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Cracking The Big Apple

The epic Australian play Counting and Cracking has opened in New York for a three week season sponsored by the Public Theatre after completing seasons in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Edinburgh. See below for Stage Whispers TV's exclusive coverage of their first preview. The ensemble of 19 is bucking the trend towards smaller casts. David Spicer reports.

Sydney Theatre Company 2025 Season

Image: Picnic at Hanging Rock - Kirsty Marillier and Olivia de Jonge. Photographer: Derek Henderson

Outgoing STC Artistic Director Kip Williams has announced Sydney Theatre Company’s 2025 program, his eighth and final season with the company.

Hadestown for Melbourne

Seen by three million, and streamed by over 350 million all around the world, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s West End and Broadway musical phenomenon Hadestown will premiere in Melbourne at the Her Majesty’s Theatre in May 2025.

Hadestown broke Theatre Royal Sydney box office records when it went on sale earlier this year for the Sydney season, and now Melbourne audiences have their chance.

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IN THIS EDITION

Ten Out Of SIX

Sharon Millerchip and our latest queens on Henry VIII’s wives

ENTECH Evolves For Its 30th

Big changes for Australia’s annual touring sound and light trade show

The End Of The Wharf

One last tour for theatrical icon The Wharf Revue

Catching Peter Pan’s Stars

Prior Engagements

Leading lady Marina Prior, who has been thrilling audiences since the age of 19, is about to appear in a concert version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s masterpiece Carousel. Life-long fan Jonathan Cox was excited to chat with her.

And Then There Were None Coming in 2025

From the producers of the hugely successful Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap comes a brand-new production of Agatha Christie’s best-selling crime novel of all time, And Then There Were None, opening at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre in February 2025 and Sydney Theatre Royal from May 2025.

Ten people are lured to a solitary mansion on an island off the English coast, when a storm cuts them off from the mainland. The true reason for their presence on the island soon becomes horribly clear.

Ensemble Theatre Season 2025

The Ensemble Theatre has announced its 2025 season.

Mitchell Butel new STC Artistic Director and co-CEO

The Board of Sydney Theatre Company (STC) has appointed award-winning actor, director, writer and producer Mitchell Butel as its new Artistic Director and co-CEO, taking over from Ki

The Search for Annie and the Orphans Begins

The search for the young girls who will play Annie and her orphan friends in the ever-popular Broadway musical Annie begins today. Audition notices have been posted by producer John Frost for Crossroads Live and director Karen Johnson Mortimer looking for multiple casts of Annie, Duffy, Kate, Tessie, Pepper, July, Molly and Friday.

Getting In On The Act

From Australian Idol to the convent, Casey Donovan is taking the leap into a lead role.

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