SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL ACTS ANNOUNCED
The Sydney Comedy Festival is thrilled to announce the latest additions to its electrifying 20th anniversary year as it prepares to take over Sydney stages from 21st April to 18th May 2025. Joining Guy Montgomery, Jimeoin, and Arj Barker is Silver Logie Award-winning...
RAINBOW CHAN’S ‘THE BRIDAL LAMENT’ at Riverside
Riverside Theatres and the Contemporary Asian Australian Performance, supported by Sydney Festival, is excited to present The Bridal Lament 哭嫁歌 by award-winning vocalist, producer and multi-disciplinary artist Rainbow Chan 陳雋然 at the Riverside Theatres from the 23rd –...
Mediocre at Motley Bauhaus
It’s me! Your friendly neighbourhood panic-attack in human form! Riley Street is back and more chaotic than ever and is here to talk about the ‘joys’ of lacking love, life and success. Riley will be returning with new songs, stories and painfully relatable jokes right...
ONE FINAL RETURN TO SYDNEY ANNOUNCED FOR THE WHARF REVUE
Due to overwhelming demand, after a regional tour in 2025 The End of the Wharf As We Know It!!! will return to Sydney in April for five final performances. How could the last, final ever performances of The Wharf Revue happen anywhere but Sydney! The End of the Wharf...
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL UNVEILS 2025 PROGRAM WITH STAR-STUDDED LINE UP
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is back and bigger than ever – featuring a diverse and dynamic mix of international superstars, beloved Australian comedians, and exciting emerging talent. Running from 26 March to 20 April 2025, the Festival promises to be...
No Love Songs
NO LOVE SONGS Starring KEEGAN JOYCE and LUCY MAUNDER A modern love story inspired by real-life experiences No Love Songs is a powerful and uplifting modern love story featuring heart-felt songs by Kyle Falconer, lead singer of the Scottish band The View, and...
STC’s PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK premieres February 2025
A thrilling cast featuring some of this country’s finest young talent is set to dazzle in Sydney Theatre Company’s new production of Picnic at Hanging Rock, Tom Wright’s critically lauded adaptation of the Joan Lindsay classic, playing Sydney Opera House from February...
Bondi Pavilion 2025 Artistic Program Announced
Bondi Pavilion is proud to announce its 2025 Artistic Program, filled with events and activities for all ages. Inviting audiences to be inspired, open their imagination, and wonder at the natural world, the 2025 Artistic Program is deeply rooted in our natural...
Tim Minchin leads first programming announcement for Sydney’s brand new Foundry Theatre
Tim Minchin to open new Sydney live entertainment venue Foundry Theatre in February 2025, followed by an impressive lineup of musicals, comedy and immersive works. Nestled within the prestigious Sydney Lyric at The Star, the Foundry Theatre is Sydney’s highly...
Even More Stars and Laughs Announced for the 2025 Comedy Festival Season
LIVE NATION and Jubilee Street Management have added to their already impressive line-up for the 2025 comedy festival season with even more outstanding comics from Australia and New Zealand. Recently announced comics with tickets on sale now include shows from Nazeem...
The ‘Queen of Ireland’ Panti Bliss returns to Arts Centre Melbourne for Midsumma Festival
After eight long years, The Queen of Ireland Panti Bliss returns to Australia with her record-breaking, smash hit comedy If These Wigs Could Talk gracing Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio stage from 4 – 9 February 2025 as part of Midsumma Festival. Following a...
Meet your Sydney Annies
Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live today revealed the talented children who will play Annie and the orphans in the upcoming Sydney season of the ever-popular Broadway musical Annie, as well as the adult cast who will perform alongside them. The new...
BELVOIR EXTENDS AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Belvoir’s season of Tracy Lett’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning tragicomedy August: Osage County has today been extended by a full week of performances, due to overwhelming demand. Following sell-out performances, standing ovations, and rave reviews, the season will...
Arts Centre Melbourne’s summer programming set to delight all ages
During the summer months, audiences are invited to gather across Arts Centre Melbourne's venues for a sizzling array of performances spanning theatre, music, magic and workshops. In December, delight in the festive season with Christmas carols, joyful music and...
Midsumma Festival 2025 Launches For A Summer of Collective Identity(s)
Midsumma Festival 2025 Invites Audiences to Celebrate Collective Identity(s) this Summer With About 200 Events Celebrating the LGBTQIA+ Community! Midsumma, Australia’s premier LGBTQIA+ Arts Organisation has announced the 2025 festival program. This Summer Midsumma...
BMW Opera For All and Opera Australia Set To Delight This Summer at Fed Square!
Stellar Lineup of Opera Singers Announced for BMW Opera for All 2025 concert in Melbourne’s Fed Square Building on the remarkable success of the past two years, BMW, in partnership with Opera Australia, is excited to announce the third edition of the BMW Opera for...
