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Opera Queensland Season 2024

Opera Queensland Artistic Director Patrick Nolan has announced a 2024 season featuring three major productions in Brisbane that pitch classics alongside new works. 

Sydney Festival 2024

Image: Tiddas

The 2024 Sydney Festival, from January 5 – 28, features a line-up of World Premieres, immersive experiences, public art, Australian exclusives, free events, First Nations programming and an epic live music offering. 

Rocky Horror Returns In 2024

After touring Australia in 2023, the 50th Anniversary world tour of Rock ‘N’ Roll musical The Rocky Horror Show in 2024, opening at the Civic Theatre Newcastle from 12 January starring Jason Donovan as Frank N Furter, and Myf Warhurst as the Narrator (Newcastle only). Return seasons at Melbourne’s Atheneum Theatre from 9 February and Theatre Royal Sydney from 31 March will follow.

Queensland Ballet Season 2024

Image: Queensland Ballet on Tour 2024. Rhapsody in Motion - Laura Tosar and Patricio Reve. Photographer: David Kelly.

Queensland Ballet has unveiled its 2024 Season, full of colourful characters and stories from literature, history, and imagination. In a fusion of new and loved works told through traditional classical and contemporary repertoire, Queensland Ballet will explore dreamscapes, realism, and fairytales – some with an unexpected twist.

Opera Australia’s New Artistic Director’s Announces Inaugural Season

Image: Opera Australia Artistic Director Jo Davies and CEO Fiona Allan. Photographer: Daniel Boud

Adelaide Festival 2024 Program

Photographer: Andrew Beveridge.

64 events, 16 world premieres, 12 Australian premieres and 23 exclusives

The 39th Adelaide Festival, the first of the next three festivals curated by Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE and Chief Executive Kath M Mainland CBE, invites citizens, artists and communities to help shape the way the Festival can support and inspire. 

Victorian Opera Season 2024

Victorian Opera has launched its 2024 season, set to traverse maestros, masterpieces, gothic horror, First Nations creation myths and an Australian literary classic reimagined.   Heralding its first program under the new leadership of incoming Artistic Director Stuart Maunder AM (pictured above),next year's season promises audiences a journey through the magic of opera and music theatre in a celebration of the enduring power of storytelling.  

Wicked Celebrates 20 Years

Image: Liam Head and Sheridan Adams in WICKED. Photographer: Jeff Busby

On 30 October, WICKED will celebrate 20 years on Broadway as “Broadway’s Biggest Blockbuster” (NY Times) and the Australian company will commemorate the occasion with all the WICKED productions around the world. 

Modern Adaptation of Classic Thriller Gaslight to Tour

A modern adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s suspenseful 1940’s thriller Gaslight, starring Geraldine Hakewill and Toby Schmitz, is set to tour Australia from February 2024.

The Lehman Trilogy for Theatre Royal Sydney in 2024

The National Theatre and Neal Street Productions’ five-time Tony Award-winning Best Play The Lehman Trilogy will come to Theatre Royal Sydney in February 2024 following sold-out runs in London’s West End and on Broadway.

Written by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power, and directed by Sam Mendes with set design by Es Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy features a cast of three playing the Lehman brothers, their sons and grandsons, in three parts on a single evening.

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