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.
State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2025 Season invites audiences to immerse themselves in a mix of theatrical drama, comedy, musical theatre and reimagined classics. Season 2025 highlights range through Emily Steel’s behind-the-scenes dive into Australian politics in Housework to the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Kimberley Akimbo, to the legendary The Glass Menagerie.
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.
