Hannah Gadsby Tour 2026

Inside Hannah Gadsby

Hannah Gadsby is the Tasmanian-born stand-up comedian, author, and former art-history graduate whose 2018 Netflix hour Nanette did more to reshape the form of stand-up comedy in a single special than almost any other touring comic of the last twenty years — and whose touring career since has refused to be defined by that one hour. By the time Nanette arrived on Netflix in June 2018, Gadsby had already spent more than a decade grinding the Australian comedy-festival circuit, winning the national Raw Comedy competition in 2006, picking up the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Best Newcomer award the following year, and writing and presenting the ABC art-history series Hannah Gadsby's Oz and the National Gallery of Australia lecture-tour Renaissance Woman before the international audience knew her name.

By the time the follow-up Douglas reached Netflix in 2020, she was selling out theaters across North America, the UK, Ireland, Europe, and Australasia at a scale most Australian stand-ups never reach. By the time Body of Work landed on Netflix in 2023 and Woof!

It's Hannah Gadsby followed in 2024, her touring schedule was a steady annual cycle of theater-tier dates across Sydney, Melbourne, London, Dublin, Edinburgh, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver — and her memoir Ten Steps to Nanette, published in 2022, had become a New York Times bestseller. This page is the catchmovement hub for Hannah Gadsby tour dates, ticket links, and city-by-city venue notes for every market where she runs theater or concert-hall-tier shows — Sydney Opera House and State Theatre stops, Melbourne Athenaeum and Hamer Hall residency-style runs, London Palladium and Hammersmith Apollo dates, the Dublin Vicar Street and Bord Gáis Energy Theatre tier, New York theater bookings, the rotating North American leg, and the Edinburgh Fringe heritage that anchors her career.

The live schedule above pulls real on-sale dates; the blocks below explain what the room actually feels like, how the show is written, and how the ticketing pattern works.

About Hannah Gadsby

Hannah Gadsby was born January 12, 1978 in Smithton, on the rural north-west coast of Tasmania, the youngest of five children in a working-class family in a deeply conservative regional community — a setting Gadsby has returned to in the act for two decades because homosexuality was a criminal offence in Tasmania until 1997, when she was nineteen, a fact that anchors a significant portion of the writing on Nanette and Ten Steps to Nanette. She studied art history and curatorship at the Australian National University in Canberra, completing a degree in the field in 2003, before drifting through a series of low-paid jobs across regional Australia in her twenties — bookshop, cinema projectionist, farmhand — while undiagnosed autism and ADHD shaped a working life she has since described in detail across the act and the memoir.

Stand-up came almost by accident: in 2006, on a dare from a friend, she entered the Raw Comedy national amateur competition and won it the same year, an unusually fast path from first open mic to national title. Within a year she had taken Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and joined the Australian touring circuit full-time.

The early years were club and theater dates across the Australian and UK festival circuits — Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre in London, the New Zealand and Adelaide festivals — alongside television work in Australia: the sketch series Adam Hills Tonight, the panel show Please Like Me with Josh Thomas (in which she also acted across four seasons), and the ABC art-history series Hannah Gadsby's Oz and Hannah Gadsby's Nakedy Nudes, both of which she wrote and presented and which drew on her ANU training. The pivot came with Nanette, first performed at the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe that August, where it won both the Melbourne Festival's Barry Award and the Edinburgh Comedy Award for best show.

A filmed taping at the Sydney Opera House landed on Netflix in June 2018 and made Gadsby the most-discussed stand-up in the world for the rest of that calendar year — the special's structural argument (that comedy's self-deprecating reflex had cost her, as a queer woman, more than it was worth, and that she would no longer trade the trauma for the laugh) became a reference point inside and outside the comedy industry. The Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special followed in 2019, along with a Peabody Award.

Douglas, the deliberate stylistic counterweight, debuted live in 2019 and landed on Netflix in 2020; the act traded the Nanette structural argument for autism-anchored visual-art lectures, dog-park observational material, and a wry meta opening that told the audience exactly what jokes were coming next. Body of Work arrived on Netflix in 2023 as a marriage-and-domestic-life hour built around her wife Jenney Shamash, and Woof!

It's Hannah Gadsby followed on Netflix in 2024. Alongside the touring, she curated the 2021 Brooklyn Museum exhibition It's Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby and published Ten Steps to Nanette in 2022, a memoir that hit the New York Times bestseller list.

The voice on stage is dry, structurally rigorous, lecture-room precise, queer in framing rather than punchline, and built on a refusal to separate the comic from the curator — a stand-up who treats the hour as an essay you laugh through rather than a string of bits.

