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The musical expertise of lyricist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schonberg is gloriously presented in DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING. Global Musical theatre stars Michael Ball, John Owen-Jones, Rachel Tucker, Bobby Fox, David Harris, Sooha Kim, Suzie Mathers, and Marie Zamora perform some highlights from Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, La Révolution Française, Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen.

John D’Agata and Jim Fingal’s book is given the live theatre treatment in Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell’s interpretation of THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT.

Challenging the question of what causes a piece of theatre to be afforded the reputation of THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN PLAY, this new work from Kim Ho is a reflection on his own work being elevated then swiftly challenged. 

Angel Betzien’s CHALKFACE challenges the flaws with the public education system with hilarious black comedy. 

25 years after James Cameron reawakened interest in the famous/infamous unsinkable ship, TITANIC: THE MOVIE, THE PLAY revisits the ill-fated love story with amusing economy. 

Travis Alabanza’s (playwright) OVERFLOW is a brilliantly funny and powerfully informing new theatre work that puts the Trans experience in the spotlight. 

Cindy Lauper (music and lyrics) and Harvey Fierstein’s (book) multi award winning KINKY BOOTS is given the Packemin Productions treatment in a high energy production. 

Rosalind Franklin’s largely unrecognized contribution to the understanding of DNA and the men that hindered and betrayed her is explored in Anna Ziegler’s PHOTOGRAPH 51.

ROUGH TRADE, dancing dildoes, online shenanigans, the evils of capitalism, and swapping sex toys. Trade your expectations for an insightful, humorous, touching and engaging one woman show about human relationships in a world of online communities.

Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow’s (both Book, Music, Lyrics) smash hit musical SIX returns to Sydney to hold court at the Theatre Royal.  

KXT's Australian premiere production of Michael Marc Bouchard’s TOM AT THE FARM is the directorial debut for Danny Ball. Ball has assembled a fine cast to present this layered and complex piece that touches on the journeys of those that use avoidance, fear, violence and hidden truths to survive their relationships and to save themselves from their own realities.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA remains as captivating 35 years after it first premiered. Laurence Connor’s (Director) “New” touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Music and book), Charles Hart (Lyrics) and Richard Stilgoe’s (additional Lyrics and book) famous musical adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s LE FANTÔME DE L’OPÉRA is a combination of captivating music, wonderful choreography and detailed set and costume design that transports the audience to the 19th Century Palais Garnier.

Anne Deveson’s memoir about life with a child suffering with Schizophrenia, TELL ME I’M HERE, is given the stage treatment in Veronica Nadine Gleeson’s adaptation.

William Shakespeare’s THE COMEDY OF ERRORS is given a new spin with Janine Watson’s (Director) 70’s Disco inspired interpretation of the farcical comedy.

Liliana Padilla's HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF uses the American college experience to explore the universal realities of the ever-present vulnerability and fear of assault that women experience on a daily basis.

Following on from the success of merging live performance and live video capture, Kip Williams has given STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR Hyde the same treatment with the addition of a second performer.  Gathering the same creative team that delivered the award-winning PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY, Williams and Sydney Theatre Company test whether the same formula can be used twice. 

Sydney finally receives a fully staged professional production of JEKYLL AND HYDE THE MUSICAL, the musical theatre interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous novella.  Under Hayden Tee’s direction the gothic exploration of the duality of human behavior is given a 20th century update with a significant change of setting from the Victorian England to a post WWII military hospital. 

ALBIOB directer Lucy Clements has assembled a fine cast to present this analogical portrait of a nation torn between preserving the past and radically reforming the present.

The audience love for Yve Blake’s musical comedy thriller FANGIRLS stays strong as the celebration of the power of female emotion, energy and enthusiasm remains important as society continues to need to shift views on the joyous devotion women of all ages display for strangers they see on stage and screen.

FERVOUR and Red Line Productions have joined to present Claudia Osborne( Adaptor and Director) and Tasnim Hossain’s (Adaptor and Dramaturg) interpretation of Sidney Hayers BURN WITCH BURN (a movie originally released in 1962 as NIGHT OF THE EAGLE), a work in turn based on Fritz Leiber’s novel CONJURE WIFE.