Community Theatre

Community Theatre Seasons 2026

Image: Secret Bridesmaids' Business. The Guild Theatre, Rockdale, 2025

Already some companies across Australia are promising dress-up performances reminiscent of popular late-night movie screenings over the last five decades.

The Rocky Horror Show has been around for 50 years, but professional revivals have been so frequent that it’s never previously been released for amateur productions. Now, in 2026 it’s a hot new pick on the community theatre circuit, as companies line up to do ‘The Time Warp’.

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Calendar Girls at Lane Cove Theatre Company

Calendar Girls by Tim Firth, a witty and heartwarming story of friendship, determination and a cheeky nude calendar, opens at the Pottery Lane Performance Space on 20 February 2026.

Set in the rolling hills of Yorkshire, Calendar Girls tells the story of a group of ordinary women who, in the face of grief, do something extraordinary.

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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Cronulla

The first production for 2026 at Arts Theatre Cronulla is Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang. The play premiered in New Jersey in 2012, and transferred to Broadway, where it won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013. It is a comedy about the relationships of three single middle-aged siblings, Vanya, Sonia and Masha and her new toy boy, Spike.

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GSOV to Stage Edwardian Musical Hit, The Arcadians

The Arcadians (music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot, lyrics by Arthur Wimperis and new book by Melvyn Morrow) has been hailed as the Edwardian era’s most successful Musical Comedy and the My Fair Lady of its day!

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Gaslighting Arts Theatre Cronulla

Photographer: Jeff Gall.

The final play at Arts Theatre Cronulla for 2025 is a classic Victorian thriller. Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight was written in 1938 but is set in the later part of the 19th century. The play, and the films based on it, inspired the term ‘gaslighting’, widely in use today. Employed by a perpetrator as a tactic to distort reality to maintain control, the term describes emotional abuse that causes the victim to question their sanity.

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Heartbreak, Hope and Healing in The Revlon Girl

St Jude’s Players | November 2025 | Brighton, South Australia

Directed by Olivia Jane Parker

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The Regals Musical Society Celebrates 80 Years with Sondheim’s Company

The Regals Musical Society is will close out its 80th anniversary with a new production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company, playing from 15 to 19 October 2025 at Rockdale Town Hall.

Founded in 1945, The Regals Musical Society has been a cornerstone of Sydney’s community theatre scene for eight decades. To celebrate this incredible milestone, The Regals are staging Company – a witty, emotionally rich, and musically brilliant show that continues to captivate audiences.

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A Sneak Peek at the Calendar Girls Calendar

An anticipated event in the Henry Lawson Theatre theatrical calendar (pun very much intended) debuted on Friday, 19th September! Under the direction of Nicole Smith, the play Calendar Girls promises to tickle your funny bones, tug on your heartstrings, and possibly inspire a little mischief of your own.

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60 Years of Mackay Musicals

Hannah Lewis shares remarkable memories from a Queensland Community Theatre Company.

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Lane Cove’s School for Scandal

Get ready for an uproarious journey into high society’s not-so-high morals as Lane Cove Theatre Company presents Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s Restoration comedy, The School for Scandal.

22-31 August, 2025⁠ ⁠at the Pottery Lane Performance Space in Lane Cove, NSW

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