Setting the scene for a bumper year on stage at Canberra Theatre

Akram Khan Company's Jungle Book Reimagined (February 2-3) takes Rudyard Kipling's story about the "man-cub" Mowgli from the Indian jungle to an urban jungle in a world devastated by climate change. A young refugee arrives alone in a deserted modern city, and with wild animals claiming the streets, the child soon discovers unlikely allies.

Afrique en Cirque (March 1-2) celebrates the strength, agility and joy of life found in African youth, with acrobatics set to the contemporary sounds of Afro-Jazz, percussion, and the harp-like kora.

Dance and theatre collective The Farm's Stunt Double (March 14 -16) takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the filming of a 1970s Australian action movie as stunt doubles cycle through take after take of high-octane flips and fights.

Circa is performing Humans 2.0 (May 2-4), a circus show in which 10 bodies move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance - physical limits are pushed to their extremes.

Sydney Dance Company's Momenta (June 21-22) by choreographer Rafael Bonachela is a journey into the poetry and the physics of human connection.

Musicians Kate Miller-Heidke (January 19), Monkey King (February 16-17), Deborah Conway and Willy Ziger (February 29) and Wilco (March 15) will be performing this year.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (February 1-3), created by Jonathan Rockefeller, brings the classic children's book to the stage with a menagerie of more than 75 puppets.

Award-winning Australian playwright Suzie Miller's RBG: Of Many, One (March 14-16) tells the story of the second woman to be appointed to the US Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Dog Man: The Musical (April 19-20) tells the story of a character who has the head of a dog and the body of a policeman and loves to fight crime and chew on the furniture.

Fourteen (May 9-11) is based on Shannon Molloyu's memoir about growing up gay in regional Queensland in the 1990s, with a pumping pop remix from the era.

Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gaslight (from May 15) - here adapted by Johanna Wright and Patty Jamieson - introduced the term for an insidious form of manipulation. Bella thinks she's losing her mind as strange things happen.

Rent: The Musical (June 7-13) is Jonathan Larson's award-winning reimagining of La Boheme, set among the artists and musicians of New York's East Village and their joys and struggles and tragedies.

Bell Shakespeare's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (June 7-15) presents William Shakespeare's comedy of love and magic