• Eden

    Siren Theatre Co: Eden

    The Substation - Qtopia 136 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    'Eden' is a coming-of-age story about identity, transformation, and the quiet violence of becoming. One summer, Kit and Dan’s lives fizz with possibility—where desire, guilt, and the ache for belonging entwine. Infused with a distinctive theatrical language, 'Eden' is part confession, part elegy, part mystery. As myth dissolves, a landscape…
    Dancenorth Australia presents Lighting the Dark

    Dancenorth Australia: Lighting the Dark

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Lighting the Dark is a bold new work by Chris Dyke, a Kaurna (Adelaide) based dancer and choreographer living with Down syndrome. With the mesmerising Dancenorth Ensemble by his side, Chris leads the way, transforming the stage into a portal where love and light illuminate the darkness. A masterpiece of…

    Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre: Taikoz – Catharsis

    Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre 105 William Street, Bathurst, NSW, Australia
    Renowned for redefining contemporary taiko drumming, Taikoz returns with CATHARSIS – an explosive celebration of rhythm, movement, and emotion that showcases the ensemble at their exhilarating best. Featuring the heart-pounding compositions of Taikoz Artistic Director Ian Cleworth and the ethereal electronic soundscapes of Danish artist Xuri, CATHARSIS fuses tradition and…
    Editor's Choice The River

    Sydney Theatre Company: The River

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades star in The River, a haunting three-hander by UK playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem). The mysterious, 80-minute play is set in a remote wooden cabin where a lovesick fisherman is playing host to a woman. It should be a weekend full of romance, but all…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Evil Dead The Musical

    Stoddart Entertainment Group: Evil Dead The Musical

    Chapel off Chapel 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, VIC, Australia
    This hilariously gory, blood-soaked rock musical based on the iconic '80s Evil Dead cult film franchise, will be unleashed this March. When five college students venture to an abandoned cabin in the woods, they accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It's up to Ash, a housewares clerk…
    Editor's Choice The Last Ship

    QPAC: The Last Ship

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    International superstar Sting comes to Brisbane to play  a lead role in this deeply personal musical, for which he wrote music and lyrics. Inspired by Sting’s childhood in the industrial town of Wallsend in the UK, The Last Ship tells the moving story of a community facing the closure of…
    Flora

    The Australian Ballet: Flora

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Beneath the cracked clay, a seed unfurls. Leaf. Bloom. Life. Promise. Crossing time and space. The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre present Flora by Frances Rings, an exciting and bold new dance collaboration. Flora marks the fourth time the companies have joined forces, and in this first full-length collaboration, Bangarra’s signature storytelling…
    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE In Hollywood’s Golden Age, two queens reigned supreme – Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Before Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? lit up cinemas, their off-camera rivalry was already a blockbuster. Anton Burge’s deliciously wicked two-hander pulls back the curtain on the set where egos clashed, tempers flared, and…

    Belvoir St Theatre: Drive Your Plough Over The Bones Of The Dead

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
      PAMELA RABE AND EAMON FLACK TAKE ON THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNERS’ WHODUNNIT This is Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece, now a theatrical tour-de-force led by the great Pamela Rabe. Janina Duszejko, a woman of retiring age, lives quietly in a remote village. But one winter, men start being murdered in her district,…
    Stage Kiss

    New Theatre: Stage Kiss

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “When I kissed you just now, did it feel like an actor kissing an actor or a person kissing a person…?” Two actors, and former lovers, unexpectedly reunite when cast opposite each other in a forgotten 1930s melodrama. As rehearsals progress and onstage romance echoes their past, the lines between…
    Editor's Choice West Gate

    Melbourne Theatre Company: West Gate

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dennis McIntosh was 12 when Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapsed on 15 October, 1970. He and his friends heard the terrible thud from their school – something he has never forgotten. Thirty-five men died in what remains Australia’s deadliest industrial accident. For the past decade, McIntosh has been working on a play…