INVISIBLE, the fifth DARKFIELD experience, to premiere in Adelaide this summer
Please welcome to the stage… The Invisible Man. Listen as he teaches you how to disappear… Fans of DARKFIELD rejoice: the collection’s fifth container, INVISIBLE, will make its Australian premiere at The Garden of Unearthly Delights from 14 February to 23 March 2025,...
An unmissable journey through music and identity this February at UMAC
Following acclaimed seasons of Belvoir’s Counting and Cracking and PIECES with Lucy Guerin Inc in 2024, University of Melbourne Arts and Culture (UMAC) commences its second season with a powerful celebration of personal storytelling. February 2025 will feature two...
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...
DAVID WILLIAMSON AO, CELEBRATES 30-YEAR ASSOCIATION WITH ENSEMBLE THEATRE
One of Australia’s greatest living playwrights, David Williamson AO, will celebrate his extraordinary 30-year association with Ensemble Theatre with the first of a new series of intimate talks at the Kirribilli-based theatre this March. Hosted by Ensemble Theatre’s...
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...
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...
Applications are now open for the 2025 Frank Van Straten Fellowship
The Frank Van Straten Fellowship returns for another year offering arts enthusiasts the opportunity to research and develop a project of their choosing in exploration of the iconic Australian Performing Arts Collection(APAC). “We are so grateful and immensely proud...
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...
Darebin Arts Speakeasy presents TANTRUM for 6 by Harrison Ritchie
Breakout choreographer Harrison Ritchie-Jones (CUDDLE) is making waves with his eclectic and unconventional approach to dance. Clashing forms and styles with high technical skill, he’s using dance as a frame for absurdity, physical virtuosity, and surreal...
Bangarra’s ‘THE LIGHT INSIDE’ Begins its 2025 Regional Tour in Wollongong
After its acclaimed premiere in 2024 as part of the national tour of Horizon, Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, brings their first cross-cultural collaboration, The Light Inside, to the Illawarra...
A Nightime Travesty: Blak music and mayhem at Malthouse
A revamped production of the smash-hit show that brought audiences to their feet across sold-out performances during YIRRAMBOI Festival promises to push the boundaries of theatre this summer. With its potent mix of satirical Blak humor, explosive visuals, vaudeville,...
Victoria’s Pride 2025 Announces Melbourne’s Best Free Summer Street Party
Midsumma and the Victorian State Government are thrilled to announce that Filipino/Australian artist, musician, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker Chelsea Wheatley, known as 'Chela et Cetera,' will headline this summer’s Victoria’s Pride Street Party on Sunday, 9...
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...
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 -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Arts Centre Melbourne Morning Melodies – Celebrating 40 years
For forty years, the acclaimed Morning Melodies program has a rich history with 450 live performances for more than half a million audience members. Morning Melodies is a joyful daytime concert series held at Hamer Hall each month. The program is a favourite amongst...
World premiere of genre-bending tale in LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches)
Perth Festival audiences can delight in the explosive world premiere of LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches) at Studio Underground, as an unexpected and often hilarious journey unravels the bonds of friendship, culture and redemption, Fri 21 – Mon 24 Feb. This rip-roaring...
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 –...
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...
Australian exclusive 12 Last Songs makes the ordinary extraordinary
What is a city but the people? Part live exhibition, part epic performance, 12 Last Songs will debut its unique and intimate theatrical experience to Australian audiences in the Heath Ledger Theatre at Perth Festival, for one show only on Sat 15 Feb. With no...
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...
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...
Jeremy Goldstein Presents the Award Winning Truth To Power Cafe at Midsumma Festival 2025
The long-awaited Melbourne premiere of Jeremy Goldstein’s Truth to Power Café will be presented on the 5th and 6th of February 2025 as part of Midsumma Festival at Theatre Works. Melbourne participants of all ages, experiences and backgrounds will speak their truth to...
2024 SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
Nominations were announced today for the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards, which will be presented at an industry gala ceremony on Monday 20 January 2025 at the York Theatre, Seymour Centre. Nominations in the 28 categories were spread across 48 different...
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...
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...
A (VERY) MUSICAL CHRISTMAS TO BE RELEASED AS AN ALBUM
. CHRISTMAS PLAYLIST SORTED: A (VERY) MUSICAL CHRISTMAS TO BE RELEASED AS AN ALBUM . AUSTRALIA’S BRIGHTEST STARS OF THE STAGE AND SCREEN COME TOGETHER TO SUPPORT BEYOND BLUE WITH LIVE RECORDING TO BE RELEASED IN LINE WITH NATIONAL BROADCAST . Whether it's prawns on...
Malthouse presents world premiere of Patricia Cornelius’ Truth
A provocative new play about Julian Assange and the price of exposing power. The latest work from Australia’s most celebrated playwright Patricia Cornelius, Truth, will make its highly anticipated world premiere at Malthouse from Thursday 13 February to Saturday 8...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ONLY SIX WEEKS UNTIL BROADWAY SMASH PETER AND THE STARCATCHER ARRIVES IN SYDNEY
The highly anticipated production of the five-time Tony Award-winning play Peter and the Starcatcher arrives in Sydney in just six weeks’ time. The Broadway smash hit begins at the Capitol Theatre on 31 January for a strictly limited season before it heads to...
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 –...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
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...
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...