Stage Briefs

Bell Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet for Brisbane

Bell Shakespeare returns to Brisbane Powerhouse with Romeo & Juliet on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 October, marking the company’s first performance at the venue in 14 years.

The critically acclaimed production, originally staged in 2023 and directed by Artistic Director Peter Evans, gives audiences a closer look at arguably Shakespeare’s most famous play, delving into the intensity and the heartbreak of this evocative tragedy.

Cluedo To Tour Australian Stages

Cluedo, the game of whodunnit that’s gripped generations is stepping off the board and onto the stage! Premiering at QPAC in Brisbane in January 2026, the much-loved murder mystery will then travel to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre, Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide and Theatre Royal Sydney throughout 2026.

Brisbane Season for Parade

Parade by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry returns to the Brisbane stage for the first time in two decades in 2025. This debut Queensland season by Bump In Productions, opens 19 July.

Return Season for Songs For A New World

After a 2023 season that garnered multiple Green Room Award nominations for Best Direction, Best Musical Direction, Best Choreography, Best Lighting (winner), Best Set and Costumes, and Best Ensemble, Soundworks Productions’ Songs For A New World returns to Melbourne’s Chapel off Chapel from August 5 to 10, 2025

Melbourne Premiere for American Psycho - The Musical

Melbourne’s theatre scene will get a shot of adrenaline when the musical American Psycho opens at Chapel Off Chapel this September

Ordinary Days at fortyfivedownstairs

Following the award-winning presentation of Elegies: A Song Cycle in 2024, Clovelly Fox returns to fortyfivedownstairs in August 2025 to present Ordinary Days, a musical written by composer and lyricist Adam Gwon.

Ordinary Days is a musical about making simple connections in a chaotic city. It tells the story of four young people whose lives intersect in unexpected ways as they search for success, happiness, love and taxis.

Sydney Season Announced for Australian Musical The Lovers

Producers Shake & Stir Theatre Co and John Frost for Crossroads Live have announced that the breakout Australian pop musical The Lovers is coming to Sydney. The new production will open at Theatre Royal Sydney on 31 October, following its premiere at QPAC’s Playhouse in Brisbane.

Stage Whispers TV in Europe

Stage Whispers TV correspondent David Spicer is in Europe reporting for our YouTube Channel.

David enjoyed box seats at famed lavish Opera Houses.

First the Vienna State Opera.

Then the famed Paris Opera House.

Finally the Budapest Opera House.

Australian Musical Theatre Festival 2025

Stage Whispers has exclusive coverage of the Australian Musical Theatre Festival just completed in Launceston from our correspondent Rose Cooper.

The Songs That Got Away.

Sunday in the Park.

Some Enchanted Evening.

When I Get My Name In Lights.