• Sweeney Preston: Australia’s Worst Journalist

    Sydney Comedy Festival: Sweeney Preston: Australia’s Worst Journalist

    The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    For three years, comedian-journalist Sweeney Preston wrote dating advice articles while his own love life desperately needed an editor. Now, Sweeney relives some of the most hilarious contradictions between his own life, and the articles he was writing – some of which have been read by over 100K people. Return…
    Red Ticket

    The Blue Room Theatre: Red Ticket

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Does the past ever leave us? Set in the former Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, now a community arts centre, Red Ticket explores the shared connection of two women, a century apart, struggling with mental health issues after childbirth. Lily is a new mum drowning under the pressures of motherhood. In search of community…
    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 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…
    My Brilliant Career

    Sydney Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “The holy grail of Australian musical theatre” The Age Miles Franklin’s classic novel as you’ve never seen it before, with a live soundtrack that’s equal parts contemporary pop, folksy bush band and barnstorming pub rock. Beloved by audiences and showered with five-star reviews, My Brilliant Career was Melbourne’s most in-demand ticket in 2024.…
    The Book of Mormon

    JONES Theatrical Group: The Book of Mormon

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Hello! The Mormons are back! First seen in Australia in 2017, The Book of Mormon is blasphemous, scurrilous, puerile, rude, satirical – and one of the funniest, sweetest, most joyous musicals ever staged. Written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with Robert Lopez, the 2011 show won…

    Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Maitreyi – Maitriarchy

    Ballers Clubhouse 2 Coverlid Place, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Fifty, frisky and family roadtrippin'. A midlife crisis, a round-the-world tour and a glimpse of marital life. Laughs, luggage and a little lack of lingerie. Ooh la la! Following 10 sold out shows at Hong Kong's oldest and best comedy club, the matriarch of Hong Kong comedy makes her long-awaited…
    Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
    Anastasia The Broadway Musical, the romantic and adventure-filled hit musical inspired by the beloved film, is coming to Australia for the first time! This dazzling production, by the Tony Award winning team Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Darko Tresnjak, transports you from the twilight years of the Imperial…
    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…
    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 is…
    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…