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Instructions for Correct Assembly

Clock & Spiel Productions: Instructions for Correct Assembly

Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
In a time when AI is rewriting how we work, communicate, and even love, Instructions for Correct Assembly arrives on the Sydney stage with uncanny relevance. When Sydney couple, Hari and Max, purchase a build-at- home, AI son, they are thrust into a journey of programming, socialising, and reassembling the…
Next to Normal

Black Box Theatre Co: Next to Normal

Earl Arts Centre 10 Earl Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
Next to Normal is a groundbreaking musical that combines rock, emotion, and powerful storytelling to explore the impact of mental illness on a family. Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Original Score, Next to Normal takes audiences on a journey through the highs and lows of life, touching on…
Editor's Choice Dear Son

Queensland Theatre: Dear Son

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
Author Thomas Mayo, a proud Torres Strait Islander man, invited 12 Indigenous men, including Troy Cassar-Daly, Blak Douglas, Stan Grant and Johnny Liddle, to write a letter to their son, father or nephew. The heartfelt reflections were published in Mayo’s 2021 book Dear Son, which has now been adapted for…
Mother Play

Melbourne Theatre Company: Mother Play

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
The bonds of love are tested in this expansive yet intimate drama rich with humour and wit, starring film, theatre and television legend Sigrid Thornton and directed by Lee Lewis. Careening through the twentieth century – from the Muzak-drenched 60s through the sexual revolution, disco era, and New Age movements that followed – Mother…

The Half-Life of Marie Curie

Ensemble Theatre: The Half-Life of Marie Curie

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
When two Nobel Prizes prove inadequate armour against a scandalous affair, Marie Curie turns to fellow scientist and trusted confidant Hertha Ayrton for literal and emotional sanctuary. Together they weather the storm of heartbreak, public scrutiny, and self-doubt. Written with heart and humour, Lauren Gunderson — America’s most-produced living playwright…
The Half-Life of Marie Curie

Ensemble Theatre: The Half-Life of Marie Curie

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
When two Nobel Prizes prove inadequate armour against a scandalous affair, Marie Curie turns to fellow scientist and trusted confidant Hertha Ayrton for literal and emotional sanctuary. Together they weather the storm of heartbreak, public scrutiny, and self-doubt. Written with heart and humour, Lauren Gunderson — America’s most-produced living playwright…
Julia

Sydney Theatre Company: Julia

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
In 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard gave a speech that sent shockwaves around the world. Now Sydney Theatre Company, Canberra Theatre Centre and a group of Australia’s finest theatre-makers have created an inspiring re-examination of that moment and a stirring portrait of the woman who made it all happen, written…
Editor's Choice The Wrong Gods

Melbourne Theatre Company: The Wrong Gods

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
S. Shakthidharan enjoyed international success with his epic 2019 play Counting and Cracking about a Sri Lankan-Australian family across four generations. His latest stage work is a more intimate, 90-minute piece, featuring four performers. Co-produced with Belvoir, The Wrong Gods explores the tension between tradition and progress in a valley in India. The…
Editor's Choice Dear Son

Queensland Theatre: Dear Son

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
Author Thomas Mayo, a proud Torres Strait Islander man, invited 12 Indigenous men, including Troy Cassar-Daly, Blak Douglas, Stan Grant and Johnny Liddle, to write a letter to their son, father or nephew. The heartfelt reflections were published in Mayo’s 2021 book Dear Son, which has now been adapted for…
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…
Never Have I Ever

Black Swan State Theatre Company: Never Have I Ever

Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
Jacq and Kas’s boutique restaurant has gone bust. Tonight, they’re hosting their oldest friends for one final dinner to break the news that their investment is now toast. And that’s just the start of their evening… Cash, class, identity, and infidelity are all on the menu. As the last of…
Editor's Choice Coriolanus

Bell Shakespeare: Coriolanus

The Neilson Nutshell, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
Bell Shakespeare stages Shakespeare’s political epic Coriolanus for the first time in nearly 30 years. Coriolanus is a ferocious warrior, but his contempt for the public, and his refusal to play the political game, see him banished from the city he once protected. When he joins forces with his former…

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