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All Day
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…
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State Theatre Company South Australia: Log Boy
Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide
A deliriously dark, heart-stabbing, and hilarious queer ghost story about love, grief, and the demons we can’t quite exorcise — especially the leather-clad ones. After the death of his fiancé, Anthony retreats to their country house to grieve, only to be haunted — literally and figuratively — by loss, lust,…
State Theatre Company South Australia: Log Boy
Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide
A deliriously dark, heart-stabbing, and hilarious queer ghost story about love, grief, and the demons we can’t quite exorcise — especially the leather-clad ones. After the death of his fiancé, Anthony retreats to their country house to grieve, only to be haunted — literally and figuratively — by loss, lust,…
State Theatre Company South Australia: Log Boy
Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide
A deliriously dark, heart-stabbing, and hilarious queer ghost story about love, grief, and the demons we can’t quite exorcise — especially the leather-clad ones. After the death of his fiancé, Anthony retreats to their country house to grieve, only to be haunted — literally and figuratively — by loss, lust,…
: 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:…
Immersive Light and Art: Forest Songs for Little Ones – Live (Art for Takayna)
Immersive Light and Art 63 Light Square, Adelaide
Come into the forest of Takayna with Barkindji Songwoman Nancy Bates and acclaimed pianist and educator Dave McEvoy. Created especially for children 0 – 6 years but suitable for anyone with a love of music, Nancy (voice and guitar) and Dave (piano) will lead a very special interactive performance exploring…
Riverside Theatres: Where is the Green Sheep?
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta
The million-copy bestseller Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year – Early Childhood Where is the Green Sheep? is an immersive visual theatre experience based on the beloved children’s book by Mem Fox and Judy Horacek. We meet Blue Sheep who loves blue flowers and Red Sheep who loves…
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…
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:…
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…
Immersive Light and Art: Forest Songs for Little Ones – Live (Art for Takayna)
Immersive Light and Art 63 Light Square, Adelaide
Come into the forest of Takayna with Barkindji Songwoman Nancy Bates and acclaimed pianist and educator Dave McEvoy. Created especially for children 0 – 6 years but suitable for anyone with a love of music, Nancy (voice and guitar) and Dave (piano) will lead a very special interactive performance exploring…
Editor's Choice
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…
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A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical
Paul Dainty, Ken Davenport & Bob Gaudio: A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical
Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne
Created in consultation with Neil Diamond himself, the jukebox musical, A Beautiful Noise, charts his rise to superstardom through the songs that defined his life and career, among them Cracklin’ Rosie, Forever in Blue Jeans and Sweet Caroline. Famous for his swaggering sexuality and velvet-meets-gravel voice, Diamond is conjured by two…
Tim Lawson: Cirque Alice
Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont
Fall down the rabbit hole and into a spectacular new world… Step into magical ‘Wonderland’ as Cirque Alice reimagines Lewis Carroll’s classic adventures with breathtaking twists and astonishing, gravity-defying feats. Starring the greatest acrobatic performers from around the globe, this magnificent spectacle features stunning performances by mesmerising aerialists, mind-bending contortionists,…
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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…
Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
QPAC - Playhouse
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is finally coming to QPAC! Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will…
Editor's Choice
Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)
Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)
QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank
Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…
Clockwork Circus: Typo – Sydney Fringe Festival
Fool's Paradise - The Entertainment Quarter 122 Lang Road, Moore Park
From their stand-out success at the Canberra Circus Festival, Clockwork Circus is bringing Typo to Sydney Fringe! A contemporary circus show for all ages, Typo is an homage to the joys of being creative and the satisfaction of seeing a dream through to the end. The mind of the writer…
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…
Canberra Theatre Centre: Auto-Tune
