Australia’s Ainsley Melham on Broadway!

Australia’s Ainsley Melham on Broadway!

  BOOP! The Musical  BOOP! Arrives on Broadway in 112 Days!  Performances Begin March 11, 2025 Official Opening April 5, 2025   Broadhurst Theatre   Starring Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop Ainsley Melham Stephen DeRosa, Anastacia McCleskey Angelica Hale,...

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Guys and Dolls Cast announced

Guys and Dolls Cast announced

Cody Simpson set to make huge splash starring in Guys & Dolls musical on Sydney Harbour   Opera Australia today announced that pop star and champion swimmer Cody Simpson will make a spectacular return to the stage in 2025, making his Australian musical...

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Comedy on the Rocks

Comedy on the Rocks

Comedy On The Rocks, a theatre drinking game! Returning after sold out shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which audiences called “A must see of the festival” and “Comedy Pandemonium”, get ready to chuckle and chortle your way through 6 new short...

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Riverside Theatres – The Box Show

Riverside Theatres – The Box Show

Riverside Theatres is excited to present The Box Show by Junkyard Beats at the Riverside Theatres from the 21st to 23rd January 2025. Step into a world where household items become extraordinary instruments and discarded junk springs to life! The Box Show is a...

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Upending power dynamics

Upending power dynamics

APHIDS Co-Artistic Director, Lara Thoms joins forces with artists and performers Sammaneh Pourshafighi and Eden Falk to return to Arts House with the premiere of EDGING. EDGING is a performance piece that interrogates how queerness, popular culture and border control...

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MJ cast announced

MJ cast announced

  AUSTRALIAN CAST OF BROADWAY SENSATION MJ REVEALED AHEAD OF FEBRUARY PREMIERE   BOOK BY TWO-TIME PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING WRITER LYNN NOTTAGE, DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY ACCLAIMED HIT MAKER CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON OBE “DELIVERS THE THRILLS”  The New York...

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The Heartbreak Choir at Ensemble Theatre

The Heartbreak Choir at Ensemble Theatre

Ensemble Theatre is thrilled to present Aidan Fennessy’s The Heartbreak Choir, a joyous love song to community and friendship, on from 29th November 2024 – 12th January 2025. Audience favourites Valerie Bader (Suddenly Last Summer), Nancy Denis (Clyde’s), and Jay...

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Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out Live!

Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out Live!

Peppa Pig is back touring Australia for the first time since 2018 in her oinktastic stage show, Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out LIVE!  Having enjoyed sell-out success with past tours in Australia, the all-new Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out LIVE! looks set for a triumphant Australian...

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2025 theatre program announcement!

2025 theatre program announcement!

fortyfivedownstairs is thrilled to announce the January-June 2025 theatre program featuring nine seasons presented by an outstanding lineup of theatremakers and musicians. Thirty-Six by Jo Clifford and Bayley Turner                  21 January – 2 February So there’s...

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Melbourne Shakespeare Company Dec 2024

Melbourne Shakespeare Company Dec 2024

This summer, Melbourne Shakespeare Company returns to the Rose Garden at the St Kilda Botanical Gardens to present a dazzling musical reimagining of Shakespeare’s timeless comedy Twelfth Night. Breathing new life into this classic tale, the production is infused with...

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The Play That Goes Wrong to return to Australia

The Play That Goes Wrong to return to Australia

After nearly eight years, it’s time for audiences old and new to be rolling in the aisles as The Cornley Drama Society attempts to stage a 1920s murder mystery where everything goes hilariously wrong, The Play That Goes Wrong, touring Australia in August – September...

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS – EXCLUSIVE SYDNEY SEASON

WUTHERING HEIGHTS – EXCLUSIVE SYDNEY SEASON

Emma Rice's critically acclaimed production of Wuthering Heights will play an exclusive and limited season in Sydney in 2025.  A co-production with Wise Children, the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and York Theatre Royal, this adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic...

