ATHENAEUM THEATRE

by Mary Baillie - December 08, 2025

Sweeney Todd arrives at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland this December, where director Aaron Lee Lambert delivers a humorous, witty, magically ridiculous and thought-provoking take on Sondheim’s challenging musical. This production follows the infamous serial-killer barber of Fleet Street and his...

by Mary Baillie - November 03, 2025

Performed fittingly on Halloween, this stage version of Let the Right One In adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel and film captures the eerie chill of Blackeberg, Sweden. The story follows Oskar, a lonely and bullied boy who befriends a strange young girl named Eli. She smells like a wet dog, ...

by Stephi Wild - September 15, 2025

This festive season, everyone's favourite Christmas movie will be gloriously sent up in the Off-Broadway smash hit, Love Actually? The Musical Parody. ...

by Stephi Wild - September 15, 2025

This festive season, everyone's favourite Christmas movie will be gloriously sent up in the Off-Broadway smash hit, Love Actually? The Musical Parody. ...

by Stephi Wild - September 15, 2025

This festive season, everyone's favourite Christmas movie will be gloriously sent up in the Off-Broadway smash hit, Love Actually? The Musical Parody. ...

by Stephi Wild - September 11, 2025

More than two decades since Melbourne last experienced the tribal love-rock musical phenomenon HAIR, a brand-new production of the Grammy and Tony Award-winning hit is coming to the Athenaeum Theatre....

by A.A. Cristi - August 11, 2025

Due to overwhelming demand, the high-energy hit Footloose: The Musical has announced a final Melbourne season extension, now playing at the Athenaeum Theatre through Sunday, 24 August 2025....

by Josh Sharpe - June 04, 2025

Indigo De Souza has shared Crying Over Nothing,” a deceptively bouncy new single from her album Precipice, arriving this summer. De Souza has also announced a headline run in the summer and fall in support of the album. Check out the new single and the tour dates here....

by Josh Sharpe - April 01, 2025

The Waterboys have announced their first North American tour in six years. The tour will begin on September 4th and run through October 4th. All tickets will be on sale to the public this Friday at 10 am local time. ...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 20, 2025

Still Point Theatre Collective will present the first annual Social Change Theater Festival in March. This festival will provide a space for artists, activists, and audiences to engage with performance as a tool for social change. Learn more!...