• Cowbois

    Siren Theatre Co: Cowbois

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    A rollicking queer Western like nothing you've seen before. In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the goldrush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. In fact, the town is…
    Editor's Choice A Christmas Carol

    Comedy Theatre: A Christmas Carol

    Comedy Theatre 240 Exhibition St,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Returning for the fourth consecutive year, the smash-hit Old Vic production is fast becoming a Melbourne festive season tradition. Based on Dickens’ immortal classic, the Old Vic stage adaptation was conceived and directed by Matthew Warchus, with a script by Jack Thorne. The immersive production, which won five Tony Awards…
    Born On A Thursday

    New Ghosts Theatre Company: Born On A Thursday

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    After years abroad, April returns to her family home in Western Sydney to a brother irrevocably changed and a mother unyieldingly the same. What begins as a strained homecoming slowly unravels into a desperate reckoning with memory, guilt, and the crippling weight of things left unsaid. Set across four seasons,…
    My Cousin Frank

    Northern Rivers Performing Arts: My Cousin Frank

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Renowned artistic and cultural leader Rhoda Roberts AO shares the story of her trailblazing first cousin, Frank Roberts, a Widjabul Wia-bal and Githabul man from Cubawee who became Australia’s first Aboriginal Olympian. In 1964, Frank travelled to Japan to compete in boxing at the Tokyo Olympics, even dining with Emperor…
    Congratulations, Get Rich! (恭喜发财, 人日快乐)

    Sydney Theatre Company: Congratulations, Get Rich! (恭喜发财, 人日快乐)

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Penned and performed by Merlynn Tong, this larger-than-life musical comedy celebrates the richness of Singaporean culture, while asking universal questions about the complexity of mother-daughter relationships and the healing power of vulnerability. It’s a big night for Mandy (Tong), her last ever at the helm of her beloved karaoke bar.…
    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…
    Editor's Choice Carol

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: Carol

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Carol is Christmas personified. Born on 25 December, she’s been holding the whole Christmas shebang together for decades – and she’s loved every minute of it. But this year, things are looking a lot less jolly. Now 60, she suddenly finds herself living in her car, with council move-on notices…
    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…
    Editor's Choice A Few Good Men

    Queensland Theatre: A Few Good Men

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    The smash-hit 1992 film, A Few Good Men, which starred Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson among a high-profile cast, was based on Aaron Sorkin’s play, which opened on Broadway in 1989. Now, Sorkin’s thrilling legal drama takes the Brisbane stage as part of QPAC’s 40th-anniversary celebrations. Inspired by actual events…

    Belvoir St Theatre: The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear & His Three Daughters

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Shakespeare’s greatest play, in an energised, classic Belvoir production, featuring the grit and power of Colin Friels. It’s time to retire. Lear has a plan – he’ll divide the kingdom between his three daughters, they’ll work in harmony with each other, he’ll live with them, there will be a seamless transition…
    Nihilistic Optimism on Trampolines

    Theatre Works: Nihilistic Optimism on Trampolines

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    A wildly weird reimagining of the origin of Frankenstien, featuring a theatrically gruesome battle on trampolines to a soundtrack of existential dread and an entire swimming pool worth of sweat. It’s an unbearably boring afternoon at Trampoline World. Thunder crashes overhead, some kid has thrown up in the bathroom, AND…
    Soul of Possum by Brodie Murray

    Brodie Murray: Soul of Possum by Brodie Murray

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    It’s 1853 on the Murray River. Swan Hill (Victoria), Wamba Wamba country. As the wildlife flees through the bush from an unseen threat, three Wamba Wamba warriors – Wirramanda, Warru and Dindi – must survive a cat-and-mouse chase across country to warn their people of the oncoming colonialists. Led by…