Hannah Gadsby tour dates

Gadsby tours on a theater pattern that has been remarkably stable across the post-Nanette era. The standard venue tier is the 1,200-to-3,000-seat heritage theater or concert hall — Sydney's State Theatre and the Opera House Concert Hall, Melbourne's Hamer Hall and Athenaeum Theatre, London's Hammersmith Apollo and the London Palladium, Dublin's Vicar Street and Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, New York's Town Hall and the Beacon Theatre, Los Angeles' Wiltern, Toronto's Massey Hall, and Vancouver's Vogue Theatre or Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Arena dates are not part of the Gadsby pattern — the writing depends on a room small enough to read the back row, and on the kind of acoustic clarity that arena PA cannot match. A typical headline show runs seventy to ninety minutes of stand-up without an opener, with a structurally tight script the audience tracks like a lecture; Gadsby's shows are written as essays, not strung-together bits, and the run-of-show reflects that.

New material legs (the Woof! It's Hannah Gadsby cycle and any follow-up hour Gadsby tours into the 2026 calendar) tend to run multi-night residency-style bookings in the home markets — the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Hamer Hall blocks are usually three-to-five-night residencies rather than one-offs — and shorter visits to the international stops.

The live schedule above pulls directly from the on-sale feed, so once a leg is announced the city, venue, date, and ticketing link appear here automatically. Until then, the city blocks below describe the venues you should expect when a leg is announced.

Hannah Gadsby tickets

Tickets for Hannah Gadsby tour dates go on sale through Ticketmaster, Ticketek (Australia), Ticketmaster UK, MCD and Ticketmaster Ireland, AXS, and the relevant venue box offices depending on the building — the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Arts Centre sell direct through their own box offices alongside the Ticketek and Ticketmaster feeds. Presale registration through Gadsby's official email list and venue presale lists is the standard primary-market path on theater-tier dates; the presale window runs a day or two before the public on-sale and typically clears the centre-orchestra and front-mezzanine inventory.

Theater pricing on the recent Gadsby cycles has landed in the AUD $90–$160 band for most Australian dates, GBP £40–£90 for the London and UK leg, EUR €45–€95 for Dublin and continental Europe, and USD $60–$160 for the North American stops, with hometown Sydney and Melbourne residency nights and London Palladium dates pricing toward the top of the band. Secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, Viagogo, and the Ticketmaster resale platform is meaningfully thinner than the comparable Matt Rife or Andrew Schulz dates — the Gadsby audience tends to buy on the on-sale window and hold rather than flip — but secondary listings still appear, particularly in the final week before residency-style runs in Sydney, Melbourne, and London.

There is no published Verified Fan or surge-pricing program on the Gadsby route as of the current schedule; pricing is set at on-sale and held through the run-up to the show. VIP and meet-and-greet packages, when offered on a given leg, clear on the presale window and rarely re-list on the secondary market.

Hannah Gadsby setlist

There is no fixed Hannah Gadsby setlist in the way a music tour has a setlist — the show is a written hour, not a bit-rotation, and each tour is a single long-form essay with its own arc. The current touring hour, Woof!

It's Hannah Gadsby, is the most recent material on the route as of the schedule above; it ran live through 2024 and on into the international leg, and it landed on Netflix in 2024 as the fourth filmed special after Nanette, Douglas, and Body of Work. Recurring themes anyone who has tracked Gadsby's writing for two decades will recognise: growing up queer in 1980s and 1990s Tasmania, the late-life diagnoses of autism and ADHD and the way the diagnoses retroactively recoded earlier work, art history as a working tool (the Douglas hour walks through actual paintings, with slides; Nanette opens with a long Renaissance riff on Vincent van Gogh and Caravaggio), marriage and domestic life with her wife and producer Jenney Shamash (the Body of Work hour leaned heavily into this), and a precise structural argument about what stand-up comedy is and what it costs to perform.

The 2018 Nanette hour is still the cultural reference point and remains on Netflix as the canonical entry into the writing. Douglas, Body of Work, and Woof!

It's Hannah Gadsby are the three follow-up specials that map the post-Nanette voice. Because each tour is a written hour rather than a rotation, the order does not change night to night within the same leg — what shifts is the read of the room and the timing of the laugh lines, not the script.

Hannah Gadsby meet and greet

Hannah Gadsby meet-and-greet availability is not a permanent feature of every date on the route, and the touring pattern leans toward the show as a self-contained essay rather than a fan-interaction event. On legs where a VIP package has been offered, it has usually been sold through the venue's primary partner alongside the general on-sale and has cleared in the presale window — most often as a premium-seat-plus-signed-book or premium-seat-plus-photo tier rather than a formal handshake-line greet.

The Ten Steps to Nanette book tour cycle in 2022 ran some signing-line events at independent bookstores tied to the theater dates — those events were free with book purchase and announced separately from the stand-up on-sales — but signing lines are not a standard inclusion on the stand-up route. There is no published industry-standard post-show stage-door meet on the Gadsby tour.

The most reliable path for fans hoping for face time with Hannah Gadsby is the official email list and venue presale list, which get the first window on any VIP allotment when one is offered for a given leg. Confirm specific VIP inclusions on the ticket page before purchase — exact package contents vary by city and venue, and not every date on a leg includes a VIP tier.

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