SeasonPreview: Your guide to the arts in 2025

Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) has revealed its 2025 program, 13 productions of international hits, Australian premieres and homegrown landmarks.

Each show, says Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks “will do what only theatre can do: put you there in the room, with actors and audience, sharing a special experience that exists only for one night.”

An Indigenous football player in a red jersey is lifted by four teammates in black jerseys. They all cheer.

Melbourne Theatre Company’s 37. Photo © Jo Duck

The season begins on 24 January with the return of a standout success from Season 2024: Nathan Maynard’s 37. A co-production with Queensland Theatre, 37 is a high-energy, humorous yet unflinching look at AFL, one the examines the joys of community and mateship while factoring in the high price of winning.

Next (from 15 February) comes the Australian premiere of Never Have I Ever, a provocative comedy from Deborah Frances-White, the creator of The Guilty Feminist podcast. Described as a modern-day Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the production will be...