• Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Anything But The Dyson and Other Excellent Monologues

    Traincendence 48 Easey Street, Collingwood, VIC, Australia
    A series of clever and self-contained stories and reflections about midlife mayhem, Anything But The Dyson and Other Excellent Monologues places a side-splitting spotlight on the complex love-hate relationship of owning a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Interwoven with other excellent monologues about slamming into your 50s, MICF audiences can expect a…
    SPOONS by Damian Callinan

    Julz Hay Presents: Spoons by Damian Callinan

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Damian Callinan returns to the character narrative genre that has earned him three nominations for the Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 'Spoons' blends Callinan’s skilled character work, with dark humour and pathos in a moving portrait of an octogenarian’s fight to save his dead wife’s souvenir…
    Messa da Requiem

    Queensland Ballet: Messa da Requiem

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Where music, movement, and mortality collide. Renowned choreographer, Christian Spuck, transforms Verdi’s masterpiece into a sculpture of living art and music in Ivan Gil-Ortega’s inaugural season as artistic director. Premiering as the first production in QPAC’s new Glasshouse Theatre - and marking its Queensland debut - Messa da Requiem explores…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Kid Stakes

    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…
    RBG – Of Many, One

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

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Australian legend, Heather Mitchell, returns to the stage in her award-winning performance as Ruth Bader Ginsburg - an intimate theatrical portrait of one woman who changed history. The second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court. A trailblazer in the American judiciary. A fierce advocate for gender equality and reproductive…
    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…
    Julius Caesar

    Bell Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Betrayal and chaos rock the republic as Rome teeters on the brink of collapse It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has triumphed…
    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…