‘A cut-and-paste, punked-up look at my Country’ is how Peter Waples-Crowe describes his five-minute video installation Ngaya (I am), a self-portrait of the artist as a queer Ngarigo person from the Snowy Mountains region of south-eastern NSW.

Cast in cast out is inspired by Sydney-based Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding’s experiences and childhood memories of growing up in ‘The Block’, an Aboriginal community in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern. Read our review here!

Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney. Read our review here!

Experience breathtaking wildlife photography that captures the beauty and vulnerability of the natural world. Read our review here!

Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Julie Rrap has examined representations of the body in art and popular culture for over four decades, often using her own body as the subject.

Dive into the 1837 wreck of the whaling ship South Australian.

Discover the joy of acrylic pouring and leave with a unique bear figurine that will impress everyone

It's official! Producers Jeffrey Seller and Michael Cassel today announced that the Tony®, Grammy®, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize winning musical, HAMILTON, will return to Sydney in 2024. Read our review here!

A dynamic new display that illuminates histories, trajectories and highlights of the MCA’s Collection.

Our introduction to live music - perfect for your toddler and you!

The MCA’s annual exhibition of work by early-career artists living and working in Australia.

In 2024, almost 50 years since his work was presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Lee Ufan returns to Sydney. Within spaces designed by the artist, this new exhibition distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery.

Embark on a journey to the past that has already been enjoyed by more than 1 million others with Horizon of Khufu!

Through the work of ten artists from around Australia, the 2024 edition of the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial focuses on the compelling and allusive languages of abstraction.

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!

Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi's Four Seasons at St Stephen's Uniting Church under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Angelica Mesiti is creating an immersive installation for the former wartime oil bunker beneath the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ North Building.

Dinos Alive is a dinosaur exhibition featuring life-size animated replicas in an immersive Jurassic venue. Walk alongside the massive creatures that roamed our world millions of years ago!

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia), will open Isaac Julien's compelling cinematic installation Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022) from 27 September 2024 until 16 February 2025.  

Immerse yourself in an underwater world in an exhibition that traces explorer and filmmaker James Cameron’s passion for deep ocean science, technology and exploration, including material on his record-breaking dive to the bottom of the planet in the  DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, the submersible he co-designed and co-engineered.

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Sydney.

Step inside the world of FRIENDS™ from 5 October in Sydney and experience your favourite show like never before!

Kwatja Kngarritja Tnyirlalhama (Big Rain Falling) invites children and families to drop in to create your own shapes or designs to add to Robinya’s immersive desert landscape wall.

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Sydney.

Join the celebration of the century as La Clique marks its 20th spectacular anniversary this October.

Somewhere on the fringes of the internet, Ria e-meets Flick and instantly falls in analogue love. They’ve never actually met IRL, but their passion is as real as the moon landing, the loch ness monster and the flying saucers over Roswell.

This empowering and uplifting Broadway sensation arrives in Australia for the very first time. Read our review here.

Winner of four Green Room Awards, this stunning new adaptation, based on the original Yiddish short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, has been heralded as “profound”, “mesmerising”, “bracing and transformative". 

Experience Sleeping Beauty like never before in this dazzling dance and light show.

Dearest Reader, Lady Whistledown has already given her verdict: the event of the season is here! Join us for a magical live music performance with Candlelight: Best of Bridgerton on Strings in Sydney.

Following sensational sell-out seasons across Australia, the pop musical phenomenon SIX the Musical is set to make a triumphant return to Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane! Read our review here!

Opening on 26 October, Magritte will feature more than 100 works and will be the first retrospective ever dedicated to the artist in Australia.

Wundrful World of Christmas is a magical, mixed reality walk through experience for all the family.

Christmas Lights Spectacular returns to Hunter Valley Gardens this summer. Create lasting memories as you stroll through magical themed light displays!

Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist whose films and photographs uncover alternative histories, including of people, rituals and objects connected to the Indonesian island of Bali. Developed through extensive research and community collaboration, her works carry a potent emotive charge in their sensitive yet affecting retellings.

Following the spectacular sellout success at their Perth Optus Stadium shows, Coldplay have today announced a run of Australia and New Zealand.

 Following huge acclaim and sold-out seasons in London as well as an extensive tour of North America, the Olivier Award-winning reimagined production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated musical JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR will arrive in Australia later this year.

Experience the collision of genius: Christopher Wheeldon’s Oscar© fuses Oscar Wilde’s wit with awe-inspiring ballet, an artistic masterpiece in the making, exclusively for The Australian Ballet’s repertoire.

