Australia - Sydney Theatre Newsroom

Nick Vagne's WALLY to premiere at KXT on Broadway as part of their 2025 Summer Season beginning this month. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

A powerful, provocative, outrageous and very funny, new Australian play will make its full season premiere just in time for summer and Sydney Mardi gras. GOD’S COWBOY will have its world premiere at El Rocco in Darlinghurst next month.

Opera Up Late will return for its third year at the Sydney Opera House, with a new line-up of talented performers joining host Reuben Kaye, including soprano Emma Matthews.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Immerse yourself in the vibrant culture of Spain at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre with A Taste of Spain. Learn more about the upcoming event and find out how to get tickets here!

This is the final week to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Nominations have been announced for the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards, which will be presented at an industry gala ceremony next month. Check out the full list of nominees here!

ELF: THE MUSICAL brings David Berenbaum’s(writer) 2003 comedy film to the musical theatre stage to the delight of families looking for some festive magic. 

The musical based on viral breakdancing Olympian, Raygun, is back on its feet. Creator and star, Steph Broadbridge has announced three new engagements of the newly-rebranded show throughout Australia.

Elijah Moshinsky’s production of The Barber of Seville will return to the Sydney Opera House for its 30th anniversary season this January. Learn more about the show here!

Following a sold-out performance earlier this month, Michael Cassel Group’s A (VERY) MUSICAL CHRISTMAS will now be released as an album to coincide with the national broadcast.

Dan Ireland-Reeves and Gavin Roach Sauna Boy, featuring real life stories from the gay sauna from someone who worked in one.

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

BEARDED – a new queer Aussie Musical is coming to Theatre Works, St Kilda next month. The production, by Sean Donehue & Nick Waxman, runs for 10 days in January.

After two sold-out seasons in Melbourne, Antipodes Theatre Company will make their Sydney premiere with their critically-acclaimed production of Ghost Quartet at Hayes Theatre Co this January.

Artistic Director, Tyran Parke unveiled the Australian Musical Theatre Festival program that will be held in Launceston, Tasmania in May 2025. Learn more about the program here!

Opera Australia announced the extended, all-star cast of supporting and ensemble performers for its brand-new production of the award-winning Broadway musical Guys & Dolls at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour.

Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, has announced Arabana and Gurindji man Eli Clarke, and Biripi and Worimi woman Roxie Syron, as the Russell Page Graduate dancers for 2025. 

Sydney Theatre Company and Canberra Theatre Centre’s production of Joanna Murray-Smith’s runaway hit, Julia, will return to Melbourne for a strictly limited run at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse.

Comedian, actor, and writer Josh Wolf will bring his new show HIGH ON LIFE to Australia, starting in Perth on January 29 before heading to Adelaide Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.

Voting is now open for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The premiere of Raygun: The Musical, inspired by viral Olympic break dancer, Rachel 'Raygun' Gunn, has been called off in Sydney.

Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

The first production in Bell Shakespeare’s 35th anniversary season in 2025 will be a new contemporary staging of Henry 5, starring  newcomer JK Kazzi in his mainstage theatre debut.

Comedian Steph Broadbridge will debut Raygun: The Musical, inspired by the viral Olympic breaker, in Sydney this week, prior to a full run at comedy festivals in Sydney, Melbourne and Edinburgh next year.