Theatre
![Bek Schilling and Sean Donehue in 'Bearded'. Shilling is on the left and has dyed platinum blonde hair with pink tips. Thye are mock playing and holding Sean Donehue's mouth open.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/BEARDED-Image-11-e1736729345359.webp?w=310)
Musical review: Bearded, Theatre Works
A queer musical set in the middle of Australia’s 2017 marriage equality debate.
![Large video screen with image of blonde wigged woman with glasses and actors below. Dark Noon](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/DarkNoon_240109_VictorFrankowski-4385.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Dark Noon, Sydney Festival 2025
An active theatre work that rewrites the narrative of the Wild West with contemporary subtextural readings.
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Incognita Enterprises
Playing The Bard: Shakespeare In Performance Audience Tickets
Get a deeper understanding of Shakespeare from the comfort of your living room, watching actors work live with award-winning Shakespeare…
![A large copy of Alison Lester's picture book 'Imagine Live' is placed in the middle of the stage, with two actors between it and various paraphrenalia from the book.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/Imagine-Live-Hero-stage__Peter-Foster-Photography1.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: IMAGINE LIVE, Arts Centre Melbourne
Based on Alison Lester's popular picture book, this production works for all the family.
![A woman is peeping through the folds of a large, oversized puppet. The light on them both is golden in a production of 'Hometown.'](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/SPPT-Hometown-photo-by-Tashi-Hall-511.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Hometown, Claremont Showground
A new puppet musical inspired by the work of Shaun Tan.
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Soiree Cabaret Productions
Soiree Cabaret
Prepare to be swept away by a theatrical masterpiece that awakens your imagination, ignites your soul, and inspires you to…
![A sequence from Tra Mi Dinh’s 'Somewhere between ten and fourteen', which features in Sydney Dance Company's 2025 season. The photo depicts four barefoot dancers in blue coveralls dancing on a blue-lit stage. The dancer on the far left has their legs spread, their right arm raised and their left arm extended horizontally; the dancer on the right, who is the focus of the focus, stands in a half-crouch, her arms extended to the right and her right foot bent so that the side of the foot rather than her sole is touching the stage.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/NB23_Somewhere_Between_Ten_And_Fourteen_231205_521_hires_byPedroGreig.jpg?w=310)
ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts
Our rolling guide to the 2025 season announcements you may have missed.
![Three men sitting at a table in front of a stable door in a production of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.'](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/merry-e1736211197821.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Another tried and true staging of a Shakespeare comedy from The Australian Shakespeare Company.
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Bunjil Place
Summer Stage at Bunjil Place
The Summer Stage festival returns to Bunjil Place, Narre Warren this summer with an exciting range of live music, entertainment,…
![black and white headshot of young Caucasian man with intense eyes. James Simpson.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-02-at-2.47.20 PM-e1735793545194.webp?w=310)
Vale James Simpson
The musical director, arranger and orchestrator was described as 'a remarkable, talented, humble, passionate, kind soul' by Casey Donovan.