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A (Very) Musical Christmas

A (Very) Musical Christmas

MICHAEL CASSEL GROUP PRESENTS A (VERY) MUSICAL CHRISTMAS: AN ENCHANTING CELEBRATION TO DAZZLE AUDIENCES THIS CHRISTMAS BRAND NEW TELEVISED FESTIVE CELEBRATION TO BE FILMED BEFORE A LIVE AUDIENCE AND BROADCAST NATIONALLY ON ABC . The festive season is about to get an...

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Peter and the Starcatcher flies into Melbourne

Peter and the Starcatcher flies into Melbourne

The star-studded ensemble cast of Peter and the Starcatcher are flying into Melbourne, following a sensational premiere season at Canberra Theatre Centre. This hilarious swashbuckling prequel to Peter Pan will begin performances at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse on...

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Some Enchanted Evening

Some Enchanted Evening

SOME ENCHANTED EVENING   A CELEBRATION OF MUSICAL THEATRE STARRING   ALINTA CHIDZEY, CAROLINE O’CONNOR, MARK VINCENT   WITH THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 21 – 25 MAY 2025 LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 10AM   It was announced...

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Elf The Musical cast announced

Elf The Musical cast announced

    The cast for the Australian premiere season of Elf: The Musical has been found. After a journey through the seven levels of the Candy Cane Forest and past the sea of twirly-swirly gum drops, they will reach the Opera House to open on 19 December.  ...

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Perth Festival 2025 Program Announcement

Perth Festival 2025 Program Announcement

Perth Festival today announced its full 2025 program, with new Artistic Director Anna Reece, inviting Perth audiences and visitors to taste the salty air, feel the sand dunes beneath their feet, be challenged by truth-tellers and play with mischief-makers. Running for...

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National Institute of Circus Arts presents MUSE

National Institute of Circus Arts presents MUSE

The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is delighted to present their graduate showcase, titled MUSE. Curated by Tegan Carmichael. Devised by NICA’s third-year students, with Artistic Consultancy by Alonso Pineda, Emma Pursey, and Donna Dunmire, showing 4 – 7...

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SUNDAY season extended to 14 December

SUNDAY season extended to 14 December

Sydney Theatre Company’s season of Sunday, Melbourne Theatre Company’s acclaimed ode to iconic arts philanthropist Sunday Reed, has been extended until 14 December following a rapturous opening night at Sydney Opera House last Friday. Five additional performances are...

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Bangarra Dance Theatre’s 2025 National Tour

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s 2025 National Tour

In 2025, Australia’s leading Indigenous performing arts company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, will present the world premiere of their first-ever visual arts collaboration, Illume, an exciting new presentation from Mirning woman and Bangarra artistic director, Frances...

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Adelaide Festival announces 2025 program

Adelaide Festival announces 2025 program

65 events, 11 world premieres, 9 Australian premieres and 15 exclusives Adelaide Festival proudly announces its 40th program, promising a suite of international and Australian productions and artists which will further enhance its 65-year reputation as Australia’s...

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ILARUN: The Cutting Comb

ILARUN: The Cutting Comb

Two of Melbourne’s leading Black theatre-makers, Jamaican/Australian writer/performer and Besen Emerging Writers recipient Amarantha Robinson (Oshun, La Mama) and Ghanaian/Australian director Effie Nkrumah (Who No Know Go Know, Malthouse), come together to create...

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Bullet Heart Club presents  THE HALL

Bullet Heart Club presents THE HALL

Why is there a stack of The Sacred Harp, 1991 Editions in the toilet? Tup lived and breathed every hymn on every page of her Sacred Harp book. At a mass sing, she couldn’t be outsung. These days, Tup struggles to button up her cardy and put names to faces, she is in...

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Belvoir St Theatre – August: Osage County

Belvoir St Theatre – August: Osage County

Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 2007. Charismatic poet-patriarch Beverly Weston has gone – where, nobody knows. His wife Violet careers downhill into opiate addiction, and the three daughters dutifully return to their childhood home, spouses, children and unfinished business...

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Zaffé – a wedding party like no other

Zaffé – a wedding party like no other

Everyone is invited to Zaffé – it’s a Middle Eastern wedding party with dancing, ululation, wedding games, gossip and long-distance video calls, but something is missing. An award-winning immersive theatre celebration, Zaffé will transform the North Melbourne Town...

