David Sedaris to tour Australia in January 2027, featuring newly released collection The Land and Its People

The critically acclaimed author, humourist and master of satire returns to tour Australia and New Zealand in January 2027

A savant of razor-sharp and sardonic wit, an evening with David Sedaris is better than therapy, a life affirming joyful experience that leaves a person feeling as if their cup has been filled right to the brim by one of the world’s pre-eminent humour writers.

 

 

Fresh from ecstatic reviews of his recently published collection The Land and Its People, audiences can expect brand new essays and freshly minted diary entries read live from the stage, a candid audience Q&A, and an extended book signing that – true to form – will run as long as it needs to.

Commencing in the nation’s capital on Thursday 14 January at the Canberra Theatre Centre, Sedaris then tours to the Regal Theatre in Perth on Friday 15 January, Norwood Concert Hall in Adelaide on Saturday 16 January, Theatre Royal in Hobart on Sunday 17 January, Sydney Opera House on Monday 18 January, Brisbane Powerhouse on Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 January, and Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 January, before concluding the tour in St James Theatre in Wellington on Wednesday 27 January and Auckland Town Hall on Thursday 28 January.

 

 

In The Land and Its People, his first new essay collection since Happy-Go-Lucky, Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, and a lifelong friend – trying on the role of caretaker after his partner Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery. Equal parts tender and devastating, it’s classic Sedaris: the kind of writing that makes you laugh until you feel guilty, then laugh again anyway.

[Sedaris] knits the present to the past so that they become the same thing; for him being alive has always been strange and atrocious, contradictory, unfair and hilarious.” New York Times Book Review

It’s classic Sedaris: sharp, shameless, and strangely tender.” Oprah Daily

To see Sedaris live is pure joy. To watch this bookish, culotte-evangelising man read his life’s work on stage is word-nerd heaven, best topped off by spending three minutes with his full attention at the book-signing table after a show.” The Saturday Paper

And Sedaris himself? He knows exactly why he keeps coming back. “I love the airports of Australia. Security wise, they’re like stepping into a time machine and coming out in 1975. No one yells at you, you get to keep your shoes on. It’s heaven.

Sedaris is the God of the comic essay… Sedaris’s only rule: be funny or perish.” Lena Dunham

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