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

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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TOD Talks

TOD Talks

By Chenoah Eljan The Melbourne Fringe Festival has long been a hub for innovation, creativity, and cultural dialogue, and this year’s TOD Talks are no exception. Bringing together an eclectic mix of speakers and ideas, TOD Talks offers a unique platform for praxeology...

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The Ukulele Man – The Story of George Formby

The Ukulele Man – The Story of George Formby

By Nick Pilgrim When Theatre Matters recently asked its team of writers to cover the Melbourne Fringe Festival, this event is always a firm favourite in my yearly calendar. Jammed into three hectic yet dynamic weeks, there are hundreds of listings to consider. The...

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Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon

Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon

By Sarah Skubala Queensland Ballet has a triumph on its hands with the Australian premiere of Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon selling out its entire season ahead of opening night. A new, full-length narrative ballet, Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon is...

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This is The Dust We Are In

This is The Dust We Are In

By George Dixon Walking into the reception area at the Meat Market Stables, you will find scattered about on the walls and on display stands with assorted items (not artefacts) of nostalgic Australiana that bring back memories of the fifties and sixties, which sets up...

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Fountain Lakes In Lockdown – A Drag Parody Play

Fountain Lakes In Lockdown – A Drag Parody Play

By Nick Pilgrim The legendary screen actress, Bette Davis, is quoted as saying that once somebody does you in drag, you know you have made it as a legitimate star. Until the likes of RuPaul came along with his global reality series phenomenon, this cheeky subset of...

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Grease The Musical

Grease The Musical

Review by Lynn Jackson   Adelaide - Her Majesty's Theatre   Grease the Musical is one of those shows that every musical theatre fan has either performed, either in full or by performing one of the many many bangers in the soundtrack. It's also one of those...

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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

An Evening with Graham Norton

An Evening with Graham Norton

Irish comedian and TV legend, Graham Norton, is bringing his first-ever live tour to Melbourne in 2025. In An Evening with Graham Norton, the nine-time BAFTA TV Award winner will embark on a five-city tour of the country. Join Graham for an evening of entertainment to...

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PICA present Season 4 Kambarang-Birak program

PICA present Season 4 Kambarang-Birak program

The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) presents a multi-layered, multi-generational exploration of intimacy, desire, identity and time, across visual arts and contemporary performance by four esteemed artists: Paul Knight (AUS), Jack Ball (AUS), Shannon Te Ao...

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Blanc de Blanc Encore premieres at new Brisbane theatre

Blanc de Blanc Encore premieres at new Brisbane theatre

Global powerhouse production house Strut & Fret are thrilled to bring their infamous cheeky circus-cabaret, Blanc de Blanc Encore, to Brisbane’s bespoke new theatre and bar The West End Electric.  Premiering as party season hits, the titillating,...

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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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