Holiday Island

Merrigong Theatre Company: Holiday Island

IPAC 32 Burelli St, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
A clown yearns for a summer getaway, so she decides to create it herself. With nine colourful suitcases in tow, she builds an imaginary world of play, relaxation and togetherness in Holiday Island. Like a silent film, driven by a nostalgic soundtrack, be transported to a place built from scraps…
Murmur

Sydney Opera House: Murmur

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
For the first time in Australia, join Murmur’s visual circus and a multi-sensory acrobatic sound composition! This is an imaginative performance for everyone who sometimes longs to be more than just human. Camiel is building a world full of sounds. A purring cat comes from a pocket, a swarm of bees flies…
The Farmy Farm

Riverside Theatres: The Farmy Farm

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Set in their favourite part of Australia, Legend Farms, join Kenny & Jenny for a day in the life of getting their jobs done with a tractor-load of circus and farming tomfoolery. It’s “The Castle” meets “Babe” with jaw-dropping acrobatics on tall towers of hay, giant juggling carrots, fair dinkum…
Space Pirates

Kat Glass Creative: Space Pirates

Gasworks Arts Park 21 Graham Street, Albert Park, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Pirates, puppets & galactic tunes! Strap in for space fun that'll have kids hooked from lift-off! This is not a drill! The fate of the universe is in the hands of an astronaut on a cosmic clean up mission, a rhythmically gifted robotic parrot, and a power chord fuelled Pirate…
Whitefella Yella Tree

Griffin Theatre Company: Whitefella Yella Tree

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
First love: joyous, sweet and youthful. Two boys from neighbouring mobs, puffed up with teenage giddiness, poised on the edge of a world about to change. Their budding love taking root in Country that is about to be declared ‘Australia’. In the early years of colonisation, a young Aboriginal man,…
Beauty and the Beast the Musical

Disney: Beauty and the Beast the Musical

Crown Theatre Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
This enchanting and timeless tale has been brought to life in Disney's reimagined production boasting all the spectacle and grandeur audiences know and love. The incredible new production from the producers of The Lion King, Mary Poppins, Aladdin and Frozen will premiere at Crown Theatre in July 2025 for a…
Editor's Choice Rebecca

Melbourne Theatre Company: Rebecca

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel was adapted as a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This new production, adapted and directed by MTC Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, takes us back to Manderley, the grand mansion where Maxim de Winter returns home with his second…
The Witches of Eastwick

Hayes Theatre Co: The Witches of Eastwick

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
Comedy, drama, and horror collide in this spellbinding musical adaptation of The Witches of Eastwick. Originally a 1984 novel by John Updike, the story was famously brought to the screen in the 1987 dark fantasy comedy film directed by George Miller, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon.…
Editor's Choice The 39 Steps

Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: The 39 Steps

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps, was loosely based on John Buchan’s 1915 novel. Patrick Barlow’s stage adaptation of the same book combines Hitchcockian suspense with lashings of hilarity. The play, which features four actors playing 130 characters, has delighted audiences around the world. It returns to Australia…
All Star Circus

Head First Acrobats: All Star Circus

The Vault at Fool's Paradise Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga, Grote St, Adelaide, NSW, Australia
If you only see one show this fringe, make sure this is the one! Graceful aerialists, amazing acrobats and hilarious slapstick comedy by a multi award winning artists. Welcome to All Star Circus, a wonderful circus show for families of all ages, showcasing a variety of circus disciplines by Head…
Chip On Her Shoulder

Melbourne Fringe: Chip On Her Shoulder

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Single, Snacking, and Struggling: A Play About Chips, Comfort, and Coping Kate wishes she was all that — and a bag of chips. Spoiler: she’s not. She’s a mess, and she knows it. But she’s trying, sort of. She might even be a little bit salty — at life, at…

Cameo Rascale Entertainment: Cirque Nouvelle – A New Evolution of Circus

Griffith Regional Theatre Neville Place, Griffith, NSW, Australia
Cameo Rascale Entertainment presents ‘Cirque Nouvelle’ – a new evolution of circus. After sell out shows in 2024 this internationally acclaimed all-star cast are back and ready to present a truly unique and versatile production.

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