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Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Wilson DIxon: Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, You Do

Chinese Museum Chinatown Melbourne, 22 Cohen Place, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Direct from Cripple Creek, Colorado, country music legend Wilson Dixon returns to the festival circuit for the first time in years. Known to many as the greatest country singer Cripple Creek has ever produced - as well as the only country singer Cripple Creek has ever produced - whichever way…

The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre: NEWK (The John Newcombe Story)

The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
NEWK is the ace new play from award-winning Australian playwright Kieran Carroll, who traces the life of the great Australian tennis champ of the 1960s-70s, John Newcombe. Set at his 80th birthday in Sydney, John Newcombe’s journey travels from naïve 1960s schoolboy, to the No. 1 tennis player in the…
Cancer and Cartwheels – Dr Jo Prendergast at the Melbourne Comedy Festival

Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Cancer and Cartwheels

The Motley Bauhaus - Cabaret Stage, 118 Elgin St, Carlton, Melbourne 118 Elgin St, Carlton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join psychiatrist, award-winning comedian, and cancer survivor Dr. Jo Prendergast as she brings her acclaimed solo comedy show, Cancer and Cartwheels, to the Melbourne Comedy Festival this March. After a sold-out debut in New Zealand, Jo takes the stage with a hilarious, heartwarming performance about overcoming breast cancer, reclaiming her…

Sydney Theatre Company: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Five modern teenage girls recount a story burnt into the Australian psyche. In Tom Wright’s lyrical and daring adaptation, Joan Lindsay’s hypnotic classic becomes a form-shattering mix of storytelling, gossip, and reenactment. Seen through the eyes of STC Resident Director Ian Michael (Stolen, Constellations), “the most exciting new director of…
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Melbourne Theatre Company: The Removalists

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
David Williamson’s dark satire The Removalists premiered in 1971 but remains as shocking as ever. Set in an inner suburb of Melbourne, two sisters report an act of domestic violence to the police, hoping things will be quickly resolved. However, the local constabulary likes to handle things its own way.…
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Queensland Theatre: Calamity Jane

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
First seen at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co in 2107, Richard Carroll’s inspired, side-splitting production, starring Virginia Gay in the title role, proved an enormous hit. Reviewing it for Limelight, Clive Paget wrote, “this tiny jewel of a production hits every note square between the eyes.” Naomi Price now steps into…

Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Jacob Sacher: Promising Young Mensch

The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
When Jacob Sacher's Jewish school was implicated in the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, he was forced to reflect on his ultra-orthodox childhood. Jacob Sacher is an award winning alternative comedian. He has performed his unique brand of comedy around the country, in New Zealand and the United States.…

Stephanie Hare: A Chance to Adress the Amish Rumours

The Butterfly Club 5 Carson Place, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Stephanie Hare grew up off-grid in rural Tasmania without internet, television, or even a fridge. When Stephanie’s mother was twenty-three, they relocated out of Melbourne, bought a goat, and built a house out of firewood in the middle-of-nowhere Tasmania. Now Stephanie is twenty-three and she’s written a comedy show about…

Nun Sense: Nun Sense – Benefit concert for the Alma Nuns of Timor Leste

The Wheatsheaf Hotel 39 George St, Thebarton, SA, Australia
Get ready for a massive night of live music, energy, and good times—all for an incredible cause! NUN SENSE is bringing together some of Adelaide’s finest musicians for a charity gig like no other, raising much-needed funds for the ALMA Nuns, who dedicate their lives to caring for abandoned and…

Melbourne Town Hall: 2 Truths, 1 Lie & 17 Slight Exaggerations

Melbourne Town Hall 90-130 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Tom Cashman is flying to Perth/Adelaide as we speak, with a new hour of stand up that may or may not include the secret to happiness. You might know Tom from TikTok, you might know him from Taskmaster Australia, or you might be grappling with the idea of him for…
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Sydney Theatre Company: Bloom

Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
This new Australian musical played to sold-out houses when it premiered at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2023. The fact that Tom Gleisner of Working Dog fame (The Castle, The Dish, Utopia, Have You Been Paying Attention?) wrote the book and lyrics was doubtless part of the appeal. Bloom (with music…

Seymour Centre: Moulin Scrooge – The Adults-only Panto Returns

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Trevor Ashley, one of Australia’s most celebrated drag and cabaret performers, returns for a strictly limited season alongside the legendary Carlotta in this smash-hit adults-only panto! Follow cabaret diva Satôn (Ashley) and club owner Astrid Zeneca (Carlotta) as they fight to save their beloved Moulin Beige from greedy developers. Packed…

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