Producers John Frost and Phil Bathols have announced that Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin and Opera superstar Nathan Gunn will perform together in Australia in November, combining their music…
In Bell Shakespare’s 2014 season, there will be four mainstage shows, new exclusive behind-the-scenes access and online dialogue for students, continued work with refugee students and …
Lifeforce is a new Australian musical by Joanna Weinberg (Goddess, Every Single Saturday) that is currently making its debut at the King Street Theatre as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival.…
When Opera Australia's South Pacific opened in Sydney last year, something wonderful happened: it resonated with people. Embarking on a lengthy Australian tour, it's finally back at the Oper…
The Follies Company and NIDA Independent have announced the world premiere of Sign of the Times, a play written and directed by Stephen Helper,  - who worked as Assistant Director for …
Lifeforce is the new musical by Joanna Weinberg (Goddess, The Piano Diaries), premiering at the Sydney Fringe Festival. It tells the story of a woman who, on her 40th birthday, realises she …
The counterpoint to slick, big-budget musicals, like the recent imports Addams Family and Legally Blonde, are smaller, scrappier musicals that are subversive, funny, and innovative. Squab…
Storm Boy causes that same simple, unexpected fullness of heart as when a small child comes up to you, tugs on your sleeve, and tells you they love you. An adaptation of Colin Thiele'…
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is one of the greats. A feast of metatheatre and language, it is relentless in its absurdity and humour, and curls up at the edges to reveal a dark unde…
The Rock Surfers are set to present the world premiere of Empire: Terror on the High Seas, a new play by award-winning actor/playwright Toby Schmitz. The season will run from 28 August. When…
Sons of Sun " the Sam Phillips Story is a rock and roll play about Sun Records, Memphis, and the legends that started out there. After premiering at the Sydney Fringe last year, it's back…
Twisted Broadway, the gender-bending musical theatre spectacular is coming back to Sydney for its second year – and this time, it brings Chloe Dallimore and Damien Bodie with it as hos…
One has to wonder when we'll be able to see a play featuring the overweight or obese when the central conflict of the story has nothing to do with their weight. Beached, currently at Griffin…
Packemin Productions once again proves itself as a vital part of the greater Sydney theatre scene with its newest show " a staging of Hairspray over at the Riverside Theatres in Parramatta. …
Musical theatre and cabaret has a new home. Sydney's Potts Point is set to explode as a major player when the brand-new Independent Music Theatre (IMT) takes over the stage of the Reginal…
Just after a run of leadership drama, Sydney's Squabbalogic is bringing its own political wheeling and dealing to the table in the form of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the punk rock politic…
The story of Romeo and Juliet " the star crossed lovers from feuding families " has resonated with many cultures around the world for hundreds of years. Adapted into countless films and musi…
One of modern theatre's most controversial dramas, English playwright Peter Schaffer's story of a gruesome crime, a seventeen-year-old, and his psychiatrist, has attracted big names (from Ri…
The world of musical theatre can be emotional and masterful. It can also be shallow and ridiculous. Forbidden Broadway, a revue that's something of an off-Broadway institution (it's been run…
After a highly successful run on the West End, Trevor Ashley is set to make a triumphant Australian return with a one night only gem of a show at Sydney's Star casino. In Star Struck, Trevor…
In August, highly acclaimed choreographer Martin del Amo (Sydney Festival, Spring Dance) will take over Riverside Parramatta with his trademark grace and charm. The Little Black Dress Suite …
Relative Merits, from 1993, tells the story of Adam, a gay AFL player who is publicly-closeted (in 1997, the term 'glass closet' would be popularised by Michael Musto for this exact scenario…
It's a far cry from The Voice! The IFAC Australian Singing Competition (ASC) is Australasia's richest, and most prestigious, singing competition. It aims to identify and encourage young tale…
"I was trying raise hashtag-awareness because hashtag-YOLO," says Bianca, and suddenly the archetypes in the play FONY 2013 start to trigger the collective pop-culture memory, and the …
Jim McGrath, a Canberra local, has been one of only three Australians to win a $50,000 Creative Australia grant from Australia Council, and he will use that grant to premier a new musical in…