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WICKED cast announced for Perth

WICKED cast announced for Perth

  PERTH CAST ANNOUNCED WITH FINAL PERFORMANCES ON SALE THIS WEEK   As WICKED celebrates its 21st anniversary of the Broadway opening on Wednesday 30 October with National WICKED Day, an extra final week of performances up until 2 February 2025 has been...

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Book of Mormon cast announced

Book of Mormon cast announced

    CAST ANNOUNCED FOR THE BOOK OF MORMON IN SYDNEY   “THE BEST MUSICAL OF THIS CENTURY. Heaven on Broadway! A celebration of that improbable paradise called a musical comedy.”  THE NEW YORK TIMES   Producers of the Tony®, Olivier®, and Grammy®...

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Blanc de Blanc: Encore

Blanc de Blanc: Encore

Global powerhouse production house Strut & Fret are thrilled to bring their 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, extravagantly-extra...

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GOLDEN BLOOD WITH MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY

GOLDEN BLOOD WITH MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY

Golden Blood, a fast-paced family drama set in Singapore’s criminal underworld, begins previews at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio from Friday 25th October. After two celebrated seasons in Sydney, which heralded playwright and actor Merlynn Tong as a major new...

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Hamilton Ultimate Offer

Hamilton Ultimate Offer

  To celebrate the triumphant final Australian season of HAMILTON, producers will be launching a very special, limited time offer, starting at 11am AEDT Monday 28 October. This one’s especially for all the #Hamilfans who may just need to SEE IT ONE LAST TIME!...

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CHRISTMAS ACTUALLY

CHRISTMAS ACTUALLY

  The music of Love Actually live onstage   “Love Actually fans will absolutely eat it up but even non-fans will find this show hard to resist.” - ★★★★★ Time Out   This holiday season, enjoy your favourite festive soundtrack live with four powerhouse vocalists, an...

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ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER

ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER

    A new Australian musical featuring Keanu Gonzalez, Ashleigh Rubenach, Lorinda May Merrypor, Des Flanagan and Yashith Fernando   While there has been rumours that multiple gay players exist, there is no openly gay player - past or present - in the men's AFL. A new...

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The Boys in the Band to premiere in Melbourne

The Boys in the Band to premiere in Melbourne

THE BOYS IN THE BAND [PLAY] Exclusive to Melbourne   James Terry Collective has announced it will premiere the Broadway revival of The Boys in the Band, written by Mart Crowley.   “Wildly entertaining. By turns vicious, lacerating and bitingly funny” – The...

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Lost Property –   An Independent Theatre Production

Lost Property – An Independent Theatre Production

On November 20th- 23rd, North Melbourne’s Club Voltaire will host the independent one woman show, Lost Property, starring Amelia Dunn and directed by Tuia Suter. The show explores themes of female solidarity, guilt, shame and self worth as the protagonist, Alice, is...

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Christine Anu to star in Hadestown

Christine Anu to star in Hadestown

  WINNER OF EIGHT TONY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE AND BEST DIRECTOR   WINNER OF GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL THEATRE ALBUM     One of Australia’s most popular performers Christine Anu will lead a dynamic cast of multi-talented opera and musical...

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Asia TOPA returns in 2025

Asia TOPA returns in 2025

Following a five-year hiatus, Australia’s leading triennial festival of Asia-Pacific contemporary performance, Asia TOPA (Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts) returns from 20 February - 10 March 2025 with a city-wide celebration of world-class international and...

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The Three Little Pigs opens in December

The Three Little Pigs opens in December

New commercial musical theatre company AG Theatre is thrilled to launch their first season with a new production of The Three Little Pigs, playing at the historic 783-seat National Theatre Melbourne from 18 December. The 50-minute children’s musical is written by...

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My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career

Sybylla Melvyn is finding her voice. Growing up in the 90s – the 1890s, that is – life doesn’t throw a lot of options at a girl. But life didn’t reckon on Sybylla. Forced to choose between romance and her own genius, her family and a future she defines, she’s decided...

