Image: Daddy Warbucks (Anthony Warlow) and Annie (Lucille Le Meledo). Photographer: Jeff Busby.
Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live has revealed the lead cast for the upcoming new Australian production of the Broadway musical Annie, and announced a Melbourne season at the Princess Theatre from July 2025 following the Sydney season at the Capitol Theatre from March.
Image: Courtney Monsma, Sheridan Adams and Ensemble in WICKED. Photographer: Jeff Busby.
Coral Drouyn talks to Courtney and Emily Monsma on the eve of Wicked returning to Brisbane at QPAC this weekend.
There’s an Emerald City lurking in the distance in Wicked, which must surely be on everyone’s Favourite Musicals Of All Time list. However, there’s a Golden City just down the road from Brisbane’s cultural centre. It’s called - wait for it - The Gold Coast.
Belvoir has announced its 2025 Season, presenting nine plays including new Australian work, multi-layered and joyful Indigenous stories, some adaptations, a Shakespeare and some classics done the Belvoir way.
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.
Melbourne audiences will have the chance to enjoy the mainstage Australian premiere of My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical Tale. David Spicer spoke to two of the leads, Rachael Beck and Daniel Lim.
It’s not very often you speak to a thirteen-year-old boy and find out he’s playing lead roles in three musicals within the space of a few months.
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.
Leading lady Marina Prior, who has been thrilling audiences since the age of 19, recently appeared in a concert version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s masterpiece Carousel. Life-long fan Jonathan Cox was excited to chat with her.
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.
