Alchemy of a Rainforest (Entry by donation) (Reviewed)
Explore a vibrant tapestry of life! Step inside this immersive, sensory exhibition featuring spectacular rare and unusual tropical and subtropical rainforest plants. Read our review here!
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Explore a vibrant tapestry of life! Step inside this immersive, sensory exhibition featuring spectacular rare and unusual tropical and subtropical rainforest plants. Read our review here!
Embark on a journey to the past that has already been enjoyed by more than 1 million others with Horizon of Khufu!
Colour is transformative, magical and political.
Step into the heart of a high-stakes trial with The Jury Experience in Sydney.
Australian Reptile Park offers the opportunity to see virtually every Aussie creature, from the cute kangaroos to the crafty komodo dragons, making it a unique and exciting wildlife experience.
Dive deep into Australia's connection to the seas at the Maritime Museum, and immerse yourself in an ocean of interactive exhibits and aquatic attractions. Step aboard a submarine and discover the stealthy world of underwater warfare, before taking the fight to the surface as you clamber onto the HMAS Vampire navy destroyer. See beautiful art exhibitions, be blown away by the museum's 3D cinema, and enjoy a whole raft of other activities.
Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty has arrived in Sydney! This beloved tale is brought to life through classical dance, stunning choreography, and beautiful glow-in-the-dark costumes. Get your tickets for Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty in a Sparkling Show in Sydney!
With a mix of carefully chosen classics and spontaneous improvisation, this feel-good live music performance takes you on a journey to the roots of this revolutionary genre.
The Jury Experience is back with a thrilling new case in Sydney! In this live theatre show, the audience is the jury. Listen to testimonies, examine the evidence, and deliver the verdict: guilty or innocent? Get your tickets for The Jury Experience: An Immersive Courtroom Trial - Case 3 in Sydney!
Listen to famous arias from Bizet, Puccini, Rossini, Verdi and more performed by some of Opera Australia’s finest opera singers, accompanied by piano.
Discover rare and beautiful works by leading contemporary artists, from the Library’s little-known collection of artists’ books.
Australian Drummer, Singer, Songwriter and Producer G Flip – Meets Their Wax Double at Madame Tussauds Sydney
Step into 1304 and defend medieval Europe's largest fortified city, Carcassonne, in a pulse-pounding virtual reality experience, The Last Stronghold: An Epic Medieval Adventure. Explore a city on the brink of revolt, train for battle, and shape history from inside the fortress walls.
Presenting the work of early-career artists living and working in Australia, aged 35 years and under.
With timeless classics like Mr Archimedes’ Bath, Mr McGee and Alexander’s Outing, Pamela Allen has captured the hearts of readers for more than 40 years.
A presentation of recent and new installations by Yasmin Smith.
Make yourself at home in an underground art park. Read our review here.
One of the world’s best team-based virtual reality experiences has finally come to Sydney! Blending the escape room concept with a full 3D cinematic experience, Virtual Room delivers a unique, immersive and mind-blowing adventure.
Explores the art and lives of 50 trailblazing women artists
La Ronde - A captivating new experience for the bold and the curious is heading to Sydney’s
Grand Electric this October
Tickets for Escape Hunt - Exhilarating Escape Rooms in Sydney. Experience heart-pounding excitement while collaborating to solve clever clues with your team!
Experience a world of contraband and corruption at Alcotraz, the world's first immersive, prison-themed bar. Don your orange jumpsuit, collude with the corrupt guards and enjoy a range of delicious drinks within your cell whilst you try to keep your contraband hidden from the prying eyes of the Warden.
See nature in a whole new light in The 2025 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year, a South Australian Museum exhibition.
All that studying got you feeling off-script? Step into the spotlight at Madame Tussauds Sydney with our exclusive student ticket, just $24 and you’ll be strutting down that red carpet! No paparazzi required.
Need a break from the books? Take your learning to new depths and plunge into SEA LIFE for just $24 with our exclusive student ticket!
All that studying making you feel wild? Shake off the stress and head into the wild with our exclusive student ticket, just $24 for entry to WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo.
All that studying getting you down? Elevate your mood, and treat yourself to some new perspectives with our exclusive student ticket to Sydney Tower Eye for just $19.
Experience an accessible 3D photography exhibition detailing personal stories from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with disabilities across Australia.
Celebrate the wonder and fragility of our blue planet through the world’s leading ocean photography competition, returning to the Australian National Maritime Museum this November.
