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Seymour Centre

cnr Cleveland St and City Rd
Chippendale, New South Wales

Upcoming Shows

Cabaret, C*CKtails and Karaoke

Cabaret, C*CKtails and Karaoke

Jun 26

Seymour’s bold new monthly event, Cabaret, Cocktails and Karaoke, returns Friday 26 June at 7:30pm. Guests are invited into an intimate, high-energy experience where cabaret...

Shooting Hedda Gabler

Shooting Hedda Gabler

Jun 5 – Jun 27, 2026

Seymour Centre and Secret House present the Australian premiere of Shooting Hedda Gabler by Nina Segal—a darkly unsettling, wickedly funny examination of ambition, manipulation and coercive control.When...



REVIEW: Australian Shakespeare Company Presents A New Tech Enhanced Staging Of HAIR THE TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL


by Jade Kops - June 20, 2026

Almost 60 years after its off-Broadway debut, HAIR THE TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL is both a time capsule of a different time and a reminder that there are still things that need changing. ...

REVIEW: Jonny Hawkins’ Latest Solo Performance, TRUCK DRIVER Is An Honest, Humorous and Humbling Insight Into Australians Not Usually Seen On Stage.


by Jade Kops - June 18, 2026

Jonny Hawkins (writer and performer) and Nell Ranney’s (director) TRUCK DRIVER is an incredible new Australian work that centres on the men that keep Australia moving, the owner-drivers of freight trucks.  ...

REVIEW: Yve Blake Gives Shakespeare’s Tragedy Of Macbeth A Contemporary Teen Treatment With MACKENZIE


by Jade Kops - June 14, 2026

An hilarious homage and caution about teenage fame and unchecked egos, the Tragedy Of Macbeth is transformed in MACKENZIE....

REVIEW: IZZARD: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET Is A Phenomenal Solo Retelling Of Shakespeare’s Play


by Jade Kops - June 11, 2026

Suzy Eddie Izzard brings her one woman show IZZARD: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET to stun Sydney audiences....

REVIEW: Brilliantly Insane, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS Is A Clever Classic Comedy Musical


by Jade Kops - June 08, 2026

Rebecca McNamee (Director) delivers a fabulous new production of David Yazbek (Music and Lyrics) and Jeffrey Lane’s (Book) musical adaptation of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS....

Review: The Musical Adaptation of TOOTSIE Is The Latest Fun Filled Offering At Teatro At The Italian Forum


by Jade Kops - May 31, 2026

Heartwarming and hilarious, the musical theatre adaption of TOOTSIE has its Australian Premiere at Teatro At The Italian Forum. ...

Review: You'll be walking the plank if you miss Hayes' THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE


by Kym Vaitiekus - May 18, 2026

Ship Ahoy the Masterful HMS Hayes and THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE. A bountiful night of shenanigans, merriment, and joy....

REVIEW: Reuben Kaye Delivers Another Intelligent And Insightful Cabaret with His Latest Show HARD TO SWALLOW


by Jade Kops - May 17, 2026

HARD TO SWALLOW is the latest cabaret from Reuben Kaye and it is everything audiences have come to expect from the incredibly intelligent performer who blends ‘no holds barred’ political and social commentary with clever new music and a liberal dose of fabulously funny filth. ...

REVIEW: The Power Of Female Friendship Features In STEEL MAGNOLIAS


by Jade Kops - May 17, 2026

Set in the late 1980’s, Robert Harling’s STEEL MAGNOLIAS expresses the enduring power of the sisterhood in helping face the challenges of life. ...

REVIEW: THE OTHER SIDE OF ME - identity destroyed, history revealed, healing in motion


by Kym Vaitiekus - May 07, 2026

THE OTHER SIDE OF ME delivers a powerful triple threat: sublime choreography, an emotional story and impassioned performers. identity destroyed, history revealed, healing in motion...

Past Shows

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

May 20 – May 29, 2026

"WHAT VISIONS HAVE I SEEN!"ENTER THE FOREST. NOTHING MAKES SENSE. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. Love doesn’t behave. Reality bends. Bring your family to a world where the...

Cabaret, C*CKtails and Karaoke

Cabaret, C*CKtails and Karaoke

May 29

Seymour presents a bold new monthly event, Cabaret, Cocktails and Karaoke, which makes its debut on Friday 29 May. Guests are invited into an intimate,...

English

English

Apr 9 – May 2, 2026

Seymour Centre and Outhouse Theatre Co present the Sydney premiere of Pulitzer prize-winning ENGLISH, by Sanaz Toossi, from 9th April – 2nd May 2026. Outhouse Theatre...

Convergence

Convergence

May 1

Seymour Centre presents CONVERGENCE, a cross-cultural musical journey from multi-award-winning Persian-Australian tar player and composer Hamed Sadeghi on Friday 1st May 2026.In one seamless 60-minute...

