• Return of the Godz

    Sydney Fringe Festival: Return of the Godz

    Fools Paradise Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga, Victoria Square, Adelaide, Kaurna, Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
    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…
    Kindred People 2026

    Monash Performing Arts Centres: Kindred People 2026

    The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Awaken murrup — Awaken the spirit Kindred People is an Indigenous‑led gathering of global First Nations artists, Elders, Knowledge Holders, students and community, coming to Monash University on Boonwurrung Country in September 2026. Guided by culture, the festival centres Indigenous knowledges, creativity and connection through ceremony, performance, dialogue and time…
    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:…
    Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre: Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    For Jane Fredericks, the fight for justice is personal. As a passionate legal aid solicitor, Jane risks everything to help an old flame, and her world quickly unravels – both in the courtroom and at home. Her husband Trevor, a prominent barrister, faces his own ethical conundrum: defend a powerful…
    ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School: ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School Corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    ‘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…
    Editor's Choice 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, VIC, Australia
    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…
    Editor's Choice Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof is a much-loved classic for good reason. The glorious score by Bock and Harnick includes songs such as Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, Matchmaker, Matchmaker and Sunrise, Sunset. Meanwhile, its plotline about religious persecution and displacement, foreshadowing The Holocaust, is depressingly timely –…
    The Devil in Her Undies

    Sydney Fringe Festival: The Devil in Her Undies

    Qtopia Sydney The Loading Dock Theatre 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    The algorithm is serving flaming hot chicken with an identity crisis, and The Devil is eating it up. Big Dog Theatre brings you The Devil in Her Undies, a new darkly surreal comedy about the psychological toll of never feeling certain, and the radical act of giving yourself permission -…
    Storyteller

    Sydney Fringe Festival: Storyteller

    Emerging Artist Sharehouse - Erskinville Townhall 104 Erskineville Rd, Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Drawing on folk tales, poetry, and theatrical traditions, Melanie Walters presents a recital of contemporary flute works that weaves stories through music & text. This eclectic program includes Andrew Ford's Once upon a time there were two brothers... and Wendy Hiscocks' Keshovati. Recently named the SA State Luminary at the…
    Editor's Choice Mama Does Derby

    Brisbane Festival: Mama Does Derby

    Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
    The inaugural program of Artistic Director Ebony Bott includes the world premiere of Suzie Miller’s latest play Strong is the New Pretty about the creation of the AFL Women’s Competition, and a new movement piece about mortality from The Farm called No One Gets Out of Here Alive (see page 63). La Boite presents…

    CircusWA: We Live Here | Circus Show + Research Presentation

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    CircusWA invites audiences to experience a powerful celebration of family, connection and the moments that make a life, with We Live Here by Flipside Circus (Brisbane), developed from a creative residency in Queensland’s children’s hospice Hummingbird House. Combining extraordinary circus skills with heartfelt storytelling, We Live Here is an inspiring, funny and…
    In These Shoes

    Sydney Fringe Festival: In These Shoes

    Fringe on the Rocks 6-8 Atherden St, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The frocks! The vox! The Crocs! Glynis Traill-Nash brings her fashion-fuelled cabaret back to Sydney Fringe after tantalising audiences around Australia and Edinburgh Fringe. “An absolute romp of fun” (OUTinPERTH) Glynis Traill-Nash has long lived a double life: fashion writer by day, jazz singer by night. Now the two collide…