• Griffin Theatre: Afterglow

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Afterglow

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Every year after the Barbershop Singing National Championships, the men gather for the traditional “afterglow”. Whisky flows, dickie-bows are loosened, and quartets sing booze-soaked harmonies into the small hours. At the 2012 afterglow, Michael meets Tom. One is a barbershop purist with something to prove. The other is a first…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    The Neilson Nutshell, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her daughter was destined for superstardom. One day, Mackenzie and her best on-set friend Beau encounter a geriatric make-up artist…

    Australian Youth Orchestra: AYO Flagship: Brave New Worlds

    AANT Centre Darwin, NT, Australia
    The Australian Youth Orchestra marks an exciting milestone as we travel to the Top End for the first time in over 30 years before returning to Sydney’s City Recital Hall with a thrilling program featuring Shostakovich’s haunting Cello Concerto No. 1 and the sweeping gestures of Beethoven’s EroicaSymphony, conducted by…
    Bull

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: Bull

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    WELCOME TO THE RING. ONLY ONE SURVIVES. A lean, brutal modern classic — a companion piece to C*ck, turning the workplace into a gladiatorial arena. Just one month after staging Bartlett’s C*ck, we turn to Bull — an   elemental, unflinching exploration of power, survival and psychological warfare in a boardroom-as-arena. If C*ck interrogates identity and…
    Heartbreak Hotel

    Arts Centre Melbourne: Heartbreak Hotel

    Fairfax Studio
    Karin McCracken is someone you want by your side on that walk down lonely street to Heartbreak Hotel – a weird, fun place to confront your heartache.Dressed in lavender tassels and backed by covers of breakup songs (Elvis, Celine, the real heavy hitters), Karin takes us on a tour through the aching…
    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…
    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…
    DOUBT

    Sydney Theatre Company: DOUBT

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The Bronx, NY, 1964. Sister Aloysius (Rabe), the iron-fisted headmistress of St. Nicholas Church School suspects a progressive priest of inappropriate behaviour with the school’s sole Black student, Donald Muller. The charismatic Father Flynn denies the allegations entirely. In a brand-new production of John Patrick Shanley’s titanic drama, powerhouse Australian…

    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
    What begins as a faithful production of Chekhov’s poignant, pastoral play, spirals into a meticulously crafted chaos engine — testing the limits of sincerity, concentration, and collective theatrical endurance. In this deliriously overstimulating remix, Chekhovian despair is dragged kicking and screaming into our current attention economy. This genre-bending, gender-bending live…
    Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Musica Viva Australia: Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
    Prepare to be kissed by a fairy, haunted by a dream and transformed by music when Canadian virtuoso violinist Leila Josefowicz and fellow-Canadian pianist John Novacek bring their fantastical tales and captivating sounds to tour Australia. Josefowicz and Novacek have been playing together since they were eight, and their enduring partnership…
    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…
    THREE McCartney / Ritchie-Jones / Bray

    Australasian Dance Collective: THREE McCartney / Ritchie-Jones / Bray

    Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
    Australasian Dance Collective presents an exhilarating showcase of contemporary dance in a new triple bill. “A show which will remind you what it feels like to be human – to be alive,” — Returning in 2026 for its fourth iteration, ADC’s much-loved THREE features two world premieres and an immersive…