GEELONG ARTS CENTRE UNVEILS ITS BIGGEST SEASON EVER FOR 2025
From iconic classics to cutting-edge new productions and fun family shows, the Centre’s four 2025 curated programs set the stage for Geelong, one of Australia’s fastest-growing regional cities and only designated UNESCO city of Design in Australia, to shine brighter...
Sister Act’s Gift to Melbourne
A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO MELBOURNE SISTER ACT X THE CHOIR OF HARD KNOCKS The perfect start to the holiday season, the cast from Sister Act will perform together with Melbourne’s beloved Choir of Hard Knocks, in a free performance to celebrate the joy and...
Borderville Festival guarantees three-weeks of fun for whole family!
Australia’s National Youth Circus, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus has announced its 2024 Borderville Summer Festival program from December 3rd to 20th. Running since 2014, this year’s program will bring Albury-Wodonga alive with vibrant circus and cabaret across three...
2024 RODNEY SEABORN PLAYWRIGHTS AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The winners of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for 2024 were announced at the annual Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation Christmas Party. The joint winners this year are Ballkids by Melbourne playwright Olivia Satchell and Into The Light by Ian Roberts and...
Natalie Bassingthwaighte to star as Shirley Valentine
Leading lady of stage and screen Natalie Bassingthwaighte returns to Australian stages to star in one of the world’s most popular plays, Shirley Valentine, directed by Lee Lewis. This joyous, life affirming comedy will be staged at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre from...
Shakespeare Under the Stars: The Merry Wives of Windsor
This summer, the acclaimed Australian Shakespeare Company will stage a brand new production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens, running from 21 December 2024 - 25 January 2025. With the city’s Botanic Gardens as a stunning backdrop,...
Nancye Hayes returns to STC in award-winning play 4000 MILES
The legendary Nancye Hayes (Summer Rain) returns to Sydney Theatre Company for the first time in two decades to star in Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles, a tender portrait of two people at opposite ends of life’s journey, playing Wharf 1 Theatre from 3 February 2025. Hayes is...
The Friends of Yule: A Theatrical Song Cycle by Joachim Coghlan
Christmas is a time that has inspired humanity to create the most wonderfully profound, eccentric, cheesy, and seemingly bizarre stories and traditions. The Friends of Yule, an original theatrical song cycle by composer/performer Joachim Coghlan, gleefully explores...
Back to the Future: The Musical to open in Sydney
GREAT SCOTT! SYDNEY TO HOST BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL NEXT YEAR THE OLIVIER AWARD WINNER OF BEST NEW MUSICAL WILL HAVE ITS AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AT THE SYDNEY LYRIC IN SEPTEMBER 2025 Sydney waitlist now open. Producers John Frost, Colin Ingram and the creators of...
The producers behind Baby Reindeer and Fleabag to bring their new comedy to Arts Centre Melbourne
Edinburgh Fringe Festival sensation Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen will make its Australian premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio from 14 January to 1 February as part of Midsumma Festival. Written by Marcelo dos Santos...
MY BRILLIANT CAREER SEASON EXTENDED DUE TO DEMAND
Based on the iconic Australian novel by Miles Franklin and adapted by the talented musical theatre duo Mathew Frank and Dean Bryant, alongside Sheridan Harbridge (Prima Facie, Meet Me at Dawn), this is a Melbourne-made musical, developed and written by the creative...
7th Floor Theatre presents the Queensland premiere of Angus Cameron’s Australian Open
7th Floor Theatre is excited to partner with PIP Theatre to launch its 2025 season with Angus Cameron’s Australian Open. This sharp and fast-paced exploration of wits and relationships takes centre court at PIP Theatre, Milton, for a limited season. Running from 8–18...
Full Cast Revealed for Hayes Theatre Co production of The Pirates of Penzance
A cast of five bold talented performers has been announced for Richard Carroll’s boisterously joyful adaptation of The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty. This Gilbert and Sullivan classic has been brought back to raucous new life for a 21st century audience....
GEELONG ARTS CENTRE’S CREATIVE ENGINE UNVEILS NEW ASSOCIATE ARTISTS AND GRANT RECIPIENTS
Geelong Arts Centre’s artistic development program is announcing its inaugural Associate Artists, and the latest recipients of the Creative Engine Grants and Launchpad initiative. Geelong Arts Centre is proud to highlight its continued commitment to fostering...
The Wind in the Willows returns to the Royal Botanic Gardens this summer
This summer, Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens will once again become a riverside playground for families, when The Australian Shakespeare Company’s The Wind in the Willows returns to celebrate its 38th year of outdoor theatre magic from 21 December 2024 – 25 January...