In the Eye of the Giant by Kate Mitchell takes the form of a slowly ascending digital scroll. The moving-image work, commissioned for the large screen in the Naala Badu atrium, visualises seven emotional states that shape the artist’s practice.
This exhibition is the first of its kind in a major Australian museum and is presented as part of the Sydney International Art Series 2025–26.
Moonlight Cinema, Australia’s favourite outdoor cinema, celebrates its 30th birthday season with The People’s Program; a nationwide vote to shape this season’s line-up.
Get ready for Mind Games - Art Alive! in Sydney with over 65 mind-bending installations by 15 artists that twist perception through light, sound, and motion. Discover illusions, shifting rooms, and living art that make reality feel delightfully uncertain.
🚨 By popular demand, Stranger Things: The Experience is returning to Luna Park Sydney for one last run, just in time for the highly anticipated fifth and final season of Netflix’s hit series. 🚨
Head to Hollywood with the dazzling stage adaptation of one of the most beloved romantic comedies of all time – Pretty Woman: The Musical!
Opening in December 2025, Unearthed will display a fascinating selection of objects excavated from the site.
Dig It! will deliver a rich, multisensory, family-friendly experience that invites you to experience the excitement and challenges of archaeological excavation for yourself.
The internationally celebrated artist returns to Australia with a major new exhibition.
Machu Picchu: Journey to the Lost City transports you back 450 years ago to the heart of the ancient Inca Empire in stunning virtual reality.
The party of the summer returns following a sell out season, don't miss your chance to be on the guest list at the hottest club in town.
Discover Sydney’s iconic Taronga Zoo, home to over 4,000 animals and boasting one of the most breathtaking views of Sydney Harbour. Explore nine unique trails, from Australian Walkabout to African Safari, while learning about conservation and wildlife.
Museum of Illusions, the world’s largest and fastest-growing chain of private museums, will make its Australian debut this summer with the opening of Museum of Illusions Sydney, an interactive world where the impossible becomes possible and curiosity knows no bounds.
DigiPark is a 19-room immersive attraction inside Westfield Sydney packed with plenty of great multi-sensory experiences: holographic tunnels, cosmic mirror mazes, glowing planet rooms, interactive graffiti walls, and more.
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly returns to the Sydney Opera House in Moffatt Oxenbould’s award-winning production. A breathtaking tale of love, loss, and tragedy with world-class singers and unforgettable staging.
Putting It Together is a dazzling celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s greatest work. Set at a glamorous cocktail party, the show blends wit, charm, and razor-sharp insight as the cast navigate the complexities of love, ambition, and desire.
Feel out of this world: Avatar has arrived at Madame Tussauds Sydney.
After its fly-away success in New York, Balloon Story lands in Sydney this summer!
Puccini’s Turandot returns in a spectacular new production by Ann Yee. Monumental sets, immersive visuals, and world-class voices bring this grand opera of mystery, courage, and the iconic ‘Nessun dorma’ to life.
SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art is a major exhibition that brings together more than 30 of Australia's most dynamic artists – from underground graffiti writers to celebrated contemporary painters – united by a single electrifying medium: spray paint.
You’ve been called for jury duty. Step into a thrilling courtroom drama where the audience is the jury. Listen to testimonies, analyze evidence, and ultimately decide… guilty or not guilty?
Step into a whimsical world with Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel. Dark fairytale meets humour, heart, and magical music in Elijah Moshinsky’s enchanting production, perfect for newcomers and opera lovers alike.
Encounter towers of mangosteens, big bowls of dragon fruits and giant stacks of canned food in this new interactive exhibition that bursts with colour, memory and ritual.
John Frost for Crossroads Live and Opera Australia today announced that the Broadway hit musical ANASTASIA, will have its Australian premiere at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne in December 2025 before touring to Perth and Sydney in 2026.
This is Bluey’s Big Play, for real life.
The Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2026 brings together 11 artists from across Australia who use a range of materials – pastel, pencil, watercolour, ceramic, light and thread – to channel drawing’s intimate potential.
The sermon on the mount returns to Sydney for a victory lap as Jonathan Biggins – co-creator and star of The Wharf Revue and one of Australia’s favourite comic actors – transforms into the visionary, reformer and rabble-rouser, Paul Keating.
John Farnham. King of Pop. Australian hero. The voice of a generation.
We gather because we must. Join us amongst the sculptures of Lucy Simpson, as Uncle Matthew Doyle kindles fire and smoke and Nardi Simpson leads a joyous community chorus with songs spanning generations.
Is that song appropriate for your age? Haven’t you watched enough TV today? Are you sure you’re ready for YouTube? Won’t you find that book a bit advanced?
