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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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NewsPrepare 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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NewsRhys 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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News'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.
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NewsLive 'Dungeons & Dragons' Show 'The Twenty-Sided Tavern' Is Rolling Into Australia for Its Down Under Premiere
You won't just watch this stage version of the tabletop roleplaying game — you play along, choosing the characters and helping shape the story.
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NewsThe Stage Musical Version of Festive Big-Screen Favourite 'Elf' Is Finally Making Its Australian Premiere
The film-to-theatre Broadway hit is heading Down Under, debuting in Sydney, so that you can catch the Christmas classic onstage.
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The Musical Version of 'The Lord of the Rings' Is Taking the Hobbits to Australian Stages in 2025
Middle-earth gets melodic at 'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale', which is making its Aussie debut in Sydney.
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NewsThis Year's Melbourne Fringe Festival Sees Food and Art Combine in Hundreds of Boundary-Pushing Performances
Whoever said you shouldn't play with your food is a fool, because these local and international artists are showing us just how fun it can be.
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News'Parks and Recreation' and 'The Afterparty' Star Ben Schwartz Is Bringing His Live Improv Show to Australia
He's also the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog — and he's locked in a two-city trip Down Under in 2025.
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News'Guys and Dolls' Is the Next Iconic Musical That Opera Australia Is Bringing to Sydney Harbour's Floating Stage
The Tony-winning Broadway sensation is Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour's pick for 2025, running for a month from late March.
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NewsThe First-Ever Caxton Street Comedy Festival Is Taking Over Four Venues Across One Side-Splitting October Day
Lloyd Langford, Michael Hing, Geraldine Hickey, Chris Ryan and more will be behind the mic as part of a lineup of 20-plus comedy gigs.
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News'RuPaul's Drag Race' Icon Bianca Del Rio Is Returning Down Under in 2025 with Her 'Dead Inside' Tour
Hurricane Bianca is back, this time breaking out her devilish snark and timing on an eight-city tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsGet Ready for Murderous Musical Thrills: 'Sweeney Todd' Is Playing Melbourne in September 2024
Victorian Opera is staging Steven Sondheim's Tony-winning Broadway and West End smash — and maybe don't eat meat pies before heading along.
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NewsDavid Sedaris Is Bringing His Latest Tour to Australia and New Zealand to Delight NPR Obsessives in 2025
Two years on from his last round of 'An Evening with David Sedaris' shows Down Under, the NPR humorist and bestselling author is returning.
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NewsHow Bangarra Dance Theatre Is Looking Beyond Australia with Its First Mainstage Cross-Cultural Collaboration 'Horizon'
“I really want to make sure that you, as the audience, will leave the theatre with a bit of the Torres Strait with you.”
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NewsThe First-Ever Australian Season of 'Dear Evan Hansen' Will Tour the Country After Its Sydney Debut
Sydney Theatre Company's production of the Tony-winning musical has locked in dates in Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide.
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NewsMelbourne's 'Beauty and the Beast' Lottery Is Slinging Tickets to the Hit Disney Musical for Just $24
Via TodayTix, you can go in the running to nab 24 tickets for $24 each to every one of the stage production's Melbourne shows.
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NewsNow Open: North Melbourne's VIVA Is Pairing Raunchy Cabaret Shows with Stageside Dinners
Think of VIVA as a modern (and IRL) version of Cher and Christina Aguilera's cabaret club in 'Burlesque'.
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NewsDolly Parton Has Announced a Broadway Musical Based on Her Life So Start Begging for It to Please Come Down Under
Set to debut in New York in 2026, this new stage show will step through the icon's story and career — and Parton has written new songs for it.
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NewsComing Soon: The West End Electric Is Brisbane's New 400-Plus-Seat Theatre and Entertainment Space
Strut & Fret isn't just bringing 'LIMBO — THE RETURN' to town for Brisbane Festival — it's launching a new venue.
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Tony- and Grammy-Winning Musical 'Hadestown' Will Make Its Australian Premiere in Sydney in 2025
The hit production, which hit Broadway in 2019, gives the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice a new spin featuring jazz and American folk tunes.
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News'Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show' Is Making Its Australian Debut at Brisbane Festival 2024
Playing an Aussie-exclusive season, this stage production features more than 200 original Gaultier couture pieces and celebrates the designer's 50-year career.
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NewsBlessed News: 'Sister Act' Is the Next Smash-Hit Broadway Musical That's Coming to Brisbane
Sydney and Melbourne aren't the only cities welcoming this five-time Tony-nominee, with the show locking in a Brisbane season from February 2025.
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NewsCalling All 'Black Books' Obsessives: Bill Bailey Is Touring Australia in October and November 2024
The 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' star is rarely far from stages Down Under, returning after last getting behind the mic in 2022.
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NewsShake & Stir Theatre Co's Stage Production of 'Frankenstein' Is Coming Alive in Melbourne and Sydney in 2024
Shake & Stir Theatre Co has already taken on 'Dracula', 'Jane Eyre' and 'A Christmas Carol' — now it's Mary Shelley's masterpiece's turn.
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News'In the Heights' Is the Next Tony-Winning Hit Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda That's Coming to Australia
Sydney Opera House will turn into Washington Heights to host a six-week season of the Broadway smash in July and August.
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NewsSydney Theatre Company's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Might Be Making the Stage-to-Screen Leap
Cate Blanchett's production company Dirty Films has picked up the film rights for the one-performer Aussie stage smash.
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NewsTony-Winning Smash-Hit Musical 'The Book of Mormon' Is Coming Back to Australia in 2025
Sydney will host the return of this crass magnum opus from 'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone from July 2025.
