• GENIUS

    Brown’s Mart Theatre: GENIUS

    Brown's Mart Theatre Festival Park, Corner Smith St & Harry Chan Ave, Darwin, NT, Australia
    A modern retelling of a centuries-old story #stillrelevanttoday. Enter the world of renowned Italian Baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c.1653) as retold by street-smart, paint-splattered rising graffiti star, Miss Ella from today (2026). Artemisia, renowned for her skilful, vivid depictions of powerful, female figures, pushed boundaries, carving her own path that…
    My Brilliant Career

    Melbourne Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Hailed as a ‘funny, feminist triumph’ (The Guardian) and earning multiple five-star reviews in its sold-out 2024 Melbourne season, the joyous My Brilliant Career arrives in Canberra for a limited run. Led by the formidable Kala Gare (SIX the musical) – and featuring a dynamic cast of actor/musicians – this smash-hit musical earned critical acclaim and five…

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A landmark work of Australian theatre returns to the stage where it first sprang to inglorious life. Steve J. Spears’ The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin scandalised and mesmerised in equal measure when it premiered in 1976, touring across the world and collecting awards everywhere it ventured. Now, on its 50th…
    Fair Play

    Lost Thought: Fair Play

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    Fair Play is a blistering, urgent two-hander about ambition, friendship, and the brutal cost of elite sport. Set in the high-pressure world of competitive middle-distance running, the play follows teenage athletes Ann and Sophie as they train, race, and grow up together — until success, scrutiny, and institutional power threaten…
    Do Not Pass Go

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Do Not Pass Go

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Laced with acerbic humour, Do Not Pass Go turns hustle culture inside out to ask: when the system is built to break you, what’s left to hold onto? Flux and Penny are colleagues whiling away their lives in the nondescript purgatory of a workplace no-one seems to run, doing a job no-one…
    Mary Motorhead/Trade

    Malthouse Theatre: Mary Motorhead/Trade

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    MARY MOTORHEAD Locked up for stabbing her husband in the head with a 12 inch carving knife, the compelling monodrama Mary Motorhead invites us to hear Mary’s “secret history” – disappointments and betrayals that shaped her life. In her ACOCO debut as Mary, Australian mezzo soprano Emily Edmonds faces the ugly side…
    Australian Haydn Ensemble 2026 Season

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Mozart’s Spring

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    ★★★★1/2 "...elegance, invention and emotional depth.‍” Limelight, 2025 The Australian Haydn Ensemble opens the 2026 season with Haydn’s chirpy and charming quartet Op. 33 No. 3, known as the "Bird".  Named after an unidentified avian, it features a spirited finale and a second movement that’s wild even by Haydn’s standards!…
    As You Like It

    Fingerless Theatre: As You Like It

    Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
    The days are dark and dangerous. Orlando’s brother is treating him like a slave, and is plotting to kill him. Also fearing for her life, Rosalind has to flee the cold and controlling French court. Disguised as a man, she heads to the Forest of Arden, where she finds, under…
    Editor's Choice Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Crown Theatre Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
    The 2017 Broadway musical, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Terrence McNally, is based on the much-loved 1997 animated film. It centres on the mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna who was rumoured to have escaped (since disproved) when the Russian Imperial family…
    90 Day Comedian – Dalin Oliver

    The Marketing Hub Australia: 90 Day Comedian – Dalin Oliver

    The Griffins Hotel - The Balcony Room 38 Hindmarsh Square, Kaurna, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    One of South Africa’s most exciting comedy voices, Dalin Oliver makes his Adelaide Fringe debut with 90 Day Comedian, a multi award-winning one-man show that’s quietly been winning over audiences across 8 countries and 32 cities. Blending sharp laughs with warm, honest storytelling, the show explores identity, culture, and what…
    AFTERGLOW

    Midnight Theatricals: AFTERGLOW

    Eternity Playhouse 39 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    The climax is just the beginning. S. Asher Gelman international hit play AFTERGLOW is finally heading to Sydney! When Josh and Alex, a married couple in an open relationship, invite Darius to share their bed for a night, a new and intimate connection is ignited. As all three men come…

    Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin

    Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…