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Australian adaptation of the original story, not the film, packs a punch

Yentl, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s bold and acclaimed new adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s story has revealed the full cast for its international premiere at Marylebone Theatre. See photos here!

Yentl, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s new adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s story, is making its international premiere at Marylebone Theatre. Check out rehearsal photos here!

After a series of sold-out Australian seasons — including a five-star run at the Sydney Opera House — Yentl, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre's bold and acclaimed new adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's story has announced its final casting.

Nominations were announced for the 2025 Sydney Theatre Awards, which will be presented at an industry gala ceremony on Monday 19 January 2026 at the York Theatre, Seymour Centre.

After a series of sold-out Australian seasons, including a five-star run at the Sydney Opera House, Yentl, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre's new adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's story, will make its international premiere at Marylebone Theatre.

Steven Kramer’s (Book, Music & Lyrics) new work, PHAR LAP THE ELECTRO-SWING MUSICAL is a piece of pure genius.

Phar Lap: The Electro-Swing Musical will have its world premiere at Hayes Theatre Co from October 17–November 22, 2025. Starring Joel Granger as the beloved racehorse, the show blends absurdist comedy, an electro-swing score, and a heartfelt underdog story.

Directors Dino Dimitriadis and Shane Anthony deliver a brilliant and bold expression of John Cameron Mitchell (Text) and Stephen Trask’s (Music and Lyrics) rock musical HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH.

The mental health risk of misguided love plays out in the crazy comedy of WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. David Yazbek (music and lyrics) and Jeffrey Lane (book)  gave Pedro Almodovar’s 1988 film of the same name the musical theatre treatment in 2010 resulting in a madcap merging of Spanish inspired music and farcical comedy with an 1980’s aesthetic which is all right is director Alexander Berlage’s wheelhouse.

As rehearsals begin this week, Hedwig and the Angry Inch has now confirmed the full cast, band and creative team ahead of its Australian premiere at the Adelaide Festival.

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!

YENTL, Gary Abrahams, Elise Hearst and Galit Klas’ adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, comes to Sydney following a successful Melbourne season. Read the review.

Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s remarkable adaptation of Yentl has returned to Malthouse. Winner of four Green Room Awards after a stellar 2022 debut season, this production is a must see for those wanting a thought-provoking, and at times confronting exploration of how gender, sexuality, culture, and religion all collide together.

Malthouse will present a return season of Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s Yentl beginning next month. This new stage adaptation of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer’s iconic short story is the first since the 1975 Broadway play and Barbra Streisand’s iconic 1983 musical film.

Bell Shakespeare's touring production of Twelfth Night arrives in Canberra and Sydney this October, presented at Canberra Theatre Centre from 13 – 21 October and Sydney Opera House from 26 October – 19 November.

Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta (NTofP) supports New Ghosts Theatre Company to present the world premiere of Girl Band, by award-winning playwright Katy Warner, playing at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres from Thursday 18th to Saturday 27th May as part of NTofP’s True West Program.

Coming home from her sister's funeral, Grace (Belinda Giblin) decides that at 87 years old… her time has come. She's done with it all. She's ready to leave the party. Her daughter, Dorothy, decides her mum is just depressed and makes it her mission to show Grace the beauty of living. But Dorothy is divorced, stuck in a dead-end job and estranged from her own daughter, Suzie, who lives halfway across the world. Soon, Dorothy starts to worry that her mum might have the right idea.

Griffin Theatre Company presents A is for Apple by Jessica Bellamy at the SBW Stables Theatre from 29 March – 9 April 2022. Part of the prestigious Griffin Lookout program, which celebrates the best of independent Sydney theatre, A is for Apple is a contemporary Jewish play which is sure to entertain and delight.

Full casting has been announced to join previously the previously revealed Ben Gerrard for the return of acclaimed American Psycho – The Musical. After a sell-out season at the Hayes Theatre Co which won nine 2019 Sydney Theatre Awards, American Psycho - The Musical will be presented in the Sydney Opera House’s Playhouse from 3 - 27 June, 2021.