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My Brilliant Career: MTC announces encore season of original musical in 2026

The critically acclaimed musical theatre adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career returns to the MTC in 2026.

20 Aug 2025 15:38

Richard Watts

Kala Gare in MTC's original stage musical 'My Brilliant Career' which returns for an encore in the company's 2026 season. The photo shows a fair haired and fair skinned young woman in period dress posing dramatically beneath a glittering chandelier. Her head is tiled back and her eyes closed as she sings, her right arm thrusts upward and her left arm swings back behind her.

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Kala Gare in MTC’s original stage musical ‘My Brilliant Career’ which returns for an encore in the company’s 2026 season. Photo: Pia Johnson.

Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) has announced an encore run in 2026 for original musical My Brilliant Career.

Staged in late 2024 and set in 1890s Australia, the musical was praised by ArtsHub as ‘a production steeped in audacity’ and described as ‘big and bold, not in setting or production values (which are simple and very effective), but in the adaptation and, particularly, the performances’.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts