Andrea James Lui on creating a Fringe show around a lesson plan, clown as an accident, and the small tight-knit village keeping The Pole Shebang upright. Lui brings The Pole Shebang, a coming-of-middle-age story about a nerdy pole teacher late to the biggest, glitziest stage in the land, to Erskineville Town Hall — Emerging Artist Share House for Sydney Fringe, 22–26 September.

The University of Sydney's Classics and Ancient History Society Gaius Gracchus staged three sold-out nights of a full-chorus Antigone from 1–2 May 2026 at the Chau Chak Wing Museum. The project was begun by James Collins II and Daisy Levell. This piece is drawn from written responses by four collaborators — composer-translator-chorister Thomas Henderson, lead choreographer Marcel Forrer, chorus leader Lauren Cleary, and Duncan Eddy-Soros (Creon) — plus an hour-long Zoom with Collins between Sydney and Montreal in July.