8 October 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…

1 October @ 7:30 pm - 10 October @ 9:30 pm AEST Log Boy

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,…

2 October @ 7:30 pm - 11 October @ 9:30 pm AEST Log Boy

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,…

3 October @ 7:30 pm - 12 October @ 9:30 pm AEST Log Boy

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,…

8 October @ 7:45 am - 9:00 pm AEDT Stocktake at Belvoir 25A

Belvoir St Theatre: Stocktake at Belvoir 25A

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney

Every day is your first day. Every night is Stocktake. It’s Stocktake night at The Store, and Teamies Ash, Jess, Fin, and Heidi are just doing their best to complete the tasks, get customers like Karen out on time, and collect their paychecks. But as the night wears on and…

8 October @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm AEDT Festival of Magic & Illusion

Tom Weil: Festival of Magic & Illusion

The Regent Theatre 145 Windsor Street,, Richmond,

Sydney is about to experience four days of wonder, laughter and the impossible. The Sydney Festival of Magic & Illusion takes over the historic Regent Theatre Richmond, bringing together some of Australia’s finest magicians, mind readers and illusionists for 20+ live shows under one roof. Discover intimate close-up magic performed…

8 October @ 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:…

8 October @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm AEST Opera Lecture Series – Aspects of Opera

Opera Bites: Opera Lecture Series – Aspects of Opera

City of Sydney Creative Studios 119 Bathurst Street, Sydney

Since 2003, Opera Bites Co-Founder Murray Dahm has delivered accessible, friendly and informative lectures, drawing on its history, culture and music. Enjoy exploring a variety of areas of operatic history from composers and voice types through to genres and quirky bits of opera trivia. Aspects of Opera: From the many…

8 October @ 10:00 am - 1:30 pm AEDT Where is the Green Sheep?

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…

8 October @ 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…

8 October @ 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:…

8 October @ 10:30 am - 11:40 pm AEDT The Syncopators: Tribute to Barber, Ball & Bilk

Frankston Arts Centre: The Syncopators: Tribute to Barber, Ball & Bilk

Frankston Arts Centre 27-37 Davey Street, Frankston

Get ready to swing and sway as The Syncopators, Melbourne’s internationally acclaimed jazz band, return to our stage for a high-energy celebration of British jazz legends.

8 October @ 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…

8 October @ 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm AEDT Auto-Tune

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…

8 October @ 1:30 pm - 2:40 pm AEDT The Syncopators: Tribute to Barber, Ball & Bilk

Frankston Arts Centre: The Syncopators: Tribute to Barber, Ball & Bilk

Frankston Arts Centre 27-37 Davey Street, Frankston

Get ready to swing and sway as The Syncopators, Melbourne’s internationally acclaimed jazz band, return to our stage for a high-energy celebration of British jazz legends.

8 October @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm AEST Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)

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…

8 October @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm AEDT

Australian National Academy of Music: In Conversation with Claire Edwardes

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford

Claire Edwardes OAM — described as Australia’s “sorceress of percussion” (City News, Canberra) — is the only artist to have received the APRA Art Music Luminary Award four times. A charismatic percussion virtuoso, Claire moves fluidly between her roles as Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring (Australia’s leading new music ensemble),…

8 October @ 4:10 pm - 5:10 pm AEST Sydney Fringe Festival: Typo

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…

8 October @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm AEDT Sam King – Tricks & Stuff

Samuel King: Sam King – Tricks and Stuff

The Regent Theatre 145 Windsor Street,, Richmond,

Sam King, 2x Winner of “Best Magic” at the Adelaide Fringe. Runner-up in RAW Comedy and So You Think You’re Funny and winner of the Australian Street Entertainment Championship, is bringing his strange creations to the Regent Theatre, Sydney. Tricks and Stuff is magic gone slightly sideways. An hour of…

8 October @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm AEDT opera’s bad girl: anna bishop, the world’s first daringly defiant diva

Canta Viva: Opera’s bad girl: Anna Bishop, the world’s first daringly defiant diva

MC Showroom Level 1, 48 Clifton Street, Prahran

Scandal, seduction, shipwreck and song. Original diva Anna Bishop, a daring contemporary of Queen Victoria, shattered expectations and redefined independence when she left her famous composer husband to forge her own artistic path. Bravely defying social norms of the time, and forced to leave her beloved children behind, she toured…

8 October @ 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…

8 October @ 6:00 pm - 6:55 pm AEDT Auto-Tune

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…

8 October @ 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…

8 October @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEDT Featherbrained (Melbourne Fringe)

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…

8 October @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEDT The Manager Is Me

Little Train Creative: The Manager Is Me

The Motley WhereHaus 432 Queen Street, Melbourne

A hilarious meltdown about invisible labour and losing your shit in a really organised way Blood type: CBF. Sex life: On Afterpay. The Situation: Three kids, one husband, minutes before school drop-off, and a woman in absolute command of her own collapse. The Manager Is Me is a fierce, hilarious…

8 October @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEDT A DROP TOO MANY @ Backbone Festival

Backbone Festival: A DROP TOO MANY

Ron Hurley Theatre 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills

From cracked, dusty earth to rising inland seas, A Drop Too Many dives headfirst into the ebbs and flows of droughts and floods in Australia. Created out of admiration for local communities banding together in the face of adversity, A Drop Too Many uses visual and physical theatre to unravel…

8 October @ 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…

8 October @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm AEDT

Henkell Wines Productions: One Piano – Four Hands: Beethoven & Rachmaninoff

@ Cafe 45 45 William Street, Melbourne

Join acclaimed pianists Coady Green and Jack Brunialti-Sykes for an unforgettable evening of piano four hands repertoire, featuring two masterpieces arranged for and composed for a single piano shared by two performers. The program opens with Sergei Rachmaninoff's Six Pieces for Piano Four Hands, Op. 11, a collection of richly…

