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Review: SHIRLEY VALENTINE Is An Amusing Piece Of Nostalgic Comedy That Still Holds A Relevance In The 21st Century
by Jade Kops - October 24, 2025
Director Lee Lewis brings Willy Russell’s (playwright) one woman comedy SHIRLEY VALENTINE back to the Sydney stage with Natalie Bassingthwaighte as the famous housewife that talked to walls and rocks.
ANASTASIA The Musical at the Regent Theatre Casts Four Youth Performers In the Title Role
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2025
Producers of Anastasia The Musical have announced the young Melbourne actors sharing the role of Little Anastasia in the upcoming Australian production.
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Comes to Sydney Theatre
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2025
Logie-award winner Kat Stewart (Underbelly, Offspring) and her real-life husband David Whiteley will make their Sydney Theatre Company debut this November in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Critical Path Celebrates 20 Years With Free Three-Day Festival EVERY WILD IDEA
by BWW News Desk - October 20, 2025
Critical Path, Australia’s leading choreographic research centre, celebrates its 20th anniversary with Every Wild Idea, a free three-day festival at The Drill Hall in Sydney from November 14–16, 2025.
PUTTING IT TOGETHER Comes To Sydney's Foundry Theatre
by BWW News Desk - October 17, 2025
A celebration of Stephen Sondheim's greatest work, Putting It Together, is coming to Sydney's Foundry Theatre in January. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!
Seymour Centre Reveals New Artistic Director
by BWW News Desk - October 17, 2025
The Seymour Centre at the University of Sydney has announced the appointment of Joanne Kee as the new Artistic Director of the Seymour Centre, commencing in October 2025.
Final Weeks To Submit For The 2025 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards
by BWW Awards - October 14, 2025
Time is running out to submit for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.
THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING LEAR AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS Comes to Belvoir
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2025
As the finale to their 2025 season, Belvoir will bring the house down with Shakespeare’s greatest play King Lear, starring multi-award-winning stage and screen legend Colin Friels,.
HEATHERS THE MUSICAL Set For 2026 Australia & New Zealand Tour
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2025
The hit rock musical Heathers is making its professional Australian premiere in 2026 following smash-hit runs in London and New York. Pre-sales begin October 14 in Sydney, with additional cities following in the coming weeks.
Michael Cassel Joins NIDA Foundation Trust
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2025
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) has announced the appointment of renowned producer and entertainment executive Michael Cassel AM to the NIDA Foundation Trust.
Steven Vidler Wins The 2025 Silver Gull Play Award For THE VANYA VARIATIONS
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2025
New Theatre has announced that Steven Vidler is the winner of the 2025 Silver Gull Play Award for his bold new play The Vanya Variations. The award recognizes original, unproduced works that embody New Theatre’s ethos of “Plays With a Purpose.”
Bach's Mass in B Minor Will Be the Final Performances of the Sydney Chamber Choir's Season
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2025
Celebrate the brilliance of Bach's last and greatest choral masterpiece: his magnificent Mass in B minor in this final, glorious performance of the Sydney Chamber Choir's 50th anniversary season.
DAYTIME DEEWANE To Make Australian Premiere At Riverside’s National Theatre Of Parramatta
by BWW News Desk - October 09, 2025
Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta will present the Australian premiere of Daytime Deewane, a thrilling, music-fueled coming-of-age story from Azan Ahmed, directed by Sepy Baghaei.
WAITRESS Will Premiere in Sydney in 2026
by BWW News Desk - October 08, 2025
Broadway's smash-hit musical WAITRESS is baking its way to Australia for the very first time, premiering at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in July 2026. Learn more here!
Review: & JULIET — A Pop-Fuelled Blast of Heart, Humour, and Girl Power
by Kym Vaitiekus - October 06, 2025
Review: & JULIET — A Pop-Fuelled Blast of Heart, Humour, and Girl Power, PACA Productions’ staging of & JULIET bursts onto the Riverside Theatre stage with infectious energy, flair, and wit
Review: Pets and Their People are Considered in CHICKEN IN A BISCUIT
by Jade Kops - October 05, 2025
Mary Rachel Brown (Director and Writer) and Jamie Oxenbould’s (Writer and Performer) new play CHICKEN IN A BISCUIT shares a different take on the secret lives of domesticated animals and their ‘owners’. 
Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE THE MUSICAL Is A Fabulously Fun Adaptation of the 1985 Film
by Jade Kops - October 05, 2025
Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale’s time travelling movie is given a musical theatre makeover with BACK TO THE FUTURE THE MUSICAL.
Review: See Hear Feel OVERTURE
by Kym Vaitiekus - October 03, 2025
OVERTURE exemplifies how dance, unlike a scripted production, is not always literal, yet its intent is vividly conveyed through the dancers' movements, leaving a profound impact. A remarkable feat
REVIEW: RENT Returns To Sydney with a Large Scale Production for the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House.
by Jade Kops - October 03, 2025
Director Shaun Rennie delivers his third imagining of RENT, this time in his biggest staging of the musical to date in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of Sydney Opera House.  32 years after Jonathan Larson’s (Music, Book, Lyrics) musical theatre adaptation of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème was first presented as a workshop production in the off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop in 1993, almost 30 years after it’s Broadway debeut at the Nederlander Theatre in 1996,  and 27 years after it’s Australian premiere at the Theatre Royal in 1998, the “rock opera” retains a relevance.
Disney's THE LION KING Reveals on Sale Date For Sydney 2026 Season
by BWW News Desk - September 30, 2025
Australian audiences will soon be able to secure their seats for Disney's THE LION KING ahead of the triumphant return of the world's #1 musical to Sydney.
Audrey Hobert Sets Australia and New Zealand Tour Dates
by BWW News Desk - September 30, 2025
Breakout US singer-songwriter Audrey Hobert will return to Australia in May 2026, bringing The Staircase To Stardom Tour across Australia and to New Zealand for the very first time. ​ 
Composer Ludovico Einaudi Returning to Australia and New Zealand in 2026
by BWW News Desk - September 30, 2025
Popular classical music composer, Ludovico Einaudi, will return to tour Australia and New Zealand in January and February 2026, performing music from his new album, The Summer Portraits, along with classics from his repertoire over six nights.
TITUS ANDRONICUS Comes to Theatre Works in November
by BWW News Desk - September 25, 2025
First staged in 2023 as a co-production with the Prague Shakespeare Company, Th'Unguarded Duncan and Theatre Works now invite audiences to the Australian premiere season of this hellish tale.
Jeffrey Gibson Will Deliver National Gallery 2025 Annual Lecture
by BWW News Desk - September 25, 2025
Jeffrey Gibson will present the National Gallery's 2025 Annual Lecture, an event in which leading art world thinkers are invited to present new ideas in the field of art and art history.
Rhoda Roberts Returns to the Sydney Opera House in December
by BWW News Desk - September 24, 2025
Rhoda will share the story of an extraordinary moment in cultural history and her legendary first cousin, boxer Francis “Frank” Roberts. Learn more about the show here!

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