Top Ten Olympic Inspired Musicals

To celebrate the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympics, we’ve compiled our list of the Top Ten Olympic Inspired Musicals.

Top Ten Most Wanted Musicals

Here’s our Top Ten Most Wanted Musicals

Latest Reviews

Ada, Asmin & The Analytical Engine

Ada, Asmin & The Analytical Engine

By Chenoah Eljan Ada, Asmin & The Analytical Engine written by Sarah Kriegler and Deniz Aslan delves into the intertwined lives of two girls more alike than they are different: Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician often regarded as the first computer...

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Make ‘Em Laugh – The Untold Story of Donald O’Connor

Make ‘Em Laugh – The Untold Story of Donald O’Connor

By Nick Pilgrim If the name Donald O’Connor doesn’t immediately appear on your radar, fear not. It is that very premise which kick starts this delightful tribute into action now showing at the 2024 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Like Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland before...

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Pure Grime

Pure Grime

By Jennifer Beasley What happens when one genetically crosses Mr. Bean with Rik Mayall (The Young Ones, Bottom)? No, not that. Well, maybe. Em Barrett performs as a fly in this one-woman 60-minute show held at The Butterfly Club (the choice of the club in terms of...

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Come From Away – CLOC

Come From Away – CLOC

  As they celebrate their 60th year, CLOC's final production for the year is the Australian non-professional premiere of Come From Away.   Written by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away made its Australian professional debut at Melbourne's Comedy...

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By A Thread

By A Thread

By Nick Pilgrim  The Melbourne Fringe Festival runs each year for three dynamic and jam-packed weeks. Covering a multitude of live entertainment and social event options, this season has already proven it is bigger and stronger than ever. With hundreds of acts on...

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 Chasing Dick

 Chasing Dick

By Darby Turnbull Over the last few years in Naarm Dax Carnay and her company Tayo Tayo collective have established themselves as a forceful independent theatre practitioner known for her eye-catching titles and her heartfelt, witty queering of genre Trans woman kills...

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Skinship

Skinship

By Jennifer Beasley SKINSHIP (Japan, South Korea): Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones. (Wikipedia). Presented by Ensoul Entertainment, and produced by Samantha Daly, who is also one of...

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The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project

  In October 1998 Matthew Wayne Shepard was brutally attacked on the outskirts of his home town of Laramie in Wyoming, USA. Left for dead, and tied to a fence to ensure he was not able to escape, Mathew was miraculously discovered but succumbed to his horrific...

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I Love You, Faustus

I Love You, Faustus

By Jennifer Beasley BUILDING TRIANGLES Created by Unspooled Theatre Collective, I Love You, Faustus is a sixty-minute two-hander held at the oh-so-cute Explosives Factory for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Written by Laura Charlton and Sabina Donato, I Love You,...

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Features

MALTHOUSE THEATRE 2025 SEASON LAUNCH

MALTHOUSE THEATRE 2025 SEASON LAUNCH

By Jennifer Beasley Malthouse has announced its 2025 season, with seven bold interpretations and visionary theatre performances, it’s Malthouse’s most audacious season yet.  At the season launch for 2025, Matthew Lutten, artistic director and Co-CEO of Malthouse...

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Ben Graetz and TINA – A Tropical Love Story

Ben Graetz and TINA – A Tropical Love Story

Melt Festival is an annual open access festival of Queer art and culture premiering in Brisbane from 23 October to 10 November 2024 and featuring over 220 performances and events. One of those performances is TINA – A Tropical Love Story written, performed, and...

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Di Smith celebrates the beauty of life in Seventeen

Di Smith celebrates the beauty of life in Seventeen

WildThingProduction and the Seymour Centre are bringing the hilarious and nostalgic Australian play Seventeen back for a much-anticipated Sydney revival, showing at the Reginald Theatre from 27 September – 19 October. Joyful and profound, Matthew Whittet’s Seventeen...

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News

M.A.C releases WICKED collection

M.A.C releases WICKED collection

INTRODUCING M·A·C COSMETICS x WICKED LIMITED-EDITION COLLECTION A MYER EXCLUSIVE   The smash-hit Australian production of the Broadway blockbuster musical WICKED, currently captivating audiences in Brisbane and soon to tour to Perth, has collaborated with global...

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Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir’s ECHOES OF PRIDE

Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir’s ECHOES OF PRIDE

Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir (SGLC) is thrilled to present a celebration of diversity, resilience and the unifying power of music with their Echoes of Pride, at Petersham Town Hall on Saturday 26 October. Through a carefully curated selection of songs from over 10...

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Melbourne Fringe Festival rolls into its third and final week

Melbourne Fringe Festival rolls into its third and final week

Melbourne Fringe Festival enters its final week, serving up a multidisciplinary spread of arts and culture events throughout Melbourne. Running until 20 October, here are some of the shows not to be missed in the final throws of this year’s program: Finucane &...

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Competitions

Win a double pass to Phantom of the Opera – in cinema!

Win a double pass to Phantom of the Opera – in cinema!

Win a double pass to see The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall in cinemas from Thursday 31st October To enter simply email allison.hilbig@theatrematters.com.au with your name and why you want to win a double pass to see The Phantom of the Opera at the...

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