Image: Pride & Prejudice. Photographer: Sam Scoufos
From courtrooms to saloons, outback towns to the corridors of power, Queensland Theatre stages eight mainstage productions in 2025 – including three at QPAC’s Playhouse – and infuses its program with world premieres, award-winning works, big-name artists, Queensland stars and unmissable storytelling.
Image: Javon King, Michael Paynter and Mahalia Barnes. Photographer: Juliet Taylor.
Two further principal cast members for the Australian tour of the award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar have been revealed.
The first production of ‘Coriolanus’ on Australian stages since 1996, a new production of ‘Henry 5’ directed by Marion Potts, and an extensive national tour of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ -
Artistic Directors of Hayes Theatre Co, Richard Carroll and Victoria Falconer, have announced seven musicals, a new play with music and a Stephen Sondheim concert that will make up the 2025 program for the Hayes, alongside several special events and cabaret shows.
Season Image above designed by Kenney Designs, photographer John McRae
Debora Krizak takes us behind the scenes of the art of pantomime, as she prepares to take the stage as the wicked Queen Grismalda in Snow White.
Lately I’ve barely had the chance to look into the mirror, let alone cast a spell, as anyone in musical theatre land knows that Sydney has plenty of new shows coming up in 2025. I’ve been dividing my time between audition prep*, teaching, my care support work, gigs and the newest addition to my CV – officiating funerals!
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.
Image: Georgie Parker - The Great Divide. Photographer: Brett Boardman.
Australia’s most successful playwright, David Williamson, has burst out of retirement to premiere three new plays this year in Sydney, Adelaide and Noosa. In a wide-ranging interview with David Spicer, the 82-year-old discusses the prevailing themes of Australian theatre, the issues raised in his latest offerings, and names the best and worst plays of his career.
