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NewsComedy Republic Is Celebrating Its Surprise Success, Presenting an All-Star Extravagala to Mark Its 5th Birthday
Celebrate half a decade of laughs with a one-night-only comedy show stacked with local legends.
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NewsInternational Theatre Hit 'ECHO' Is Bringing Its Completely Unrehearsed and Unpredictable Solo Performances to Australia
The cast for this play's Australian-premiere season: Pia Miranda, Stan Grant, Jan Fran, David Campbell, Michelle Brasier, Nadine Garner and Ben Lawson.
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News'Cats' Has Added a 2026 Brisbane Season to the Australian Tour That's Celebrating Its 40th Anniversary Down Under
You can see why this feline-fancying musical has proven a huge theatre hit — even if it didn't translate to the big screen — in the Sunshine State from February.
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NewsA 'The Great Gatsby'-Inspired Cabaret and Pop-Up Club Is Taking Over Twelfth Night Theatre for Brisbane Festival 2025
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic text with martinis, plus a show that gives the book the cabaret and variety treatment.
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NewsSarah Snook Just Added a Tony to Her Trophy Cabinet for the Broadway Season of Sydney Theatre Company's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
The Australian star won Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play — and the production also picked up Best Costume Design.
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NewsCirque du Soleil's Spectacular 'Corteo' Has Added More Shows to Its Upcoming 2025 Australian Season
You've now got more chances to see the acrobatic wonders of this beloved production when it heads Down Under from August.
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GuideGroup Dining: The Best International Restaurants for Celebrating the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023™
Get the gang together to fully embrace this footy season with a culinary journey throughout Sydney.
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GuideEight Vivid Sydney Highlights to Add to Your Diary If You Want to Farewell Winter with a Bang
Put these big-ticket items on your hit list, stat.
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GuideTen Sydney Solstice Highlights You Should Have on Your Radar This Winter
Don’t hibernate — head to debaucherous feasts, aquarium nightclubs and music-filled stargazing sessions instead.
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GuideSix Gigs to Catch During Sydney Solstice If You Can't Get Enough of Live Tunes
After so many months without live music, you've got some catching up to do — here's your chance.
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GuideNine Outdoor Adventures You Can Have in Sydney This Winter If You Unabashedly Love the Cold
Embrace your favourite season with laneway dance parties, harbourside ice rinks and kayak trips under the stars.
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News'Dracula' Is the Next Sydney Theatre Company Production That's Heading to London's West End, This Time Starring Cynthia Erivo
Another Kip Williams adaptation of a gothic classic featuring one performer in every role is travelling from Australia to the UK.
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NewsGo on Country with Bangarra Dance Theatre, Without Leaving Your Home City
The performing arts company’s latest production, 'Illume', opens the door to Bard-Bardi Jawi culture and storytelling on stages across Australia.
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For Its Broadway Run, Sydney Theatre Company's Sarah Snook-Starring 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Has Been Nominated for Six Tonys
The production's 'Succession'-alum star scored a nod, of course — and the show is now the most-nominated solo production in Tony history.
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NewsSydney Comedy Festival Is Taking Over Bondi Pavilion for Five Nights of Top-Tier Stand-Up
The best way to enjoy live comedy? Beachside, with a drink in hand.
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NewsGiggles, Chuckles and Tickled Funny Bones Await: Brisbane Comedy Festival's Full 2025 Lineup Is Here
More than 135 acts are taking to the stage at four venues across five weeks, whether you're keen on stand-up sets from comic favourites, sketches, a 'Shrek' parody or something else.
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NewsAn Australian-Exclusive Performance by Broadway Icon Bernadette Peters Is the First Event on Melt Festival's 2025 Lineup
She originated the role of The Witch in 'Into the Woods' and starred in TV's 'Mozart in the Jungle', and now she's heading to Brisbane.
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NewsBroadway's Hit Screen-to-Stage 'Anastasia' Musical Is Finally Making Its Australian Premiere in 2025
First, Russian history inspired an animated 90s favourite — and now the stage production based on it has a date Down Under.
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NewsLaughs Incoming: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Is Back for 2025 with 1000-Plus Performers and 690 Shows
For a month each year, Melbourne becomes a haven for giggles, chuckles and hilarity — and that time for 2025 is now.
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NewsMelbourne's Malthouse Theatre Is Bringing 'The Birds' and Its Iconic Horror Tale to the Stage From the Page and Screen
To experience the story's full terrors — and every swoop and squawk — theatre attendees will don headphones at this world-premiere one-woman production that follows in Alfred Hitchcock's footsteps.
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NewsRhinestones at the Ready: Dolly Parton-Worshipping Musical 'Here You Come Again' Is Coming to Australia
'Jolene', '9 to 5', 'Islands in the Stream' and 'I Will Always Love You' are among the iconic songs featured in this stage production, which is heading Down Under in 2025.
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NewsYou Could Win an Exclusive MJ The Musical Experience in Sydney
A bucket list experience for any theatre lover.
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NewsLin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-Winning Hit Musical 'In the Heights' Is Playing Melbourne and Southeast Queensland in 2025
Comedy Theatre and HOTA, Home of the Arts will turn into Washington Heights to host seasons of this Broadway smash.
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News'Corteo' Is the Next Dazzling Cirque du Soleil Hit That's Bringing Its Acrobatic Wonders Down Under
A beloved part of the troupe's repertoire since 2005, this show takes place inside a carnival-like parade imagined by a clown.
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NewsThe 'Pretty Woman' Stage Musical Is Making Its Australian Debut in Brisbane in October 2025
Bryan Adams wrote the music and lyrics for the hit production, which premiered on Broadway in 2018.
