ACT Hub, Canberra’s home of indie theatre, reveals 2025 season

A new festival of Australian works, a contemporary Irish classic, musical theatre and Macbeth feature in the ACT Hub’s recently announced season.
A publicity image for ACT Hub's 2025 season opener, 'Mojo' by English playwright Jez Butterworth. A dark-haired young man with fair skin holds a sword in front of his face. One side of his face is stern and impassive, the other side shows his eye and mouth wide open, as if shouting.

From relatively recent works like Martin McDonagh’s caustic dramedy The Beauty Queen of Leenane to classics by Shakespeare and Noël Coward, the Australian Capital Theatre Hub’s (ACT Hub) 2025 season offers local audiences a diverse mix of 11 productions, including musical theatre, new adaptations and more.

The season also features a new initiative, the Hub Fest Play Festival, which will showcase three works in repertory throughout February. Each of the three works selected for the Festival will be staged on a rotating basis, with seven performances of each show in total between 8 and 23 February.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts