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

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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I Hope This Means Something

I Hope This Means Something

By Jennifer Beasley Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright In the forest of the night  (William Blake)  I Hope This Means Something is the quest that Writer/Performer/Producer Patrick Livesey’s character, Corinthian, sets out to answer. A brilliantly written one-act play, this...

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Instructions Not Included

Instructions Not Included

By Anna Hayes The concept of the ‘tortured artist’ takes on a very contemporary twist in Claire Frost’s debut play ‘Instructions Not Included’, a nifty two-hander that explores the connections between creativity and consumerism. Parker (Sarah Clarke) is a struggling...

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Pride and Prejudice – An Adaptation in Words & Music

Pride and Prejudice – An Adaptation in Words & Music

By David Gardette Establishing itself as one of the greatest romance novels ever written, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice continues to captivate readers and audiences. Published in 1813, its popularity continues to grow, selling over 20 million copies, never going...

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Silvers Circus

Silvers Circus

By Chenoah Eljan  Silvers Circus has set up its big top in the parking lot of Burvale Hotel, Nunawading. Billed as a modern circus with a ‘twist’, it’s a safe bet the modern part means that the animal cruelty has been replaced by acrobatics and the twist means… more...

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Bad Boy

Bad Boy

By Karyn Hodgkinson There has been a long history of gender violence in Australia. For much of the 19th century, men far outnumbered women (in) the Australian colonies. This produced a culture that prized hyper masculinity as a national ideal. (The Conversation, July...

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Bite Club: 2nd Serve ~ Briefs Factory International & Sahara Beck

Bite Club: 2nd Serve ~ Briefs Factory International & Sahara Beck

 By Mama Natalia For almost as long as burlesque and drag revival artists have graced stages in Australia and beyond, there has been Briefs. Whispered about in awe within backstage dressing rooms for almost two decades, casually mentioned as the ‘who’s who’ of fringe...

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Macbeth

Macbeth

By Jennifer Beasley Mayhem. Murder. Madness. These are the tenets of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Presented by MUST (Monash University Student Theatre) at The Alexander Theatre located at Monash University, this bold production snaps open with a silent slow-motion fight...

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Features

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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Patrick Livesey back at their happy place

Recipient of 11 Fringe Festival Awards, Patrick Livesey returns to the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2024 with his urgent and confronting new solo work, I hope this means something.  I hope this means something is a story of isolation, sacrifice, and the climate crisis...

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Carousel: an almost perfect musical

Carousel: an almost perfect musical

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II are, without doubt, one of the greatest partnerships in the history of musical theatre. Rodgers and Hammerstein redefined the genre with their much-loved and ground-breaking classics such as Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King...

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The excitement, drama and hilarity that is Cirque Bon Bon

The excitement, drama and hilarity that is Cirque Bon Bon

 Hot on the heels of its sell-out run in Brisbane and Melbourne, Cirque Bon Bon’s all-star cast of contortionists, acrobats and dancers is set to embark on an Australian tour later this month. The brainchild of former Cirque Du Soleil Assistant Creative Director Ash...

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News

Musicians wanted for Hadestown

Musicians wanted for Hadestown

  FINAL CALL!   Musicians wanted for Broadway smash-hit musical Hadestown Sydney season    Calling Sydney musicians! Can you play for the Gods?     The highly anticipated Broadway smash-hit musical Hadestown, opening in Sydney in February 2025, is...

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Nikki Shiels stars in SUNDAY at Sydney Opera House

Nikki Shiels stars in SUNDAY at Sydney Opera House

The incandescent Nikki Shiels (Belvoir’s My Brilliant Career, STC’s The Picture of Dorian Gray) returns to STC this month in Sunday, Melbourne Theatre Company’s acclaimed ode to iconic arts philanthropist Sunday Reed – the mentor and muse to artists of Australia’s...

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Yoga Play at Riverside Theatres Parramatta

Yoga Play at Riverside Theatres Parramatta

National Theatre of Parramatta in collaboration with La Boite Theatre are thrilled to present the Australian Premiere of Dipika Guha’s Yoga Play, a tale of downward dog and downward profits, at Riverside Theatres Parramatta from the 17th October. A razor-sharp comedy...

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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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