Stage Briefs

The Book of Mormon, Broadway’s smash hit musical written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, is coming to Sydney.

The Tony®, Olivier®, Grammy® and Helpmann® award-winning show will begin performances at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on 28 February 2018.  

The Australian production of The Book of Mormon has notched up over 250 performances since opening at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre on 17 January, with every performance sold out.

A brand new production of Nick Enright and Max Lambert’s  Australian musical Miracle City takes over the Sydney Opera House Studio from 12 – 29 October.

Set in the early 1990s, at the height of televangelism, Miracle City tells the story of the Truswells, a family with a dream to build a religious theme park, and the extreme lengths the patriarch, Ricky Truswell, will go to in order to make their dream a reality.

The new production features:

Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini, Australian theatre producer John Frost and leading UK theatre producer David Ian have announced that one of the most celebrated classical musicals, EVITA, will return to Australia, playing at the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House in September 2018.

This is the first time a Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will play at the Sydney Opera House.

The iconic story of Ned Kelly is brought to life in new Australian musical. NED makes its Melbourne debut after its premiere season at the Ulumbarra Theatre in Bendigo.

The original cast reunites for a one night only concert at The National Theatre in St Kilda on Jul 17, 2017.

NED explores the highs and lows of Ned Kelly’s journey from local hero to felon to legend. Audiences will see themselves in the struggle of a poor family trying to make it through in a system that was stacked against them.