Theatre Royalty Unites for Victorian Opera’s Follies
“I'm just a Broadway Baby. Walking off my tired feet. Pounding Forty-Second Street to be in a show.” – ‘Broadway Baby’, Follies Victorian Opera stages an all-star cast production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Tony-Award-winning musical, Follies, in...
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,...
MERRIGONG THEATRE COMPANY UNVEILS UNMISSABLE 2025 SEASON
Merrigong Theatre Company proudly announces its 2025 season, with 11 Mainstage shows, including three blockbuster theatre events with strictly limited two-week seasons - this is their biggest season ever. Showcasing mainstage productions of local, national and...
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...
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...
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...
MAHO MAGIC BAR extends Brisbane season by popular demand
By popular demand, the hit Japanese immersive magic show currently playing in Brisbane, MAHO MAGIC BAR, has been extended to run for an additional two weeks. The iconic Japanese magic bar first delighted and stunned Brisbane audiences in 2022, playing to packed houses...
Final cast members revealed for Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None
The world’s best-selling mystery book reimagined for the stage also touring to Adelaide and Perth The final cast members of the highly-anticipated new production of Agatha Christie’s best-selling crime novel of all time, And Then There Were None, have been revealed...
Blockbuster production A Christmas Carol to raise money for SecondBite during its 2024 Melbourne season
Five time Tony Award® winner and West End hit A Christmas Carol has announced its partnership with SecondBite, dedicating its 2024 season to raising essential funds for the charity’s food relief program. The partnership aims to provide fresh, nutritious food to people...
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...
LIVE NATION and Jubilee Street Management Announce A Blockbuster Of Comedy Festival Shows for 2025
LIVE NATION and Jubilee Street Management have announced an impressive lineup for the 2025 Australian and New Zealand comedy festival seasons including outstanding comics touring stand-alone headline shows. Get ready to laugh with the funniest comedians Australia and...
Arts Centre Melbourne presents Cruel Britannia: After Frankenstein
The show is a queer reimagining of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with Frankenstein's transformation used as a metaphor for the Transgender experience. Set in Margaret Thatcher's dystopian Britain - a monstrous, chaos-ridden world of gothic proportions, Cruel Britannia...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Asia TOPA – Australia’s major triennial festival of Asia-Pacific performance unveils full performance program
The full performance program for Asia TOPA (Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts) has been unveiled. Returning after a five-year hiatus and taking place from 20 February – 10 March 2025, Asia TOPA will bring the very best of Asia-Pacific arts, culture and ideas...
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...
Mo’Ju and thndo join in multi-arts celebration Art Souk
Curated by boundary-pushing Lebanese-Australian DJ, radio presenter and live performer MzRizk comes multi-arts celebration Art Souk from 6 – 7 December 2024 at Arts Centre Melbourne’s newest venue The Show Room. In collaboration with Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV),...
DARKFIELD SÉANCE and FLIGHT return to Melbourne this summer
Back by popular demand, multisensory shipping container experiences DARKFIELD SÉANCE and FLIGHT are making their highly anticipated return to Melbourne this summer, engulfing audiences in complete darkness and challenging their grasp on reality. Following...
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...
Malthouse Theatre presents F Christmas – a subversive yuletide spectacular by Melbourne’s Fat Fruit and Susie Dee
From the extraordinary minds of Fat Fruit (Sarah Ward and Bec Matthews) and theatre luminary Susie Dee (co-creator and director), F Christmas is a new all-star variety show that gives the middle finger to capitalism and the overconsumption of the holiday 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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
Casts announced for VIC and QLD seasons of A VERY NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS
In what has fast become Australia’s favourite festive tradition, adults-only Christmas comedy A VERY NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS returns this silly season, with the Melbourne and Queensland casts announced today. The ever-mischievious Tim Paige - also known for Pop-Up Globe’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Seann Miley Moore to star in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
SEANN MILEY MOORE TO STAR IN THE ULTIMATE ROCK MUSICAL HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH CO-DIRECTORS SHANE ANTHONY AND DINO DIMITRIADIS SET DESIGNER JEREMY ALLEN COSTUMES BY NICOL AND FORD MUSICAL DIRECTOR VICTORIA FALCONER Adelaide Festival 2025 | Melbourne 2025 |...
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...
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...
ANNOUNCING Love Actually musical premiere and Christmas Showtime Festival
This festive season, Melbourne is set to sparkle with the arrival of an all-new Christmas Showtime Festival. Running from 6 - 23 December at The Athenaeum Theatre, the festival features an incredible lineup of live entertainment for all ages, including the Australian...
FIRST ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL
The Sydney Comedy Festival is excited to announce the first acts appearing in its explosive 20th anniversary year, as it prepares to take over Sydney from 21st April to 18th May 2025. In 2025, audiences can expect to see 2023 Best of the Fest winner and star and host...
