• It’s A Wonderful Life

    Genesian Theatre: It’s A Wonderful Life

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The classic and beloved Christmas film brought to life on stage! George Bailey who feels life has passed him by but discovers through his guardian angel that it might just be wonderful life after all. “Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings”. It’s Christmas Eve in Bedford…
    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…
    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…
    Editor's Choice The Shiralee

    Sydney Theatre Company: The Shiralee

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Kate Mulvany did a fabulous job adapting Ruth Park’s Harp in the South trilogy for Sydney Theatre Company. Now she has turned her attention to the 1955 Australian classic The Shiralee, written by D’Arcy Niland (who was married to Park). The story centres on Macauley, a rugged swagman, who roams Australia…
    Editor's Choice The Glass Menagerie

    State Theatre Company South Australia: The Glass Menagerie

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Tennessee Williams’ 1944 “memory play” The Glass Menagerie draws on his own unhappy childhood and guilt about abandoning his sister Rose to an asylum. Set in 1930s St Louis, it tells of Amanda Wingfield, a neurotic Southern belle, fallen on hard times, who longs for better things for her daughter…
    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…
    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…
    Equus

    Free-Rain Theatre Company: Equus

    ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
    Equus by Peter Shaffer is an electric play about passion and worship. Equus is very confronting and sets out to shock, excite and captivate its audience. It is an exploration of the human condition with its confusions, paradoxes and unanswerable questions, blending the naturalistic with the surreal. The play exposes…
    Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events

    Launceston Youth Theatre Ensemble: Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events

    Earl Arts Centre 10 Earl Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    The Bad Beginning opens Lemony Snicket’s much-loved series A Series of Unfortunate Events, adapted for the stage by Penelope McNamara and Mandy Gibson. The tale follows Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, three clever siblings who lose their parents in a fire and must outwit the devious Count Olaf, determined to steal their…
    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…

    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…