• Editor's Choice Hansel and Gretel

    State Opera South Australia: Hansel and Gretel

    His Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide
    Constantine Costi applies his fertile brain to Humperdinck’s Wagnerian family favourite based on a typically gory story from the Brothers Grimm. With its haunted forest, gingerbread house and child-gobbling witch, there’s plenty for a director to get their teeth into, and while the marketing hyperbole suggests that this will be Hansel…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…
    Africubismo

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Africubismo

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A reimagining of the shared musical lineage between West Africa and Cuba. Africubismo is an immersive musical journey across the Atlantic, mapping the shared rhythmic DNA between West Africa and Cuba through virtuosic performances and deep listening. Presented by Stani Goma (PBS' Flight 1067 to Africa), experience the intricate interplay…
    The Nutcracker Act II and Other Works

    The Australian Ballet: The Nutcracker Act II and Other Works

    Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Dr, Araluen, NT, Australia
    Performed by students of The Australian Ballet School and members of The Australian Ballet company, On Tour will captivate audiences in Adelaide. The program will showcase highlights from our extensive repertoire, including Act II of The Nutcracker (adapted by Paul Knobloch), the delicate yet powerful Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux by…
    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:…

    Artsite Contemporary: Kerwayne Berry – TLC Texture | Light | Colour

    Artsite Contemporary 165-167 Salisbury Road, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
    TLC brings together a series of landscape paintings that explore the quiet intimacy between light, texture, and colour — the subtle forces that shape how we see and feel place. Each work begins with close observation: the shift of light across water, the texture of weathered surface, the momentary warmth…
    ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School: ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School Corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’ celebrates the legacy and significant achievements of Margaret Olley AC – National Art School alum and one of Australia’s most beloved painters – through the lens of the European artistic tradition intimisme, which honours the quiet poetry of domestic life and the interior world. Drawing from significant public and private…

    Ukrainian Club Queensland: Brisbane Ukrainian Festival 2026 – A Vibrant Day of Food, Culture and Community

    Ukrainian Club Brisbane, 47 Galsworthy Street, Holland Park West 47 Galsworthy Street, Holland Park West, QLD, Australia
    Queensland's most heart-warming, vibrant, delicious events of the year is back - Brisbane’s Ukrainian Festival, on Saturday 22 August 2026 in Holland Park - with the state's largest line up of Ukrainian food, music, culture and community spirit. Experience an authentic spread of Ukrainian favourites including Varenyky potato and cheese…

    Artsite Contemporary: Judy Trick – Full Circle

    Artsite Contemporary 165-167 Salisbury Road, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
    Full Circle, is the most personal show Judy’s to date. The title borrows from the Japanese concept of Sunyata and the meditative Enso circle — an emptying out, a return to origins. Over the past two years, Judy found herself moving through quiet contemplation and back out into renewed energy…
    10 Nights in Port 2026

    City of Fremantle: 10 Nights in Port 2026

    Fremantle Town Hall 8 William St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
    The much-loved winter arts festival 10 Nights in Port returns. This August, 10 Nights in Port returns to Walyalup | Fremantle, transforming the city with a diverse program of visual art, performance, storytelling and installation. Centred on the 2026 theme of huddle, the festival invites audiences to experience warmth, light…
    Editor's Choice La Stupenda

    Opera Australia: La Stupenda

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Dame Joan Sutherland was a part of Australia’s operatic history from 1965, when she toured Australia with her husband Richard Bonynge and a young Luciano Pavarotti, until her legendary farewell at the Sydney Opera House in 1990. Laura Tingle is the host and Jessica Pratt the leading lady in this…
    Griffin Theatre: Mum Club

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Mum Club

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Mum Club. Rule One: Every mum is held with love and kindness, no matter who they are. Rule Two:  Drink cow’s milk, and you’re OUT. Sadie’s just moved to Sydney. She’s a young Yuin mum, completely fried from trying to settle a screaming baby in a rental the…