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Darwin Festival celebrates a landmark year

Mon, Mar 23 2026

Darwin Festival celebrates a landmark year as Kate Fell prepares for her final season and search begins for next artistic director

Darwin Festival Wins Gold at Brolga Awards

Tue, Nov 18 2025

We’re thrilled to announce that Darwin Festival has taken home Gold in the Major Festivals & Events category at the prestigious Northern Territory Tourism Brolga Awards!

Arts Access for Every Student

Tue, Oct 14 2025

On Thursday 23 October, Darwin Festival is proud to take part in AusArt Day, the national Giving Day for the Arts, to raise funds for our transformative Schools Program.

Dive Deeper: The Mixed-Race Tape

Mon, Jul 28 2025

The Mixed-Race Tape isn’t just a hip hop theatre show, it’s a deeply personal, autobiographical performance that blends rap, spoken word, piano, archival footage, and intimate interviews. It’s about identity, heritage, and connection, told through the lens of one man’s life, as a son, husband, father, and artist.

Dive Deeper: Crown and Country

Mon, Jul 28 2025

Jerry Jangala Patrick OAM was just a boy when he first encountered white people. Now, he and his son, Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu, invite us into Warlpiri Country with the world premiere of Crown and Country.

Dive Deeper: Buffalo Country

Mon, Jul 28 2025

Get ready for an epic, wall-to-wall musical journey, as Buffalo Country promises to be three hours of pure power celebrating a truly classic NT album. With full length sets by country music icons Shane Nicholson and Sara Storer as well as David Garnham & The Reasons to Live and featuring special guests The Choir of Man, Gleny Rae Virus and Sally Balfour, Buffalo Country is an all-star tribute to a Top End country music icon

Dive Deeper: Night Night

Mon, Jul 28 2025

Since launching in 2013, The Last Great Hunt has carved out a distinctive space in the Australian theatre landscape, with a bold commitment to making new work. Over the past decade, they’ve created 37 new works, presented over 100 seasons, and racked up more than 2000 performances. Now they are bringing their work Night Night to Darwin Festival, a production that explores themes of life, death, and other dimensions, centred around a scientist’s quest in Antarctica.

Dive Deeper: Helios & Orpheus

Mon, Jul 28 2025

Join internationally renowned Wright & Grainger in the Brown’s Mart Studio for Helios and Orpheus, a modern-day retelling of these Ancient Greek tales through intimate storytelling and soulful music.

Explosive Territory Day Offers!

Tue, Jul 1 2025

This is your chance to snap up seats to the shows that’ll set your August alight

Guy Sebastian and L.A.B. To open Darwin Festival at stunning waterfront venue

Thu, May 22 2025

Guy Sebastian and L.A.B. To open Darwin Festival at stunning waterfront venue

The Spiegeltent returns to Sitzler Festival Lawn!

Mon, May 12 2025

Prepare to be seduced by the world’s very best variety artists.

Darwin Festival announces biggest ever ‘Taste of Darwin’ foodie program

Mon, May 12 2025

This year’s Darwin Festival (7–24 August) will feature its biggest Taste of Darwin program ever, the return of legendary NT chef Jimmy Shu’s Hanuman restaurant after four years, and the festival debut of the city’s hottest new eatery, Flora’s Temper Mexicantina.