• Helios

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Helios

    Courtyard Studio
    A lad lives half way up a historic hill. A teenager is on a road trip to the city in a stolen car. A boy is driving a chariot, pulling the sun across the sky. A story about the ancient god of the sun, HELIOS transplant the Greek tale into a modern…
    Editor's Choice ART

    State Theatre Company South Australia: ART

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Since premiering in 1994, Yasmina Reza’s play ART has attracted a roll call of big-name actors. Now Damon Herriman, Richard Roxburgh and Toby Schmitz star in a new production directed by Lee Lewis. Serge has bought a white-on-white minimalist painting by a fashionable artist. His good friend Marc is outraged that…
    Editor's Choice The Sapphires

    Queensland Theatre Company: The Sapphires

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Tony Briggs’ popular musical The Sapphires debuted at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2004 and has since been staged in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, London and South Korea. In 2021, it was adapted into a film starring Jessica Mauboy and Miranda Tapsell. Based on the true story of Briggs’ mother, Laurel Robinson, The Sapphires is set…
    Shoelace Chaser

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Shoelace Chaser

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Being 17 is hard enough – hormones, homework, the looming question of what comes next. Add caring for your mum to the mix, and Thea’s juggling act is nothing short of Olympic. Smart, self-sufficient and secretly just holding it together, she’s spent the last two years keeping her life under…
    Editor's Choice Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Robert Harling wrote his 1987 play Steel Magnolias after his sister died from complications relating to diabetes following the birth of her son. The tragicomedy is set in Truvy’s beauty parlour in a small Southern town in Louisiana, where a group of women support each other through life’s ups and downs. The…
    An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein

    Glen Street Theatre: An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein

    Glen Street Theatre Belrose, NSW, Australia
    A grand musical celebration featuring five principal vocalists, a full ensemble and choir, and a 22-piece orchestra. Enhanced by immersive projections and Opera Australia costumes, this spectacular new staging honours the Golden Age of Broadway in all its sweeping romance and orchestral splendour. Presented in the year that marks the…
    Steel Magnolias

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Steel Magnolias

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Written by Robert Harling, the timeless tale of Steel Magnolias comes alive under the direction of Lee Lewis (Shirley Valentine) and a cast of six powerhouse actors. Step inside Truvy’s beauty salon, the heart of a small Southern town, where local women share their joys, struggles and a little neighbourly gossip. From weddings and…
    MATA MATA

    STRUT Dance: MATA MATA

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    MATA MATA is an offering through the act of solo dance. A summoning of the ancestral spirits that reside deep within the awa. As the taniwha stirs just beneath the surface, memory begins to flow from skin into whenua. Awakening the blood memory that is present here. Becoming a sacred ancestral…
    Editor's Choice The Importance of Being Earnest

    State Theatre Company South Australia: The Importance of Being Earnest

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    STCSA Artistic Director Petra Kalive directs a radically reimagined version of The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde’s celebrated comedy of manners about deception, identity, class and desire. The play follows two young men, Jack and Algernon, who create elaborate alter egos – each calling themselves “Earnest” – to escape social…
    DRACULA

    West Australian Ballet: Dracula

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    BLOOD DRIES FASTER IN THIS AIR. He’s waited centuries for this moment. Dracula rises again, in the return of this multi award-winning, audience favourite. Prepare to be consumed in the seductive storyline, magnificent score and breathtaking set and costume design again – or for the very first time. Based on…
    Editor's Choice The Sapphires

    Queensland Theatre Company: The Sapphires

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Tony Briggs’ popular musical The Sapphires debuted at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2004 and has since been staged in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, London and South Korea. In 2021, it was adapted into a film starring Jessica Mauboy and Miranda Tapsell. Based on the true story of Briggs’ mother, Laurel Robinson,…
    Editor's Choice The Shepherd’s Hut

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Shepherd’s Hut

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Commissioned by Black Swan, Tim McGarry’s adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel has its world premiere this month. After finding his violent father dead, 15-year-old Jaxie Clackton escapes in a stolen car, knowing that he will be blamed. He doesn’t really know what he’s looking for, except that he’s on the run…