29 September Wild Things International Kids Festival

Sydney Opera House: Wild Things International Kids Festival

Sydney Opera House Sydney

Get ready to go wild! This spring school holidays, the Sydney Opera House will transform into a creative wonderland for kids and their families with the inaugural Wild Things International Kids Festival. Across 16 days, leading companies from Europe, North America, the United Kingdom, Asia and Australia will illustrate the…

29 September @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm AEST Brisbane Festival

: Make, Believe, Magic

QAGOMA

An unprecedented exhibition exploring the imaginative storytelling and world-building of The Jim Henson Company. Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company is an immense and immersive journey through the creative process behind some of the most cherished characters and stories in screen history and popular culture. Highlights include, Fraggle Rock and Fraggle Rock:…

29 September @ 10:00 am - 10:45 am AEST Where is the Green Sheep?

The Joan: Where is the Green Sheep?

Q Theatre 597 High St, Penrith

Come on a wild, fun and magical journey and join three farmers on their quest to find the elusive green sheep. Blending puppetry and animation, this baa-rilliant production co-created with and narrated by students from Bankstown West Public School, will delight the young and young at heart. Where is the…

29 September @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm AEST Blossom Festival

CherryHill Orchards: Blossom Festival

474 Queens Rd, Wandin East, VIC, 3139 474 Queens Rd, Wandin East, VIC, 3139, Melbourne

Every year, we open our cherry orchard when our trees are in full bloom, showcasing the stunning white blossoms.This popular annual event offers picture-perfect photo opportunities and a festive atmosphere, creating an idyllic day out in the countryside for family and friends. Bring a blanket, pack a picnic, and enjoy…

29 September @ 10:00 am - 8:00 pm AEDT Mind Games: Art Alive

Baeu Medina: Mind Games: Art Alive

154 Broadway 154-160 Broadway, Chippendale

A new, woman-led, interactive, immersive and independent experiential playground has opened in Chippendale, in Sydney’s inner suburbs – at a scale and level of detail that has not been done in Australia. Comprising multisensory installations such as holographic moon rooms to upside-down trains, mirrored mazes, and perception puzzles, Mind Games:…

29 September @ 11:00 am - 11:50 am AEST Erth’s Shark Dive: Live on Stage

Carriageworks: Erth’s Shark Dive: Live on Stage

Carriageworks Sydney

The whole family is invited on an unforgettable journey below the surface with Erth’s Shark Dive: Live on Stage, a thrilling theatrical experience that will change the way you see sharks and the oceans they call home. Through exquisite puppetry and immersive staging, audiences come face-to-face with Australia’s iconic sharks alongside a fascinating…

29 September @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm AEST A Night at the Library

The State Library of New South Wales: A Night at the Library

State Library of NSW 1 Shakespeare Pl,, Sydney

Bell Shakespeare takes audiences young and old on a magical journey of discovery exploring the many known and unknown spaces in the Library, its collection, and items from the weird to the wonderful. Along the way we meet literary greats, legendary explorers, real people and fictional creations for a madcap…

29 September @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm AEST ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

National Art School: ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

National Art School Corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney

‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’ celebrates the legacy and significant achievements of Margaret Olley AC – National Art School alum and one of Australia’s most beloved painters – through the lens of the European artistic tradition intimisme, which honours the quiet poetry of domestic life and the interior world. Drawing from significant public and private…

29 September @ 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm AEST Where is the Green Sheep?

The Joan: Where is the Green Sheep?

Q Theatre 597 High St, Penrith

Come on a wild, fun and magical journey and join three farmers on their quest to find the elusive green sheep. Blending puppetry and animation, this baa-rilliant production co-created with and narrated by students from Bankstown West Public School, will delight the young and young at heart. Where is the…

Editor's Choice 29 September @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm AEST  My Fair Lady

Opera Australia:  My Fair Lady

Sydney Opera House Sydney

Julie Andrews’ acclaimed recreation of the original 1956 Broadway blockbuster makes a welcome return to Sydney, under Karen Johnson Mortimer’s direction, followed by a run in Melbourne. George Bernard Shaw’s tale of a professor of linguistics who bets on his ability to make a Covent Garden flower girl pass as aristocracy has lost…

29 September @ 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm AEST Erth’s Shark Dive: Live on Stage

Carriageworks: Erth’s Shark Dive: Live on Stage

Carriageworks Sydney

The whole family is invited on an unforgettable journey below the surface with Erth’s Shark Dive: Live on Stage, a thrilling theatrical experience that will change the way you see sharks and the oceans they call home. Through exquisite puppetry and immersive staging, audiences come face-to-face with Australia’s iconic sharks alongside a fascinating…

