• Editor's Choice

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Lou Blackwell & The French Set

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Reuben Kaye, the new Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has chosen the theme of Delicious Revolution for his inaugural program. (Read our interview with him on page 65.) Speaking to Limelight, he says, “From Aussie icons and international acts of immense fame to basement-dwelling unknowns . . . this is a…
    Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

    Melbourne Shakespeare Company: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Melbourne Shakespeare Company is proud to present Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, a luminous, poetic reimagining of the Greek myth, directed by multi-award-winner Gary Abrahams. Following acclaimed sold-out seasons at fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Shakespeare Company returns with a production of exceptional artistic ambition and emotional power. Through Ruhl’s distinctive voice, the story of…

    Harmonie International: TwoSet Violin The Sacrilegious Games

    Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    The classical music world's favourite internet sensation is back! TwoSet Violin, the hilarious duo that has captured the hearts of fans worldwide, is embarking on a highly-anticipated comeback tour. For one night only, join Brett and Eddy for an unforgettable concert experience filled with their unique blend of musical virtuosity and witty humour.
    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…
    Editor's Choice Piano Man Dr Trevor Jones

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Piano Man Dr Trevor Jones

    Quartet Bar by Corryton Burge
    Reuben Kaye, the new Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has chosen the theme of Delicious Revolution for his inaugural program. (Read our interview with him on page 65.) Speaking to Limelight, he says, “From Aussie icons and international acts of immense fame to basement-dwelling unknowns . . . this is a…

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Anna Goldsworthy on AI, culture and the self

    Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
    In the forthcoming issue of the Quarterly Essay, Anna Goldsworthy explores the implications of AI for art, culture and the self – how it forces a confrontation with what it means to be human, raising questions about human connection, learning and how we live our lives; and bringing new existential…
    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:…
    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…

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: UpLIFT

    St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
    The program title is a play on the title of a work by American-Japanese composer and cellist Paul Wiancko (b.1983). Affinity Quartet premières Wiancko in Australia with LIFT, his 2016 string quartet. National Public Radio wrote, ‘If Haydn were alive to write a string quartet today, it may sound something like…
    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…

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Variations and Remembrance

    St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
    Seraphim Trio commissioned nine Australian composers to each write a variation on a Schubert Waltz. For this concert, they have selected four variations: from the lyrical variation from Calvin Bowman, to a mini playful one by Elena Kats-Chernin, a jazzy number by Andrea Keller, and a return of Elena with…
    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,…