The smash-hit cult cabaret An Evening Without Kate Bush is coming to Arts Centre Melbourne in 2025
Enter Strange Phenomena, howl with the Hounds of Love and dance on the moors with Wuthering Heights, the smash-hit cult cabaret An Evening Without Kate Bush makes its Victorian debut at Arts Centre Melbourne from 5 – 8 February 2025. Adored by critics and audiences...
MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY’S BOLD NEW MUSICAL MY BRILLIANT CAREER
Rehearsals are underway for an electrifying new Australian musical coming to the Melbourne Theatre Company stage. Based on the classic novel by Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career is a musical reimagining to captivate a new generation. Performances will begin at...
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...
IMAGINE LIVE, based on Alison Lester’s iconic book Imagine
IMAGINE LIVE, a magical celebration of creativity, friendship and our precious natural world based on Alison Lester’s iconic best-selling book, is set to warm family audience hearts this summer, playing from 8 – 11 January 2025 in Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax...
Anna-Louise Cole receives prestigious Dame Heather Begg Memorial Award
Anna-Louise Cole has just been announced as the 2024 Dame Heather Begg Memorial Award recipient. ‘I’m still completely floored…genuinely. I really can’t quite believe it,’ said Anna-Louise in a recent interview with Melba Opera Trust. Dame Heather Begg DNZM OBE...
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...
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®...
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...
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!...
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...
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...
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...
Morning Melodies celebrates 40 years of joyous entertainment in 2025
Arts Centre Melbourne's much-loved Morning Melodies program returns in 2025 with an expanded line-up of stellar performance, celebrating 40 years of joyous entertainment on stage. From February to December 2025, established stars and emerging talent will perform on...
Ali McGregor to research Australian actress Nellie Stewart as the 2024 Frank Van Straten Fellow
Opera and cabaret performer Ali McGregor will investigate the life and career of 1880s Australian actress, affectionately known as ‘The Rose of Australia’, as the fifth recipient of the annual Frank Van Straten Fellowship. McGregor was awarded a $15,000 grant which...
Cast revealed for Agatha Christie’s breathtaking masterpiece And Then There Were None
The cast of the highly-anticipated new production of Agatha Christie’s best-selling crime novel of all time, And Then There Were None, have been revealed today and includes Nicholas Hammond, Anthony Phelan, Christen O’Leary and more. The production opens at...
Beauty and the Beast heading to Adelaide and Perth!
BE OUR GUEST WHEN BRAND NEW BEAUTY AND THE BEAST OPENS IN ADELAIDE AND PERTH! Perth and Adelaide audiences will experience the romance of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast when the much-anticipated respective seasons of the hit musical opens in Adelaide in May 2025 and...
Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen
Direct from a critically acclaimed London season in its first presentation outside the UK comes Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, playing 5 – 23 February 2025 at the Sydney Opera House, after a season at Arts Centre Melbourne. Developed by...
Nils Frahm returns to Hamer Hall for the first time in five years
Returning for the first time since 2019 to Arts Centre Melbourne’s impressive Hamer Hall is accomplished composer, producer and celebrated performer Nils Frahm in his Music For Melbourne concert. Over two incredible nights, 14 & 15 March 2025, Frahm will mesmerise...
Award winners announced for the 2024 Melbourne Fringe Festival
Melbourne Fringe has wrapped its 42nd annual festival, closing out another triumphant season with more than 460 shows from over 2,500 artists. The 2024 Melbourne Fringe Award winners were announced at the Festival Closing Night Party on Sunday 20 October, and are an...
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...
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...
Skating in the Clouds – the final season at Theatre Works in 2024
After love comes denial … after denial comes the party to end all parties! Summer and Autumn are in love, but there’s a problem in their love nest. While Summer plans a spectacular skating party, Autumn roams the house, spanner in hand, looking for a drip she can’t...
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...
BRISBANE SEASON ANNOUNCED FOR JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
A Brisbane season has been announced today as part of the Australian tour of the award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated rock musical JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. The production will play at the Lyric...
Erik Thomson to find his inner Scrooge this Christmas
Producers GWB Entertainment today announced that Erik Thomson, one of Australia’s most loved stars across film, television and theatre will play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol – Melbourne’s new festive tradition. Erik will next be seen...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
MPAC launches 2025 program full of stunning artistic experiences
Monash University Performing Arts Centres (MPAC) has unveiled its 2025 program, filled with stunning music performances, captivating theatre and dance, thought-provoking family fun and a brand-new one-day jazz festival. The Count’s Jazz Club also returns with...
Lisa McCune and Paula Arundell star in Australian premiere of SWEAT
Stage and screen icons Paula Arundell and Lisa McCune are set to star in the Australian premiere of Lynn Nottage’s searing slice-of-life masterpiece, Sweat, when it opens at Wharf 1 Theatre on Friday 15 November. Additional performances have already been added to the...