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MERRIGONG THEATRE COMPANY

Crown St &, Kembla St, Wollongong NSW 2500
Wollongong, New South Wales 2500



Merrigong Theatre Company Crowned Performing Arts Centre of the Year


by A.A. Cristi - August 13, 2025

Merrigong Theatre Company has been named Performing Arts Centre of the Year at the 2025 PAC Australia IMPACT Awards, announced during the Australian Performing Arts Exchange (APAX). ...

Joshua Hinton’s A PLACE IN THE SULTAN'S KITCHEN is Coming to the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 25, 2025

Singer-songwriter Joshua Hinton’s A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) will make its mainstage premiere at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre. Learn more!...

Sydney Fringe Festival Launches 2025 Program With Over 460 Events


by A.A. Cristi - July 07, 2025

Sydney Fringe Festival has unveiled its full 2025 program, featuring more than 460 events and over 2,900 artists across four precincts and 10 festival hubs this September. ...

MR RED LIGHT Tours to Wollongong in July


by Stephi Wild - June 05, 2025

Merrigong Theatre Company will present award-winning New Zealand Theatre company Nightsong’s Mr Red Light at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre in July....

Sydney Fringe Festival Unveils First Highlights of the 2025 Program


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 30, 2025

Sydney Fringe Festival, New South Wales’ largest independent arts festival, has revealed the first highlights of its 2025 program taking over the city this fall. Learn more!...

THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS Comes to Wollongong


by Stephi Wild - May 20, 2025

Merrigong Theatre Company will present Verity Laughton’s smash-hit stage adaptation of Australian author Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words....

Review: THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre


by Barry Lenny - April 10, 2025

A superb example of stage and theatre craft....

Bell Shakespeare's HENRY 5 Comes to Wollongong


by Stephi Wild - April 02, 2025

Merrigong Theatre Company will present Bell Shakespeare’s, Henry 5, one of Shakespeare’s finest historical plays, at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre....

PIRATES OF PENZANCE Comes to Merrigong Theatre Company This Month


by Stephi Wild - March 17, 2025

Merrigong Theatre Company will present the Gilbert and Sullivan classic The Pirates of Penzance (or The Slave of Duty), re-wired and re-booted by Hayes Theatre Co in association with The Art House Wyong, at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre....

THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS Will Embark on Australian Tour


by Stephi Wild - February 10, 2025

Sydney Theatre Company and State Theatre Company South Australia’s adaptation of The Dictionary of Lost Words will play a strictly limited encore season at STC’s Roslyn Packer Theatre before embarking on tour....

Past Shows

The Seven
The Seven
11/21 - 11/29/2025


Merrigong Theatre Company’s permanent ensemble of neurodiverse actors and musicians, The Strangeways Ensemble, make their triumphant return to the stage in the world premiere of ...

Duck Pond
Duck Pond
10/22 - 10/25/2025


Fresh from its breathtaking international tour to North America, the UK, and Europe, Circa , one of the world’s leading contemporary circus companies, joins forces ...

Squatch Watch: LIVE
Squatch Watch: LIVE
9/25 - 9/27/2025


Discover undeniable, irrefutable proof of Australia’s very own Bigfoot — The Yowie, as Merrigong Theatre Company’s annual artist’s program, MERRIGONGX presents Vaguely Adjacent’s Squatch Watch: ...

Julia
Julia
9/3 - 9/13/2025


Following a sell-out, critically acclaimed premiere season in 2023 and a smash-hit national tour in 2024, one of Australia’s hottest pieces of theatre, Joanna Murray ...

A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry)


After wowing audiences in its MERRIGONG X  debut in 2024,  A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen  (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) ...

Mr Red Light
Mr Red Light
7/2 - 7/5/2025


Merrigong Theatre Company present one of the funniest, most outrageously original shows to ever hit the stage, Carl Bland’s absurdist comedy Mr Red Light at ...

