Mix Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller with a dash of Monty Python-style chaos, and you get The 39 Steps, a turbo-charged, Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy. After playing more than three million audience members across 39 countries, from London’s West End to Broadway, this international hit, adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan, is reimagined and coming to Australia.
The producers of MJ THE MUSICAL have officially confirmed that the Olivier and four-time Tony Award-winning musical will play in Melbourne at Her Majesty’s Theatre from September 2025.
The Australian premiere season of MJ is the fifth production of the global hit musical since it premiered on Broadway in February 2022. With celebrated runs in London, Germany and across the US, Melbourne audiences are next in line.
Image: Virginia Gay as Calamity Jane (2025). Photo Credit: Harvey House
Take a rollicking ride through the Wild West as the musical Calamity Jane returns Sydney, playing at the Sydney Opera House in an exclusive season from 14 October – 16 November.
Producers of the Tony®, Olivier®, and Grammy® award-winning production The Book Of Mormon, have announced the final casting for the production which is opening in Sydney in July 2025.
Image: Michael Paynter and Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar. Photographer: Jeff Busby
A swag of hit Broadway and West End musicals never before seen in Australia will wend their way around the country in 2025, alongside some old favourites to tap the nostalgia buttons.
The post Covid era, along with high interest rates, combined to encourage conservative choices by musical theatre producers. The year ahead is the most innovative in a long time.
Michael Cassel Group, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, and Langley Park Productions have announced that the role of Lydia Deetz, the peculiar and quick-witted teenager with a penchant for the afterlife, in BEETLEJUICE will be played by Karis Oka.
UPDATE: Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live has announced that following the previously annouced season at Theatre Royal Sydney from 17 June, CATS would also be playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre Adelaide from September and at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne from December. Waitlist now to be first in line to buy tickets in Adelaide and Melbourne at www.catsthemusical.com.au
For one week from 22 to 27 September 2025, Undercover Artist Festival (UAF) will take over Queensland Theatre’s (QT’s) stages. Festival Director, Maddie Little, launched her PUSH IT! program with a packed studio of fans and followers at QT’s Diane Cilento Studio on 19 June.
