• Gunawarra Re-Creation

    Ilbijerri Theatre Company: Gunawarra Re-Creation

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Murrun has returned to the watering hole. The same one Aunty Aggie used to take her to. The sacred one. There she meets her old friend Gunawarra. The Black Swan. Present and past collide. And there ensues their story. One of continuation of culture, creation, and stories of Blak women’s…
    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…
    Engine

    Sydney Dance Company: Engine

    Sydney Opera House - Drama Theatre
    Engine unites three extraordinary choreographers; Rafael Bonachela, Fran Diaz and Melanie Lane, for an exhilarating performance that promises bold, fearless dance. Rafael Bonachela premieres The Journey Itself is Home, a new work featuring music by Grammy Award-winning composer Bryce Dessner and inspired by 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō. Engine sees the return…
    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 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…
    Under the Canopy

    Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Under the Canopy

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Experience the incredible James Crabb in a program that showcases the possibilities of the classical accordion. Renowned for his electrifying stage presence and interpretive depth, Crabb brings his unique flair to works by leading composers. From the ornate beauty of Rameau and the bold invention of CPE Bach, to Gubitsch’s…
    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…
    Snow White

    Ballet Theatre Queenland: Snow White

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Mirror Mirror on the wall … who’s the fairest of them all? Be transported to the land of fantasy in this highly acclaimed return season of Snow White. After losing her mother at an early age, Snow White discovers that her new mother is not all who she seems to…
    Hamlet

    Queensland Ballet: Hamlet

    Talbot Theatre, Thomas Dixon Centre 406 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    A Kingdom in Mourning. A Son Obsessed. A Revenge Set in Motion. Love turns deadly and power corrupts all in Hamlet — a gripping dance drama by international choreographer Leo Mujić, where every choice carries a cost. Set to the sweeping music of Tchaikovsky and Saint‑Saëns, Mujić’s Hamlet transforms Shakespeare’s…
    Editor's Choice The Merry Widow

    Opera Australia: The Merry Widow

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Graeme Murphy’s production of Lehár’s evergreen operetta receives a welcome revival. As Pontevedro teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, its ambassador will do whatever it takes to prevent the wealthy widow Hanna Glavari from marrying a foreigner. When her old flame Count Danilo refuses to marry for money, the result is…

    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…