The Dictionary of Lost Words


Merrigong Theatre Company presents Verity Laughton’s smash-hit stage adaptation of Australian author Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, at ...

Scenes from the Climate Era


Set against the backdrop of a changing climate, Scenes from the Climate Era takes audiences through over fifty small plays that catch the exhilaration, frustration ...

Henry 5
Henry 5
4/30 - 5/3/2025


Merrigong Theatre Company present Bell Shakespeare’s HENRY 5 , one of Shakespeare’s finest historical plays, at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from April 30 to ...

The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance
3/26 - 3/29/2025


Merrigong Theatre Company presents the Gilbert and Sullivan classic The Pirates of Penzance at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 26 to 29 March 2025. ...

Trent Dalton’s Love Stories


Merrigong Theatre Company presents the NSW Premiere of smash-hit stage adaptation of Trent Dalton’s best-selling book Love Stories at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from ...

 Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly)
Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly)
2/20 - 2/22/2025


Merrigong Theatre Company’s MERRIGONGX returns in 2025, kicking off with Kirli Saunders’ Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly) , at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 20 ...

The Light Inside
The Light Inside
2/13 - 2/15/2025


After its acclaimed premiere in 2024 as part of the national tour of Horizon , Bangarra Dance Theatre brings their first cross-cultural collaboration, The Light ...

The Cardinal Rules
The Cardinal Rules
10/31 - 11/2/2024


Merrigong Theatre Company’s MERRIGONGX presents Rose Maher’s THE CARDINAL RULES at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from the 31 October to 2 November. With a ...

The Cardinal Rules
10/31 - 11/2/2024


A eulogy to the parochial parishioner; a nostalgic work of storytelling and reckoning with an upbringing in the Australian Catholic Church circa 1990. Be transported ...

The Queen's Nanny
The Queen's Nanny
10/16 - 10/19/2024


Inspired by historical events, a royal scandal ignites a blistering fire between the steely Queen Mother and her children’s doting nanny in Melanie Tait’s new ...

Guards at the Taj
Guards at the Taj
9/19 - 9/21/2024


A wonderfully funny and moving exploration of beauty and power, autocracy and resistance, and conflicting loyalties. Guards at the Taj centres on a hilariously relatable ...

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap


For over 70 years, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has kept millions of people from every corner of the globe on the edge of their seats. ...

Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk]


Challenging, joyful and deeply affecting, Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] is a dance, sound, and installation work that confronts Australia’s shameful fixation with incarceration. Exceptionally talented ...

Birdsong of Tomorrow
Birdsong of Tomorrow
8/22 - 8/24/2024


Everyday in our gardens and our streets, birds sing. They sing songs passed down through generations, songs of a world that’s gone and a world ...

A Place in the Sultan's Kitchen


Merrigong Theatre Company’s annual artists’ program, MERRIGONGX returns in 2024, kicking off with Joshua Hinton’s A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen or How to Make ...

Dear Diary
Dear Diary
5/8 - 5/11/2024


Kay Proudlove’s endearing comedy about the agony of growing up, Dear Diary, returns to Wollongong from the 8th to 11th May.

Wild Dogs Under My Skirt
Wild Dogs Under My Skirt
4/10 - 4/14/2024


One of New Zealand’s most successful theatrical exports Wild Dogs Under My Skirt will perform at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 10 to 13 ...

RBG: Of Many, One
RBG: Of Many, One
4/4 - 4/6/2024


After a smash-hit premiere season in 2022, Merrigong Theatre Company brings Suzie Miller’s RBG: Of Many, One to the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 3 ...

Send for Nellie
Send for Nellie
2/14 - 2/17/2024


Merrigong Theatre Company presents Alana Valentine’s Send For Nellie at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 14 to 17 February. 1931, Sydney. West-Indian Australian singer Nellie ...

