• Editor's Choice Rebecca

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Rebecca

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel was adapted as a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This new production, adapted and directed by MTC Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, takes us back to Manderley, the grand mansion where Maxim de Winter returns home with his second…
    Anything You Can Do

    Pony Cam: Anything You Can Do

    Hothouse Theatre Lincoln Causeway,, Wodonga, VIC, Australia
    A joyful reminder that you don’t know sh*t about age. Anything You Can Do is a community-engaged performance. Beginning remotely, two months out, Pony Cam will bring together a group of 5-10 local community members aged 55+. Then, over ten days, Pony Cam will run a playful and provocative creative…
    Editor's Choice The 39 Steps

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: The 39 Steps

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps, was loosely based on John Buchan’s 1915 novel. Patrick Barlow’s stage adaptation of the same book combines Hitchcockian suspense with lashings of hilarity. The play, which features four actors playing 130 characters, has delighted audiences around the world. It returns to Australia…

    Sydney Opera House: What the Ocean Said

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What The Ocean Said is a relaxing storytelling experience for children and their grownups. You are invited to relax in a sea of pillows amidst a magical space of calm. Follow the journey of a humpback whale diving deep into the water, and expanding into the reaches of the ocean…

    Ensemble Theatre: How To Plot A Hit In Two Days

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    It’s 1985. TV prime time. Across Australia, millions of tear-stricken eyes are glued to their television sets in disbelief. A Country Practice’s beloved Molly Jones takes her final breath. Fade to black and she’s gone. Inside the story room, in a creative flurry powered by coffee, cigarettes and Fantales, the…

    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…

    Sydney Opera House: What the Ocean Said

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What The Ocean Said is a relaxing storytelling experience for children and their grownups. You are invited to relax in a sea of pillows amidst a magical space of calm. Follow the journey of a humpback whale diving deep into the water, and expanding into the reaches of the ocean…
    Editor's Choice Plied and Prejudice

    Arts and Culture Trust: Plied and Prejudice

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in Regency England must be in want of a very stiff drink – or so they say in this raucous version of Jane Austen’s classic novel. Due to popular demand, the Perth season (which followed performances in Brisbane and London)…
    Once Upon a Grimm Night

    Odyssey Theatre: Once Upon a Grimm Night

    Old Government House, Parramatta Cnr Pitt and Macquarie St, Parramatta, NSW, Australia
    Once Upon a Grimm Night is an intimate, interactive adventure inside Old Government House, Parramatta. The border between our world and Everafter is fraying; Grimm Volkov enlists you and other wayfarers after the Narrator sets the scene to follow clues, brew potions and uncover what binds the Maiden and the Witch.…
    Chip On Her Shoulder

    Melbourne Fringe: Chip On Her Shoulder

    Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Single, Snacking, and Struggling: A Play About Chips, Comfort, and Coping Kate wishes she was all that — and a bag of chips. Spoiler: she’s not. She’s a mess, and she knows it. But she’s trying, sort of. She might even be a little bit salty — at life, at…
    Sincere Apologies

    Melbourne Fringe: Sincere Apologies

    Trades Hall, Melbourne 2 Lygon St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Say sorry. Really mean it. Experience a performance built from all the apologies that the world keeps offering — the famous, the ridiculous, the deeply personal and those that begin every second email in our inboxes. Part theatrical ritual, part social experiment, Sincere Apologies explores what it means to apologise…