• The Wolves

    Theatre Works: The Wolves

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Before the whistle blows... we are the wolves. WE ARE THE WOLVES. Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack…
    Sheltering

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Sheltering

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    Beneath the constellation of its creative and cultural legacy, Bangarra Dance Theatre, will present a program of three powerful works: 'Keeping Grounded', 'Brown Boys', and 'Sheoak', which honour Bangarra's past while looking to the future. 'Sheltering' will tour nationally from May to July 2026. An intergenerational thread connects this bold triple bill,…
    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…
    Editor's Choice Prima Facie

    Sydney Theatre Company: Prima Facie

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie had its world premiere at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in 2019. Directed by Lee Lewis, the riveting production starred Sheridan Harbridge (read our feature on page 30). Since then, the one-woman play has been produced in nearly 50 countries and published as a novel. Jodie…
    Toy Symphony

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre: Toy Symphony

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
    Roland Henning has writer’s block. It’s not that he lacks ideas - he’s just frozen, trapped by every artist’s worst fear: the inability to put pen to paper. Guided by his therapist, Roland moves between past and present, revisiting key memories from his childhood in the Sutherland Shire and confronting…

    Bloomsday in Melbourne: Between The Lines – The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Now in their 32nd year of celebrating this much-loved worldwide event, Bloomsday in Melbourne proudly brings their latest season to fortyfivedownstairs, Between The Lines - The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters. A young scholar makes the discovery of the century – letters between James Joyce and comedy legend Groucho Marx –…
    Toy Symphony

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre: Toy Symphony

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
    Roland Henning has writer’s block. Unlike the creative torment Roland experiences in Michael Gow’s earlier play Furious, he is frozen, trapped by an artist’s worst fear: the inability to put pen to paper. Guided by his therapist, Roland moves between past and present, revisiting key memories from his childhood in…
    C*ck

    Mockingbird Theatre Company: C*ck

    Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT
    WHO ARE YOU… WHEN LOVE DEMANDS A CHOICE? A razor-sharp modern classic about identity, desire and the cruelties of indecision. Mike Bartlett’s C*ck has, in just over a decade, secured its place as a seminal modern classic — strong, startling, and unforgettable, it’s a play that confronts identity, desire and the cruelties…
    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…
    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…

    Willoughby City Council: Jazz at The Lounge – Michelle Nicolle & Paul Grabowsky: NOIR

    The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
    Award-winning jazz singer Michelle Nicolle and acclaimed composer and pianist Paul Grabowsky unveil the hidden poetry within beloved ballads by artists such as Frank Sinatra and Cole Porter, transforming familiar melodies into haunting explorations of longing, heartbreak, and the bittersweet beauty of unrequited love. From jazz standards to unexpected gems,…