Cowbois

Cowbois

Nov 20 – Dec 13, 2025

A rollicking queer Western like nothing you've seen before.In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their...

Seymour Nights - Lady Lyon

Seymour Nights - Lady Lyon

Dec 6

This Spring/Summer, the Seymour Centre courtyard lights up on Saturday nights with a lineup of emerging artists who are shaking up the scene and making...

Woven Song

Woven Song

Nov 21

Celebrate Seymour Centre’s 50th anniversary and enjoy an evening of beautiful chamber music with the acclaimed Woven Song compositions of Yorta Yorta soprano, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, accompanied...

Ruins أطلال

Ruins أطلال

Sep 25 – Oct 18, 2025

Seymour Centre and Clockfire Theatre Company are delighted to present the full-scale world premiere of Emily Ayoub and Madeline Baghurst’s profoundly affecting theatrical work RUINS...

The Face of Jizo

The Face of Jizo

Aug 21 – Sep 6, 2025

After a sold-out, twice-extended season at the Old Fitz Theatre in 2023, Seymour Centre and Omusubi Productions are excited to present the highly-anticipated Sydney revival...

Eureka Day

Eureka Day

May 29 – Jun 21, 2025

Outhouse Theatre Co and Seymour Centre present the hotly anticipated Sydney premiere of Jonathan Spector’s shrewd social satire, Eureka Day.It's 2018 and Eureka Day, a...

Glass Child

Glass Child

Apr 9 – Apr 16, 2025

Straight from its critically acclaimed 2023 debut season, this will be the Sydney premiere of siblings Kayah and Maitreyah Guenther’s Glass Child; a poignant portrayal...

The Player Kings – Parts 1 & 2

The Player Kings – Parts 1 & 2

Mar 26 – Apr 5, 2025

In an extraordinary and unforgettable offering, Sport For Jove and Seymour Centre will present the biggest undertaking in Sport For Jove’s history, Damien Ryan’s brand-new...

The Inheritance: Part One and Part Two

The Inheritance: Part One and Part Two

Nov 7 – Nov 30, 2024

Matthew Lopez’s blockbuster play, The Inheritance, premieres in Sydney following hit seasons on the West End and Broadway, winning four Tony and four Olivier Awards including...

Seventeen

Seventeen

Sep 27 – Oct 19, 2024

Cheeky and profound, Matthew Whittet’s Seventeen takes place in a playground on the night after the last day of school. A group of seventeen-year-old friends get together...

Arlington

Arlington

Aug 2 – Aug 24, 2024

From the writer of Once, Enda Walsh’s Arlington is a performance that almost defies category: a wild fusion of story, physicality, and technical wizardry. Isla waits...

A Case for the Existence of God

A Case for the Existence of God

Apr 11 – May 4, 2024

Infused with empathy, humour, and heart-wrenching honesty, the Australian premiere of A Case for the Existence of God, written by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale),...

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys

Nov 10 – Dec 1, 2023

Little Eggs Collective and Seymour Centre present THE LOST BOYS, a sixty-minute explosion of theatrical magic and live soundscapes inspired by J.M. Barrie’s classic text...

Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis

Sep 29 – Oct 28, 2023

Following its critically acclaimed cinematic debut in 2020, Sport for Jove and Seymour Centre will present the world premiere of Damien Ryan’s new play VENUS...

The Dismissal

The Dismissal

Aug 26 – Oct 21, 2023

Award-winning music theatre powerhouse Squabbalogic is pleased to announce key cast members for the brand-new, original Australian musical THE DISMISSAL, which will be making its...

The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw

Jul 21 – Aug 12, 2023

Seymour welcomes acclaimed independent theatre company Tooth and Sinew to perform within the Seymour Season for the first time, co-presenting the world premiere of Richard...

Consent

Consent

Jun 1 – Jun 24, 2023

Following a smash-hit West End run, Nina Raine’s dazzlingly clever play about truth, justice and consent will be brought to Seymour Centre for its Australian...

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

Mar 17 – Apr 15, 2023

As part of the 2023 Seymour Season, Squabbalogic and Seymour Centre are proud to present On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, playing17th March...

CAMP

CAMP

Feb 15 – Feb 4, 2023

Seymour Centre and Siren Theatre Co in association with Sydney WorldPride are proud to present the world premiere of CAMP, playing at Seymour Centre from 15th February...

Art + Information

Art + Information

Nov 17 – Nov 26, 2022

Seymour Centre and the University of Sydney’s Department of Theatre & Performance Studies will present Art + Information, a new series of performance lectures fusing...

Anatomy of a Suicide

Anatomy of a Suicide

Oct 6 – Oct 29, 2022

A sensation at The Old Fitz in 2019 and nominated for four Sydney Theatre Awards, Alice Birchs award-winning drama, Anatomy of a Suicide, returns to...

