Sydney Theatre Company’s 2026 – 2027 Season invites audiences to see the world from its stages, bringing together bold new Australian work, international productions, beloved stories and some of the most exciting theatrical talent from Australia and around the world.
Across the year, the season features world premieres, Australian premieres, contemporary international hits and reimagined classics, creating a diverse program of theatre that promises something for every kind of audience.
More than simply a night at the theatre, a Sydney Theatre Company experience is an opportunity to step away from the everyday and immerse yourself in extraordinary storytelling, live performance and exceptional stagecraft.
For clients, teams, family or friends, the 2027 Season offers an impressive selection of experiences to build into a Sydney itinerary – from an intimate evening at The Wharf to a major production at Roslyn Packer Theatre.
The 2027 Season Highlights:
STRONG IS THE NEW PRETTY| 22 Oct – 12 Dec 2026
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Created by Suzie Miller
Directed by Sarah Giles
The celebrated Australian playwright behind sell-out smash hit RGB: Of Many, One and international phenomena Prima Facie and Inter Alia, Suzie Miller turns her extraordinary imagination to the birth of the AFLW in this world premiere.
In 2010, an official report into the state of Australian Rules Football recommended the creation of a national women’s league. Seven years and a whole lot of grit, passion and fancy footwork later, the AFLW was born. This is inspired by the incredible story of how the league went from a pipe dream to a sensation the sports world could no longer ignore.
With her gift for finding the political; ion the personal and trademark insight and warmth. Miller joins forces with multi-award winning director Sarah Giles.
Now fielding a brilliant lineup of eight players – Lucy Bell (Appropriate), Amy Hack (Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s Yentl), Amy Ingram (Netflix’s Boy Swallows Universe), Edyll (Send Help, NBC’s La Brea), Amber McMahon (Accidental Death of an Anarchist), Tara Morice (Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom), newcomer Nyasha Ogden and Contessa Treffone (Picnic at Hanging Rock) – this dream team writes a love letter to a game and a community.
It’s theatre written in mud, sweat, and belief. It’s not just about a sport. It’s about a revolution.
OEDIPUS | 27 Jan – 28 Feb 2027
Roslyn Packer Theatre
Created by Robert Icke
After Sophocles
Richard Roxburgh and Heather Mitchell reunite on the Sydney Theatre Company stage for the first time in 30 years in this unmissable Olivier and Tony Award-nominated adaptation by one of the most exciting talents in British theatre.
Director-writer Robert Icke (1984, Oresteia, The Doctor) has triumphed in the West End and on Broadway with his “electrifying” (The New York Times) reimagining of the Oedipus myth as a contemporary political thriller. Now Sydney Theatre Company and Adelaide Festival bring this landmark theatrical event to Australia.
It’s election night, and the count has begun. Triumph looms for Oedipus (Roxburgh), a landslide imminent. His wife (Mitchell) has brought his nearest and dearest together for an evening that will transform this family forever. The family is close, the marriage strong and loving, but this tight-knit unit is about to be rocked
MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES | 8 May – 13 June 2027
Roslyn Packer Theatre
Created by Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox
Directed by Daniel Evans
The iconic Miss Phryne Fisher shimmies onto the stage for the first time in this glittering world premiere production written by Deb Cox, co-creator of the original hit series with Fiona Eagger. Starring Amber McMahon (Accidental Death of an Anarchist), this is Miss Fisher quite literally as you have never seen her before.
It’s 1929, and Kerry Greenwood’s chic lady detective is sailing to the South Seas on a cruise when a murder, a jewel robbery and rumours of a mysterious curse throw the ship’s crew and passengers into a state of uproar. While Miss Fisher is more than happy to mix crime with cocktails and pleasure cruising, handsome Detective Inspector Jack Robinson finds himself drawn into the mystery – and way too much dancing – whether he likes it or not.
Dodging danger at every turn while running circles around her suspects, Miss Fisher meets a light-fingered academic, a honeymooning magician and the dissolute heir to a newspaper fortune. Think Knives Out, only with cloche hats and fox stoles.
McMahon brings glamour, cheek and a healthy dose of razor-sharp wit to a high-seas adventure that hurtles between the upper and lower decks. Is it possible the mystery is tied not only to class divisions, but to the Titanic itself?
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY | 30 June – 25 July 2027
Roslyn Packer Theatre
By Oscar Wilde
Adapted and directed by Kip Williams
Kip Williams’ global smash hit cine-theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s story returns to where it all began after becoming the hottest ticket in town during sold-out runs on the West End and Broadway, where it was hailed as “a triumph” (The New York Times) and “an exhilarating piece of storytelling” (The Hollywood Reporter).
Now Australian audiences have the chance to see this groundbreaking production (or see it again), with Nikki Shiels (Sunday) demonstrating why she’s one of Australia’s greatest actors as she is passed the baton from Eryn Jean Norvill and Sarah Snook.
Wilde’s classic story is reimagined with breathtaking theatrical imagination and big-screen bravado in a tour-de-force show that continues to surprise, finding new wrinkles in the tale of the wrinkle-free young aristocrat Dorian Gray. Beautiful but impressionable, Dorian falls under the malign influence of Lord Henry Wotton and descends into a life of hedonism. The underbelly of Victorian London is ugly, even putrid, but Dorian remains outwardly unblemished, even as the years pass.
THE PALACE LETTERS| 6 April – 22 May 2027
Drama Theatre
Adapted from the book by Jenny Hocking
Directed by Priscilla Jackman
Beloved stage and screen star Georgie Parker leads this riveting portrayal of historian Jenny Hocking’s fight to uncover the truth about Gough Whitlam’s dismissal, tracing a web of intrigue that leads all the way to Buckingham Palace.
In 1975, Australia faced its most serious constitutional crisis. In 2020 – thanks to Hocking – we finally gained access to long-suppressed correspondence from those turbulent days and weeks, revealing what was said in the corridors of power on two continents.
At the heart of Hocking’s landmark legal battle to have the papers released is the question of what the Queen knew of the Governor General’s intentions and when – and what it means for Australian independence.
Playwright Melanie Tait (The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race) has crafted a dynamite and witty political thriller that moves between past and present, capturing the events and febrile atmosphere of The Dismissal. Parker and a gifted ensemble – including Jonathan Biggins (The Gospel According to Paul) as Gough Whitlam – bring these turbulent events to vivid life.