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Karis Oka To Play Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice The Musical

Michael Cassel Group, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, and Langley Park Productions have announced that the role of Lydia Deetz, the peculiar and quick-witted teenager with a penchant for the afterlife, in BEETLEJUICE will be played by Karis Oka

Pick of the Plays 2025

In 2025 The Bard is back, along with some blockbuster Australian plays, world premieres, classics updated and Indigenous works. David Spicer picks some of the highlights. 

 

All the world’s a stage for Shakespeare in Australia in the year ahead.

 

Cats Returns To Its Original Australian Home After 40 Years

UPDATE: Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live has announced that following the previously annouced season at Theatre Royal Sydney from 17 June, CATS would also be playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre Adelaide from September and at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne from December. Waitlist now to be first in line to buy tickets in Adelaide and Melbourne at www.catsthemusical.com.au

MJ The Musical

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With the musical dedicated to the King of Pop opening in Sydney, ‘fangirl’ Nicole Smith refl

Impossible Theatre

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Retiring Malthouse Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Lutton is staging wildly ambitious adaptations of The Bird

And Then There Were None

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In response to the resounding success of

The Silent Stages

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Image: Mark Cleary with Vange Tapia (founder of LatinX Hollywood).

SNAKEFACE

Jeffrey Khoo explores how Fruit Box Theatre’s production, SNAKEFACE, at Belvoir Street kickstarts a long-overdue conversation about the commodification of trauma.

Most indie playwrights would shy away from cramming live sculpting, poetry and visual projections into a queer retelling of Greek mythology. But for Aliyah Knight, their play SNAKEFACE - a sweeping story about romance, rage and revenge through the eyes of a queer Black woman in white Australia - is meant to be a rebellion against the expectations of what theatre can be.

Final Casting For Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular

Cameron Mackintosh, in association with Nick Grace Management and Live Nation Australia have announced that final casting has been confirmed for the Australian leg of LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR!

Back to the Future Casting Announced

Producers John Frost, Colin Ingram and the creators of the original film trilogy Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale have announced that Tony Award winner Roger Bart will don the boiler suit and voice-activate the time travelling DeLorean for the Australian Premiere season of BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Musical, reprising the role of Dr. Emmett Brown; a character made famous originally by Christopher Lloyd in the first Back to the Future movie.

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