• Event Horizon

    Artspace: Event Horizon

    Artspace The Gunnery, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Roadway,, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
    Artspace presents Event Horizon, the first major solo Australian exhibition by renowned Australian conceptual artist Michaela Gleave from Friday 6 March to Sunday 7 June 2026, with the opening event taking place on Thursday 5 March at 6:00pm. Using energy fields and physical materials such as mist, sound waves, atmospheric…
    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…
    Editor's Choice

    Australian Musical Theatre Festival: Masterclass – Delia Hannah

    Albert Hall, Launceston 47 Tamar St, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    Boasting more than 40 events over five days, the Australian Musical Theatre Festival returns to Launceston. Carmel Dean’s Well Behaved Women, which shines a light on some of history’s trailblazing women, launches the festival, while the Opening Night Gala features a cast led by Jarrod Draper. The centrepiece is a…
    Helios

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Helios

    Courtyard Studio
    A lad lives half way up a historic hill. A teenager is on a road trip to the city in a stolen car. A boy is driving a chariot, pulling the sun across the sky. A story about the ancient god of the sun, HELIOS transplant the Greek tale into a modern…
    Editor's Choice ART

    State Theatre Company South Australia: ART

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Since premiering in 1994, Yasmina Reza’s play ART has attracted a roll call of big-name actors. Now Damon Herriman, Richard Roxburgh and Toby Schmitz star in a new production directed by Lee Lewis. Serge has bought a white-on-white minimalist painting by a fashionable artist. His good friend Marc is outraged that…
    Editor's Choice The Sapphires

    Queensland Theatre Company: The Sapphires

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Tony Briggs’ popular musical The Sapphires debuted at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2004 and has since been staged in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, London and South Korea. In 2021, it was adapted into a film starring Jessica Mauboy and Miranda Tapsell. Based on the true story of Briggs’ mother, Laurel Robinson, The Sapphires is set…
    Shoelace Chaser

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Shoelace Chaser

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Being 17 is hard enough – hormones, homework, the looming question of what comes next. Add caring for your mum to the mix, and Thea’s juggling act is nothing short of Olympic. Smart, self-sufficient and secretly just holding it together, she’s spent the last two years keeping her life under…
    Editor's Choice Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Robert Harling wrote his 1987 play Steel Magnolias after his sister died from complications relating to diabetes following the birth of her son. The tragicomedy is set in Truvy’s beauty parlour in a small Southern town in Louisiana, where a group of women support each other through life’s ups and downs. The…
    An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein

    Glen Street Theatre: An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein

    Glen Street Theatre Belrose, NSW, Australia
    A grand musical celebration featuring five principal vocalists, a full ensemble and choir, and a 22-piece orchestra. Enhanced by immersive projections and Opera Australia costumes, this spectacular new staging honours the Golden Age of Broadway in all its sweeping romance and orchestral splendour. Presented in the year that marks the…
    Steel Magnolias

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Steel Magnolias

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Written by Robert Harling, the timeless tale of Steel Magnolias comes alive under the direction of Lee Lewis (Shirley Valentine) and a cast of six powerhouse actors. Step inside Truvy’s beauty salon, the heart of a small Southern town, where local women share their joys, struggles and a little neighbourly gossip. From weddings and…
    MATA MATA

    STRUT Dance: MATA MATA

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    MATA MATA is an offering through the act of solo dance. A summoning of the ancestral spirits that reside deep within the awa. As the taniwha stirs just beneath the surface, memory begins to flow from skin into whenua. Awakening the blood memory that is present here. Becoming a sacred ancestral…
    Editor's Choice The Importance of Being Earnest

    State Theatre Company South Australia: The Importance of Being Earnest

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    STCSA Artistic Director Petra Kalive directs a radically reimagined version of The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde’s celebrated comedy of manners about deception, identity, class and desire. The play follows two young men, Jack and Algernon, who create elaborate alter egos – each calling themselves “Earnest” – to escape social…