Belvoir Street Theatre

This legendary theater – tucked away in a humble Surry Hills back street – boasts alums with some serious chops, including Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis and husband-and-wife team Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton. There’s a 330-seater main theater upstairs, where you can catch more mainstream dramatic productions (often reworked classics like Death of a Salesman and Hamlet), while the 88-seat theater downstairs dishes up independent and experimental fare. Book tickets well in advance and witness Australia’s next generation of rising talents treading the boards.