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Kip Williams Leaving Sydney Theatre Company

Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Kip Williams, will leave at the end of the year after 13 years with the Company, eight as Artistic Director, to prepare for a career on Broadway.

Following the success of The Picture of Dorian Gray in London’s West End, Kip has decided to hand over the reins to a new Artistic Director at the end of 2024 as he makes space in his schedule for a proposed Broadway season in 2025. 

Patti LuPone To Bring New Concert To Australia

A LIFE IN NOTES to feature songs that influenced LuPone throughout her life 

Three-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will bring her new concert A LIFE IN NOTES to Australia this winter, directly from Carnegie Hall.  LuPone will headline the Adelaide Cabaret Festival before undertaking a national tour stopping in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. 

Australian Premiere of The Grinning Man

The Grinning Man cast. Photographer: Nicole Cleary.

Hugh Jackman’s First Drama Class.

The future Australian superstar seemed destined to become a journalist, but something happened when he enrolled in a performance subject whilst he was studying at university. In this Stage Whispers exclusive, Sara Lander recounts the moment when everyone in the room realised that Hugh Jackman was something special.

The Unstoppable Lucy Maunder

Image: Lucy Maunder, Anthony Warlow and the cast of Chicago. Photographer: Jeff Busby.

Reigniting Gaslight for National Tour

A new adaptation of the classic psychological drama

Australian Musical Theatre Festival 2024

The Australian Musical Theatre Festival in Launceston, Tasmania from 15 – 19 May, 2024 will feature John Bucchino, Josh Piterman, Patrice Tipoki, Kerrie Anne Greenland, Queenie van de Zandt, Tyran Parke, Natalie Gamsu, Nicole Farrow, Samantha Hammersley and more…

Casting announced for It's Only a Life, Marry Me a Little and Nine.

Hopelessly Devoted to Grease.

Slicker and sexier than ever is the promise.

Sydney Cast for Tony Winning Musical, Parade

Photographer: Matthew Chen.

Soundworks Productions has announced the full cast and creative team of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Tony Award-Winning musical Parade, opening at Sydney’s Seymour Centre from 9 May, following a sell-out season in Melbourne. Tickets are on sale now fromseymourcentre.com.

Musicals in 2024

Image: Chicago Australian cast 2023/4. Photographer: Jeff Busby.

Something old and something new is the flavour of Musical Theatre in 2024. There’s blockbuster classics including Wicked, Sunset Boulevard and Beauty and the Beast, along with Australian premieres of Dear Evan Hansen and Groundhog Day the Musical.

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