Drawing on both historical and contemporary references, Qureshi works in the space between tradition and experimentation, in a practice that extends to collage and photography. Born in Pakistan, she trained at the National College of Arts in Lahore, where she learnt the painting traditions that had been brought to the Mughal courts from Persia in the 16th century and developed in the region.

A specially commissioned new storytelling and meditation experience with digital projections. This is a sensory world of vivid storytelling, dreamy electronic music, animation, and the wonder of our Sydney harbour.

Raise a glass and get ready for an unforgettable gin-venture as the Sydney Gin Festival returns, this time to the iconic Rosehill Gardens in Parramatta. From Friday 15 November to Saturday 16 November 2024, gin lovers are in for a spirited journey.

The team behind the Good Food & Wine Show is back in Sydney spreading the festive cheer, and you won't want to miss it!

Bursting with irrepressible charm, irresistible humour and a nostalgia that promises to delight – Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn tap dances onto the Hayes stage to ring in the Christmas season. 

Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru transports you to ancient Peru with breathtaking artefacts and immersive storytelling. With over 130 artefacts and one of the most impressive collections of gold to ever tour the globe, this is an exhibition not to be missed.

LUZIA takes you on a journey through an imaginary Mexico.

Discover a Christmas wonderland right in the heart of Sydney as you stroll along Pitt Street Mall underneath a canopy of suspended lights.

The tallest Christmas tree in NSW is decorated with more than 110,000 LED lights, a 3.4-metre colour-changing star and 330 specially created glossy baubles.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) will host a major exhibition by acclaimed American artist Julie Mehretu, the first exhibition of the artist's work to be shown in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Enjoy roving performers, carollers and decorations.

The world’s largest outdoor bed cinema returns for a summer-long season, featuring new king beds, breathtaking sunsets, and an epic lineup of fresh blockbusters.

Cao Fei: My City is Yours heralds the artist’s first retrospective in Australia.

Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker is a magical production of the beloved festive ballet that remains faithful to the 19th-century original and will fill you with the Christmas spirit.

You’ve seen Squid Game on Netflix, now play it in real life! Squid Game: The Experience in Sydney is the ultimate test of survival, strategy, and skill as you go head to head with other contestants in a series of challenges masterminded by the infamous Front Man. Let the games begin…

Come along and get into the festive spirit.

Dance Clan is one of the ways we cultivate the ground to raise the next generation of Cultural leaders.

A true holiday favourite, this beloved comedy classic features renowned composer John Williams’ charming and entertaining score performed live to film by the Sydney Symphony at the Sydney Opera House.

In a magical adaptation of Ted Prior’s beloved picture books, Grug and the Rainbow sees our grassy little friend embark on an epic adventure to bask in the colours of the illusive rainbow.

Christmas at the Cathedral has become a Sydney tradition. It is an annual event which draws hundreds of thousands of families, children, community groups and tourists together to experience the lights and sounds of Christmas. For well over a decade, it has established itself as Sydney’s favourite FREE family Christmas event.

A contemporary exhibition interrogating the importance of water

Join Clara and her Nutcracker on a magical journey in this stunning adaptation featuring live classical music and ballet.

Experience Creature, an immersive installation and workshop by Box of Birds/Stalker that explores our connection with the environment.

A drop falls into the ocean, wondrous and free, a vast unknown ahead. The ocean is still, but teeming with life - the whale is calling, fishes are leaping and experiences are awaiting!

How much imagination can a person have? When we exercise, what will happen to our surroundings? Or what will happen to us?

Welcome to Sound Stories, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary! Get ready to embark on a unique sonic adventure, discovering the beauty of the sounds that surround you every day. This workshop is about turning the tapestry of everyday sounds into collaborative, enchanting soundscapes.

Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the world’s greatest roleplaying game in the most epic way imaginable. 

Be enchanted by The Sleeping Beauty, an interactive Storytime Ballet experience for children aged three years and older.

Experience the Australian premiere of Elf: The Musical, a heartwarming adaptation of the beloved film. This hilarious show follows Buddy the Elf in his quest to find his true identity and the spirit of Christmas.

Master magician and illusionist Michael Boyd and special guest Prinnie Stevens arrive with the most magical holiday event of the season returning to the State Theatre from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 December.

Welcome in the new year with us at the most unique harbour location, Taronga! Bid farewell to 2024 and celebrate the arrival of 2025 with family and friends overlooking the majestic Sydney Harbour.

Dress up to the nines, kick up your heels and leave the crowds behind as you stroll towards the iconic sails and make it your most glamorous New Year ever.

Stroll down to the iconic Sydney Opera House and join the stars of Opera Australia for a 90-minute summer afternoon concert of the greatest hits of opera.

This is a show that treats the Beatles songs with the love and respect they deserve - four brilliant singers accompanied by The Day Tripper Band and Strawberry Fields rock orchestra.

