The Aevum Valley – an Original Horror Play

The Aevum Valley – an Original Horror Play

“I never craved eternity- I craved this.. saying goodbye to what we were and welcoming in our new bodies..." ‘The Aevum Valley' is a sinister, twisted tale of a group of seven cultists who endeavour into the wilderness in the search for eternal life. An homage to...

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Malthouse Comedy reveals full 2025 line-up

Malthouse Comedy reveals full 2025 line-up

Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre is set to host a bumper crop of comedy this March and April with a stellar roster of local and international guests, award-winning sketch comedy, live podcasts, rising stars and returning theatre hits just announced. With more than 200...

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Kingston Arts presents Comedy at the Shirley

Kingston Arts presents Comedy at the Shirley

The Shirley Burke Theatre kicks off its 2025 season with a night of outstanding live comedy, Friday January 31st. Curated by veteran comedy programmer Janet A McLeod, Kingston Arts is proud to present a lineup of established and emerging talent from Australia and...

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POTUS at fortyfivedownstairs

POTUS at fortyfivedownstairs

When a White House PR nightmare spins into a full blown shitshow, seven brilliant and beleaguered women must risk life, liberty, and sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. Lightning Jar Theatre presents the Australian premiere of this whip smart, all...

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MARVELous The Show at Adelaide Fringe Festival

MARVELous The Show at Adelaide Fringe Festival

Fresh from rapturously received Sydney and Melbourne seasons, MARVELous The Show is soaring into Adelaide for a strictly limited season, running from 26 February to 10 March at Gluttony as part of Adelaide Fringe Festival. With a rock-infused soundtrack, a...

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A special Opera event at the Royal Exhibition Building

A special Opera event at the Royal Exhibition Building

Billed as the opera event of 2025, Melbourne Opera's multi-million dollar production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg will see opera lovers converge in Melbourne from 16–22 February. Audiences will experience a 4.5-hour production of Wagner's epic - and only -...

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JACK AND MICHAEL WHITEHALL LIVE

JACK AND MICHAEL WHITEHALL LIVE

Jack Whitehall and his father Michael are stopping off from their travels to bring you an extra chapter of their adventures. Get all the backstories you could ever need with Hilary on hand to referee when it all gets too heated. Expect tall tales, family secrets and...

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Alice in Wonderland – Don’t be late!

Alice in Wonderland – Don’t be late!

This internationally acclaimed theatrical masterpiece of Lewis Carroll’s timeless classic, Alice in Wonderland, returns with a spectacular new production! Meet the White Rabbit, the eccentric Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and of course the boisterous Queen of Hearts as...

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Asia Topa- Fire Drill Scenario

Asia Topa- Fire Drill Scenario

Expect the unexpected in this wry, somehow ridiculous but useful performance that challenges the safety zones of art and life.  In Fire Drill Scenario, South Korean choreographer and artist Geumhyung Jeong investigates the excitement, and real-life risks that artists...

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Arts House – Goldfish

Arts House – Goldfish

Reality and fantasy collide in Goldfish. It’s a dynamic, inventive performance—a game of eye spy on stage, where everyday items are transformed through the communal magic of suspended disbelief.  A solo puppeteer spins a fable for children. We hear a story of people...

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Asia Topa- Shadows in Twin Cities

Asia Topa- Shadows in Twin Cities

Shadows in Twin Cities brings together children from Jeonju (Korea) and Melbourne (Australia) in unusual conversations between each other and their city landscapes. In the workshop series Meet Me 너랑 나랑, using life-size live video, the project asks participants to find...

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Night Night- A Story of Life, Death and Other Dimensions

Night Night- A Story of Life, Death and Other Dimensions

Playfully cinematic and a visually transecendent adventure, Night Night will surprise and delight audiences at Studio Underground as a film is created live on stage each night, Wed 26 Feb – Sun 2 Mar. From award-winning Western Australian company The Last Great Hunt –...

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Is This A Room by Tina Satter

Is This A Room by Tina Satter

The thrilling Broadway play taken word for word from official FBI transcripts, Is This A Room has an exclusive Australian season for Perth Festival at Studio Underground, Fri 14 – Mon 17 Feb. Critically acclaimed writer and director Tina Satter has transformed the...

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Mahabharata – East meets West meets Perth

Mahabharata – East meets West meets Perth

Blending classic tropes of royal rivalries, feuding families and bloody vengeance, Mahabharata is a visually stunning two-part theatrical experience making its Australian debut at His Majesty’s Theatre for Perth Festival, Sat 8 – Sun 16 Feb. A story told for more than...