Broadway’s monster smash-hit production Shrek The Musical is making its way to Sydney and Melbourne this January! Get ready for an exhilarating adventure to a far, far away kingdom… This action-packed spectacle brings your favourite animated characters to life on stage!
From the creative minds at Grayboy Entertainment comes a heart-warming, high-energy circus adventure like no other. Meet Sawdust—a playful baby elephant discovering the wild, wonderful world of circus life! Along the way, she plays with a cast of colourful characters—each bursting with talent, humour, and heart.
The Sydney Symphony concert you know and love is back in the heart of the city.
Our free, fun-filled festival for kids and families returns to the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 January 2026.
Disney Jr. Live On Tour: Let’s Play!” is set to enchant families across Australia this January and February with FIVE spectacular tour stops: Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth. This immersive concert experience will bring beloved Disney Jr. characters to the stage in an interactive musical adventure perfect for young fans and their families.
Garden of Sound invites you to follow the antics of two loyal gardeners, Dag and Dug, who are trying to bring their garden of sound back to its lush and symphonic potential.
Returning by popular demand... The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show is coming to Sydney these summer holidays !
What guides you through the darkness when you’ve lost your way? A whisper on the wind. A shimmer in the stars. A moth in flight.
A single mum, a teenage daughter, and a new life in a regional town where neither quite fits. Billie is 16 and restless, trying to navigate the chaos of adolescence. Mum, meanwhile, is spinning into a rebellion of her own – in the sweaty, rough and radical world of roller derby.
Blacktown Garage Party invites the public to our backyard! Taking over the Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre for two days, artists Sione Monu and Salote Tawale create an installation inspired by the aesthetics of the garage and adorned by community. Think corrugated iron, lavalava, tarpaulins, Christmas decorations from 2003.
In Sydney today, conversations across difference can feel fraught and polarised. It’s never been harder to sit across a table and truly listen. In this moment, Conflictorium offers a space to dignify contradictions, recognising conflict not as failure but as a vital part of life.
Theatre is child’s play in this imaginative bicycle adventure from Ireland
This free workshop gives you the chance to build official Bandai model kits, learn tips from fellow builders and enjoy a relaxed hands-on experience.
A street. Action! The scene begins: a truck rumbles by, music blaring. A dancer sprints, leaps, stumbles – and suddenly, rain and fireworks erupt around them. Each take brings a new protagonist, a new rhythm, a new spark of cinematic magic. What’s real? What’s staged? In this heady blur of movement and music, the answer is always changing.
It was a huge hit when it stomped into Sydney in 2024 selling-out every show to rave reviews but this summer, DinoFest will up the ante with even more live-action dinosaurs that are guaranteed to thrill.
Following sell-out seasons across Australia, the team behind The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child return with songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 3 and up - and their grown-ups...
This is Bluey’s Big Play, for real life.
Circa, Australia’s trailblazing contemporary circus company, takes ballet’s most beloved classic and flips it on its head.
Australia’s beloved mobile inflatable waterpark, Waterworld Central, is thrilled to announce its grand return to the Entertainment Quarter in Sydney, just in time for the 2026 summer school holidays!
Celebrate summer and all the things loved about the Northern Beaches this January.
Sculptor Julia Phillips creates work that examines relationships between individuals and the public, between people and institutions. Her participatory public artwork Observer, Observed invites you to think about public surveillance and what it really means to “look”.
Held is a series of sculptural works designed by Yuwaalaraay Wirringgaa and Designer Lucy Simpson. Four forms designed to honour land, sky and sea Country from across each of the four pillars, in a grounded moment of convergence.
Join Ratty, Mole, Badger, Otter, Portly, and, of course, Mr Toad as they bring Kenneth Grahame's immortal story of life on the riverbank to the stage.
Are you looking for fun things to do with the kids in Sydney during the Summer school holidays? The Australian Museum (AM) offers a range of educational activities to keep kids from 5-16 years old entertained.
Garden of Sound invites you to follow the antics of two loyal gardeners, Dag and Dug, who are trying to bring their garden of sound back to its lush and symphonic potential.
A colourful, touchable, wearable play space created by artist HOSSEI
This summer join our party of pirates on their quest to find the fabled Pants of Gold for the Captain’s Treasure chest!
Step into a world where teacups tumble, sugar cubes fly, and nothing makes sense (in the best possible way)! Mad Hatter's Tea Party is a star-studded immersive circus-cabaret to delight the young and young-at-heart.