Courtyard Studio
Set in Wagga Wagga in the early 2000s, AUTO-TUNE is a raucous work of “gig theatre” that follows Michael, a teenage Silverchair fan who discovers he has a strange superpower. The same way auto-tune technology perfects pitch, Michael finds he can time-travel, auto-tuning his life to rid it of dumb statements, awkward…
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…
Melbourne Fringe Festival: Featherbrained
The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton
New Zealand comedian Oliver Pol is a silly goose. It's been a turbulent time in his life, having quit drinking, been through a very personal medical situation about which he'll happily massively overshare. Also he maybe wants to grow a moustache? Enter the mind of a certified overthinker and marvel…
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…
Melbourne Fringe Festival: FU*K! I Killed The Director
The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne
Blood-splattered silks, taut hairnets and two actors performing Romeo and Juliet moments after killing their director. Accidentally. DO NOT expect tap-dancing, a murder weapon, 39 mimed caged doves, silk underwear or an antigravity machine. This is a very traditional performance of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Kinda... Warnings: Flashing lights, simulated…
State Theatre Company South Australia: Log Boy
Adelaide College of the Arts Light Square, Adelaide
A deliriously dark, heart-stabbing, and hilarious queer ghost story about love, grief, and the demons we can’t quite exorcise — especially the leather-clad ones. After the death of his fiancé, Anthony retreats to their country house to grieve, only to be haunted — literally and figuratively — by loss, lust,…
Editor's Choice
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…
5 Foot Entertainment: Roisin McAlinden – Fairytale: Ending
Bard's Apothecary Shop 7, 24 Crossley Street, Melbourne
A funny feminist anti-fairytale. If you’ve come here looking for happily ever after, you’ve come to the wrong place. Fairytales turned Roisin into a damsel in distress. This is her revenge. 'Like catching up with a brutally honest, very funny friend' ★★★★★ - On The House A rallying cry to…
Tip Toe Theatre: Too
The MC Showroom l1/50 Clifton Street, Prahran
Someone is having their laser hair removal paid for by their mother. Another yearns for top surgery. A person drives a tire pump through their foot. Written by Bronte Lemaire, ‘Too’ is a verbatim play created from the real stories and thoughts from the non-binary community. Physicalised by a skilled…
Contra Concerts: Giles Henderson Wannan – Chamber Music for Flute Viola & Harp
The Old Museum Concert Hall 480 Gregory Terrrace, Bowen Hills
Harpist Alice Giles, flautist Jonathan Henderson and violist James Wannan join forces to present a programme centred around French music and contemporary living composers. Together, these three artists bring extensive international experience as soloists, chamber musicians and orchestral performers. The sonority of the flute, drawn from the human breath, the…
Australian Theatre for Young People: Islander
Pier 2/3, Suite 2/13A Hickson Rd Pier 2/3, Suite 2/13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point
New friends, ancient fractures, one mystical adventure. Eilidh lives on an island. Adrift and with one eye on the horizon, she is aimless. It seems every day someone is leaving for the mainland, even her own mother. And then a whale washes up on the shore, followed soon after by…
Australian Chamber Orchestra: Pekka Kuusisto – Legends & Luminaries
City Recital Hall Sydney
Pekka Kuusisto returns to the ACO after nearly a decade to direct music from four prodigious talents. Kuusisto is an artist unbound by convention, who embodies an artistic freedom that is unexpected and thrilling. As a renowned virtuoso and boundary-crossing composer, he pushes the limits of performance into exciting new…
SuonaVoce™ Australia Pty Ltd: Baroque on the Hill — An Evening of Johann Sebastian Bach
St Brigid's Church, Red Hill 78 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, QLD 4059, Brisbane, Red Hill
Baroque on the Hill – An Evening of Johann Sebastian Bach brings internationally recognised baroque violinist Madeleine Easton and Brisbane harpsichordist Peter Roennfeldt together for an evening devoted entirely to J.S. Bach. Set in the atmospheric surrounds of heritage-listed St Brigid’s Church, Red Hill, the programme moves between Bach’s music…
Editor's Choice
Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)
Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)
QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank
Audiences never seem to tire of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with umpteen adaptations over the years. Now comes a raucous stage production, complete with karaoke, in which five female servants take on all the roles, while offering biting insights. Written by Isobel McArthur, who co-directed the show with Simon Harvey, Pride &…
Tim Lawson: Cirque Alice
Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont
Fall down the rabbit hole and into a spectacular new world… Step into magical ‘Wonderland’ as Cirque Alice reimagines Lewis Carroll’s classic adventures with breathtaking twists and astonishing, gravity-defying feats. Starring the greatest acrobatic performers from around the globe, this magnificent spectacle features stunning performances by mesmerising aerialists, mind-bending contortionists,…
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…
New Theatre: Next To Godliness
New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown
Erin and Sophia are crime-scene cleaners, but the people they work for are the ones doing the crimes. They’re paid well for disposing of evidence, especially on public holidays, but when one of the bodies they’re supposed to be collecting turns out to be inconveniently alive it threatens to ruin…
Mockingbird Theatre Company: Face To Face
Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen
In this story of rivalry and alliances with secrets bubbling away just beneath the surface, we followed Glen, a young construction worker who rams into the back of his boss’s prized Mercedes in a fit of anger after being sacked. Instead of heading straight to court, he is given the…
Editor's Choice
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…
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…
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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,…
Editor's Choice
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,…
Editor's Choice
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,…
Musica Viva Australia: Paul Lewis – Mozart+
Newcastle City Hall Newcastle
Acclaimed British concert pianist Paul Lewis is celebrated for his interpretations of the great piano works of Beethoven and Schubert. He now turns his laser-like focus and insightful musicianship to Mozart. When Paul Lewis puts Mozart under the microscope he discovers within the details an expansive universe of wonders. Explore with…
Editor's Choice
The Spare Room
Victorian Opera: The Spare Room
Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
In composer Jane Hammond and librettist Therèsa Borg’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, Helen has offered her spare room to her friend Nicola, who is coming to Melbourne for an unconventional treatment that she believes will cure her cancer. Over three weeks, Helen becomes nurse, judge and guardian angel…
Editor's Choice
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…
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…
Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Dan Costa
The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton
Pianist, composer, and global troubadour. Celebrated worldwide for his original compositions, Dan Costa has collaborated with artists such as Ron Carter, Randy Brecker, John Patitucci, Mike Stern, Ivan Lins, and more. He studied at Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in the UK, the Escola Superior de Música…
Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
QPAC - Playhouse
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is finally coming to QPAC! Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will…
Sydney Fringe Festival: Return of the Godz
Fools Paradise Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga, Victoria Square, Adelaide, Kaurna, Adelaide
Return of GODZ is landing in Sydney bigger and wilder than ever. Featuring a five-strong cast delivering brand new stunts and outrageous comedy straight from London’s West End, UK critics hailed it as gloriously silly and genuinely impressive. The godz are about to raise hell and drop jaws with an…
Melbourne Fringe Festival: Kauboj
The Motley Bauhaus - Cabaret Stage, 118 Elgin St, Carlton, Melbourne 118 Elgin St, Carlton, Melbourne
From the Wild West of Dalmatia to the high-stakes kitchens of Sydney, Kauboj is a riotous and heartfelt musical journey through the life of Jakov—a chef-slash-cowboy whose adventures are as unpredictable as a misbehaving mechanical bull. With original music woven from Balkan folk melodies with the charming twang of country…
Melbourne Fringe Festival: Adore Händel’s Birthday Party – Little Black Book Vol. 3
Trades Hall, Melbourne 2 Lygon St, Melbourne
Adore Händel is celebrating their 269th birthday — and you simply must not miss the festivities. Spanning centuries of ill-advised romances, electric chemistry, and the occasional catastrophic misjudgement, Adore has lived, loved, and documented it all in their legendary Little Black Book. Volume Three was to be the centrepiece of…
Melbourne Fringe: SLUGS
Meat Market Stables 2 Wreckyn St, North Melbourne
It’s about nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. We promise. An electro-punk concert, a play, a clown show, and a basement puppet nightmare all rolled into one from award-winning performance/comedy duo Creepy Boys (S.E. Grummett & Sam Kruger). Join us for a technocolour acid trip where you’ll meet…
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