From rarely heard operatic gems to a major Stephen Sondheim musical, Victorian Opera’s Season 2025 bursts with Broadway dazzle and adaptations of classic literature in Stuart Maunder AM’s second season as Artistic Director.
Victorian Opera opens Season 2025 with a fully staged production of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical, Follies, from 1-6 February at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda.
Following a sold out, critically acclaimed run in the West End, Sarah Snook (Succession) will make her Broadway debut playing 26 characters in The Picture Of Dorian Gray. The stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s only novel is adapted and directed by Kip Williams, the Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company, where the production originated. The Picture Of Dorian Gray will open at a Shubert theater in March for a strictly limited engagement.
“For me, the magic of theatre lies in the shared experience of sitting in an audience,” says Anne-Louise Sarks Artistic Director & Co-Ceo of the MTC.
“Whether it’s laughing with the person beside you, or joining in a collective gasp, or getting lost in the power of a transformative story – those reactions are what I love.
Black Swan State Theatre Company has announced its 2025 Season, presenting six productions including American and Australian contemporary classics, a sizzling dinner party gone wrong, a new Australian work, a witty political portrait, a coming-of-age story and a musical performance from the Kimberley.
Australian soprano Silvie Paladino steps into the role of Norma Desmond two times a week for the Opera Australia / GWB Production of Sunset Boulevard. Les Solomon describes her performance.
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
