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Cast Announced for Sydney Season of Annie

Image: Beatrix Alder, Dakota Chanel, Matilda Casey and Stephanie McNamara in ANNIE © David Hooley

Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live has revealed the talented children who will play Annie and the orphans in the upcoming Sydney season of the ever-popular Broadway musical Annie, as well as the adult cast who will perform alongside them. The new Australian production plays at the Capitol Theatre from 25 March, before moving to Melbourne’s Princess Theatre from July.

Back To The Future: The Musical Premiere for Sydney

The Olivier Award winner of Best New Musical will have Its Australian Premiere at the Sydney Lyric in September 2025

Producers John Frost, Colin Ingram and the creators of the original film trilogy, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, have announced that Sydney will host the Australian premiere of Back To The Future: The Musical, opening at the Sydney Lyric in September 2025.

Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation 2024 Performing Arts Grants

Image: Julian Louis from NORPA and Peter Lowry

Over $200,000 in Grants to the performing arts were announced on 21 November 2024, to a packed audience of theatre practitioners and supporters by Peter Lowry AM, President of the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation in the Seaborn Library, Neutral Bay, the Foundation's headquarters.

2024 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award Winners

Image: Olivia Satchell and Ian Roberts 

The winners of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for 2024 were announced at the annual Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation Christmas Party on November 21. The joint winners this year are Ballkids by Melbourne playwright Olivia Satchell and Into The Light by Ian Roberts and Alex Broun. The two winning plays will each receive $20,000.

Cody Simpson to Star in Guys & Dolls on Sydney Harbour

Opera Australia has announced that pop star and champion swimmer Cody Simpson return to the stage in 2025, making his Australian musical theatre debut alongside an all-star cast in a brand-new production of the award-winning Broadway musical Guys & Dolls at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour from 21 March to 20 April. 

Australian Ainsley Melham to Star in Boop! The Musical on Broadway

Principal casting for the new Broadway musical BOOP! The Musical has been announced and tickets are on sale today, with Australian Ainsley Melham to star as Dwayne.

Victorian Opera Announces Follies Cast

“I'm just a Broadway Baby. Walking off my tired feet. Pounding Forty-Second Street to be in a show.” – ‘Broadway Baby’, Follies

Victorian Opera stages an all-star cast production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Tony-Award-winning musical Follies at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda from 1 – 6 February 2025.

Round the Twist

David Spicer spoke to composer / writer Paul Hodge ahead of Queensland Theatre’s season of new musical

January to June 2025 at fortyfivedownstairs

Image of Paul Capsis - De Profundis

Melbourne's fortyfivedownstairs has announced the January-June 2025 theatre program featuring nine seasons presented by an outstanding lineup of theatremakers and musicians.