Stage Briefs

StageArt Announces 2018 Season

Melbourne musical theatre company StageArt has announced the shows that will be included in the upcoming 2018 season. All three shows will play at Prahran’s Chapel off Chapel.

John Bucchino for 2018 Adelaide Fringe

Davine Interventionz Productions has confirmed that composer and pianist John Bucchino will be playing for the South Australian Premiere season of IT'S ONLY LIFE during the 2018 Adelaide Fringe festival.

This production focuses on the choices made by artists between their art and their lives on and off the stage. It is a show that moves from distraction and despair to hope.  

In The Heights at Hayes Theatre

Award winning production company Blue Saint Productions is bringing the Tony Award winning musical, In The Heights to the Hayes Theatre Co for its much-anticipated professional NSW debut. Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the composer behind the Hamilton phenomenon, this brand new, authentic production will run from 16 March 2018.

Gypsy for Hayes in 2018

Luckiest Productions (Sweet Charityand Little Shop of Horrors), is combining forces with One Eyed Man Productions (Calamity Jane), in association with Hayes Theatre Co, to present the celebrated musical Gypsyfrom 18 May 2018 at the Hayes Theatre Co.

Seasons 2018

We have features on our website for numerous seasons across Australia.

Click on the links below to read about the seasons which you are interested in.

NSW

Sydney Theatre Company

Ensemble Theatre

Belvoir

2017 Rob Guest Endowment Semi-Finalists

Earlier this month, the Rob Guest Endowment held auditions in Melbourne and Sydney to search for this year’s winner of the Rob Guest Endowment Award. After careful consideration, the 30 Semi-Finalists for the 2017 Rob Guest Endowment Award were chosen and announced today (September 20, 2017).

The Rob Guest Endowment committee is very pleased to announce the following Semi-Finalists who will perform in front of a panel of judges in Melbourne on 16 October to determine the six finalists for the 2017 Rob Guest Endowment Award:

Craig McLachlan Returns In Rocky Horror

Producers Howard Panter, John Frost and Torben Brookman today announced that Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show would return to Australia in a fresh new production next year, with Craig McLachlan again donning Frank N Furter’s legendary fishnet stockings in his Helpmann Award-winning role. The Rocky Horror Show will re-open the refurbished Festival Theatre at the Adelaide Festival Centre from 28 December 2017, then play at QPAC, Brisbane from 18 January 2018, and the Crown Theatre, Perth from 17 February 2018

Good Omens Brings Squabbalogic Back to Sydney

Independent musical theatre company Squabbalogic (The Drowsy Chaperone, Man of La Mancha, Carrie The Musical) will present a one-night only reading of a brand new Australian musical featuring a stellar cast of music theatre’s finest performers.

Gary Sweet to Play Bill Heslop in Muriel’s Wedding the Musical

Sydney Theatre Company and Global Creatures have announced today that Gary Sweet will play the role of Muriel’s father Bill Heslop in the world premiere of Muriel’s Wedding The Musical. The production, a theatrical version of PJ Hogan’s iconic hit film, updated to today by the writer himself, features original music by Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall alongside those beloved ABBA numbers. The musical is exclusive to Sydney, playing at Roslyn Packer Theatre with previews from 6 November, opening on Saturday 18 November 2017.

The Book of Mormon Breaks Sydney Box Office Records

Yesterday The Book of Mormon, written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, set a record for the highest grossing on-sale of any musical theatre production in Sydney’s history. By the end of the first day of public sales on Tuesday 5 September, The Book of Mormon had sold more than 45,000 tickets with a value of over $5,000,000.