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The End of the Wharf

After 25 years of tickling funny bones, Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott are retiring their quills with one final

Perth Festival 2025

Image: East Perth Power Station. Photographer: Tristan McKenzie

Perth Festival today announced its full 2025 program, with new Artistic Director Anna Reece, inviting Perth audiences and visitors to taste the salty air, feel the sand dunes beneath their feet, be challenged by truth-tellers and play with mischief-makers.  

Adelaide Festival 2025 Program

Photo credit: Roy VanDerVegt

65 events, 11 world premieres, 9 Australian premieres and 15 exclusives

Adelaide Festival has announced its 40th program, promising a suite of international and Australian productions and artists which will further enhance its 65-year reputation as Australia’s premier international festival.

Ten out of SIX

Coral Drouyn looks at the return of the hit musical SIX, speaking to Australian Associate Director Sharon Millerchip and the ca

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.