• Griffin Theatre: Afterglow

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Afterglow

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Every year after the Barbershop Singing National Championships, the men gather for the traditional “afterglow”. Whisky flows, dickie-bows are loosened, and quartets sing booze-soaked harmonies into the small hours. At the 2012 afterglow, Michael meets Tom. One is a barbershop purist with something to prove. The other is a first…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    The Neilson Nutshell, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her daughter was destined for superstardom. One day, Mackenzie and her best on-set friend Beau encounter a geriatric make-up artist…

    The Substation: claire rousay + Lisa Lerkenfeldt

    The Substation 1 Market Street, Newport, VIC, Australia
    claire rousay's world is one of irregular, overlooked and intimate beauty. Over the course of her ever growing array of recordings she has managed to chart out a terrain that remains utterly personal, but wholly communal in its appeal. Her music, which simultaneously holds the textures of ambient, the reflections…
    Heartbreak Hotel

    Arts Centre Melbourne: Heartbreak Hotel

    Fairfax Studio
    Karin McCracken is someone you want by your side on that walk down lonely street to Heartbreak Hotel – a weird, fun place to confront your heartache.Dressed in lavender tassels and backed by covers of breakup songs (Elvis, Celine, the real heavy hitters), Karin takes us on a tour through the aching…
    Bull

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: Bull

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    WELCOME TO THE RING. ONLY ONE SURVIVES. A lean, brutal modern classic — a companion piece to C*ck, turning the workplace into a gladiatorial arena. Just one month after staging Bartlett’s C*ck, we turn to Bull — an   elemental, unflinching exploration of power, survival and psychological warfare in a boardroom-as-arena. If C*ck interrogates identity and…
    Sheltering

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Sheltering

    QPAC - Glasshouse Theatre
    Three stories of Country. One message of hope. Beneath the constellation of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s creative and cultural legacy, experience a program of three powerful works: Keeping Grounded, Brown Boys, and Sheoak, which honour Bangarra’s past while looking to the future. An intergenerational thread connects this bold triple-bill, drawing deeply from First Nations perspectives, and…
    The Day Of The Triffids

    New Theatre: The Day Of The Triffids

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    London, 1951: In an attempt to solve the world’s energy crisis, scientists engineer the Triffids: a biofuel crop that is highly efficient, strangely sentient, and disturbingly carnivorous. When a freak cosmic event blinds most of the world’s population, one man wakes into a collapsing society where fear, opportunism, and chaos…
    Editor's Choice DOUBT

    Sydney Theatre Company: DOUBT

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    John Patrick Shanley’s powerful play won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. Marion Potts directs a new production for STC, starring Pamela Rabe as Sister Aloysisus, the headmistress of St Nicholas Church School. Set in the Bronx in 1964, the severe, rigidly conservative…
    Bennelong In London

    Sydney Theatre Company: Bennelong In London

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Both travel back to the 1780s where Bennelong, now a young Wangal man, is abducted by Governor Phillip. Bennelong becomes his go-between with the Eora people and later, the first Aboriginal man to visit Europe and return. And the eventual husband of a woman called Barangaroo. Jane Harrison, the singular…
    Losing Faith

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Losing Faith

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Pack your bags for a perimenopausal Weekend at Bernie’s: an outrageous and unforgettable trip directed by Leticia Cáceres (Erotic Stories, Bump) and starring Michala Banas (Upper Middle Bogan, The Odd Couple) and Genevieve Morris (Dying: A Memoir, Comedy Inc.). Losing Face is an absolutely unhinged and spikily clever new comedy about friendship and unmasking the true price of chasing the fountain of…

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Uncle Vanya – but there’s ASMR soap cutting videos playing in the bottom right corner

    Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    While Melbourne Theatre Company stages a 2024 adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, State Theatre Company South Australia presents a radical new version by Mary Angley & Associates as part of its SPARK Program. Beginning as a faithful production of Chekov’s poignant play, it quickly spirals into “a meticulously crafted chaos…
    Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

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

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The five-star musical comedy sensation, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE* (*sort of), is finally heading Down Under. Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love…