• Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)

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

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Songs, silliness and sensibility. Following its London triumph, where it won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice (sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate adaptation where…
    Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The beloved film live on stage The iconic story that made us laugh, cry, and fall in love with six extraordinary women is back — live on stage in a dazzling new Australian production. Written by Robert Harling, the timeless tale of Steel Magnolias comes alive under the direction of Lee…
    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…
    Casey and Diana

    Mi Todo Productions: Casey and Diana

    Qtopia Sydney The Loading Dock Theatre 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    October 1991. Inside Toronto’s Casey House hospice, Thomas has been asking himself questions like: why hasn’t his roommate seen Steel Magnolias? And how did that diner get these eggs to smell like cat food? But now, he’s asking himself the most important question of all: What is the perfect ice-breaking…
    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…
    Vista

    Stephanie Lake Company: Vista

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    One moment can splinter into infinite perceptions A brand new work from Stephanie Lake Company (Manifesto, Monsters), VISTA is a dance in two halves, bound together by a pulsing through-line of rhythm, invention and design. Act One unfolds in stark black and white, as a precise, razor-edged world of dualities. Doubt 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…
    Losing Face

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Losing Face

    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…
    Editor's Choice Belvoir Theatre: The Jungle and the Sea

    Belvoir St Theatre: The Jungle and the Sea

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack’s acclaimed drama returns for a limited Sydney season. The three-hour, two-interval play is a sweeping saga following one family’s love and loss during the bloody chaos of the Sri Lankan civil war. When violence escalates between the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, 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…