Performing Arts
Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 4 to 10 August 2025
Now open: 2026 Stella Prize, Emerging Artist Award, Songwriting Competition, Peter Porter Poetry Prize and more grants and opportunities.
Arts prize winners and finalists: 29 July to 4 August 2025
William Barton portrait awarded Archibald People's Choice, memoir of war wins National Biography Award. This week's prize winners and finalists.
Sydney Opera House
What the Ocean Said
A sensory world of projections and vivid storytelling
Sydney Opera House
Murmur
Direct from Europe, Murmur is both circus and sound theatre for families.
Sydney Opera House
Mario the Maker Magician
Robots and magic and slapstick… oh my!
Sydney Opera House
Moss Piglet
A new Australian work that explores fascinating world of tardigrades, microscopic creatures known for their near-indestructibility.
How the independent sector rallied after The Butterfly Club’s shock closure
Indie companies and venues discuss the implications of The Butterfly Club’s closure, and sound a warning for the future of…
We're All Gonna Die! – Maddie Nixon's climate show 'smashes Brisbane's buildings'
We’re All Gonna Die! embraces a monstrous metaphor, with the help of Dead Puppet Society and La Boite.
Grief is the Thing with Feathers review: Belvoir St Theatre struggles
Belvoir St Theatre's adaptation of Grief is the Thing with Feathers has the potential to reach excellence, but ...
Sydney Fringe Festival: bigger and bolder than ever in 2025
This year's Sydney Fringe Festival is embracing more local and international talent than ever and a decentralised model of place.