Shakespeare In The Garden – A Midsummer Night’s Dream


Merrigong Theatre Company presents Wollongong’s first Shakespeare in the Garden – A Midsummer Night’s Dream ; an enthralling open-air performance in the Wollongong Botanic Garden ...

Landed
Landed
11/2 - 11/4/2023


Performance ensemble Frumpus return to Illawarra Performing Arts Centre 2 - 4 November with their new work, LANDED . Formed in the 1990s, Frumpus includes ...

The Visitors
The Visitors
10/25 - 10/28/2023


Merrigong Theatre Company presents Sydney Theatre Company & Moogahlin Performing Arts’s The Visitors , by Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison , at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre ...

Something That Happened
Something That Happened
9/15 - 9/23/2023


Merrigong Theatre Company’s permanent company of neuro-diverse, professional actors, The Strangeways Ensemble , will present Something That Happened , a hilarious and thought-provoking exploration of ...

Miss Peony
Miss Peony
8/30 - 9/2/2023


Merrigong Theatre Company is proud to present Michelle Law’s MISS PEONY , an inter-generational comedy for 21st century Australia, from 30th August to 2nd September ...

Tim
Tim
8/16 - 8/19/2023


Merrigong Theatre Company and Christine Dunstan productions will present TIM, at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre 16 – 19 August as part of its premiere regional ...

Silence
Silence
8/9 - 8/12/2023


Merrigong Theatre Company presents SILENCE , a thrilling new work from acclaimed First Nations contemporary dance company, Karul Projects , from 9th to 12th August. ...

Air Time
Air Time
4/20 - 4/22/2023


Merrigong Theatre Company and Branch Nebula are excited to present the world premiere of Air Time , a stunning collision between wheels in motion and ...

Optimal Stopping
Optimal Stopping
3/30 - 4/1/2023


Merrigong Theatre Company, Proper Motion & La Infinita Compañia are proud to present the world premiere of a brand-new dance work, Optimal Stopping at Wollongong ...

Choir Boy
Choir Boy
3/22 - 3/25/2023


Merrigong Theatre Company is thrilled to welcome National Theatre of Parramatta’s Choir Boy , a poignant coming-of-age story by the Academy Award® winning writer of ...

Guru of Chai
Guru of Chai
2/23 - 2/25/2023


Merrigong Theatre Company and Indian Ink Theatre Company are proud to present the outrageously funny and heartbreakingly beautiful romantic thriller Guru of Chai at Wollongong ...

As Luck Would Have It
As Luck Would Have It
7/27 - 8/6/2022


Merrigong Theatre Company presents a new Australian musical comedy by Drew Fairley, inspired by the actor and playwrights own real-life experiences being marooned on a ...

The Sirens’ Return
The Sirens’ Return
2/14 - 2/19/2022


A co-production with The Society of Histrionic Happenings, The Sirens Return is a new music theatre work that marks a new level of theatre-making for ...

Hair
Hair
9/25 - 9/29/2019


A brand new Australian production of the much-loved and revolutionary rock musical, HAIR will come alive at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 25th to ...

Videos


Cowbois in Australia - Sydney Cowbois
Seymour Centre (11/20 - 12/13)
Confetti & Chaos - AFF 2026 in Australia - Sydney Confetti & Chaos - AFF 2026
Adelaide The Royal Coach Hotel (2/24 - 3/8)
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Armidale in Australia - Sydney Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Armidale
Rydges Armidale (7/25 - 7/25)
Steel Magnolias in Australia - Sydney Steel Magnolias
Canberra Theatre Centre (6/17 - 6/21)
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Pokolbin in Australia - Sydney Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Pokolbin
Hunter Farm & Adventure Centre (5/7 - 10/22)
A Comedy Of Errors in Australia - Sydney A Comedy Of Errors
BLUE MOUNTAINS THEATRE, SPRINGWOOD (1/28 - 1/29)
A Comedy Of Errors in Australia - Sydney A Comedy Of Errors
EVERGLADES GARDENS, LEURA (1/10 - 1/25)
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