• Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    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.…
    Gutenberg! The Musical!

    Hayes Theatre Co: Gutenberg! The Musical!

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    From the creators of Beetlejuice: The Musical, comes the Broadway smash hit Gutenberg! The Musical! – a love letter to the underdog, and to music theatre itself. This joyously funny and stupidly clever musical tells a story of friendship, ambition, and the kind of unshakable delusion that might just change…
    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…
    Editor's Choice The Last Ship

    QPAC: The Last Ship

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    International superstar Sting comes to Brisbane to play  a lead role in this deeply personal musical, for which he wrote music and lyrics. Inspired by Sting’s childhood in the industrial town of Wallsend in the UK, The Last Ship tells the moving story of a community facing the closure of…
    Flora

    The Australian Ballet: Flora

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Beneath the cracked clay, a seed unfurls. Leaf. Bloom. Life. Promise. Crossing time and space. The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre present Flora by Frances Rings, an exciting and bold new dance collaboration. Flora marks the fourth time the companies have joined forces, and in this first full-length collaboration, Bangarra’s signature storytelling…
    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre: Betty & Joan

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE In Hollywood’s Golden Age, two queens reigned supreme – Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Before Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? lit up cinemas, their off-camera rivalry was already a blockbuster. Anton Burge’s deliciously wicked two-hander pulls back the curtain on the set where egos clashed, tempers flared, and…
    Editor's Choice RBG: Of Many, One

    State Theatre Company South Australia: RBG: Of Many, One

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
    The Admirable Crichton

    Genesian Theatre: The Admirable Crichton

    St Joseph's Church Hall Gordon Street, Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What happens when Edwardian aristocrats and their unflappable butler are stranded on a desert island? In Barrie's delicious satire, the social order flips upside-down in ways both hilarious and revealing. Think Downtown Abbey meets Survivor: witty, playful and packed with class-skewering fun. Light, bright and utterly charming!
    Stage Kiss

    New Theatre: Stage Kiss

    New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
    “When I kissed you just now, did it feel like an actor kissing an actor or a person kissing a person…?” Two actors, and former lovers, unexpectedly reunite when cast opposite each other in a forgotten 1930s melodrama. As rehearsals progress and onstage romance echoes their past, the lines between…
    Drum Tao

    Rokitz Entertainment: Drum Tao

    HOTA 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia
    After captivating more than 9 million people worldwide, Japan's Drum Tao returns to Australia with their most breathtaking production yet. Fusing the thunderous power of taiko drumming with martial arts athleticism, choreography, and cinematic staging, Drum Tao transcends borders and redefines live performance. This is not just a concert—it is…
    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…
    Bizarrerie

    Van Diemen’s Band: Bizarrerie

    Ian Potter Recital Hall 19-27 Campbell St, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Bizarrerie puts the spotlight on some of the rare and unusual instruments from the Band’s collection. Program highlights include Vivaldi's Concerto for Lute and Viola d'Amore in D minor, showcasing the haunting, bell-like tones of the six-stringed viola d'amore, while Fasch's Concerto for Gallichon gives this almost-forgotten instrument—a gut-strung hybrid that sits somewhere between a…