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Artistic Director & CEO Brett Sheehy has unveiled his final season for Melbourne Theatre Company – a program of 11 stellar productions including both new Australian and critically acclaimed international works.

Netflix plans to now expand the Roald Dahl universe across live theatre, animated and live action films and series, books, games, immersive experiences, commercial products, and more.

It’s the outward sigh and unexpected pause of two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster as she makes her first entrance onto the Barbican stage – to great applause and cheers we should add – that travels through your body like the greatest sense of relief: theatre is back. It’s a moment that, after the giant and frankly horrible pause in the world of theatre, we never thought would come. But it did, it does, and it feels so darn nice.

Leave it to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s most colourful musical to date to pull London out of the lockdown blues! After closing down with the rest of the West End last year, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat comes back to the Palladium starring Theatreland’s sweetheart Jac Yarrow as the title character, Alexandra Burke as the exhilarating Narrator, and Jason Donovan - who’s graduated to Pharaoh after playing Joseph in the early 90s. 

New Vic Theatre has announced that they will be postponing their production of Marvellous.

The theatre has notified all actors and freelance staff contracted for the project and will honour all payments for these employees, and the New Vic's Box Office team are in the process of contacting all existing ticket holders for the show to discuss their options with them.

We are extremely fortunate that there are some world-class musicians here in Adelaide

I went in with quite high hopes but unfortunately, I left feeling like not all of those hopes had been realised by this production....

Tickets for the upcoming season will be on sale from Wednesday 7 July at midday. Learn more about the productions and how to get tickets here!

Learn about the full lineup which includes circus, music, comedy, drag, and more!

It all begins, of course, with a tweet. When the news of Kylie Jenner’s status as the “youngest self-made billionaire ever” starts to make the rounds on Twitter, 21-year-old Cleo, despite the warnings of her close friend Kara, launches an online rampage with the hashtag #kyliejennerfidead. As Jasmine Lee-Jones’s seven methods of killing kylie jenner announces in its title, Cleo has come up with seven ways to get rid of this “con artist-cum-provocateur,” which she will lay out for the world to see.

Robyn Archer's performance seemed over all too soon

Tricia Thorns has been a professional actress for some 35 years and has of late added directing to her distinguished CV. Her latest production is a revival of Staircase, a two-hander from 1966 that was made into a 1969 movie starring, of all people, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton. Charles Dyer's play about two gay Brixton hairdressers starts a monthlong run at Southwark Playhouse on June 23, with Paul Rider and John Sackville as its cast. Thorns explains her attraction to the material below and to a play that, she says, has in no way aged with time. 

Inspired by a true story, Melissa Reeves creates a whimsical study of small-town Australia, Cold War fear-mongering, friendship and betrayal, laced with dry humour and keenly observed relationships.

As the world begins its emergence from the confines of the pandemic, as New Yorkers leave their homes once more and visitors return to the city, award-winning interdisciplinary artist Annie Saunders and her acclaimed collaborators including Andrew Schneider, Jackie! Zhou/One Thousand Birds and Marc Downie of OpenEndedGroup, invites audiences to experience CURRENT.

Southwark Playhouse reopens this week with in-person performances of You Are Here. Originating in the US, this is the UK premiere of a new musical by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill, presented by The Grey Area Theatre Company and directed by Matthew Rankcom. The show is of a pleasant length to ease oneself back into theatre, coming in at 90 minutes with no interval.

Five groups of young people across Greater Manchester have taken part in creative workshops with multi-disciplinary artist Jade Williams to explore and celebrate the first Black British circus owner, Pablo Fanque.

Underbelly Festival has announced an upcoming programme of cabaret, circus, comedy, variety, podcasts, and family shows for the Spiegeltent at its brand-new home in Cavendish Square.

The critically acclaimed production of Murder in San José opens at the HKAPA on 30 April 2021, marking the return of live theatre in Hong Kong since the start of the pandemic.

Pioneer Arts Ltd have announced a special student production of CASES taking place at The BRIT School on Tuesday 18th May and Thursday 20th May.

Today the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced the appointment of Shriti Vadera as the new Chair of the RSC. 

Fortune telling, fakery and fun at the Anywhere Festival

New musical production company Perfect Pitch and worldwide theatrical licensing house Broadway Licensing have today announced a new partnership that will see the commission, development, production and licensing of four new British musicals, as 7 existing Perfect Pitch titles join the Broadway Licensing catalogue.

The Globe is preparing to open again. Provided the conditions are met for Step 2 of the Government's roadmap for cultural reopening the Globe's guided tour of the theatre will return from 13 April and include welcoming schools back onsite with tours and workshops.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, February 27-28, 2020.