• Death by Powerpoint

    Queer Powerpoint: Death by Powerpoint

    Life Rites Funerals 118 Durham St, Hurstville, NSW, Australia
    This intriguing site-specific collaboration sees two fiercely independent queer-run Sydney organisations – Life rites holistic end-of-life care and performance platform Queer PowerPoint – team up to explore life's biggest unknown, one slide at a time. Queer artists from across Sydney have completed residencies at Hurstville's Life rites funeral home, going…
    Bad Hand

    Sydney Festival: Bad Hand

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Bad Hand is a cabaret debut for theatre and screen star Natalie Abbott (Muriels Wedding the Musical, Aftertaste ABC) centred on navigating life’s unpredictability, grief and getting out of bed anyways. After the kind of loss that flips the script entirely, Abbott returns with her most personal show yet. It’s funny, raw…
    WAKE

    : WAKE

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In Ireland, a wake is no ordinary farewell. It's a ritual of release where music, stories, and laughter spill through the night into the dawn as community gathers to honour endings and embrace new beginnings. WAKE takes that spirit and transforms it into a contemporary spectacular. Come for a kaleidoscopic…
    Ballet of Lights – Sleeping Beauty

    Fever: Ballet of Lights – Sleeping Beauty

    The Arts Theatre 53 Angas St, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Step into a world where light and dance intertwine in this breathtaking retelling of Sleeping Beauty. As dancers glide across the stage, their illuminated costumes create a dazzling display of color and light, making every twirl and leap feel otherworldly. This isn’t just a ballet show—it’s a magical experience that…
    Editor's Choice

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Under the Stars

    Tumbalong Park 11 Harbour Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    SSO returns to the CBD with Sydney Symphony Under the Stars after eight years out west. The annual event was saved by Sydney Festival and Placemaking NSW following Parramatta City Council’s withdrawal of $400,000 in funding. The celebratory move to Tumbalong Park sets the tone for the SSO’s official season opener,…
    Mama Does Derby

    Windmill Theatre Company: Mama Does Derby

    Sydney Town Hall 483 George St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A single mum, a teenage daughter, and a new life in a regional town where neither quite fits. Billie is 16 and restless, trying to navigate the chaos of adolescence. Mum, meanwhile, is spinning into a rebellion of her own – in the sweaty, rough and radical world of roller…
    Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Heartsleeve Creatives: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Wyreena Community Arts Centre Hull Road, Croydon, Vic, Australia
    "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" This summer, the Wyreena gardens in Melbourne's outer east transform into an enchanted woodland alive with laughter, music, and mischief. Join us for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s most joyful comedy, reimagined as a celebration of magic, nature, and delight. As twilight settles, fairies…
    Ten Thousand Hours

    Gravity & Other Myths: Ten Thousand Hours

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    An ode to the countless hours needed to achieve great things. A live drummer keeps the beat and a huge digital clock flashes as the troupe partake in a joyful game of human jenga. Bodies upon bodies. Springing from one pair of shoulders to another. Jump. Spin. Drop. Gasp! Award-winning…
    EXXY

    Dan Daw Creative Projects: EXXY

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Making a return to Sydney Festival for the first time since 2018’s powerful Beast, Dan Daw takes us back to where it all began: a working-class Aussie childhood and the start of his long journey towards becoming an internationally celebrated, proudly queer and disabled dance artist. With raw honesty and…
    Editor's Choice Hamlet Camp

    Carriageworks: Hamlet Camp

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Following a sold-out premiere in January last year, Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz reunite for a night of “poetry, pith and play” in Hamlet Camp. The trio, who co-wrote the play, star as three actors, each of whom has played Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Thrown together in a rehab facility to help…
    Summer Concerts

    Cello Dreaming: Tango & Baroque

    Eudlo Hall Eudlo Hall, 19 Rosebed Street, Eudlo, QLD, Australia
    Louise King, pianist Cara Tran (Tango Enigmatico), and our 2026 Summer Retreat Artists explore the vibrant connection between movement and music. From the refined elegance of Baroque masters J.S. Bach and Michel Corrette to the fiery rhythms of Piazzolla, De Falla, Ginastera, and La Cumparsita, the program also includes works…
    Duck Pond

    Circa: Duck Pond

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    The world's most romantic ballet is re-imagined as a circus spectacular, full of Circa’s signature physicality and shot through with cheeky humour and a thoroughly contemporary energy. Be swept away by this tale of swans and hapless princes sparkling with quirky touches like the sequinned flipper-wearing duck army and a…