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Sydney Festival 2025

Image: As You Like It or The Land Acknowledgement. Photographer: DahliaKatz

Happy Halloween from Ensemble Q

Halloween is a mix of traditions: in some cultures, it is a day for remembering our dearest departed; in others, it is a festival time for welcoming the harvest of a new season. Celebrating long-departed souls is something that classical musicians do on a daily basis as they reconnect with the muses and angels of yesteryear. Brisbane-based Ensemble Q are completing their 2024 season with a special end-of-year party family concert, with a fun Halloween theme. Beth Keehn caught up with their Co-Artistic Director, Trish Dean to find out more.

The Book of Mormon Principal Casting

Image: London cast of The Book of Mormon. Photographer: Paul Coltas

Producers of the Tony®, Olivier®, and Grammy® award-winning production THE BOOK OF MORMON have announced principal casting for the production opening in Sydney in July 2025. 

Perth Cast Announced for Wicked

As WICKED celebrates its 21st anniversary of the Broadway opening on Wednesday 30 October with National WICKED Day, an extra final week of performances up until 2 February 2025 has been released for the Perth season. These additional performances are now on pre-sale with general public sales from Friday 1 November. BOOK HERE. WICKED will fly into Crown Theatre from 15 December as the final stop on its Australian tour.

One Day in September – New Australian Musical

While there has been rumours that multiple gay players exist, there is no openly gay player - past or present - in the men's AFL. A new Australian musical, One Day in September, explores the fictional story of a professional footballer grappling with his personal and private lives and opens at the Athenaeum 2 in Melbourne from 28 – 30 November 2024.

And Then There Were None Cast

The cast of the new production of Agatha Christie’s best-selling crime novel of all time, And Then There Were None, have been revealed today and includes Nicholas Hammond, Anthony Phelan, Christen O’Leary and more. The production opens at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre in February 2025 and Theatre Royal Sydney from May 2025.

La Boite Theatre Season 2025

Australia’s longest, continuously running theatre company La Boite Theatre celebrates its 100th birthday in 2025.

One of the nation’s oldest and boldest arts organisations, La Boite marks this auspicious milestone with a year-long celebration of storytelling, special events, surprise guests and sojourns down memory lane.

The party starts with the announcement of La Boite’s 2025 Season, a program of reimagined classics, cross-genre productions, powerful performances and striking cultural contributions.

Christine Anu to Star in Hadestown

Christine Anu will lead a dynamic cast of multi-talented opera and musical theatre performers in the Broadway musical Hadestown when it premieres in Sydney in February 2025.

Brisbane Season For Jesus Christ Superstar

A Brisbane season has been announced as part of the Australian tour of the award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar. The production will play at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC from June 2025, following seasons in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne.

Evan Hansen Has Been Found

Having seemingly taken a half a lifetime, at long last