• Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Anything But The Dyson and Other Excellent Monologues

    Traincendence 48 Easey Street, Collingwood, VIC, Australia
    A series of clever and self-contained stories and reflections about midlife mayhem, Anything But The Dyson and Other Excellent Monologues places a side-splitting spotlight on the complex love-hate relationship of owning a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Interwoven with other excellent monologues about slamming into your 50s, MICF audiences can expect a…
    Editor's Choice

    Handa Opera at Millthorpe: Berlin to Broadway with Noëmi Nadelmann

    Millthorpe Hall Pym St, Millthorpe, NSW, Australia
    This Easter, Lyndon Terracini’s very Aussie take on the Italian summer opera festival returns to Orange’s wine country with an expanded program. Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera is performed in concert and stars Stacey Alleaume, Natalie Aroyan, Diego Torre, Andrew Williams and Elena Gabouri with the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra under…
    SPOONS by Damian Callinan

    Julz Hay Presents: Spoons by Damian Callinan

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Damian Callinan returns to the character narrative genre that has earned him three nominations for the Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 'Spoons' blends Callinan’s skilled character work, with dark humour and pathos in a moving portrait of an octogenarian’s fight to save his dead wife’s souvenir…
    A Thing Called Birthday

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op: A Thing Called a Birthday

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
    Do we need another hero? This is a much debated question but the answer is probably, yes! Do you like births? Do you like days? We've combined the two into one concept- a birthday! Do you like tights and mortality? Join us for our Birth Day celebration! Where:... When:... How:...…
    Julius Caesar

    Bell Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Betrayal and chaos rock the republic as Rome teeters on the brink of collapse It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has triumphed…
    The Great Gatsby: A Jazz Ballet Odyssey

    BIG Live’s Ballet: The Great Gatsby: A Jazz Ballet Odyssey

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne 219 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    This dazzling world premiere reimagines F. Scott Fitzgerald's timeless classic with full theatrical spectacle. Directed and choreographed by Joel Burke, with narration arranged by James Millar, Gatsby's story is brought to life like never before. The score blends masterpieces such as Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, James P Johnson's The Charleston…
    Beyond The Neck

    Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
    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.…
    Editor's Choice RBG – Of Many, One

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, 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,…
    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…

    Belvoir St Theatre: Drive Your Plough Over The Bones Of The Dead

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
      PAMELA RABE AND EAMON FLACK TAKE ON THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNERS’ WHODUNNIT This is Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece, now a theatrical tour-de-force led by the great Pamela Rabe. Janina Duszejko, a woman of retiring age, lives quietly in a remote village. But one winter, men start being murdered in her district,…