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Black Swan State Theatre Company 2025 Season

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.

 

 

Silvie Paladino In Sunset Blvd.

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.

Griffin Theatre Company 2025 Season

Image designed by Susu Studio with 3D art by Luca Dante.

Queensland Theatre Season 2024

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.

Herod and Pilate Announced

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. 

Bell Shakespeare 2025 Season, Celebrating the Company’s 35th Anniversary

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’ -

Hayes Theatre Co Season 2025

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

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall

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!

Annie: Anthony Warlow to reprise Daddy Warbucks, More Cast and Melbourne Season Announced

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.

A Wicked Homecoming

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.