8 October @ 6:20 pm - 7:20 pm AEDT FU*K! I Killed The Director

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…

8 October @ 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm AEDT Roisin McAlinden – Fairytale: Ending

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…

8 October @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm AEDT Too

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…

8 October @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm AEDT Islander

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…

8 October @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm AEDT

The Concourse: IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition Finals Concert

The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood

Come see the newest stars of the operatic stage! The IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition Finals Concert gives you a unique chance to hear the new generation of opera stars perform some of the most memorable works in the classical singing canon. The IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition has long…

8 October @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm AEDT Ying Fang sings Songs of the Auvergne

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Ying Fang sings Songs of the Auvergne

Sydney Opera House Sydney

Drawn from centuries-old folk melodies from the Auvergne region of France and sung in a local dialect, these 27 songs seem to emerge from the land itself, telling stories of shepherds, rivers and the slow rhythm of rural life, ‘rich with nostalgia and summer light’ (ABC Classic). Following her acclaimed…

8 October @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm AEDT CLOUD BANK @ Backbone Festival

Backbone Festival: CLOUD BANK

Seven Hills Hub 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills QLD 4170, Brisbane

Cloud Bank is at once both a lighting installation of a lightning storm inside a room and a bespoke venue to house new visual works for Young Audiences. Cloud Bank is a place of sanctuary, a store of wonder, and a repository of dreams; somewhere my armour falls off, and…

Editor's Choice 8 October @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm AEST 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 &…

8 October @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm AEST Cirque Alice

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,…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm AEDT

Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Za Górami Live

The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne

Internationally acclaimed vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadzki joins multi instrumentalist Fred Thomas and jazz bassist Misha Mullov Abbado for a special performance. The award winning trio, whose debut ECM Records album Za Górami was named Presto Music Jazz Recording of the Year and one of The Guardian’s best jazz albums…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm AEST A Room with a View

Belvoir St Theatre: A Room with a View

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney

E. M. Forster’s 1908 novel has been adapted for stage and screen many times over the years. Merchant Ivory famously turned it into a 1985 film starring Helena Bonham Carter. Now comes a new stage version by Grace Chapple. Lucy Honeychurch could follow the path set out for her. But…

8 October @ 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…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm AEDT Next To Godliness

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…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm AEDT Face To Face

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 8 October @ 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…

8 October @ 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…

Editor's Choice 8 October @ 7:30 pm - 9:20 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,…

Editor's Choice 8 October @ 7:30 pm - 9:20 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,…

Editor's Choice 8 October @ 7:30 pm - 9:20 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,…

Editor's Choice 8 October @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm AEDT 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 8 October @ 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…

8 October @ 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…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm AEDT The Undercover Magician

Cameron Leo: The Undercover Magician

Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne

Cameron Leo doesn’t claim anything supernatural, but he has a knack for reading a room, pulling thoughts from the crowd and landing predictions that hit far too close to home. A former undercover police officer turned psychological magician, Cameron has performed across Australia for brands including Disney, Origin Energy, Telstra,…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm AWST

Mirabilis Collective: Hear Her Now

Wesley Uniting Church, Perth William St, Perth

Hear Her Now is Australia’s first chamber music festival programmed entirely with music by women. Across twelve days, you’ll experience world premieres, reimagined classics, emerging voices, and community-led performances. This is a festival built on access, curiosity, and connection. Step into a concert. Stay for the story. Discover music you…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 9:50 pm AEDT Young Frankenstein

Theatre Works: Young Frankenstein

Theatre Works St Kilda

From the outrageous mind of Mel Brooks comes Young Frankenstein, the gloriously silly, lightning-powered musical comedy that celebrates everything wonderfully ridiculous about classic horror and big Broadway spectacle. When the impeccably serious Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (…that’s “Fronk-en-steen,” if you please) inherits his family’s eerie Transylvanian estate, he is determined to…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm AEST Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)

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…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm ACDT & Juliet

Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre: & Juliet

Scott Theatre, University of Adelaide Enter off Gate 14, Kintore Ave, Adelaide

Presented by the 2026 Graduating Class and second year students of Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre & Juliet flips the script on one of the world’s most famous love stories and asks the question, “What if Juliet chose her own ending?” This vibrant, hilarious musical follows Juliet as she refuses to…

8 October @ 7:30 pm - 17 October @ 8:30 pm AEST Log Boy

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,…

8 October @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm AEDT Thieving Bastards – Card Cheats Exposed

: Thieving Bastards – Card Cheats Exposed

The Regent Theatre 145 Windsor Street,, Richmond,

Author and gambling expert Andrew Wimhurst performs card cheating demonstrations at the inaugural Sydney Festival of Magic and Illusion. Andrew will expose the REAL secret methods of casino cheats and poker thieves. Based on his true crime book, "Thieving Bastards: True Confessions of the World's Greatest Cheats", which features interviews…

8 October @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm AEST Return of the Godz

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…

8 October @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm AEDT BRING A VERY BIG NET @ Backbone Festival

Backbone Festival: BRING A VERY BIG NET

Ron Hurley Theatre 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills

Four strangers embark on an expedition to catch Australia’s Bigfoot, the Yowie. Well, that’s why Leah, Yowie Hunting Society president, is there. Julian’s there to track the hike on Strava. Alice doesn’t really get this…stuff; she’s just in her whimsy-maxxing era. And Charlie is the council-mandated park guide. She’d rather…

8 October @ 8:20 pm - 9:20 pm AEDT Kauboj

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…

8 October @ 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm AEDT Adore Händel’s Birthday Party: Little Black Book Vol. 3

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…

8 October @ 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm AEST SLUGS

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…