The 19-strong cast bringing In the Heights to the Sydney Opera House this winter has assembled in the rehearsal room, ahead of the season opening on Saturday 20 July, 2024.
The ever-popular Broadway musical Anniereturns in 2025, playing Sydney’s Capitol Theatre from March in a new production directed by Karen Johnson Mortimer and produced by John Frost for Crossroads Live.
Tickets go on pre-sale from 22 July. Waitlist now at anniemusical.com.au to be first in line to purchase tickets.
Following an exhaustive national search, Sydney Theatre Company and Michael Cassel Group have revealed the majority of the cast of the Australian premiere of Dear Evan Hansen premiering at STC’s Roslyn Packer Theatre from October 12.
And the producers have now announced the production will also tour nationally.
The final cast members have been unveiled for the Australian premiere musical Sister Act, including Sophie Montague, Bianca Bruce, Raphael Wong and James Bryers, joining already announced stars Casey Donovan, Genevieve Lemon and Rhonda Burchmore.
With a new parody on everyone’s favourite lovers, Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett, opening this week in Brisbane, Coral Drouyn looks at our penchant for “Taking the P**s”.
Some may call it the Tall Poppy Syndrome, but really it’s more than that. Take an icon…a film, a play, a book, and create a parody of it, send it up mercilessly with all the tropes and cliches you can find, and serve it to a hungry audience with all the aplomb of a French chef.
Moogahlin Performing Arts and Sydney Theatre Company present the national regional tour of Jane Harrison's critically acclaimed play, The Visitors, directed by the celebrated Quandamooka man Wesley Enoch. Fresh from its triumph at the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards, where it won Best Mainstage Production and Best Ensemble, The Visitors will tour across Australia and to regional areas from July to September 2024.
Seen by three million, streamed by over 350 million and with fans all around the world, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s West End and Broadway musical Hadestown will make its Australian premiere at Theatre Royal Sydney in February 2025.
Presented by Opera Australia and JONES Theatrical Group, Hadestown won eight Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway in 2019, including Best Score and Best Director and is still playing to packed houses five years later.
Anna O’Byrne and Marina Prior will star in a lavish concert presentation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel in September.
Set in a seaside town in Maine, the musical follows the love story of Billy Bigelow, a handsome but troubled carousel barker, and Julie Jordan, a young mill worker. Anna O’Byrne and Marina Prior will play the leading roles of Julie Jordan and Nettie Fowler.
