• Isles of Light

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Isles of Light

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The British Isles boast a magnificent anthology of music grounded in lush, poetic landscapes and thriving cities. This concert will transport you there. British violin and viola virtuoso Lawrence Power makes his ACO debut directing music from Thomas Tallis’ evocative theme - made famous by Vaughan Williams - to the…
    Romeo and Juliet

    Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): Romeo and Juliet

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Desire, dreams and destiny collide in the world’s most famous story of love at first sight. Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, this pair of star-cross’d lovers chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them. Don’t miss WAAPA’s…
    Mind Games: Art Alive

    Baeu Medina: Mind Games: Art Alive

    154 Broadway 154-160 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    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:…
    Mackenzie

    Bell Shakespeare: Mackenzie

    The Neilson Nutshell, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her daughter was destined for superstardom. One day, Mackenzie and her best on-set friend Beau encounter a geriatric make-up artist…
    Mitch Cairns: Artist’s Mouth

    National Art School: Mitch Cairns: Artist’s Mouth

    National Art School Corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    From 1 May to 11 July 2026, the National Art School Gallery will present  Mitch Cairns: Artist's Mouth, a major survey exhibition of work by Sydney-based painter and Archibald Prize winner Mitch Cairns, celebrating his twenty-year artistic career since graduating from the National Art School (NAS) in 2006. It features some 48 works, mostly from institutional and…
    Retrograde

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Retrograde

    Fairfax Studio
    Director Bert LaBonté (Topdog/Underdog) steers this alarmingly timely and ‘wickedly funny’ (The Standard) work starring newcomer Donné Ngabo (Last Days) and international screen star Alan Dale (24, The O.C.) to its blistering conclusion. It’s the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, fuelled by big money and heady ambition. Paranoia simmers beneath…
    Editor's Choice Prima Facie

    Sydney Theatre Company: Prima Facie

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie had its world premiere at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in 2019. Directed by Lee Lewis, the riveting production starred Sheridan Harbridge (read our feature on page 30). Since then, the one-woman play has been produced in nearly 50 countries and published as a novel. Jodie…
    Ride or Die

    The Almost Collective: Ride or Die

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Strap yourself in for Perth’s latest and greatest attraction, Venture Land! Infiltrate the city’s greatest asset to experience dazzling grandeur, magical memories and thrilling free falls as your worries drift away … What’s that? The park is under attack?   Venture Land has been compromised on its opening day, rattling both…
    Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Secret House: Shooting Hedda Gabler

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    Seymour Centre and Secret House present the Australian premiere of Shooting Hedda Gabler by Nina Segal—a darkly unsettling, wickedly funny examination of ambition, manipulation and coercive control. When offered the lead part in a Norwegian film adaptation of Hedda Gabler, an actress seizes the opportunity to escape her past and gain…
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    Get ready to be seduced, swindled, and swept off your feet — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels hits the Hayes in a glittering new production that’s all charm, chaos, and con artistry at its most delicious. Based on the hit 1988 film starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, this Tony-nominated musical comedy…
    Hair

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Hair

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Celebrating the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory, one of the most famous musicals of all time featuring “Aquarius,” “Good Morning, Starshine,” “Hair,” “I Got Life” and “Let The Sunshine In.” Identity, community, global responsibility and peace, HAIR remains relevant as ever as it examines what…
    Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks: Garry Starr – Classic Penguins

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025, and fresh from a sell out season at London’s West End, Garry Starr returns with a literary adventure like no other through the world’s most iconic works of fiction. In just one hour, the comic wunderkind, hell-bent on saving…