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News'Titanique' Will Go On: This Céline Dion-Fuelled Stage Musical Is Extending Its Australian-Exclusive Sydney Season
You've now got until early June 2025 to see this off-Broadway hit filled with Dion's songs during its only Aussie berth.
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NewsIf You Just Can't Wait to See 'The Lion King' Onstage Again, the Tony-Winning Musical Is Returning to Australia in 2026
When it opens at Sydney's Capitol Theatre, this will be the third time that a local production of the film-to-theatre hit has been staged in Australia.
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NewsIt's Alive Again: Shake & Stir Theatre Co's Stage Production of 'Frankenstein' Is Returning to Brisbane in 2025
If you missed this stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's masterpiece a few years back, here's your next chance to see it in Brisbane.
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'Cats' Has Added a Melbourne Season to Its 2025 Australian Tour That's Celebrating Its 40th Anniversary Down Under
You can see why this feline-fancying musical has proven a huge theatre hit — even if it didn't translate to the big screen — in the Victorian capital from December.
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NewsTricks, Trysts and Tigers: How the Lives of Infamous Illusionists Siegfried and Roy Became an (Unauthorised) Opera
The headline show of Sydney Festival 2025 immortalises two of the most famous magicians of all time — and the big cat who ended their careers.
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Prepare to Get Giggling: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Has Started Unveiling Its 2025 Lineup
Mark Watson, Sara Pascoe, Danny Bhoy, Rhys Darby, Nazeem Hussain and Zoë Coombs Marr are just some of the comedians on the program.
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FeatureShoot For the Stars: How the Australian Cast of 'Hamilton' Is Spending Summer in Sydney
We chatted to the people who are always in the Room Where it Happens to find out how stage stars live it up in the Harbour City
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NewsGreat Scott!: 'Back to the Future: The Musical' Is Making Its Australian Premiere in Sydney in 2025
After hit seasons in West End and on Broadway, the award-winning stage version of everyone's favourite time-travelling 80s flick is zipping Down Under.
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NewsWhen a Delightfully Strange Screen-to-Stage Australian Musical Happens: Paul Hodge and Simon Phillips Chat 'Round the Twist'
Have you heard the word about Queensland Theatre and Queensland Performing Arts Centre's new adaptation of the beloved 90s series? We chatted to the composer/playwright and director behind it.
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News"I Learn From Her Every Night": 'Hamilton' Star Vidya Makan Is Putting Her Own Spin on the Musical Theatre Megahit
The performer and composer had to forget everything she knew about the blockbusting show to find some common ground with her character.
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Rhys Darby, Ross Noble, Boozy Shakespeare: Brisbane Comedy Festival Has Unveiled Its First 2025 Lineup
You'll also be able to chuckle at Nazeem Hussain, Melanie Bracewell, Jimeoin, Ray O’Leary, Luke Heggie, Becky Lucas, Bron Lewis and more.
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NewsTony- and Olivier-Winning Hit 'The Play That Goes Wrong' Is Making a Comeback on Australia's Stages in 2025
What happens when The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society tries to stage a murder-mystery? Chaos — and this onstage comedy.
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NewsPrecious News: 'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale' Has Locked in a Southeast Queensland Season for 2025
You'll need to head to the Gold Coast to see this hit Middle-earth musical when it takes its hobbits to the Sunshine State.
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GuideMany of the Best Seats at Sydney Festival 2025's Headline Shows Are on Sale for Just $49 — Here's Why
As NSW's flagship arts fest prepares to celebrate its 49th birthday, affordability has been very much front of mind for Festival Director Olivia Ansell.
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NewsThe Stage Version of Beloved Australian Classic 'Looking for Alibrandi' Is Coming to Southeast Queensland in 2025
Melina Marchetta's 1992 book first made the leap to the stage in 2022 — and now it's coming to the Sunshine State.
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NewsDo You Hear the People Sing?: The 'Les Misérables' Arena Spectacular Is Coming to Australia in 2025
The music of the people, plus the songs of angry men, will echo thanks to a stacked cast and a 65-plus-piece orchestra.
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'Cats' Is Returning to the Stage Down Under to Celebrate Its 40th Australian Anniversary
The movie mightn't have hit the mark, but you can see why this feline-fancying musical has been a huge theatre hit when it makes its Aussie stage comeback.
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'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale' Has Added More Cities to Its Precious 2025 Australian Tour
This hit Middle-earth musical is not only taking the hobbits to Sydney, but to Melbourne and Perth as well.
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NewsSydney Theatre Company's Sarah Snook-Starring 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Is Heading to Broadway
After wowing London's West End, the 'Succession' actor will make her Broadway debut playing 26 roles in the one-performer Aussie stage sensation.
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NewsNow Open: The West End Electric, Brisbane's New 400-Plus-Seat Theatre and Bar, Is Here to Get Sparks Flying
You can now enjoy drinks and a show on Boundary Street at production house Strut & Fret's permanent new Brisbane venue.
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NewsBroadway Sensation 'Hadestown' Is Bringing Its Tony-Winning Musical Take on Greek Myth to Melbourne in 2025
See the story of Orpheus and Eurydice get a new spin featuring jazz and American folk tunes in this Grammy-winning production.
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NewsSplash-Hit Céline Dion-Fuelled Musical-Comedy 'Titanique' Is Making Its Australian Debut in Sydney This Month
The laughs will go on at this off-Broadway award-winner, which is told through Dion's songs — and is finally making its maiden voyage Down Under.
