• Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Anything But The Dyson and Other Excellent Monologues

    Traincendence 48 Easey Street, Collingwood, VIC, Australia
    A series of clever and self-contained stories and reflections about midlife mayhem, Anything But The Dyson and Other Excellent Monologues places a side-splitting spotlight on the complex love-hate relationship of owning a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Interwoven with other excellent monologues about slamming into your 50s, MICF audiences can expect a…
    Casey Filips – What a Character

    Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Casey Filips – What a Character

    Trades Hall, Melbourne 2 Lygon St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Winner Take a Chance on Adelaide Award (Best New Show) 2024 Adelaide Fringe Nominee Best Comedy 2024 Melbourne Fringe Judge's Pick 2024 Melbourne Fringe Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe 2024 & 2025 "Oh man, what a character." - Ancient Australian proverb. Idiom, used to describe either the best…
    Sweeney Preston: Australia’s Worst Journalist

    Sydney Comedy Festival: Sweeney Preston: Australia’s Worst Journalist

    The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    For three years, comedian-journalist Sweeney Preston wrote dating advice articles while his own love life desperately needed an editor. Now, Sweeney relives some of the most hilarious contradictions between his own life, and the articles he was writing – some of which have been read by over 100K people. Return…
    Duck Pond

    Circa: Duck Pond

    State Theatre Centre of WA Perth, WA, Australia
    The world's most romantic ballet is re-imagined as a circus spectacular, full of Circa’s signature physicality and shot through with cheeky humour and a thoroughly contemporary energy. Be swept away by this tale of swans and hapless princes sparkling with quirky touches like the sequined flipper-wearing duck army and a…
    Flora

    The Australian Ballet: Flora

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Beneath the cracked clay, a seed unfurls. Leaf. Bloom. Life. Promise. Crossing time and space. The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre present Flora by Frances Rings, an exciting and bold new dance collaboration. Flora marks the fourth time the companies have joined forces, and in this first full-length collaboration, Bangarra’s signature storytelling…
    Editor's Choice RBG: Of Many, One

    State Theatre Company South Australia: RBG: Of Many, One

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who changed…
    Editor's Choice West Gate

    Melbourne Theatre Company: West Gate

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dennis McIntosh was 12 when Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapsed on 15 October, 1970. He and his friends heard the terrible thud from their school – something he has never forgotten. Thirty-five men died in what remains Australia’s deadliest industrial accident. For the past decade, McIntosh has been working on a play…
    AN ILIAD

    Sydney Theatre Company: AN ILIAD

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    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…
    The Breakup Variety Hour

    Ariana and The Rose: The Breakup Variety Hour

    Trades Hall, Melbourne 2 Lygon St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Ariana and the Rose – the electrifying synth-pop songstress, a darling of the New York Cabaret scene – is coming to Australia. Fresh from her performance on The Kelly Clarkson Show and sold out residencies in London and New York, The Breakup Variety Hour is Ariana and the Rose’s glitter-soaked,…
    Jayne Steer – Addickted

    Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Jayne Steer – Addickted

    Underground Comedy 210 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Jayne Steer lost her mum, her fiancé and her mind – in that order, all two weeks before her nine-night Melbourne International Comedy Festival debut. After a psychotic episode on her 35th birthday led to a cPTSD diagnosis, Jayne decided to escape to a luxury treatment facility in Thailand for…
    Mark Silcox – The Successful Gold Trader

    5 Foot Entertainment: Mark Silcox – The Successful Gold Trader

    The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Dr Silcox (62), who had previously faced considerable financial insecurity and an uncertain retirement outlook, has recently found success through gold trading strategy. Focusing on the gold market, his methodology began to yield significant results. Over a single quarter, he achieved 100% return on his initial capital, transforming his modest…
    George Rigden – Self-Inflicted

    Melbourne International Comedy Festival: George Rigden – Self-Inflicted

    The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    Nominee Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 Nominee Best Musical Comedy Show 2018 Leicester Comedy Festival In 2020, George Rigden was roundly (and rightly) cancelled, and his life fell apart. In 2025, he was finally diagnosed with autism, finally sobered up – and began to put his life back together. Now,…