• Editor's Choice Romeo and Juliet

    The Australian Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    When Artistic Director David Hallberg restored John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet to The Australian Ballet’s repertoire in 2022, 19 years had passed since its last outing. We haven’t had to wait as long this time. The iconic 1962 production is back, lavishly designed by Cranko’s longtime collaborator Jürgen Rose and brimming with…
    Editor's Choice Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…
    Editor's Choice Uncle Vanya

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chekov’s achingly sad yet mordantly funny play finds fresh life in this adaptation by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, first staged by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2024. Now, Anne-Louise Sarks directs a new production for MTC. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have spent years managing a run-down country estate in rural…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…
    Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…
    Animal Farm By Bloomshed

    Bloomshed: Animal Farm

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Green Room award-winning theatre company Bloomshed stage an epic rework of the famous Orwell fable Animal Farm at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio.Farmer Jones has lost control. The animals of Manor Farm rise up to seize the means of production, convinced that freedom is finally within reach. But revolution…
    Second Coming

    La Boite: Second Coming

    La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
    It’s 2065, Earth is burning, and time is running out. Geneticist Evie and the crew of the ARK MARK II spaceship are humanity’s last hope, charged with rescuing every species they can, two by two, for a new beginning on Mars. Lions, Javan warty pigs, and creatures of all kinds…
    Editor's Choice Do Not Go Gentle

    Queensland Theatre Company: Do Not Go Gentle

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Patricia Cornelius’s 2006 play, Do Not Go Gentle, which takes his title from Dylan Thomas’s poem, is a poetically powerful depiction of old age and dementia. Set in an aged care home, a group of residents imagine themselves taking part in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed 1911 expedition to the South…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…
    Editor's Choice Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    First seen at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2024, this Olivier Award-winning production, directed by Jordan Fein, transferred to the Barbican, where it became the venue’s best-selling musical of all time. Set in 1905, Tevye, a milkman in the tiny fictional village of Anatevka, tries to maintain his…
    Editor's Choice Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…
    How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    The Midnite Youth Theatre Company: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    A sharply funny Broadway hit that skewers office ambition with wit, charm and song.  Follow the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, a lowly window washer climbing his way up the corporate ladder with the help of a self help book – and a bit of luck. Boasting an exhilarating score…