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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,…
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,…
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,…
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,…

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:…

Sculptures in the Garden

Kay Norton-Knight, Rosby Wines and Gallery: Sculptures in the Garden

Rosby Wines and Gallery 122 Strikes Lane, Eurunderee, Mudgee
Spend a day among more than 300 sculptures in the stunning spring gardens of Rosby Wines & Gallery, Mudgee. Regional NSW’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition brings together artists from across Australia, with live music, great food and wine, workshops, and something for the whole family. This year, don’t miss My…

The Lester Prize: The Lester Prize for Portraiture 2026 Main Awards Exhibition

WA Museum Boola Bardip Perth Cultural Centre, Perth
Discover the remarkable diversity of contemporary Australian portraiture at The Lester Prize for Portraiture 2026 Main Awards, presented at WA Museum Boola Bardip. Selected from a record-breaking 1,177 entries, the exhibition brings together 40 finalist artists from across Australia, each offering a distinctive interpretation of portraiture, identity and the human…
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…
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:…

‘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…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Katie Yap

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank
Timeless Bach with one of Australia’s great modern violists. Brisbane-born, Melbourne-based violist Katie Yap brings her signature warmth to a morning of Bach in The Peter and Ruth McMullin Beacon. The flowing arpeggios of J.S Bach’s Cello Suite No.1, reimagined for viola, give way to the quiet familiarity of Bach's…

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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…

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…
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,…
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…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Schumann and Faure Piano Quartets

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank
Two iconic masterpieces for the piano quartet. Witness Schumann and Fauré in the hands of Kristian Chong and three of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's principal musicians, Associate Concertmaster Tair Khisambeev, Associate Principal Cello Elina Faskhi, and Principal Viola Christopher Moore. Schumann's glorious Piano Quartet is one of the joys of…
Paul Lewis – Mozart+

Musica Viva Australia: Paul Lewis – Mozart+

City Recital Hall Sydney
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…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Isata Kanneh-Mason in Recital

Sydney Opera House Sydney
Acclaimed as ‘a profound and greatly gifted artist’ (Gramophone) and ‘a pianist who makes lines sing beautifully and virtuosic passages dance,’ (BBC Music Magazine), this captivating pianist brings her energy and precision to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. The jaw-dropping virtuosity, power and nuance demanded by these big works…
Editor's Choice Voyager

Australian String Quartet: Voyager

Hackett Hall, WA Museum Boola Bardip Perth Cultural Centre, Perth WA 6000, Perth
Garth Knox’s Satellites opens Voyager with a kaleidoscopic exploration of sound and texture that expands the sonic possibilities of the string quartet. Bartók’s arresting String Quartet No.4, a tour de force of rhythmic energy, then takes you to a playground of Hungarian folk influences and raw emotion. Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet in B-flat Major,…

Pekka Kuusisto – Legends & Luminaries

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Pekka Kuusisto – Legends & Luminaries

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank
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…

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…

Piss Be With You

Melbourne Fringe Festival: Piss Be With You

Grouse Melbourne 171 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Stepping out pelvis-proud with a glow in her heart; Cleo's thirsty to meet babes and make it rain. While riding the pleasure pipeline, cracks appear and leaks form. Things get wetter and wilder as she dives deeper. Can she swim through the Punani Tsunami to the place that is warm…