• Editor's Choice Romeo and Juliet

    The Australian Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    When Artistic Director David Hallberg restored John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet to The Australian Ballet’s repertoire in 2022, 19 years had passed since its last outing. We haven’t had to wait as long this time. The iconic 1962 production is back, lavishly designed by Cranko’s longtime collaborator Jürgen Rose and brimming with…
    La La Land in Concert

    Arts Centre Melbourne: La La Land in Concert

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A live-to-film celebration with full orchestra. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2016 Academy Award®️-winning Lionsgate film, La La Land, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, written and directed by Damien Chazelle, in a live-to-film concert experience. Winner of six Oscars®️, including Best Original Score and Best Original Song, La La Land showcases…
    Tirra Lirra by the River

    Byron Theatre Company: Tirra Lirra by the River

    Byron Theatre 69 Jonson Street, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
    Nora is back — but this is no quiet homecoming. When she reluctantly returns to the Australian house where she grew up, Nora finds the past waiting. Forced into a reckoning with the choices she has made, she sifts through the lives she has led to understand the woman she…
    Company

    Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): Company

    State Theatre Centre of WA Perth, WA, Australia
    Over half a century after Company premiered on Broadway and blitzed the Tony Awards, Sondheim’s groundbreaking 1970 musical about relationships is still remarkably relevant – as proven by the hit 2022 Broadway revival. A series of comedic vignettes tell the story of Bobby, a single Manhattanite who’s about to turn…
    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:…

    Theatre North: Michael Cormick Sings Bacharach

    Albert Hall, Launceston 47 Tamar St, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    In the 1960's and 70's, Burt Bacharach wrote an astonishing 52 Top 40 hits. Michael Cormick, together with his accompanist, will perform Bacharach classics including I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Say a Little Prayer, Close to You, What the World Needs Now, Do You Know the Way to San Jose? and There's Always Something There to Remind Me. Michael…
    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…
    Where Waters Meet at PICA Hub

    PICA: Where Waters Meet at PICA Hub

    Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 51 James Street, Perth, WA, Australia
    Explore your connection to water through mark-making and printing at the PICA Hub — a place to make, experiment and share stories about what water means to you during Revealed 2026. A hands-on art activity developed with Wardandi and Baiyungu artist, Dellas Bennell, the activity is inspired by her Revealed…
    Sheltering

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Sheltering

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Beneath the constellation of its creative and cultural legacy, Bangarra Dance Theatre, will present a program of three powerful works: 'Keeping Grounded', 'Brown Boys', and 'Sheoak', which honour Bangarra's past while looking to the future. 'Sheltering' will tour nationally from May to July 2026. An intergenerational thread connects this bold triple bill,…
    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…