers. Whereas no…