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  • Spherical: Flying Fruit Fly Circus

    Sydney Opera House

    The Flying Fruit Fly Circus is back with a brand new show where knockabout comedy meets breathtaking aerials. Witness the incredible talents of young performers in this all-round circus extravaganza!

    Spherical is a brand new work, brought to you by the fabulous Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Australia's National Youth Circus. Prepare to be amazed by the mind-blowing tricks, the intricate juggling acts and the nail biting aerials inspired by the curves of the Sydney Opera House sails for our 50th anniversary.

    Get ready for this ensemble of young performers aged 11 – 18 years, to flip, juggle, balance and dive their way into your heart!

  • Miss Peony

    Belvoir St Theatre

    A comedy of beauty pageants, unrealistic expectation and the business of family.
    Lily’s grandmother was a beauty queen back in Hong Kong. She doesn’t care that times have changed, that Lily lives in a new country and a new century. She sees a granddaughter caught between worlds. So Poh Poh pushes Lily into entering the highly competitive Miss Peony, and no matter how hard Lily tries to wriggle out of it, her grandma won’t take no for an answer.

    And to make matters worse, she’s a ghost.

    Glitzy and madcap, Miss Peony is a bold new comedy about our good old need for connection – to family, the past, the future, each other.

    And for the first time ever we’re offering a show in three languages: as in real life, these characters switch between English, Cantonese and Mandarin, so the show is surtitled in all three.

  • On The Beach

    Roslyn Packer Theatre

    Two of our great theatre-makers join forces for this poetic story of community, dignity and love in dark times.
    A small group of friends in Melbourne – some local, some survivors from the US Navy – are living out their eerily prosaic lives and loves in the wake of World War III. But when a mysterious distress call rings out across the Pacific Ocean, the characters are called to choose between duty to the ones they love and duty to the human race.

  • The Turn of the Screw

    Seymour Centre

    A young woman is sent to an isolated country estate to care for two children. A boy and a girl. Miles and Flora. 

    The children are charming, if perhaps a little too precocious. And for a while everything seems perfect. But something is gathering, waiting. There is a figure in the darkness.

    And there are sins that don't die with the sinner.

  • Adam Linder: Hustle Harder

    Museum of Contemporary Art

    The internationally acclaimed Australian choreographer Adam Linder will present a performance exhibition devised for the MCA Macgregor Gallery. Linder makes work for both the stage and gallery spaces, often riffing on the histories and social codes that underpin these different contexts. Curated by Anneke Jaspers, Linder’s new commission for the MCA will focus on the… Read More »Adam Linder: Hustle Harder

  • Sweeney Todd

    Sydney Opera House

    The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Attend the deliciously dark tale of Sweeney Todd. A gruesome story of a man who is living life by the razor’s edge.

  • Mr Bailey’s Minder

    Ensemble Theatre

    Leo has been ravaged by years of alcohol abuse, self-loathing and indulgent misbehaviour, and now needs round-the-clock care. Enter Therese, fresh out of prison and down to her last option, who takes up the challenge as Leo’s carer. Therese is determined to succeed – even if it means going head-to-head with Mr. Bailey.

  • Constellations

    Wharf 1 Theatre

    A gloriously romantic love story that reflects on the power of human connection and asks, “what if?”.
    A date with destiny
    What if you could relive the most important moments in your life, over and over, to see how things could have turned out differently?
    This is the question at the heart of Constellations.

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Seymour Centre

    Our production takes on the spirit of a filthy Italian opera, driven by love and heat, fights and fevers of the mind, and of course, by Shakespeare’s soaring poetry. We are carried to backcountry Verona, a profoundly insular town, trapped in cycles of tradition and vendetta, staring out at the future with moral pollution at its heart. Only its children’s courage to express themselves will bring change. With the mad blood stirring, two young lovers meet and set in motion the most iconic love story of all time, that of Juliet and her Romeo.

  • The Weekend

    Belvoir St Theatre

    A sophisticated new adaptation of Charlotte Wood's bestselling novel of friendship and the wisdom of age.

    “People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn’t true…”

    Four women have known each other for decades, and have a friendship that goes with it – good-humoured, caring, and forthright when required. But Sylvie has died, and when the remaining three come together to pack up her beach house, they find maybe they haven’t been as honest – or as good friends – as they thought.

    Adele, a once-well-known actress, Wendy, a high-profile academic, and Jude, who ran one of the city’s most celebrated restaurants, learn things they should have learned years ago. There’s a difference between growing old, and growing wise.

    And at the heart of it all, an old dog keeps them company, silently bearing witness to the folly of age, and the warmth of true friendship.

  • The Dismissal

    Seymour Centre

    Newly deposed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam descends the steps of Parliament House to rage against his dismissal by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, who has replaced him with the opposition leader, Malcolm Fraser. A scoop of reporters throng toward him—chief among them Gold Logie-winner, beloved larrikin, and Wollongong’s favourite son: Norman Gunston.

  • The Importance Of Being Ernest

    Roslyn Packer Theatre

    Hilarious, naughty and Wilde
    Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing are two best friends who are both living double lives. In the city they’re playboys with a libertine reputation, but in the country they assume pious alter egos to get away from it all. Things get sticky when love enters the mix and the men have to keep track of who they’re pretending to be and when. Floating haughtily above it all is the withering Lady Bracknell, Victorian London’s socialite extraordinaire and the gatekeeper of all things high society.

  • Summer of Harold

    Ensemble Theatre

    Memories of 1984. London. Phil Collins on MTV. Cassette tapes. Hilary Bell’s new play explores our love for odd things. What is the magic that makes us possessive about objects? Three stories intertwine to take us on a hilarious, poignant and magical journey.

  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

    Hayes Theatre

    Six spellers enter… but only one speller can leave a champion! At least the losers get a juice box… The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a wildly hilarious take on adolescence, parenting, teachers, and the P-A-N-D-E-M-O-N-I-U-M of the world of competitive spelling bees. Centred around a very eclectic group of six mid-pubescent teens,… Read More »The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee