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Sydney Theatre Awards 2025 winners - Lincoln Elliott and Joel Granger Phar Lap The Electro-Swing Musical (c) Robert Catto
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Bonkers, award-winning Phar Lap musical races back for a national tour in 2027

Phar Lap: The Electro-Swing Musical will return with an expanded Sydney season before touring Australia.

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Analysis

Theatre audiences still show up – so why do so many shows fail to make money?

The cost of wages, venues and materials keep rising with the rest of the economy, while the product of theatre…

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Who gets to survive the apocalypse? How to Eat Rabbit offers something fresh to chew on

It’s the end of the world and no one feels fine in this dystopian drama, playing as part of Melbourne's…

The Farm's No One Gets Out of Here Alive. Photo: Billie Wilson Coffey.
Interviews

No One Gets Out of Here Alive dances with death: ‘We want it to go beyond words’

Playing Brisbane Festival and then Bleach Festival, No One Gets Out of Here Alive is a dance-theatre work about an…

Vale, Rachel Burke. Photo: Heidrun Lohr / Belvoir.
Industry News

Vale Rachel Burke, visionary lighting designer who illuminated Australian theatre

Rachel Burke's life and work will be celebrated at a memorial gathering in Melbourne on 15 September.

Black Swan's Day (After Day) in the Life of the Useless. Photo: Daniel J Grant.
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Day (After Day) in the Life of the Useless is a play for our times

A fascinating thought experiment about the struggle to connect, the new play Day (After Day) in the Life of the…

Strong is the New Pretty. Photo: Sam Scoufus / Compadre.
Interviews

Strong is the New Pretty is about more than women kicking goals: 'It speaks to a bigger movement'

Strong is the New Pretty traces the inspiring story of how the AFLW was created, but for its creative team,…

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The fairytales of the Brothers Grimm get a delightfully saucy makeover

Now on a national tour, Grimm is a twisted take on the tales of the Brothers Grimm that is bloody…

David Wenham stars in STC's 'An Iliad'. Photo: Daniel Boud.
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Sydney Theatre Company's five-star hit An Iliad is touring to Melbourne

David Wenham returns to the stage in STC's acclaimed Trojan War epic, An Iliad.

Eddie Perfect. Photo: Michelle Grace Hunder.
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Eddie Perfect signs on to mentor a rising young star of musical theatre

The Next Up Music Awards are open to school-aged musicians, composers and lyricists.

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