• 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…
    Rabbit & Watson

    Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Rabbit & Watson

    Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Award winning playwright Shane Woon blends Chinese mythology, Boy Love drama and the AFL in Rabbit & Watson, an epic queer love story that transcends space and time. Directed by Keith Brockett, the play follows Rabbit God Tu’er Shen as he abandons heaven time and again to reunite with his…
    Cut Chilli by Chenturan Aran

    Darebin Arts: Cut Chilli by Chenturan Aran

    Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Jamie was abandoned as a baby in Sri Lanka. At least that’s what Katherine told him, as she raised him in the beach town of Mandurah, Western Australia. But when Jamie falls for Zahra, an activist and podcaster who tells him about the shady history of international adoption, he begins…
    Do Not Go Gentle

    Queensland Theatre Company: Do Not Go Gentle

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    In November 1911 Captain Robert Falcon Scott — navy officer, adventurer, explorer — led an intrepid, and ultimately doomed, race to the South Pole. In this searing masterpiece by Patricia Cornelius, winner of both the NSW and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the icy expanse of Antarctica becomes a haunting metaphor…
    The Girl On The Train

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: The Girl On The Train

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and…
    Waitress

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Waitress

    Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
    If only life were as easy as pie… Broadway’s smash-hit musical WAITRESS is baking its way to Australia for the very first time! Inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s beloved film and brought to life by a trailblazing creative team, including a book by acclaimed screenwriter Jessie Nelson, an original, uplifting score…
    Heathers The Musical

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Heathers The Musical

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Direct from London and New York, the wickedly funnyHeathers the Musical is coming to Gold Coast in July! Welcome to Westerberg High, where Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly…
    Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    From a powerhouse creative team—directed by Jordan Fein (Into The Woods), choreographed by Julia Cheng (Cabaret), and designed by Tom Scutt (Olivier & Tony Award winner)—this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience this critically acclaimed production direct from the West End. It’s 1905 in the tiny village of Anatevka. Tevye, a milkman, lives his life by their proud traditions. For…
    Editor's Choice Rigoletto

    Opera Australia: Rigoletto

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Verdi’s embittered jester makes a welcome return in Elijah Moshinsky’s typically insightful production. Celebrated Czech baritone Dalibor Jenis dons the twisted clown greasepaint as he reprises the title role, with Korean-Australian soprano Gemma Nha making her OA debut as his daughter Gilda and Australian-Chinese tenor Kang Wang as the dissolute…
    The Book of Mormon

    JONES Theatrical Group: The Book of Mormon

    Hello! The Mormons are back! First seen in Australia in 2017, The Book of Mormon is blasphemous, scurrilous, puerile, rude, satirical – and one of the funniest, sweetest, most joyous musicals ever staged. Written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with Robert Lopez, the 2011 show won…
    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…
    Orchestral Dances with Håkan Hardenberger

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Dances with Håkan Hardenberger

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    No stranger to the spotlight, Hardenberger takes centre stage for Aerial, a work written with and for him by Austrian composer HK Gruber. Described by the Chicago Tribune as ‘a weird, wondrous, exhilarating tour de force”, it’s a repertoire-expanding piece full of extended techniques and prismatic colours. Believe us when…