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Belvoir is turning up the heat with Carissa Licciardello and Elsie Yager’s joyous and cheeky new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s queer classic Orlando, beginning next month.

Shake and Stir, with director Michael Futcher, presents a gripping, expertly crafted production of 1984 that delivers a profound and lasting impact.

‘Lost & Finding’, the debut play from multidisciplinary writer and director Emma Van Veen (Dumb Kids) is premiering at Flight Path Theatre from 14–23 August.

Australia's favourite musical oddballs, The Kransky Sisters, are venturing out from the secret-laden walls of their old family home in Esk, Queensland,  bringing their wonderfully weird world to The Grand Electric.

BETRAYAL by Harold Pinter is a work that explores a complex love triangle, moving backward in time from 1977 to 1968.

Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone’s (book, music and lyrics) multi Tony and Laurence Olivier Award winning musical, THE BOOK OF MORMON returns to Sydney with the 2020 revisions which makes for an even better story

Singer-songwriter Joshua Hinton’s A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) will make its mainstage premiere at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs will present one of the 20th century’s most powerful musical statements, A Child of Our Time by Sir Michael Tippett, in a landmark performance at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at 2 p.

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Transcendent Love, a new one-woman play written and performed by Skye Paez, will premiere at Sydney Fringe’s Queer Hub at Qtopia this September.

The Australian premiere of Drew Gasparini’s “We Aren’t Kids Anymore” will open at The Loading Dock Theatre as part of Qtopia’s 2025 Season in August.

Directors Dino Dimitriadis and Shane Anthony deliver a brilliant and bold expression of John Cameron Mitchell (Text) and Stephen Trask’s (Music and Lyrics) rock musical HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH.

Opera Australia has announced the return season of one of the world’s most successful musicals, The Phantom of the Opera, to the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour stage in 2026.

Sydney Dance Company will present the fourth edition of its acclaimed INDANCE series this August, spotlighting four bold, full-length productions by independent Australian choreographers.

Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta (NTofP) will ignite the stage this spring with the Australian premiere of DAYTIME DEEWANE, a bold and immersive theatrical rave by acclaimed UK playwright Azan Ahmed, running October 16–25, 2025 at the newly launched Riverside Live at PHIVE in Parramatt

This record-breaking musical production will commemorate its 40th anniversary in Australia with a celebratory performance attended by many of the original Australian cast and crew.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC)'s iconic Clancestry festival is set to ignite the Centre with over two weeks of extraordinary First Nations storytelling, music, dance, art and culture.

Curveball Creative in association with Hayes Theatre Co will present a reimagining of the beloved Olivier Award-winning musical Once On This Island, running at the Hayes Theatre in August.

Straight from the golden era of the late 70s into the 1980s and the showroom floor of Barry Morgan’s World of Organs, Australia’s most celebrated organ salesman hits the Edinburgh Fringe this year with the ultimate in jaunty music and comedy.

The Bondi Theatre Company has announced an end of winter start of spring season of cabaret and comedy.

Applications are open now for Adelaide Festival Centre’s Arts Leadership Program – an annual, fully funded, four-day intensive, with tailored leadership guidance and curated workshops from expert leaders.

After a sold-out, twice-extended season at the Old Fitz Theatre in 2023, Seymour Centre and Omusubi Productions will present the highly-anticipated Sydney revival of Hisashi Inoue’s The Face of Jizo at the Reginald Theatre.

Following a triumphant year on the global comedy circuit, Garry Starr’s Classic Penguins will make its highly anticipated Sydney debut at The Grand Electric from 3 September to 12 October 2025.

For the first time ever in Sydney, India’s most celebrated mentalist Suhani Shah—who boasts over 6 million followers and viral acclaim—brings her extraordinary talents to the stage of The Grand Electric.

Winner of 'Best in Fringe', 'Sydney Fringe Tour Ready Award' and the 'Adelaide Fringe Tour Ready Award' at the NZ Fringe Festival 2025, multi-disciplinary artist Liv Tennet brings  hersolo dance narrative For You to Know and Me to Find Out to Sydney for a strictly limited