Culture

Film, music, television, and the arguments they start.

• Three Bodies, One Organism: Taiwanese Dance Work Asks What Happens When We Can't Separate

  Palingenesis brings the Rat King phenomenon to Dancehouse — four years of choreography exploring what binds us when everything pulls us apart.

  9 October 2026

• Queensland will pay you $20k to uncover queer history nobody's written yet

  The State Library's Rainbow Research Fellowship funds a year of archival work, and applications close 15 October.

  6 October 2026

• South Australia finally gets its own professional musical theatre company

  Full Circle Theatre Co launches with paid contracts, career pathways and a debut production — because Adelaide artists shouldn't have to leave to work.

  5 October 2026

• Perth's Proud Awards handed out trophies, shade, and one very tall hairdo

  Moesha, Holden Sheppard and a 30-year-old sauna took home awards, Hannah Conda hosted, and some things probably didn't need saying on stage.

  2 October 2026

• Archbishop wants $100k queer arts grant pulled. Catholic schools got $749 million.

  Anthony Fisher says Divine Playhouse mocks his faith, while the institutions he leads can still legally sack queer teachers.

  1 October 2026

• Melbourne Fringe opens with 500+ shows and the door held wide

  Victoria's longest-running multi-arts festival is back for its 43rd year, platforming queer storytellers alongside First Nations, disabled and emerging artists across three weeks.

  29 September 2026

• Vittorio Angelone adds third Melbourne show after selling out two he denies doing

  The comedian who insists he has nothing to do with stand-up just moved three thousand tickets across Australia.

  22 September 2026

• Australia's first trans theatre festival is here, and it's not messing around

  Four major works, two symposiums, and a month of unapologetically trans storytelling across Sydney and Melbourne.

  20 September 2026

• Mitch Brown spits Gatorade into a pop star's mouth and calls out the AFL

  The league's first publicly bi player stars in a queer footy video with Ian Roberts, and says the code still won't let players come out.

  18 September 2026

• 1880: when one conference banned sign language

  Irene Holub and Walter Kadiki's world-premiere commission revisits the decision that suppressed Deaf language and culture for generations.

  18 September 2026

• Bob Mackie, the designer who taught drag queens how to walk, dies at 87

  The Sultan of Sequins dressed Cher, Elton, Carol Burnett and generations of queens who learned glamour from watching television.

  14 September 2026

• Macy Gray's Melbourne show threatened by Arts Centre strike over pay

  Several hundred workers will walk off the job for 24 hours on Friday after rejecting a 3 per cent pay offer they say is below inflation.

  8 September 2026

• Reuben Kaye to Host Honour Awards 2026—Filth Meets Community Service

  NSW's premier LGBTQ+ awards ceremony has booked its most provocative host yet, and the combination of Kaye's razor-sharp cabaret and sincere community recognition might be exactly what the night needs.

  5 September 2026

• Mardi Gras Film Festival returns with Wachowskis, Quentin Crisp and sold-out sapphic cinema

  Six days, thirty years of Bound, and Joan Chen discovering herself later in life.

  3 September 2026

• Tony Albert's bold reclamation of Aboriginalia at MCA

  Artist Tony Albert transforms kitsch memorabilia into a powerful celebration of First Nations culture.

  1 September 2026

• Cinderella leaps back to life after 47 years

  The Australian Ballet's 2027 season brings back a beloved classic.

  1 September 2026