• Darkfield: SÉANCE, FLIGHT and INVISIBLE return to Adelaide Fringe

    The Garden of Unearthly Delights Rundle Park, East Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    DARKFIELD returns to The Garden of Unearthly Delights this Adelaide Fringe, with three of its most acclaimed shows: SÉANCE, FLIGHT, and INVISIBLE from 13 February until 22 March 2026. The experiences, which take place in total darkness, use 360° binaural sound to blur the line between reality and fiction inside…
    I, AmDram

    Hannah Maxwell: I, AmDram

    The Barbara Hardy Garden at Holden Street Theatres 2 - 34 Holden Street, Hindmarsh, Kaurna Country, Australia
    Hannah will be bringing back their debut show I, AmDram, to the Adelaide Fringe at Holden Street Theatres (19 Feb–22 March) after acclaimed runs in both 2020 & 2025, winning a Weekly Best of Theatre Award. Exploring queer identity and growing up amongst amateur musical theatre, this solo storytelling show…
    Laser Kiwi – Everybody Knows

    Adelaide Fringe: Laser Kiwi – Everybody Knows

    The Paragon 11 McNamara St, Queenstown, TAS, Australia
    Laser Kiwi is back with a brand-new show! Armed with world-class circus skills and their signature brand of surreal sketch comedy, they'll attempt the impossible: articulating that thing we're all thinking. Laser Kiwi will make you laugh, gasp and maybe even agree on something for once. “Fall-down funny, absolutely top…
    Editor's Choice Flora

    The Australian Ballet: Flora

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Resilience. Kinship. Connection. This bold new, full-length dance work by Mirning woman and Bangarra’s Artistic Director Frances Rings traces the evolution of Australian flora. Brought to life by 35 dancers from both companies, it examines the impact of historic and environmental events on the landscape and its people, from devastation wrought…
    My Brilliant Career

    Melbourne Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    My dear fellow Australians… You can’t keep a fierce woman down. Sybylla Melvyn is back, and she’s bolder than ever. Hailed as a ‘funny, feminist triumph’ (The Guardian) and earning multiple five-star reviews in its sold-out premiere season, the joyous My Brilliant Career returns for a limited encore run. Led once more…
    Tape Face: 20

    Adelaide Fringe: Tape Face: 20

    The Garden of Unearthly Delights Rundle Park, East Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Celebrating 20 years of Tape Face, the show celebrates where this worldwide journey began. Mime with noise, stand-up with no talking – drama with no acting. Las Vegas headliner Tape Face has become a global sensation. See the critically award-winning show that started it all. Physical comedy, mime and silent…

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A landmark work of Australian theatre returns to the stage where it first sprang to inglorious life. Steve J. Spears’ The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin scandalised and mesmerised in equal measure when it premiered in 1976, touring across the world and collecting awards everywhere it ventured. Now, on its 50th…
    Fair Play

    Lost Thought: Fair Play

    The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    Fair Play is a blistering, urgent two-hander about ambition, friendship, and the brutal cost of elite sport. Set in the high-pressure world of competitive middle-distance running, the play follows teenage athletes Ann and Sophie as they train, race, and grow up together — until success, scrutiny, and institutional power threaten…
    Do Not Pass Go

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Do Not Pass Go

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Laced with acerbic humour, Do Not Pass Go turns hustle culture inside out to ask: when the system is built to break you, what’s left to hold onto? Flux and Penny are colleagues whiling away their lives in the nondescript purgatory of a workplace no-one seems to run, doing a job no-one…
    The Devil’s Violin

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: The Devil’s Violin

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The devil played the violin for Tartini in a dream. The music was charismatic, electrifying, fiendishly difficult and utterly transfixing. Tartini awoke and transcribed the melody, penning the Devil’s Trill sonata. It can only be played by someone astounding. Ilya Gringolts is that player, returning with his dazzling virtuosity and commanding stage presence for…
    Editor's Choice Turandot

    Opera Australia: Turandot

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    International director and choreographer Ann Yee has been recruited to stage a new production of Puccini’s Turandot in a way that is sensitive to issues of race and gender by focusing on the implacable princess’s courage, her ancestor’s trauma and the sacrificial love of another woman. Rebecca Nash, fresh from…
    Lesbian Sex Diaries

    Adelaide Fringe: Lesbian Sex Diaries

    Arthur Artbar 66 Currie St, Adelaide, SA
    A cheeky, audacious plunge into the wild terrain of lesbian sex, dating, and fantasy. And also, drugs. Told through raw stories, unfiltered confessions, and personal diary entries, Lesbian Sex Diaries is joyous, hilarious, and psychedelic. Rebel Star’s infectious giggles meet devastating deadpan, while Melody Rachel’s pauses and evocative intonation land…