Happy Days

Sydney Theatre Company: Happy Days

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Stage and screen icon Pamela Rabe (The Children, The War of The Roses, The Lost Echo) immerses herself in one of the greatest roles ever written, Happy Days’ eternal optimist, Winnie. Conceived and directed by award-winning theatre designer Nick Schlieper – Lighting Designer on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr…
Editor's Choice Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica

Queensland Theatre: Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
Georgie Parker and Glenn Hazeldine reprise their roles in David Williamson’s light-hearted romantic comedy. First performed at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2010, directed by Sandra Bates, it was given a new production by the Ensemble’s current Artistic Director, Mark Kilmurry, in 2023, and it’s that version which now takes the…
Editor's Choice The Spare Room

Belvoir St Theatre: The Spare Room

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Belvoir’s Artistic Director Eamon Flack directs his own adaptation of Helen Garner’s novel. When Helen’s old friend, Nicola, comes to town for treatment, it makes sense she should stay in the spare room. Nicola has put her faith in a shady alternative cancer clinic. Helen is determined to be a…
Scenes From The Climate Era

Belvoir St Theatre: Scenes From The Climate Era

Manning Entertainment Centre 33 Manning River Drive, Taree, NSW, Australia
A frog, the last of its species, starts calling for a mate, but there’s no-one to hear. A group of friends reminisce about the last time they took a flight, before all that came to an end. Landholders in Borneo confront western environmentalists over who owns the forest. A scientist…
Eureka Day

Outhouse Theatre Co: Eureka Day

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Screamingly funny and wildly topical, Eureka Day lasers in on the poverty of modern discourse and our inability to listen to those with whom we disagree. It's 2019 and Eureka Day, a private primary school in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, gender identity, social justice. The parents on…
The Selkie Project

Liminal Theatre: The Selkie Project

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
The Selkie: creature of myth; a seal who removes her sealskin to enjoy the pleasures of the human body for a night. But when the man she meets steals her sealskin, she is imprisoned on land. Grotesquely animal, bewildered by the human world, she is trapped in the wrong skins…
Eureka Day

Seymour Centre: Eureka Day

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Outhouse Theatre Co and Seymour Centre present the hotly anticipated Sydney premiere of Jonathan Spector’s shrewd social satire, Eureka Day. It's 2018 and Eureka Day, a private primary school in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, gender identity, social justice. The parents on the Executive Committee value…

Flight Path Theatre: Christ Almighty: A comedy of biblical proportions!

Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
Meet Jesus - a biblical millennial frittering away his thirties on his parents’ couch. It isn’t until God turns up and dishes out his destiny that he decides to pull his finger out. With some fresh superpowers, Jesus heads for Jerusalem and teams up with twelve pseudo-revolutionary students and a…
Dangerous Liaisons

New Theatre: Dangerous Liaisons

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
“These events have shown us how much misery can be caused from a single dangerous intimacy.” For decades, the sharp-tongued Marquise de Merteuil and rakish Vicomte de Valmont have delighted in emotional manipulation and psychological warfare, with seemingly no regard for those who get swept up in their games. However,…
Mackenzie

Hayes Theatre Co: Mackenzie

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
What if Macbeth was a tween actress on a huge D*sney channel show in 2006? And what if Lady Macbeth was her ruthless stage mum who believed that her baby deserves to have it ALL!!!!? For one night only – come see an early reading of this new play with…
WHAT OF IT

bring the dog: WHAT OF IT

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
It’s three days ‘til the end of the world. And there’s only one thing for certain… We won’t be dying as no fuckn’ virgin. WHAT OF IT is a gender-flip, explosive, and energetic comedy drama that follows the lives of three females as they venture out to make sure that…

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…

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