News

2025 at The Round

Following a successful debut year, Melbourne’s newest premier performing arts venue, The Round, in Nunawading, has revealed its 2025 season lineup. With the theme 'Electric,' the upcoming season will feature performances from international and local award-winning acts.

Subscription packages for the new year are now available, offering savings, priority seat selection, pay-over-time options and more.

Adelaide Fringe 2025 Program Launched

Adelaide Fringe has to reveal the 2025 program with more than 1,300 shows across comedy, theatre, cabaret, music, visual arts, interactive experiences and more, spread across 500 venues throughout South Australia.

The necessary truth about “fully staged productions” of Follies in Australia

Is the Victorian Opera’s upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies ‘Australia’s first ever fully staged production’ as the company claim? No, it is most certainly not. Geoffrey Williams corrects the public record.

Marvelous Melbourne Musicals

David Spicer attended the new Australian Musicals One Day In September and My Brilliant Career over two days. He writes that both demonstrate the benefit of long periods of development.

How rare to be able to watch two completely original Australian musicals in one city on a weekend. One is already a hit, and another is a hit in the making.

Cast Announced for Sydney Season of Annie

Image: Beatrix Alder, Dakota Chanel, Matilda Casey and Stephanie McNamara in ANNIE © David Hooley

Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live has revealed the talented children who will play Annie and the orphans in the upcoming Sydney season of the ever-popular Broadway musical Annie, as well as the adult cast who will perform alongside them. The new Australian production plays at the Capitol Theatre from 25 March, before moving to Melbourne’s Princess Theatre from July.

Back To The Future: The Musical Premiere for Sydney

The Olivier Award winner of Best New Musical will have Its Australian Premiere at the Sydney Lyric in September 2025

Producers John Frost, Colin Ingram and the creators of the original film trilogy, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, have announced that Sydney will host the Australian premiere of Back To The Future: The Musical, opening at the Sydney Lyric in September 2025.

Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation 2024 Performing Arts Grants

Image: Julian Louis from NORPA and Peter Lowry

Over $200,000 in Grants to the performing arts were announced on 21 November 2024, to a packed audience of theatre practitioners and supporters by Peter Lowry AM, President of the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation in the Seaborn Library, Neutral Bay, the Foundation's headquarters.

2024 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award Winners

Image: Olivia Satchell and Ian Roberts 

The winners of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for 2024 were announced at the annual Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation Christmas Party on November 21. The joint winners this year are Ballkids by Melbourne playwright Olivia Satchell and Into The Light by Ian Roberts and Alex Broun. The two winning plays will each receive $20,000.

Cody Simpson to Star in Guys & Dolls on Sydney Harbour

Opera Australia has announced that pop star and champion swimmer Cody Simpson return to the stage in 2025, making his Australian musical theatre debut alongside an all-star cast in a brand-new production of the award-winning Broadway musical Guys & Dolls at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour from 21 March to 20 April.