Thursday, 16 April 2026

The River, Sydney Theatre Company, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 8 Apr-16 Mar

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 Jez Butterworth's 80 minute play is an enigmatic story of a man, some women and the cabin where he brings them to fish for sea trout du...
Thursday, 2 April 2026

& Juliet, Free-Rain Theatre Company, The Q, 31 Mar-26 Apr

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 Photo courtesy Janelle McMenamin I will admit I enjoyed this when I saw the  original run in sydney  - part of this was enjoying all the be...
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Friday, 20 March 2026

Sammy J: Hero Complex, Canberra Comedy Festival, Canberra Theatre, Canberra Theatre Centre, March 20 (and Melbourne International Comedy Festival 14-19 Apr, Sydney Comedy Festival 30 Apr-2 May, Brisbane Comedy Festival 16-17 May) )

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  Sammy J's show is a decade-later return season of a show that goes deep into his past, back to his school days, and how elements of wh...

Frankie McNair: Huge Ass Mindset, Canberra Comedy Festival, Courtyard, Canberra Theatre Centre, 20 Mar 2026 (and Melbourne International Comedy Festival 7-19 Apr)

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  Comedy festival shows run a wide gamut. But I saw two shows that were autobiographical, about personal encounters that left their narrator...
Saturday, 14 March 2026

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Canberra Philharmonic Society, ACT Hub, 12-28 Mar

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  A musical about children at a spelling bee may sound like a particuarly gruelling evening of precociousness, but filtered through the brai...
Wednesday, 11 March 2026

My Brilliant Career, Melbourne Theatre Company, Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra Theatre, 7-15 Mar (and subseqently Sydney and Wollongong)

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  Five years after  Belvoir's somewhat similar non-musical adaptation  (down to sharing a lot of the same doubling and also having a pia...
Saturday, 7 March 2026

Head over Heels, Well Done Creative, Hayes Theatre, 20 Feb-22 Mar

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 A pop musical using the songs of the Go-gos with a plot drawn from the 16th Century pastoral romance "Arcadia" by Sir Phillip Sid...