29 September @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm AEST A Night at the Library

The State Library of New South Wales: A Night at the Library

State Library of NSW 1 Shakespeare Pl,, Sydney

Bell Shakespeare takes audiences young and old on a magical journey of discovery exploring the many known and unknown spaces in the Library, its collection, and items from the weird to the wonderful. Along the way we meet literary greats, legendary explorers, real people and fictional creations for a madcap…

29 September @ 6:00 pm - 6:15 pm AEST Brisbane Festival

Brisbane Festival: Bright Nights By ANZ

Verso Projects. Festival Village, Southbank Cultural Forecourt and Village GreenSuburb: South Bank, Brisbane

Featuring an exclusive soundtrack from Brisbane music royalty The Veronicas. Bright Nights by ANZ transforms the Brisbane River into a dazzling, choreographed canvas of water, light, and sound. Floating fountains, waterscreens, amazing animated water features and water jets shooting up to 80 meters high, all pierced by a stunning laser…

29 September @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST Ode To A Grape

5 Foot Entertainment: Ode To A Grape

The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton

Prepare to be simultaneously charmed and berated by Tīrau’s resident self proclaimed artist, incompetent anarchist, and lover of grapes. Born in Limburg; Germany, Johann packed his quill and moved to the small town of Tīrau, (NZ) to free himself of his parental constraints and find himself as an artist. Now…

29 September @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEST

Melbourne Recital Centre: ZÖJ – May the Devil’s Ear Be Deaf

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank

A powerful cross-cultural journey through deep listening, improvisation, and Persian poetry. ZÖJ returns with their captivating fusion of neo-classical Persian music and experimental rhythms. Launching their third album, May The Devil's Ear Be Deaf, recorded live at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, ZÖJ invite listeners into…

29 September @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm AEST Brisbane Festival

Brisbane Festival: Bright Nights By ANZ

Verso Projects. Festival Village, Southbank Cultural Forecourt and Village GreenSuburb: South Bank, Brisbane

Featuring an exclusive soundtrack from Brisbane music royalty The Veronicas. Bright Nights by ANZ transforms the Brisbane River into a dazzling, choreographed canvas of water, light, and sound. Floating fountains, waterscreens, amazing animated water features and water jets shooting up to 80 meters high, all pierced by a stunning laser…

Editor's Choice 29 September @ 6:30 pm - 8:20 pm AEST Girls & Boys

Sydney Theatre Company: Girls & Boys

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney

When Justine Clarke first performed Dennis Kelly’s gripping one-woman play at the 2022 Adelaide Festival, Limelight gave the production a five-star review, describing her performance as “utterly remarkable”. Directed by Mitchell Butel, Clarke won rapturous reviews in a return Adelaide season in 2022 and at the 2023 Sydney Festival. Now,…

29 September @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm AEST Strong Is The New Pretty

Canberra Theatre Centre: Strong Is The New Pretty

The Playhouse

Suzie Miller, the celebrated Australian playwright behind sell-out smash hits Inter Alia, RBG: Of Many, One and international phenomenon Prima Facie, turns her extraordinary talents to the formation of the AFLW in this explosive world premiere as part of Brisbane Festival 2026. In 2010, an official report into the state…

29 September @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm AEST Brisbane Festival

Brisbane Festival: Fijian Flying Circus

South Bank Piazza 410 Stanley St, South Brisbane

Come fly with us! Get ready to be swept away by a spectacular island adventure like no other! The Fijian Flying Circus’ Australian premiere is a high-energy celebration of Spirit, Culture, and Joy. Created by the internationally renowned Fijian dance tribe VOU ('new’ in the iTaukei language), this dazzling production…

29 September @ 6:30 pm - 8:40 pm AEST HOUSEWORK

Sydney Theatre Company: HOUSEWORK

Sydney Opera House - Drama Theatre

Playwright Emily Steel and director Shannon Rush pull back the curtain on the real Parliament House in this bold, black comedy hailed an “undeniably Australian and gloriously uncompromising” (The Conversation) future classic. Brought to brilliant life by some of Australia’s most beloved comic actors, Housework follows a group of political…

29 September @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm AEST Death of A Salesman Adelaide

GWB Entertainment: Death of A Salesman Adelaide

Adelaide Festival Theatre King William Road, Adelaide

Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award-winning actor Anthony LaPaglia makes his Adelaide stage debut as Willy Loman in Neil Armfield’s acclaimed production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Following acclaimed seasons around Australia, the production arrives in Adelaide for its final 2026 season, with LaPaglia joined by Helpmann Award…