Bluey’s Big Play is a theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music by Bluey composer, Joff Bush.

A prince, a ball, a woman in flight. Will they find true love on this enchanted night?

Colour In Worlds is an immersive installation for families by International Artist Mit Jai Inn. Add your own designs with paint. What worlds will you colour in or create?

Josephine is a kangaroo who loves to dance. Despite the protests of her little brother Joey, Josephine ventures into town where the city ballet is performing Swan Lake. With the prima ballerina out injured, will all her dancing dreams come true?

Maya Wolfe is 17, lonely, and desperate to be liked. When her school counsellor, Ms Newsome, suggests the ‘Fix Yourself!’ camp for low self-esteem teens, she soon realises things aren’t as they seem.

Loved for their high-flying antics and infectious energy, Cirque Alfonse spins childhood memories and rural cliches into Animal, a surreal circus experience set to an infectious live soundtrack of 'agricultural funk’. They’re flipping farm life on its head – and the barn upside down!

During the Festival, you’re invited to share messages of hope for our collective environmental future. What is your wish for our lands and waterways? What can we do now for a sustainable tomorrow?

Children can unleash their creativity in this interactive maze of kaleidoscopic colours and choose-your-own-adventure art — from building blocks to swings to knitted playgrounds

Roll up, roll up, the circus is in town, and it’s free! The aerial experts at Sydney Trapeze School are bringing their high-flying, jaw-dropping best to Darling Harbour for two shows a day during the Festival. 

This graceful giant of the ocean, the whale, has inspired cultures around the world holding a special place in stories and legends. The sight of a whale in the water moves even the most stoic heart to wonderment.

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

BullyBully is a hilarious musical for ages 3+ told in the style of West Side Story, with many songs, funny quarrels, a bit of bickering and (eventually) a happy ending. 

A chaotic nexus of wheels, dance and parkour

The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale, the stage production based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic trilogy beloved by generations of readers, will make its Australian premiere at the State Theatre Sydney from 7 January 2025.

The world’s premier theatrical ice skating company, The Imperial Ice Stars, returns to Australia with its award-winning masterpiece Swan Lake on Ice.

A camera breaks and four friends conjure spirits (both spectral and alcoholic) as they unravel four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries: a warped fairy tale about two sisters and a treehouse astronomer; ...

The neon lights of Las Vegas are calling. Join us in January for the wild rise and dramatic fall of magic’s dazzling duo, Siegfried and Roy. 

Hive Festival returns this summer – a festival for children and families. 

These January school holidays, the London International Animation Festival is returning to Sydney with a showcase of the best children's animations full of visually dazzling joy from all around the world.

Hive Festival returns this summer – a festival for children and families. 

A rollicking, laugh-out-loud comedy about everyone’s favourite friendly neighbourhood barber: Fi-ga-ro! Figaro! Figaro! 

Honouring a long lineage of shell artists

TV’s favourite doctors return to Australia this January with a gigantic brand-new show. Join the twins on a dino-mite adventure to unearth the most dangerous, most powerful, most important fart in history—the Jurassic Fart!

Get ready for a thrilling CommBank Women’s Ashes T20 International series, with the first match at the iconic Sydney Cricket Ground. Lock in your seats to experience world-class cricket in action!

The Box Show: Excites the imagination of children and adults alike!

“What should I do? Plunge into the vortex of pleasure and drown there?” – Violetta

A wild ride through the world of opera hosted by Reuben Kaye. With re-imagined opera hits, musical theatre classics and a few pop numbers along the way, this is a night you’ll never forget.

Peter and the Starcatcher, the smash hit Broadway production and winner of 5 Tony Awards, will have its Australian premiere, coming to Sydney in 2025.

From the songwriting team behind Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me comes a long loved Neglected Musical.

The acclaimed musical phenomenon HADESTOWN by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin will make its Australian premiere at Theatre Royal Sydney in February 2025.

How To Grow Your Garden is an immersive story built by the performers AND the participants, exploring what it means to nurture who we are and the people we care about through the seasons of life. 

This brand-new, boisterously joyful adaptation is brought to life by just four bold performers.

A hilarious satire set to dazzling music by West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein.

Celebrate the 2025 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras with a free dance class for LGBTIQA+ community of all ages and all abilities!

Following the news of her highly anticipated third studio album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, set for release on May 17, Billie Eilish has announced Australian arena dates, produced by Live Nation and Frontier Touring, for her HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR.

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry is heading to Australia in the multiple Tony Award®-winning musical MJ.

Kylie has announced her highly anticipated ‘Tension Tour’ for 2025, which will see the global icon perform in cities across the globe and is set to be Kylie’s biggest tour since 2011.

Join us as Disney in Concert returns to the Sydney Opera House in this new, spectacular concert experience.

Exhilarating acrobatics meet stunning voices in this thrilling new production of a timeless love story.

Join Opera Australia for Sydney’s best night out. With fireworks every night, take your seats under the stars for a Broadway musical spectacular.

The ever-popular Broadway musical Annie will light up Sydney’s Capitol Theatre from March next year in an exciting new production directed by Karen Johnson Mortimer and produced by John Frost for Crossroads Live.

With a truly hysterical book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan (Annie), and music and lyrics by Brooks himself, The Producers takes no prisoners in skewering classic Broadway – and creates a new Broadway classic in the process.

Vaslav Nijinsky was at the height of his career during the early 20th century. His unparalleled performances brought him adoring fans while his evocative and sensual choreography caused riots in theatres in Paris.

Following sensational sell-out seasons across Australia, the pop musical phenomenon SIX the Musical is set to make a triumphant return to Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane! Read our Sydney review here!

DreamWorks Animation, Universal Destinations and Experiences and TEG Life Like Touring are delighted to announce the World Premiere season of GABBY'S DOLLHOUSE LIVE! opening Down Under in 2025. The Australian tour will play Melbourne’s Princess Theatre ahead of tour dates in Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart from March to April 2025.

The Sydney Comedy Festival is Sydney’s biggest annual comedy event, running for four weeks between April and May.

Cameron Mackintosh, in association with Nick Grace Management and Live Nation Australia are delighted to announce that LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR is coming to the ICC Theatre Sydney on 30 April 2025, to be followed by Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne from 14 May 2025 and then Brisbane Entertainment Centre from 28 May 2025 for strictly limited performances.

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel, Manon is a tragic romance unlike any other in ballet.

From the producers of the hugely successful Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap comes a brand-new production of the best-selling crime novel of all time.

Step into the vibrant, hilarious world of 1980s Madrid, where Pepa, a heartbroken actress, finds her life spiralling out of control after her lover’s sudden disappearance.

On 27 July 1985, a ground-breaking musical production had its Australian Premiere at Theatre Royal Sydney, heralding an era of the British “mega-musical” in Australia. Now, 40 years later, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical CATS returns to Theatre Royal Sydney to celebrate it’s 40th anniversary, opening in June 2025.

TEG DAINTY has proudly announced that one of the best-selling music artists of all time, Katy Perry, is set to embark on her Australian tour in June 2025 - The Lifetimes Tour presented by Snaffle.

Being Alive celebrates Hayes audiences’ love affair with Sondheim, following acclaimed, award-winning, and sold-out seasons of Assassins (2017), Merrily We Roll Along (2021), and A Little Night Music (2023).

A madcap musical about childish grown-up men, featuring two performers, songs, funny quarrels, a bit of bickering and eventually a happy ending. 

Take an adrenaline-pumping ride through lust, jealousy and spectacle in this bold new production of an opera classic.

The Tony®, Olivier®, and Grammy® award-winning production THE BOOK OF MORMON will return to Sydney from July 2025.

If your little ones loved The Gruffalo, don't miss out on this new West End production of its beloved sequel, which returns to Australia following previous sell tours. The Gruffalo said that no gruffalo should ever set foot in the deep dark wood…

A water nymph longs to live and love as a human and will sacrifice everything to get there. Superstar Australian soprano Nicole Car plays Rusalka.

A chaotic whirlwind of mistaken identities makes the wedding day of Figaro and Susanna a lesson in hilarity.

From the Tony Award-winning songwriting duo of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Seussical, Ragtime) comes the Olivier Award-winning Once on This Island. This vibrant adaptation infuses its Caribbean roots with Australia’s own rich cultural tapestry, injecting new life into the Hans Christian Anderson tale, The Little Mermaid.

Get ready for more heat and action as we continue to bring the ultimate monster truck show to fans!

Step into glittering 1930s Berlin in this spectacular staging of an opera’s most moving classic.

The NSW premiere of the ingenious and inspiring musical by the superb Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Drawn from a true story and featuring a Tony-nominated score, Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and ‘40s.

The musical that rocked Broadway is back!

Not just another absurdist, electro-swing musical comedy about a thoroughbred racehorse, Phar Lap is a rags-to-riches story with a big heart.

An earth-shattering experience from three of the world’s most inspired choreographers, Prism will leave you breathless with its raw intensity and revolutionary design.

Ten years since its spectacular premiere, David McAllister’s opulent production, The Sleeping Beauty, returns to whisk you away into a magical realm of fairies and spells, good versus evil and a royal romance.

Never underestimate an 80-year-old. They’ve got a lot less to lose.