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THIRTY-SIX at fortyfivedownstairs

THIRTY-SIX at fortyfivedownstairs

So there’s this party she’s having. It might be a funerary rite or a birthday celebration, depending on your perspective. Either way she’s wearing the dress, her first lippy, and she’s making a special meal. The flowers keep coming and the candles get blown out. An...

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Theatre Works Announces 2025 Season Highlights

Theatre Works Announces 2025 Season Highlights

Theatre Works Unveils Ambitious 2025 Season Theatre Works is thrilled to announce its 2025 season, a celebration of exceptional theatre that champions bold stories, innovative productions, and outstanding talent. This year, we continue to uphold our commitment to...

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37 at Melbourne Theatre Company

37 at Melbourne Theatre Company

The local footy team of this small coastal town have spent so long at the bottom of the ladder they might as well be welded to it. This year a new hope arrives: the Marngrook cousins. Named after the Aboriginal game that inspired AFL, they’re match fit to bring home...

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Roman Banks to play MJ

Roman Banks to play MJ

GLOBAL SUPERSTAR ROMAN BANKS TO REPRISE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PERFORMANCE AS MJ IN AUSTRALIA BANKS COMES DIRECT TO SYDNEY FROM THE US NATIONAL TOUR WHERE HE ORIGINATED THE ROLE OF MJ . “DELIVERS THE THRILLS” The New York Times . “BRILLIANTLY CHOREOGRAPHED AND...

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Extended cast announced for Guys and Dolls

Extended cast announced for Guys and Dolls

Opera Australia today announced the extended, all-star cast of supporting and ensemble performers for its brand-new production of the award-winning Broadway musical Guys & Dolls at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, opening 21 March next year.   Joining the...

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AMTF Program Announced!

AMTF Program Announced!

  AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA 21 – 25 MAY 2025 2025 PROGRAM ANNOUNCED TICKETS ON SALE NOW   Today, Artistic Director, Tyran Parke unveiled the Australian Musical Theatre Festival program that will be held in Launceston, Tasmania from...

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DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS RETURNS FOR NATIONAL TOUR

DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS RETURNS FOR NATIONAL TOUR

State Theatre Company South Australia and Sydney Theatre Company will deliver a national tour of The Dictionary of Lost Words in 2025, which will include a return season at the Dunstan Playhouse to run from 3 – 17 April. The full scope of the tour is being announced,...

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Our Monster’s Name is Jerry

Our Monster’s Name is Jerry

Dirty Pennies Theatre Project, the acclaimed team behind Lemon Tree on Dreg Street, return this Summer to Theatre Works with a premiere season like no other. A gothic suburban horror presented in partnership with the Geelong Arts Centre and Theatre Works, this new...

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Smash-hit play JULIA returns to Melbourne in 2025

Smash-hit play JULIA returns to Melbourne in 2025

Sydney Theatre Company and Canberra Theatre Centre’s production of Joanna Murray-Smith’s runaway hit, Julia, will return to Melbourne for a strictly limited run at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse from 25 June ahead of seasons with Queensland Theatre and Merrigong...

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Shakespeare Under the Stars: Macbeth

Shakespeare Under the Stars: Macbeth

Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s most haunting and timeless tragedies, is set to captivate audiences when the Australian Shakespeare Company brings to life this chilling tale of greed, ambition and betrayal. From 31 January - 28 February 2025, the Royal Botanic Gardens...

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SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL NEW ACTS

SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL NEW ACTS

SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NEXT ROUND OF COMEDIANS FOR 2025 The Sydney Comedy Festival is thrilled to announce the latest line-up of comedic juggernauts taking part in its colossal 2025 Festival on from 21st April to 18th May 2025. Adding to the blockbuster...

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SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL NEW ACTS

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...

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RAINBOW CHAN’S ‘THE BRIDAL LAMENT’ at Riverside

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 –...

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No Love Songs

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...

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STC’s PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK premieres February 2025

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...

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Bondi Pavilion 2025 Artistic Program Announced

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...

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Meet your Sydney Annies

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...

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Sister Act’s Gift to Melbourne

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...

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Natalie Bassingthwaighte to star as Shirley Valentine

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...

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Shakespeare Under the Stars: The Merry Wives of Windsor

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,...

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Back to the Future: The Musical to open in Sydney

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...

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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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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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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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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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ONLY SIX WEEKS UNTIL BROADWAY SMASH PETER AND THE STARCATCHER ARRIVES IN SYDNEY

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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AMTF Program Announced!

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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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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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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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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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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