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Les Miserables Arena Spectacular

Les Miserables Arena Spectacular

AUSTRALIAN DATES CONFIRMED FOR THE WORLD TOUR OF LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR FOLLOWING SOLD OUT DATES IN THE UK AND EUROPE AS THE LONDON PRODUCTION ENTERS ITS 40th RECORD-BREAKING YEAR SHARING THE LEAD ROLES ALFIE BOE & KILLIAN DONNELLY AS JEAN VALJEAN...

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Front Row podcast relaunches

Front Row podcast relaunches

MICHAEL CASSEL GROUP PUTS YOU IN THE FRONT ROW WITH NEW PODCAST SERIES . The Front Row relaunches, putting listeners in the best seats in the house for intimate conversations with stars of Australian theatre. . . Michael Cassel Group is thrilled to announce the...

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CATS returns to Sydney

CATS returns to Sydney

  CATS RETURNS TO ITS ORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN HOME AFTER 40 YEARS LET THE MEMORY LIVE AGAIN   On 27 July 1985, a ground-breaking musical production had its Australian Premiere at Theatre Royal Sydney, heralding an era of the British “mega-musical” in Australia....

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Eddie Perfect to star as Beetlejuice!

Eddie Perfect to star as Beetlejuice!

  EDDIE PERFECT TO GIVE MELBOURNE THE FRIGHT OF ITS LIFE AS BEETLEJUICE IN AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE OF BROADWAY SMASH  ICONIC AUSTRALIAN PERFORMER TO STAR IN STRANGE AND UNUSUAL MUSICAL HE CREATED After earning a Tony Award nomination for the music and lyrics he wrote...

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Lord Of The Rings cast announced

Lord Of The Rings cast announced

‘The most exhilarating and immersive musical iteration of Middle-earth yet’ – NZ Herald   THEATRE ROYALTY JEMMA RIX, STEFANIE CACCAMO AND ROB MALLETT STAR IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS - A MUSICAL TALE MELBOURNE AND PERTH SEASONS CONFIRMED   State Theatre, Sydney - From 7...

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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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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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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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SUNDAY season extended to 14 December

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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Griffin Theatre Company Unveils 2025 Season

Griffin Theatre Company Unveils 2025 Season

Griffin Theatre Company is thrilled to announce its 2025 Season. Griffin’s first full year outside their beloved SBW Stables Theatre presents audiences with a collection of some of the best new Australian stories, including a work from the celebrated Alana Valentine,...

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Titanique now playing in Sydney

Titanique now playing in Sydney

  SPLASH HIT MUSICAL TITANIQUE DOCKS IN SYDNEY FOR MAIDEN VOYAGE IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS   EXCLUSIVE SYDNEY SEASON IS TITANIQUE’S FIRST PRODUCTION OUTSIDE NEW YORK   “TITANIQUE IS F*CKING GREAT.” Vulture “VERY FUNNY! A camp reimagining of the Titanic...

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Ensemble Theatre – McGuffin Park

Ensemble Theatre – McGuffin Park

In the small Australian town of McGuffin, the local council is thrown into disarray when the mayor suddenly resigns a week before the mid-term election, despite being a shoo-in to keep his seat. When a self-proclaimed ‘sovereign citizen’ with an anti-government agenda...

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HAYES THEATRE CO ANNOUNCE 2025 SEASON

HAYES THEATRE CO ANNOUNCE 2025 SEASON

HAYES THEATRE CO ANNOUNCE ELECTRIFYING 2025 SEASON     Artistic Directors of Hayes Theatre Co, Richard Carroll and Victoria Falconer, today announced seven exciting musicals, a new play with music and a Stephen Sondheim concert that will make up the 2025 program...

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Opera Australia Announces 2025 Melbourne Season

Opera Australia Announces 2025 Melbourne Season

Opera Australia (OA) today announced its 2025 program that will include three Melbourne premieres and mark the Company’s operatic debut in the Regent Theatre. The 2025 Melbourne program sees OA’s return to a traditional theatre setting to present three fully staged...

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ANNIE TO OPEN IN MELBOURNE

ANNIE TO OPEN IN MELBOURNE

  Anthony Warlow to reprise Broadway role of Daddy Warbucks     Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live today announced a Melbourne season of the ever-popular Broadway musical Annie which will premiere at the Princess Theatre from July 2025 following the...

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