29 September @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm AEST Dixon and Daughters

Tiny Dog Productions: Dixon and Daughters

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo

An Australian Premiere "If this house could speak…" When Mary (Vanessa Downing) returns home after serving time in prison, she walks back into a household filled with hostility where her daughters are grappling with their past. Long-hidden truths emerge, exposing a history that has fractured and changed their lives. Each…

29 September @ 7:00 pm - 9:20 pm AEST Macbeth

Bell Shakespeare: Macbeth

Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Corner of Clarence and Hay Streets, Port Macquarie

Following a bloody battle, Macbeth and his comrade Banquo are met by three Weird Sisters who prophesy Macbeth will one day be king. Unable to shake the thought, Macbeth tells his wife, Lady Macbeth. Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, posterity and certainty, they commit a murder and set…

Editor's Choice 29 September @ 7:00 pm - 9:40 pm AEST Fiddler On The Roof

Theatre Royal, Sydney: Fiddler On The Roof

Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney

First seen at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2024, this Olivier Award-winning production, directed by Jordan Fein, transferred to the Barbican, where it became the venue’s best-selling musical of all time. Set in 1905, Tevye, a milkman in the tiny fictional village of Anatevka, tries to maintain his…

29 September @ 7:30 pm - 8:50 pm AEST Koreaboo

Malthouse Theatre: Koreaboo

Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne

The road to reunion is paved with awkward moments. Hannah had her trip all planned out. Travel to Korea. Visit her birth mother. Spend a golden summer creating precious memories. But when she arrives in Seoul reality hits hard. Her Umma works in a convenience store day and night, barely…

Editor's Choice 29 September @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm AEST Eliza

Melbourne Theatre Company: Eliza

Southbank Theatre Southbank

As society grapples with the implications and ethics of rapidly advancing artificial technologies, Melbourne Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Eliza by Tom Holloway. The psychological thriller about the birth of AI is based on real events. Dr Joseph Weizenbaum, a brilliant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, carries the trauma of…

29 September @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm AEST The Elevator

Ensemble Theatre: The Elevator

Ensemble Theatre Sydney

Ensemble Theatre presents the world premiere of ‘The Elevator’ by Eloise Snape, a sharp, funny and fearless new Australian comedy, from 18 September - 18 October 2026. Starring Leeanna Walsman making her Ensemble debut and directed by Anthea Williams, ‘The Elevator’ is a no-fluff office satire filled with a whirlwind…

29 September @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm AEST Lord Of The Flies

Theatre Works: Lord Of The Flies

Theatre Works St Kilda

When a plane crashes and a group of boys find themselves alone on a remote island, they begin, with youthful optimism and a sense of adventure, to build order from the chaos. They make rules, elect leaders, and imagine a world where fairness and cooperation will keep them safe. But…

Editor's Choice 29 September @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm AEST The Unfriend

Sydney Theatre Company: The Unfriend

Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney

This deliciously dark comedy marked the stage debut of British TV titan Steven Moffat – the celebrated showrunner of Doctor Who and creator of Press Gang, Coupling, Sherlock and Douglas is Cancelled – and became a West End hit. While holidaying on a cruise ship, timorous, middle-class couple Peter and Debbie befriend…

29 September @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm AEST And Then There Were None

John X Presents: And Then There Were None

Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart

Ten strangers are lured to a solitary mansion off the coast, each harbouring a dark secret. When a recorded message accuses them all of unpunished crimes, the tension becomes palpable. One by one, they begin to die in accordance with a sinister nursery rhyme, and the realisation sets in that…

29 September @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm AEST Lord of the Flies

Theatre Works: Lord of the Flies

Theatre Works St Kilda

When a plane crashes and a group of boys find themselves alone on a remote island, they begin to build order from the chaos with youthful optimism and a sense of adventure. They make rules, elect leaders, and imagine a world where fairness and cooperation will keep them safe. But…

Editor's Choice 29 September @ 7:30 pm - 9:50 pm AEST The Turn of the Screw

Victorian Opera: The Turn of the Screw

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda

Benjamin Britten’s operatic ghost story is one of the most effective music theatre works of the 20th century. When a wide-eyed governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two supposedly innocent children, it quickly becomes clear that not everything is as it seems. What was the…

29 September @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm AEST

The Concourse: Sydney Mozart Society – Sonus Piano Quartet with Simon Tedeschi

The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood

Sonus Piano Quartet with guest pianist Simon Tedeschi brings together four accomplished musicians well-known to Sydney audiences to celebrate the art of sound production. Their individual artistry, passion and technical skills combine to weave beautiful interplay into dynamic, magical performances. Here they present an example of the peak of Classical poise and…