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Full Cast Announced for Sunset Boulevard

Image: Sunset Boulevard Australia 2024- L-R Paul Hanlon, Robert Grubb, Silvie Paladino, Tim Draxl, Ashleigh Rubenach, Jarrod Draper. Photographer: Ben King

Melbourne Workshop in February To Develop Harry Chapin Musical Short Stories

Monstrous Theatre has announced the first development workshop for Short Stories, a new musical with book by British screenwriter, Mike Bullen, and music from the back-catalogue of the late, great, American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin.

This will be the third new work Monstrous Theatre has workshopped in the past 12 months, following on from an adaptation of Helen Garner’s The Spare Room, and a new play Jump by Theresa Borg.

2023 Sydney Theatre Award Winners Announced

Image: The Visitors. Photographer: Daniel Boud.

The winners of the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced tonight (Jan 29, 2024) at a star-studded ceremony, with 30 Awards presented, shared between 15 productions which played on Sydney stages during 2023. Almost 500 members of the Sydney theatre community gathered at the York Theatre, Seymour Centre to celebrate.

Season of Musicals Coming to Cinemas

CinemaLive has announced a new season of musical events to screen in cinemas across the Australia and New Zealand in 2024. This season will see CinemaLive bringing much loved West End and Regional productions to audiences across Australia & New Zealand.

Hamilton Returns to Sydney Lyric

Hamilton will play a return engagement at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from July 2024.

Producers Jeffrey Seller and Michael Cassel have announced that the revolution returns to Sydney when the Tony, Grammy, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Hamilton comes home to the Sydney Lyric Theatre in 2024.

Hamilton made its Australian premiere at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on Wednesday 17 March, 2021 and was met with overwhelming audience and critical acclaim.

Dear Evan Hansen Premiere for Sydney.

Sydney Theatre Company and Michael Cassel Group will present the Australian premiere of a brand-new production of the Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen.

Beloved on Broadway for its deeply personal and profoundly contemporary take on life and the way we live it Dear Evan Hansen will premiere in Sydney in October 2024.

& JULIET for Sydney in February

The award-winning pop musical & JULIET is coming to Sydney in February 2024 after a spectacular sold-out season in Melbourne. The Australian production is led by Lorinda May Merrypor in the title role, Rob Mills will hold the quill as Shakespeare while Amy Lehpamer tries to rewrite the narrative as his wife Anne.

John Waters and Daniel MacPherson to Star in The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black, the second longest-running play in West End history, after Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, is returning to Australia in 2024, presented by PW Productions, Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions.

Musicals in 2024

Image: Chicago Australian cast 2023/4. Photographer: Jeff Busby.

Something old and something new is the flavour of Musical Theatre in 2024. There’s blockbuster classics including Wicked, Sunset Boulevard and Beauty and the Beast, along with Australian premieres of Dear Evan Hansen and Groundhog Day the Musical.