• Griffin Theatre: The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A landmark work of Australian theatre returns to the stage where it first sprang to inglorious life. Steve J. Spears’ The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin scandalised and mesmerised in equal measure when it premiered in 1976, touring across the world and collecting awards everywhere it ventured. Now, on its 50th…
    Do Not Pass Go

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Do Not Pass Go

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Laced with acerbic humour, Do Not Pass Go turns hustle culture inside out to ask: when the system is built to break you, what’s left to hold onto? Flux and Penny are colleagues whiling away their lives in the nondescript purgatory of a workplace no-one seems to run, doing a job no-one…
    Martin Hayes

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Martin Hayes

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Martin Hayes, the virtuoso Irish fiddler and guitarist Kyle Sanna transform long-revered melodies into pathways for profound emotional experiences. Fostering a connection between melody and human spirit, Hayes strips away musical pretence, revealing how traditional tunes can become vehicles for personal revelation. Accompanied by guitarist Kyle Sanna, praised by The…
    Editor's Choice Black Light

    Malthouse Theatre: Black Light

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    In a family home on the outskirts of Darwin, four Larrakia mothers find themselves stuck together on the precipice of a drastically changing world. The eldest, Nan, has dementia and finds it difficult to make sense of the world. The youngest, Bub, is separated from their wife and struggling to…
    Black Light

    Malthouse Theatre: Black Light

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    In a family home on the outskirts of Darwin, four Larrakia mothers find themselves stuck together, on the precipice of a drastically changing world. Black Light is a play about finding our way back to ourselves, to Country and to the people we love, when everything else tries to tear us…
    Saints

    La Mama: Saints

    La Mama Courthouse Theatre 349 Drummond Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    "We will not be accepting criticism at this time." England, 1654. The monarchy is over. The Parliament of Saints has been declared. And a rebellious Ireland has been… occupied. All of Anna's dreams - which some call prophecies - have come true. To her friends, this makes her a saint;…
    The Social Ladder

    Ensemble Theatre: The Social Ladder

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Ensemble Theatre presents Australian playwright David Williamson’s brand-new social satire, The Social Ladder, a cutting dissection of the fragile performance of status and the outrageous lengths we’ll go to just to be seen. Katie doesn’t want a taste of the high life — she wants a seat at the table.…
    Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A SMART NEW HIT PLAY ABOUT ART VERSUS POWER Adem’s a mechanic who’s written a play and naively submitted it for consideration. He’s called to the arts council by a bureaucrat, Čelik, who suspects Adem has potential – if only he can learn to write in the state-approved, patriotic way,…
    Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A SMART NEW HIT PLAY ABOUT ART VERSUS POWER Adem’s a mechanic who’s written a play and naively submitted it for consideration. He’s called to the arts council by a bureaucrat, Čelik, who suspects Adem has potential – if only he can learn to write in the state-approved, patriotic way,…
    Editor's Choice Turandot

    Opera Australia: Turandot

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    International director and choreographer Ann Yee has been recruited to stage a new production of Puccini’s Turandot in a way that is sensitive to issues of race and gender by focusing on the implacable princess’s courage, her ancestor’s trauma and the sacrificial love of another woman. Rebecca Nash, fresh from…
    Theatre Works: I THOUGHT YOU SAID

    Tip Toe Theatre: I Thought You Said

    Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    The stars are falling but what the hell are they supposed to do about it? It’s like every other nightshift for Sam and Frankie. They clock in, stock up the chips, steal some for themselves, bet on whether they’ll get one (or even two!) customers, and ignore the dying star…
    Don’t let me eat my babies

    Adelaide Fringe: Don’t let me eat my babies

    Arthur Artbar 66 Currie St, Adelaide, SA
    In her debut solo show, Holly Bohmer presents a variety of cursed characters born from the gutter of her mind and nursed into existence. These are her babies and just like a mother hamster she may try to eat them. A hilariously strange and sometimes macabre hour of sketch comedy…