Sydney Opera House: Polar Bear & Penguin

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Direct from Ireland, Polar Bear & Penguin is a charming play for young audiences written and performed by John Currivan & Paul Curley. The tale of an unlikely encounter between a Polar Bear and a Penguin. This is the story of polar opposite characters meeting for the first time, getting to…
Event Series Spellbound

Base Entertainment: Spellbound

Goulburn Performing Arts Centre NSW
Get ready for a spectacular night of Magic and Grand Illusion with one of Australia’s leading Illusionists, Anthony Street. The Star and producer of the stage phenomenon Celtic Illusion will be touring his Grand Illusion show this school holidays. Witness levitations, impossible vanishes, mentalism and a death-defying escape as Anthony…
Event Series Seagull

Chaika Theatre: Seagull

ACT Hub 14 Spinifex St, Kingston, ACT, Australia
A vivid and contemporary, site-specific translation and adaptation by Karen Vickery of Chekhov’s masterpiece. A country house near a lake is the scene in which love triangles, quarrels about the theatre, and egos erupt. Aging celebrity actress, Irina, returns to the family property with her much younger lover, Boris –…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Almighty Sometimes

Melbourne Theatre Company: The Almighty Sometimes

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Kendall Feaver’s knotty drama takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people. Anna threw herself out of a window when she was seven. The following year, having read her somewhat macabre stories, her worried mother Renée took her to see a child psychiatrist, who prescribed a…

Bell Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

State Theatre Centre of WA Perth, WA, Australia
Love is in the air in Athens – and it’s contagious. Besides the royal wedding, which is just days away, there are young lovers dreaming of enchanted futures together. Hermia and Lysander are besotted with one another, while Helena adores Demetrius. The only snag is that Demetrius loves Hermia –…
Event Series I Have No Enemies

Bare Witness Theatre Company: I Have No Enemies

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, Rear of Thrifty-Link Hardware, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Do you know who’s watching you? What if it’s a group of unhinged sociopaths like US? After stumbling upon a voicemail full of sensitive information, four actors embark on a morally bankrupt man-hunt to untangle the reality of life online. Who is Phil? What happened to his dogs? And how’s…
Event Series No Pay? No Way!

Sydney Theatre Company: No Pay? No Way!

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
When No Pay? No Way! opened in 2020 it was instantly met with standing ovations and glowing reviews. Now, one of Sydney Theatre Company’s funniest and most beloved productions in recent years returns to the Drama Theatre and to a world more in need of its wild, farcical wisdom than…
Event Series The President

Sydney Theatre Company: The President

Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hugo Weaving returns to the stage, joined by one of Ireland’s greatest actors, Olwen Fouéré. In a first-time co-production, Sydney Theatre Company will join forces with the renowned Gate Theatre, Dublin to mount this genius piece of twentieth century playwriting. For this rare and remarkable international collaboration, the cast and…
Event Series The Sunshine Club

Sydney Coliseum Theatre: The Sunshine Club

Sydney Coliseum Theatre Rooty Hill, NSW, Australia
Written and directed by proud Noonuccal Nuugi man, Wesley Enoch, featuring music composed by the esteemed John Rodgers - The Sunshine Club is an energetic and thought-provoking piece of musical theatre with a talented cast of 11 First Nations artists, alongside a 5-piece live band. Set in 1946, the musical…
Event Series Wild Dogs Under My Skirt

Riverside Theatres: Wild Dogs Under My Skirt

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Adapted from Tusiata Avia’s poetry collection, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt is a provocative and unapologetic examination and celebration of what it is to be a Samoan woman. In the wake of the unending colonial earthquake, five Samoan characters make their lives between two cultures: playing, gossiping, enduring, enforcing the…

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