• Arawarra

    Merrigong Theatre Company: Arawarra

    Illawarra Performing Arts Centre 32 Burelli Street, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    A freedom fighter, a Ngandah, a protector and a First Nations leader at the time of colonisation. The story of Arawarra was erased from the history books, dwarfed by the arrival and impact of Alexander Berry, who changed the Shoalhaven landscape forever. Told with courage, tenderness and humanity, Arawarra unearths…
    La Mama: Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret

    La Mama: Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret

    La Mama HQ 205 Faraday St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    Secrets once spoken can't be unsaid. When a woman dies, three letters are sent to her adopted children from the Stolen Generation asking them to return to the remote homestead for the reading of her will. So begins an epic journey for the siblings. Their arrival at the old farm…
    Editor's Choice Torch The Place

    Queensland Theatre: Torch The Place

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    When Benjamin Law’s debut play, Torch The Place, premiered at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2020, Limelight reviewer Patricia Maunder described it as “a tragicomic tale about a dysfunctional Asian-Australian family . . . written with wit and warmth.” When Mum turns 60, her children arrive with a birthday cake, presents and a…
    Specials

    Arts House: Specials

    Arts House 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Simon and Cheryl were once at Special School together. And through a quirk of fate, they soon will be again. When the pair travel back in time to their days as students, they are once more fighting the forces that showed them the real cost of being Special: the evil…
    Beyond The Neck

    Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Other Times

    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.…
    Trophy Boys

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Trophy Boys

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    It is the biggest night of Melbourne’s academic calendar, the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament, and the all-boys team from the elite St Imperium College are ready to totally annihilate their sister school — until things take a dark turn… Performed by a female and non-binary…
    Editor's Choice RBG – Of Many, One

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
    A Man of No Importance

    Neglected Musicals: A Man of No Importance

    The musical takes place in Dublin in 1964. Alfie Byrne, a middle-aged bachelor living a quiet life with his spinster sister, works as a bus conductor by day and by night as a amateur theatre impresario dedicated to the plays of his hero, Oscar Wilde. A modest man, a quiet man,…
    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…
    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…
    The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh

    Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Who did in Mad Padraic's beloved cat on a lonely road on the island of Inishmore - and was it an accident? He'll want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves his cat more than life itself. Martin…