Shopfront Arts ArtsLab: Overflow, is a festival of seven new creative works by emerging artists. With bold new performance works spanning installation, theatre, puppetry, carving, performance art and film – this year’s ArtsLab is an exciting blend of young voices.⁠ This year, we’re also thrilled to welcome two incredible emerging…

Baltimore-born chaos merchant Jenn Kidwell and her co-conspirator/ASL artist Brandon Kazen-Maddox invite you to roll with them in the pigsty of global capitalism. Beneath the light of a crooked chandelier, they skewer myths of American economic might, hold our conceptions of value up to the gilded mirror, and shimmy-shake between topics like time, race,…

The iconic story that made us laugh, cry, and fall in love with six extraordinary women is back – live on stage in a dazzling new Australian production. Written by Robert Harling, the timeless tale of Steel Magnolias comes alive under the direction of Lee Lewis and a cast of…

A typhoon hits the Philippines, and local project officer Michelle lands her dream assignment. It’s her first time coordinating a global relief effort for a sleek American NGO. A chance to change lives, to be the changemaker she always dreamed of!  All she has to do is smash her KPI’s…

Written by Robert Harling, the timeless tale of Steel Magnolias comes alive under the direction of Lee Lewis (Shirley Valentine) and a cast of six powerhouse actors. Step inside Truvy’s beauty salon, the heart of a small Southern town, where local women share their joys, struggles and a little neighbourly gossip. From weddings and…

You are cordially invited to the canonisation of Joan of Arc. Saint Peter’s Basilica is filled to the brim with spirits as preparation for the sainting begins. Nearly five hundred years after the English burned her at the stake, the French hero is getting officially recognised. It has been a…

LAZARUS is the extraordinary true story of Larry Walsh, Taungurung Elder, activist and storyteller, brought to life in a heartfelt and vital work that speaks directly to the soul of this country. Woven from interviews with Larry himself, this dynamic production moves through decades of pain and triumph, laughter and…

On the set of a big-budget Hollywood eco-thriller, everything that can go wrong, does. A stereotypical ‘eco terrorist hero’ plants a bomb to save the day. A frazzled film crew battles the clock to make their final shot. And somewhere between artistic ambition and environmental catastrophe, both the movie –…

Director Bert LaBonté (Topdog/Underdog) steers this alarmingly timely and ‘wickedly funny’ (The Standard) work starring newcomer Donné Ngabo (Last Days) and international screen star Alan Dale (24, The O.C.) to its blistering conclusion. It’s the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, fuelled by big money and heady ambition. Paranoia simmers beneath…

A wry, witty and world-weary poet introduces himself as a storyteller, bound to recount the myth of the Trojan War until humanity can overcome its rage for violence and destruction. Award-winning international star David Wenham returns to Sydney Theatre Company as the Poet: a man who has spent millennia walking…