BOOM! International Festival of Percussion

BOOM! International Festival of Percussion

Oct 1 – Oct 8, 2022

BOOM! INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PERCUSSION celebrates all percussion in all its many styles from around the world. From Afro Latin, through Asian to Western orchestral,...

Albion

Albion

Jul 27 – Aug 13, 2022

Mike Bartletts hit UK drama, Albion, will receive its Australian premiere at Seymour Centre from 27th July to 13th August, presented by Secret House, New...

Before the Meeting

Before the Meeting

May 19 – Jun 11, 2022

Seymour Centre and White Box Theatre will present the Australian premiere of Adam Bocks remarkable new play, Before the Meeting, from 19th May to 11th...

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Mar 31 – Apr 23, 2022

Following their acclaimed 2021 production of Ulster American, Outhouse Theatre Co return to Seymour Centre to present the Sydney premiere of Will Arberys bold and...

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

Feb 17 – Mar 12, 2022

In an effort to quit nicotine at the behest of his humourless fianc, David Gamble enlists the services of psychiatrist and hypnosis researcher, Dr Mark...

The Museum of Modern Love

The Museum of Modern Love

Jan 22 – Jan 30, 2022

Seymour Centre in association with Sydney Festival will present the world premiere of The Museum of Modern Love from 22nd 30th January. Adapted from Heather...

44 S*x Acts in One Week

44 S*x Acts in One Week

Jan 12 – Jan 16, 2022

Following a sold-out season at Belvoirs Downstairs Theatre in 2020, 44 S*x Acts in One Week will return to Sydney - bigger and (if its...

Potted Potter

Potted Potter

May 19 – Jun 7, 2020

Fifteen years ago, in the summer of 2005 the very first incarnation of POTTED POTTER was performed in a London bookshop. The show now plays...

The Campaign

The Campaign

Feb 11 – Feb 28, 2020

Seymour Centre presents The Campaign, an honest and raw retelling of the journey to repeal Australias most archaic anti-gay legislation, from 11th to 28th February...

The Voice Behind The Stars

The Voice Behind The Stars

Jan 23 – Jan 24, 2019

Old Hollywood’s biggest secret will be exposed in the acclaimed cabaret, The Voice Behind the Stars, hitting Australian shores following a sell-out run at the...

The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project

Nov 28 – Dec 8, 2018

Twenty years after New York’s Tectonic Theater Project first went to Laramie following the brutal murder of gay university student, Matthew Shepard, their work, The...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show

Oct 13 – Oct 14, 2018

One of the most-famous and loved children’s books of all time will come to life on stage in The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show at the...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Skidmark

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Skidmark

Jul 4 – Jul 22, 2018

A badaptation of the bard After winning over everyone who came to see it in 2016, this very cheeky, very clever, utterly irreverent riff on...

The Flick by Annie Baker

The Flick by Annie Baker

Apr 5 – Apr 21, 2018

Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Annie Baker’s internationally celebrated masterpiece is coming to Sydney from the producers of Dry Land and The...

The Shifting Heart

The Shifting Heart

Mar 8 – Mar 24, 2018

The Seymour Centre and White Box Theatre will present Richard Beynon's award-winning Australian classic 'The Shifting Heart' from 8th March to 24th March. Set in...

Next Fall

Next Fall

Oct 26 – Nov 19, 2016

Luke believes in God. Adam believes in everything else. ‘Next Fall‘ by Geoffrey Nauffts portrays the ups and downs of this unlikely couple’s five-year relationship...

Videos


A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music and Dance Sensation in Sydney, Australia A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music and Dance Sensation
Burdekin Theatre (8/12-8/12)
NFRW/T in Sydney, Australia NFRW/T
QTopia Sydney The Loading Dock Theatre (6/20-6/22)
Pay No Attention in Sydney, Australia Pay No Attention
Flying Fruit Fly Circus (7/04-7/11)
HAIR - THE TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL in Sydney, Australia HAIR - THE TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL
Theatre Royal Sydney (6/06-7/05)
Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of) in Sydney, Australia Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of)
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House (7/16-8/30) VIDEOS
Anastasia in Sydney, Australia Anastasia
Sydney Lyric Theatre (4/07-7/19) VIDEOS
Juicy Riot in Sydney, Australia Juicy Riot
The Eternity Playhouse (6/29-6/29)
Pride Fest in Sydney, Australia Pride Fest
Qtopia Sydney (6/01-6/30)
To Kill A Mockingbird in Sydney, Australia To Kill A Mockingbird
Genesian Theatre (5/29-7/04)
The Shark Is Broken in Sydney, Australia The Shark Is Broken
Foundry Theatre (8/28-9/27)