The latest theatre news from Melbourne, Australia — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Museum of Performing Arts will host ENCORE!, featuring 50 iconic objects from Australia's performing arts history, including costumes worn by Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, and Olivia Newton-John.
Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer will make his highly anticipated return to Australia this October with a new arena production: Hans Zimmer Live – The Next Level.
Jason Donovan will star as Randle P.
StageMag, the digital show program platform from BroadwayWorld, launched its new PDF Editor to all producers and stage managers using the service.
Acclaimed English comedian Simon Brodkin announced an Australian tour, with stops in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth as part of his UNLEASHED stand-up show.
Troy Sussman will lead the Australian cast of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF as Tevye, joined by Sigrid Thornton as Yente, in a national tour opening at Theatre Royal Sydney before traveling to Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth.
Giant, the new play starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl, will be released in cinemas later this year.
The new production of STARLIGHT EXPRESS, which won an Olivier Award during its London run, will tour the UK and beyond, with stops in Leicester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Sunderland, Birmingham, and Southampton.
Australian musical theatre lovers have been eagerly awaiting this day, when ‘Waitress’ would finally clock in down under, ten years after it first set up shop on Broadway, to great acclaim from audiences for its originality and deeply human story.
Emmy, Golden Globe, and Tony winner Anthony LaPaglia will reprise his role as Willy Loman in DEATH OF A SALESMAN, returning to Melbourne's Her Majesty's Theatre and making its Brisbane debut at QPAC.
Opera Australia will present GILBERT & SULLIVAN: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION at Melbourne's Regent Theatre, featuring Ben Mingay and Antoinette Halloran alongside an all-star cast performing highlights from The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, and more.
Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will bring his live speaking tour, The Sky is Not the Limit: Lessons from a Year in Space, to five Australian cities, including Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will perform Music of This Place at Bunjil Place in Narre Warren, the first of four low-cost community concerts planned across Greater Melbourne in 2026.
BroadwayWorld is launching the May 2026 Games Challenge - a month-long streak competition open to fans across the U.
A line-up of Australian entertainment talent, including BABBA, John Wayne Parsons, and returning host Briohny Dawson, will headline this year's Sleep at the ‘G.
Mischief's CHRISTMAS CAROL GOES WRONG will return to London's Wyndham's Theatre for a limited West End run, while also embarking on a second UK tour, a North American premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and an Australian run.
Bloomsday in Melbourne will present BETWEEN THE LINES - THE JAMES JOYCE/GROUCHO MARX LETTERS at fortyfivedownstairs, a literary mystery about a scholar whose discovery of letters between James Joyce and Groucho Marx is stolen by her mentor.
Victorian Opera will present THE MAGIC PUDDING: THE OPERA, composed by Calvin Bowman and written by Anna Goldsworthy, across three Melbourne venues with a live chamber orchestra and cast including students from Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
Melbourne string quartet The Crossing Machine (violinists Marianne Rothschild and Matthew Rigby, violist Margaret Butcher and cellist Charlotte Jacke) will be joined by pop vocalist Jordan Z to perform The Juliet Letters.
Clovelly Fox and fortyfivedownstairs will present the Tony Award-winning musical GREY GARDENS in Melbourne, starring Helen Dallimore and Deidre Rubenstein as Big and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, directed by Tyran Parke.
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra will present OVERGROWN PATHS, a program blending Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with poetry narrated by actor Helen Morse, touring Melbourne, Yackandandah, and Mornington.
Arts Centre Melbourne announced new workshops exploring neurodiversity, dementia care, and club dance as part of its PLAY program, including NEUROVISION, a cabaret show made with disability-led Schizy Inc, and Improvising Care, a first-of-its-kind dementia workshop in Australia.
After six weeks of voting, BroadwayWorld readers have crowned Newsies the Ultimate Best Movie Musical in the 2026 edition of BroadwayWorld's Annual Bracket.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra announced MSO+, a musician-led programming initiative appointing veteran violinist Monica Curro as Creative Director to develop community-focused projects across Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Reuben Kaye will return with a brand-new solo cabaret comedy show, Hard to Swallow sharper, sexier and more political than ever, touring Australia in 2026.
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Society Viva Melbourne (5/01-4/25) PHOTOS |
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Scandal Viva Melbourne (5/01-4/25) PHOTOS |
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The Music and Life of Barbra Streisand starring Melinda Schneider Hamer Hall (8/07-8/07) |
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PAW Patrol™ Live! "Race to the Rescue" Margaret Court Arena (8/22-8/23) |
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Saplings - Art Centre Melbourne The Show Room (7/31-8/01) |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest - Preview Athenaeum Theatre One (11/13-11/15) |
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Menopause The Musical Athenaeum Theatre One (9/02-9/06) |
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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience Oaks Melbourne on Market Hotel (3/06-12/12) |
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Kindred People 2026 The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts (9/01-9/05) |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest Athenaeum Theatre One (11/18-12/06) |
