DATE: Sunday 8 February 2026
TIMES:
2PM - Sold Out
6PM - Sold Out
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VENUE: St George's Performing Arts Centre - St Michael's Grammar School - 25 Chapel Street, St Kilda
After years of friendship and a shared obsession with architecture and design, Kevin McCloud and Tim Ross are taking their banter and big ideas on the road - and, true to form, they’re doing it in some very interesting places.
From a Brutalist theatre to a reimagined heritage-listed church and one of Australia’s most loved public buildings, Live in Interesting Places brings together two great talkers and thinkers for an evening of stories, laughter, and design-fuelled inspiration.
It’s the first time they’ve shared a stage since their two sold-out shows at the Sydney Opera House in 2019, a collaboration rekindled with the release of their hit podcast Tim & Kev’s Big Design Adventure.
“It’s going to be entertaining and edifying,” promises Kevin.
“And full of surprises – you won’t believe where our nerdy curiosity will take you,” adds Tim.
Tickets for this very special live experience are strictly limited, please book now to avoid missing out.
St George’s Performing Arts Centre
In the heart of St Kilda, the St George’s Performing Arts Centre at St Michael’s Grammar School is a breathtaking study in architectural adaptation. Once the 19th-century St George’s Uniting Church, a sandstone Gothic landmark completed in 1877, the building has been reimagined into a world-class performing arts venue that celebrates both its past and future.
The design team at Kneeler Design Architects approached the transformation with reverence, preserving the church’s soaring timber vaults, stained-glass windows and intricate masonry, while seamlessly introducing contemporary interventions. The project honours the craftsmanship of its original builders while embedding new layers of meaning, turning a place of worship into a place of creative expression. In doing so, St George’s stands as one of the city’s most elegant examples of adaptive reuse, where architecture itself performs.
This show is presented in partnership with St Michael's Grammar School.
