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Audiences old and new will be rolling in the aisles when the Tony and Olivier award-winning fan favourite The Play That Goes Wrong arrives at the Opera House and tours Australia from winter 2025.

The Sydney Comedy Festival, drew to a close with the announcement of its 2025 award winners: Dan Rath, Ruby Teys and Jack Ansett who each took home along with their trophy a $1500 prize.

Mix Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller with a dash of Monty Python-style chaos, and you get THE 39 STEPS.

Merrigong Theatre Company will present Verity Laughton’s smash-hit stage adaptation of Australian author Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words.

Global pop sensation Nessa Barrett has added highly anticipated Australian dates to her AFTERCARE WORLD TOUR for December 2025.

For the first time, the Australian Performing Arts Collection will acquire and preserve items from leading circus company, Circa.

The mental health risk of misguided love plays out in the crazy comedy of WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

To celebrate 30 years of success, Grinspoon has announced details of their Australian 30th Birthday Bonanza! Tour which will take them across the country starting in Adelaide’s AEC Theatre on Saturday, 1 November.

Belvoir presents Eamon Flack’s gripping adaptation of Australian literary icon Helen Garner’s award-winning novel The Spare Room, starring Aussie screen legend Judy Davis in her first on-stage role in almost 15 years.

Fresh from its critically acclaimed debut season in New York City, Ensemble Theatre will present the Australian premiere of Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, Primary Trust.

From the multi-award-winning creative minds at Shake and Stir (Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Animal Farm and Dracula) comes Nelle Lee and Nick Skubij’s powerful adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece 1984 at Riverside Theatres.

Fresh from its  run aboard the Cunard majestic Queen Elizabeth, Sydney Musical and Opera Society will present a new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s beloved Broadway and West End classic, Carousel in Concert.

THE BOOK OF MORMON has announced the final casting for the production which is opening in Sydney in July 2025.

Robyn Nevin (Director) brings another of Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries to the Sydney stage with And Then There Were None.

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Claude-Michel Schönberg (Book & Music), Alain Boublil (Concept, Book & Original French Lyrics)  and Herbert Kretzmer (Lyrics) musical theatre adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel, LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR is a captivating, staged concert desig

The Wrong Godsis set on the banks of a sacred river, near the outskirts of town in India.

Based on the beloved novel by Anthony Hill, Theatre Works will present the premiere season of Soldier Boy; the story of Australia’s youngest ANZAC.

Grammy Award-winning American composer Eric Whitacre will return to Sydney with the Australian premiere of his latest work, Eternity in an Hour, presented for one concert only.