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My Brilliant Career the musical will tour ACT and NSW in 2026

My Brilliant Career the musical plays Canberra, Sydney and Wollongong after its previously announced encore season at the Southbank Theatre in early 2026.

15 Sep 2025 19:30

Richard Watts

Kala Gare in the MTC's 'My Brilliant Career', 2024. My Brilliant Career the musical is touring in 2026. The photo shows Gare, a fair-skinned woman with blonde hair and weaing a long sleeved white shirt and a dark blue skirt, reading a an unfolded letter and smiling. She is sitting on a pile of straw, denoting the story's rural setting.

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Kala Gare in the MTC’s ‘My Brilliant Career’, 2024. Photo: Pia Johnson.

As predicted by ArtsHub last month, when the production’s Melbourne encore season was announced, the Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career has announced an interstate tour in 2026.

The music theatre production, based on the 1901 novel by Miles Franklin and featuring a score blending contemporary pop, bush ballads and raucous pub rock, will play in Canberra, Sydney and Wollongong next year.

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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