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Asia TOPA's newly announced Nightlife program is a dynamic blend of performance art and club culture. A person wearing a fringed cowboy hat, facemask and fringed and laced-up dress poses dramatically, arms raised, before a culturally diverse crowd of young adults.
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Pop-up clubs and performance art announced for Asia TOPA’s Nightlife program

Returning after a five-year hiatus, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts reflects the many ways people now experience culture, including…

In the production of 'Ilarun' a black woman in white, with a white turban, is sitting down wit h her arms apart. On the right is a tuft of plants.
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Theatre review: ILARUN: The Cutting Comb, fortyfivedownstairs

A story of decolonised power based on a 18th century Jamaican matriarch.

Prospero Arts and QPAC's 2024 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance – in Concert'. Two actors kneel on the stage, with the orchestra and conductor visible behind them. The woman wears a red and orange Victorian dress and straw hat; she is smiling broadly at a young man in a blue and yellow jacket, opened to reveal his white short and white trousers. He wears high black boots and a colourful scarf dangles from his waist.
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Performance review: The Pirates of Penzance – In Concert, QPAC

Gilbert and Sullivan at their finest in this rip-roaring crowd-pleaser of The Pirates of Penzance – In Concert offering an…

Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured are the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of Orpheus & Eurydice.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.

Five women in the cast of 'The Heartbreak Choir' singing.
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Theatre review: The Heartbreak Choir, Ensemble Theatre

Themes of community, forgiveness and understanding lie at the heart of this crowd-pleaser, which rounds out Ensemble’s 2024 season.  

Margi Brown Ash, a old woman wearing pink glasses and colourful clothes is sitting next to Zac , a trans man in shorts and a blue tank top in 'Wanderings'.
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Theatre review: Wanderings, Queensland Theatre

Nest Ensemble’s latest production is a thoughtful, well-conceived two-hander that examines important current societal issues.  

Erik Thomson as Scrooge. He is wearing a pink coat and is standing in a door frame. The ensemble are in black behind him.
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Musical review: A Christmas Carol, Comedy Theatre

Back again for its third iteration, this version comes with a new Scrooge and is as engaging as the previous…

A production of 'Edging.' Sammaneh Pourshafighi in acqua blue tracksuit is in forefront. Eden Falk is in the background. There is an image of the contents of someone's luggage on the screen behind them and part of an airport security equipment with a piece of luggage on it.
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Performance review: Edging, Arts House

A show highlighting the perverse reality of Australia’s border security processes.

An Aboriginal man in a silver costume has a moon like headdress and carries a lit sphere on a pole. Emu in the Sun, Blak in the Room.
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Theatre review: Blak in the Room, Southbank Theatre

Three short plays offer 'the gift of hearing our stories' from First Nations playwrights and creatives.

A wedding scene, with rows of chairs and heavy linenware.
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Performance review: Zaffé, Arts House

A joyous wedding party in the face of real life.

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