Adelaide Fringe: A Night of Magic and Mindreading

Duke of York Hotel 82 Currie St, Adelaide, SA, Australia
A Night of Magic and Mindreading with Christian Lavey – Experience the Impossible at Adelaide Fringe! For the first time ever, the internationally acclaimed mentalist and mind reader Christian Lavey is bringing his mesmerizing performance to Adelaide Fringe. With a unique blend of psychological illusions, thought reading, and audience participation,…
Popera: Sex, Death & Politics

Adelaide Fringe: Popera

The Mill 154 Angas Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Uma Dobia is your game show host for the evening as we spin the wheel, shake our maracas and ding our dong. Spotify playlists collide in Popera with questions such as "Why did Trevor leave? What’s cockrockera? And, who will win the air fryer?". Directed by Bronny Lane, get ready…

HFP: Sydney Short Film Festival 2025

Ritz Cinemas 45 St Pauls St, Randwick, NSW, Australia
For its 7th edition, The Sydney Short Film Festival returns to the Ritz Cinema on March 13th with a diverse selection of short films by Australian and international filmmakers. Highlighting the power of independent cinema and the art of short filmmaking, the SSFF2025 will screen 12 films. Each of the…

Adelaide Fringe: Cancer and Cartwheels

The Howling Owl Cafe 10 Vaughan Place, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Join psychiatrist, comedian, and cancer survivor Dr. Jo Prendergast at the Australian premiere of her solo comedy show, Cancer and Cartwheels, at the Adelaide Fringe this March. After a sold-out debut in New Zealand, Jo brings her heartwarming and hilarious performance about overcoming breast cancer, reclaiming her cartwheeling skills, and…
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Sydney Theatre Company: 4000 Miles

Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Nancye Hayes returns to the STC for the first time in two decades to perform in this uplifting, comic drama by American playwright Amy Herzog. When 21-year-old Leo (Shiv Palekar) suffers a major loss on a cross-country cycling trip, he turns up at the home of his feisty 91-year-old grandmother…

Sydney Theatre Company: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Five modern teenage girls recount a story burnt into the Australian psyche. In Tom Wright’s lyrical and daring adaptation, Joan Lindsay’s hypnotic classic becomes a form-shattering mix of storytelling, gossip, and reenactment. Seen through the eyes of STC Resident Director Ian Michael (Stolen, Constellations), “the most exciting new director of…

Belvoir St Theatre: Song of First Desire

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
From the inimitable Andrew Bovell (When the Rain Stops Falling, Things I Know to Be True) comes a superb new play of passion, history and politics, intimate in its detail and epic in its storytelling. Camelia is losing her grip, lost between the past and the present as she passes her days…

La Boite: Macbeth

La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
The prophets who once hailed Macbeth, foretelling his rise to power, have lingered in the shadows for too long. Now, the Weird Sisters step out from the wings and take centre stage. In this reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the Witches—whose cryptic prophecies drive Macbeth to murder, madness, and ruin—become the focus.…
Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir

Andrew Kay and Associates: Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir

St Petri Lutheran Church, Nuriootpa 21 Second St, Nuriootpa, SA, Australia
Hailing from the very heart of Australia, the 30-strong Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir is drawn together from seven remote communities of Australia’s vast central desert. Singing in English alongside Western Arrarnta and Pitjantjatjara – two living languages of the Northern Territory and South Australia – and led by Choir Master Morris…
Editor's Choice Henry 5

Bell Shakespeare: Henry 5

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Returning to Bell Shakespeare after 15 years, Marion Potts directs a new production of Shakespeare’s famous war play with newcomer JK Kazzi in the title role. Young Prince Hal has turned his back on Falstaff, left his wild adolescence behind and taken on the mantle of monarch. When he is…
Milo Standards

Kate Smurthwaite: Milo Standards: Penis De Milo

The Lab at Fool's Paradide Victoria Square, Grote St, Adelaide, SA, Australia
The (drag) king of comedy is coming to Adelaide Fringe! The terrifying alter-ego of feminist comedian Kate Smurthwaite unzips the trousers of truth and lays it on the table. With dating tips from his hit podcast The Schlong Game and masculinity so toxic Woodside would pump it in the sea,…
Nucleus

Griffin Theatre Company: Nucleus

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Gabriel is a nuclear engineer. Cassie is an anti-nuclear campaigner. For nearly thirty years their lives have collided and entwined, with Cassie’s cause dominating public opinion across the decades. But with political change rumbling underfoot, Cassie’s life’s work could yet be undone—and it’s all led to this explosive night. Against…

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