Season 2026

12 - 13 FEB

Jacaranda Productions

Starring Sheridan Harbridge 

A Geelong Arts Centre supported production.

A live-wire journey through the words and music of the Divinyls’ Chrissy Amphlett — the rebel queen of Australian rock, forged in the heart of Geelong.

"Amplified is cabaret at its most alive: irreverent, haunting, and fiercely electric.” - Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane, 2025.

19 - 20 MAR

Dancenorth Australia

From the creators of Wayfinder. 

Experience the bold new work by Chris Dyke, a Kaurna (Adelaide) based dancer and choreographer living with Down syndrome. Lighting the Dark is a profound celebration of human experience, a transcendent journey that traverses individual and universal truths in a dance to the very centre of what it means to be human.

6 - 9 MAY

Sydney Theatre Company

By Suzie Miller| Directed by Priscilla Jackman | With Heather Mitchell 

Victorian exclusive. Returning after a sell-out season. 

After a triumphant premiere season in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, this smash hit comes to Geelong for a Victorian exclusive. The brilliant Heather Mitchell will be reviving her award-winning and critically acclaimed “virtuosic performance” (The Conversation) of the woman who changed the face of the American legal system: the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

11 - 13 JUN

Melbourne Theatre Company

By Tennessee Williams | Directed by Mark Wilson

Direct from a 2026 Melbourne season

For the first time in 20 years, Melbourne Theatre Company brings Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie back to the stage — a haunting, poetic masterpiece of love, illusion and longing. Starring celebrated stage and screen actor, Alison Whyte.

17 - 18 JUL

ILBIJERRI Theatre Company 

By Isobel Morphy-Walsh

Directed by First People's in the Arts Dr Rachael Maza Am.

ILBIJERRI Theatre Company stands as one of Australia’s most respected and dynamic voices in the performing arts. Murrun has returned to the watering hole. The same one Aunty Aggie used to take her to. Present and past collide. There she meets her old friend Gunawarra. The Black Swan. Gunawarra is a contemporary creation work based on Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) stories passed down

12 - 15 AUG

Hey Dowling and Arts Centre Melbourne

Starring Noni Hazlehurst. 

A one-woman, powerful and moving meditation on life, death and change. Noni Hazlehurst, beloved star of stage and screen, returns to Geelong in her newest work written by Daniel Keene and directed by Matt Scholten. 

★★★★★- Limelight

8 - 17 OCT

Brisbane Festival, Sydney Theatre Company and Trish Wadley Productions

By Suzie Miller | Directed by Lee Lewis

A new play by Suzie Miller. 2026 Victorian Exclusive. 

The celebrated Australian playwright behind sellout smash hit RBG: Of Many, One and international phenomena Prima Facie and Inter Alia, Suzie Miller turns her extraordinary talents to the birth of the AFLW in this Victorian exclusive – direct from the world premiere.

6 - 7 NOV

Bell Shakespeare 

By William Shakespeare | Directed by Peter Evans

A classic - not to be missed.

Following a bloody battle, Macbeth and his comrade Banquo are met by three Weird Sisters who prophesy Macbeth will one day be king.

“Utterly compelling” - Sydney Morning Herald