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David Sedaris Is Bringing His Latest Tour to Australia and New Zealand to Delight NPR Obsessives in 2025
Two years on from his last round of 'An Evening with David Sedaris' shows Down Under, the NPR humorist and bestselling author is returning.
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Public Enemy Are Bringing the Noise Down Under on a Huge Spring 2024 Tour with AB Original
Do believe the hype about these hip hop legends, with Chuck D and Flavor Flav locking in six shows across Australia.
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The Jamie Lee Curtis- and Lindsay Lohan-Starring 'Freaky Friday' Sequel Is Set to Hit Cinemas in 2025
The 2003 version of this body-swap classic wasn't the first — and thanks to this 22-years-late follow-up, it won't be the last.
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Iconic Australian Thriller 'Wake in Fright' Is the Next Film That's Scoring the Hear My Eyes Treatment
At this year's Melbourne International Film Festival, the 4K restoration of the movie will premiere with Surprise Chef providing a new soundtrack.
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BIGSOUND 2024 Has Unveiled the First 70 Acts That'll Be Playing Brisbane When September Hits
Peking Duk side projects Keli Holiday and Y.O.G.A., Alex the Astronaut, Gretta Ray, Sly Withers: they're all on the lineup.
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Eight New Movies You Can Watch in June That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with the Sydney-shot action antics of 'The Fall Guy', a heartbreaking Oscar-nominated animated gem and the love-triangle games of 'Challengers'.
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"My Dreams Grow Darker": Bill Skarsgård Haunts Lily-Rose Depp in the First 'Nosferatu' Teaser Trailer
A famous vampire gets the Robert Eggers treatment in the latest film from the director of 'The Witch', 'The Lighthouse' and 'The Northman'.
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SXSW Sydney Has Added More Than 500 Speakers, Screenings, Artists, Workshops and Games to Its 2024 Lineup
If this year's festival already sounds huge — and it does — less than a third of the full program has been revealed so far.
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From the Smartphone Backlash to Taking on the One Percent, 2024's Festival of Dangerous Ideas Program Is Here
Roxane Gay, Jean Twenge, Masha Gessen and David Runciman lead the lineup at Sydney's deep dive into crucial and complex topics, which will also be livestreaming some of its sessions.
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How Bangarra Dance Theatre Is Looking Beyond Australia with Its First Mainstage Cross-Cultural Collaboration 'Horizon'
“I really want to make sure that you, as the audience, will leave the theatre with a bit of the Torres Strait with you.”
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Australia's Scandinavian Film Festival Is Marking Ten Years of Showcasing Nordic Cinema with a Packed 2024 Lineup
Spend winter watching movies from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, including a retrospective dedicated to Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman.
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The First-Ever Australian Season of 'Dear Evan Hansen' Will Tour the Country After Its Sydney Debut
Sydney Theatre Company's production of the Tony-winning musical has locked in dates in Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide.
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Roxane Gay Will Get Chatting at Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas and Melbourne's Now or Never
On the tenth anniversary of 'Bad Feminist', the writer and social commentator's 2024 trip to Australia will span two cities.
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Now or Never's Second Huge Year Will Close Out Winter 2024 in Melbourne with More Than 100 Events
From live music in the Royal Exhibition Building to an audiovisual installation above the Yarra, this year's lineup is full of highlights.
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Now Open: A Stunning Alphonse Mucha Exhibition Is Filling the Art Gallery of New South Wales with Art Nouveau Works
More than 200 pieces from the Czech-born artist have hit Australia as part of the most-comprehensive showcase of his work that the country has ever seen.
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'House of the Dragon' Knows How to Take Flight in the 'Game of Thrones' Prequel's Civil War-Fuelled Second Season
The fiery feuds keep coming in this engaging — and characteristically bloody, and long-awaited — return to Westeros' past.
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Post WWII-Set Italian Melodrama 'There's Still Tomorrow' Has Won the 2024 Sydney Film Festival Prize
In Italy, actor-turned-director Paola Cortellesi's debut behind the lens did better at the 2023 box office than 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer'.
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HBO Has Renewed 'House of the Dragon' for a Third Season of Targaryen Feuds Ahead of Season Two's Arrival
More of this hugely popular 'Game of Thrones' prequel is coming — and not just when the second season hits.
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Now Streaming: The Restored Version of Talking Heads Concert Film 'Stop Making Sense' Has Hit DocPlay
If you missed the greatest concert film ever made in 4K in cinemas in 2023, you can now watch it at home.
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Break Out the Marmalade Sandwiches: Everyone's Favourite Bear Is Back in the First 'Paddington in Peru' Trailer
The Amazon rainforest awaits in the third film in this page-to-screen franchise, with Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas joining the cast.
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'The Boys' Keeps Confronting the Struggle to Hold Onto Humanity in Its Bleak and Brutal Must-Watch Fourth Season
With just one more season to come, this page-to-screen series remains as laser-focused as ever on the consequences of letting the quest for power run riot.
