• Retrograde

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Retrograde

    Fairfax Studio
    Director Bert LaBonté (Topdog/Underdog) steers this alarmingly timely and ‘wickedly funny’ (The Standard) work starring newcomer Donné Ngabo (Last Days) and international screen star Alan Dale (24, The O.C.) to its blistering conclusion. It’s the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, fuelled by big money and heady ambition. Paranoia simmers beneath…
    Ride or Die

    The Almost Collective: Ride or Die

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Strap yourself in for Perth’s latest and greatest attraction, Venture Land! Infiltrate the city’s greatest asset to experience dazzling grandeur, magical memories and thrilling free falls as your worries drift away … What’s that? The park is under attack?   Venture Land has been compromised on its opening day, rattling both…
    Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Wake in Fright

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Bundayabba – the best little town in the world! You’ll never want to leave. And even if you did… You can’t. Well-heeled schoolteacher John Grant is en route to Sydney when a layover in the mining town of Bundanyabba turns into a three-week freefall. Stranded and starving, Grant…
    Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Secret House: Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Seymour Centre and Secret House present the Australian premiere of Shooting Hedda Gabler by Nina Segal—a darkly unsettling, wickedly funny examination of ambition, manipulation and coercive control. When offered the lead part in a Norwegian film adaptation of Hedda Gabler, an actress seizes the opportunity to escape her past and gain…
    Hair

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Hair

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Celebrating the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory, one of the most famous musicals of all time featuring “Aquarius,” “Good Morning, Starshine,” “Hair,” “I Got Life” and “Let The Sunshine In.” Identity, community, global responsibility and peace, HAIR remains relevant as ever as it examines what…
    Editor's Choice Requiems

    Opera Australia: Brahms Requiem

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Opera Australia continues its sidestep into choral repertoire with two great 19th-century Requiems. Completed in 1893, Fauré’s lyrical meditation on death is paired with Barber’s iconic Agnus Dei, the composer’s choral arrangement of his famous Adagio for Strings. The OA Chorus will be conducted by Paul Fitzsimon, with Michael Curtain playing the marvellous…
    Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks: Garry Starr – Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025, and fresh from a sell out season at London’s West End, Garry Starr returns with a literary adventure like no other through the world’s most iconic works of fiction. In just one hour, the comic wunderkind, hell-bent on saving…
    Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025, and fresh from a sell out season at London’s West End, Garry Starr returns with a literary adventure like no other through the world’s most iconic works of fiction. In just one hour, the comic wunderkind, hell-bent on saving books from extinction, must…
    Punk the beat! Let’s W_ack!

    Arts Centre Melbourne: Punk the beat! Let’s W_ack!

    The Showroom, Arts Centre Melbourne
    This series frames choreography from 8 teachers through a neurodiverse lens, transforming dance into a conceptual and social playground, dissolving boundaries between mind, body and community. Punking is a Queer-born club dance defined by pose, attitude and musical domination. W_acking is the action – it’s the way you move with…

    The Ellington Jazz Club: Gemma Farrell Quintet

    The Ellington Jazz Club 191 Beaufort Street, Perth, WA, Australia
    After a brief hiatus while Gemma finishes her PhD, the Gemma Farrell Quintet returns to the stage at the Perth Women’s International Jazz Festival with a powerful set of original music. Led by saxophonist and composer Gemma Farrell, this acclaimed Perth ensemble brings together some of Western Australia’s most compelling…
    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…