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Say Goodbye to 'The Boys': Prime Video's Superhero Satire Is Ending After Its Fifth Season
The streaming series was renewed before season four even arrives — and now showrunner Eric Kripke has announced that the following season will be its last.
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Save the Date: Good Things Has Locked in Its Return Across Australia's East Coast for December 2024
Who'll be on the music festival's lineup hasn't yet been revealed, but you can mark your calendar for the event's stops in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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When Splashing Horror Across the Screen Is in Your Genes: Ishana Night Shyamalan Chats 'The Watchers'
After first making an imprint as a director and writer on 'Servant', Ishana Night Shyamalan carries on the family tradition with her debut horror movie.
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Apple TV+ Has Just Dropped Your First Look at the Second Seasons of 'Severance' and 'Silo'
They don't have release dates yet, but new episodes of the two sci-fi hits are finally on the way — and this calls for a waffle party.
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The First Trailer for Adam Elliot's 'Memoir of a Snail' Is Here with a Stellar Sarah Snook-Led Voice Cast
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Tony Armstrong, Nick Cave and Jacki Weaver also lend their vocals to the second feature from the 'Mary and Max' animator.
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Dolly Parton Has Announced a Broadway Musical Based on Her Life So Start Begging for It to Please Come Down Under
Set to debut in New York in 2026, this new stage show will step through the icon's story and career — and Parton has written new songs for it.
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Laura Jones Has Just Picked Up the 2024 Archibald Prize for Her Portrait of Author Tim Winton
This is just the 14th time that a woman has taken home the prestigious accolade — and the fourth time that the Greater Western Sydney-based artist has been a finalist.
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The Odds Are in Your Favour for Another 'Hunger Games' Prequel Book in 2025, Then a Movie in 2026
Set around the Second Quarter Quell, 'Sunrise on the Reaping' will add another instalment to the dystopian franchise both on the page and on the screen.
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Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Will Open with Adam Elliot's New Stop-Motion Animation 'Memoir of a Snail'
Here's the first 24 movies that you need to see at this year's MIFF, including Sundance sensation 'I Saw the TV Glow' and a documentary about Warren Ellis establishing an animal sanctuary.
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Tony- and Grammy-Winning Musical 'Hadestown' Will Make Its Australian Premiere in Sydney in 2025
The hit production, which hit Broadway in 2019, gives the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice a new spin featuring jazz and American folk tunes.
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Brisbane Festival's 2024 Program Is Here with Dazzling Fashion, The Art Boat's Return and a Bingeable Theatre Show
Also on the lineup across September: a Warumpi Band celebration, 400-plus drones telling a First Nations story above the city and 'Eucalyptus' turned into an opera.
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'Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show' Is Making Its Australian Debut at Brisbane Festival 2024
Playing an Aussie-exclusive season, this stage production features more than 200 original Gaultier couture pieces and celebrates the designer's 50-year career.
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In Space, Chestbursting Horror Wreaks Havoc Again in the Full Trailer for New 'Alien' Film 'Romulus'
Seven years after 'Alien: Covenant' and 45 years since Ridley Scott's original sci-fi masterpiece, this iconic franchise is back.
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The Potential Is Strong with 'The Acolyte', Which Gives 'Star Wars' a Spirited New Small-Screen Spinoff
Jedi are being eliminated by a mysterious warrior in this thrilling new addition to a galaxy far, far away from 'Russian Doll' co-creator Leslye Headland.
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Twelve Movies to Put on Your Must-See List at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival
Whether you're keen on a dose of weirdness with your SFF sessions, to embrace a Sydney icon or to see award-winning flicks, there's something for you among these titles.
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Listen Out's 2024 Lineup Is Here with 21 Savage, Skepta, Tyla, Flo Milli, John Summit and Sub Focus
This electronic-meets-hip hop fest returns come spring — and if you were worried about missing the NRL final in Sydney and the AFL final in Perth, there'll be screens showing them.
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Sydney Film Festival Has Expanded Its 2024 Program with Eight New Movies Straight From Cannes
Cinephiles of Sydney, you'd best make room on your SFF schedule for more movies — including Francis Ford Coppola's long-awaited 'Megalopolis'.
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A Huge René Magritte Exhibition Is Coming to Australia as Part of the 2024–25 Sydney International Art Series
As well as a showcase of works by the Belgian surrealist, Sydney International Art Series 2024–25 will feature Cao Fei and Julie Mehretu exhibitions.
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Thom Yorke Is Bringing His First-Ever Solo Tour to Australia and New Zealand in Spring 2024
The Radiohead frontman will play tunes from across his career, including his solo work and film scores, on this six-date trip Down Under.
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Twelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson, an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller and the new season of an Aussie rom-com sitcom.
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George Miller Is Coming to Sydney Film Festival to Chat About All Things 'Mad Max' and 'Furiosa'
You've seen 'Furiosa' and 'Fury Road' — now catch the iconic director talking to stuntman and filmmaker Nash Edgerton about the franchise.