October
A debt collector, a drag queen, a rogue chemist and a manic depressive walk into a pub
by Louis Nowra
Directed by Rosie Ross
Photo: Jamie Hornsby
Red Tree Theatre
A debt collector, a drag queen, a rogue chemist and a manic depressive walk into a pub
by Louis Nowra
Directed by Rosie Ross
Photo: Jamie Hornsby
Red Tree Theatre
A new production of this contemporary classic and a riveting insight into one of the most impactful days in Australia's history.
By Jane Harrison
Directed by Wesley Enoch
Sydney Opera House
Sydney
Sep & Oct '23The two-time Tony Award-winning hit musical is based on the Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album, boldly takes rock musical's where they've never gone before.
Co-Directors: Rosie Ross and Joshua Maxwell
Musical Director: Ben Ross
Red Tree Theatre $20 to $38
The original, big-hearted, multi award-winning Broadway hit musical opens at the Sydney Lyric from 5 February, 2023.
Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
Based upon the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters
Sydney Lyric Theatre
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case - until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts.
Civic Playhouse
Sydney, it's time to party again when the acclaimed Australian production returns this May!
Limited Run
Sydney Lyric Theatre
Pyrmont
Wed 24 May to Jun '23Carla Moorland has been murdered, and John Hoskins, who had been having an affair with her, knows who did it - himself. John's wife Elizabeth, rather than calling the police, is determined to keep John out of prison, even if it means that an innocent man will be punished for the crime.
by Hugh Janes
adapted from the novel by Jeffrey Archer
Peninsula Theatre $8 to $30
So terrifying in its accounts of invading Martians wielding deadly heat-rays that it is remembered like no other radio programme.
By Howard E. Koch
Based on the novel by H.G. Wells
Directed by James Chapman
Civic Playhouse
The world's best-loved musical is making a triumphant return to the coast in 2023!
Directed by Joshua Maxwell
Musical Directed by Vivienne McLaren
Red Tree Theatre
A brand-new Australian production will kick off global celebrations in honour of iconic Rock ‘N' Roll musical The Rocky Horror Show as it marks its 50th Anniversary in 2023. Premiering at Theatre Royal Sydney in February 2023 starring Australian superstar Jason Donovan and Myf Warhurst as the Narrator.
Theatre Royal
A powerful, salutary tale showing what it's like to be a young person desperate for independence, but also, crucially, what it's like to be a parent during the painful process of letting children fly the nest.
by Debra Oswald
Photo: Jamie Hornsby
Red Tree Theatre $15 to $32
There's no place like home! The Broadway sensation WICKED looks at what happened in the Land of Oz but from a different angle.
Sydney Lyric Theatre
Pyrmont
From August 2023A superbly observed story in which relationships are put under huge stress before the feelgood-factor ending. Amanda Whittington's sporting romp is as much fun as a day at the races and, arguably, better value for money.
Casting Now
Red Tree Theatre
The Boy From Oz is the most successful Australian musical ever and the first to make it to Broadway. It is a musical biography/tribute to the late great Peter Allen.
Co-Directed by Daniel Craig and Joshua Maxwell
Red Tree Theatre
After years of being indoors, Australia's First Lady of Comedy Julia Morris is back in circulation and off the leash in her brand new stand-up spectacular 75 Years in the Business!
Civic Theatre
A world-premiere adaptation of Australia's first Chinese-language novel, a historical frontier adventure and a morality tale for the ages.
A play by Anchuli Felicia King
Based on the novel by Wong Shee Ping, Translated by Ely Finch
Directed by Courtney Stewart
Wharf 1 Theatre
Walsh Bay
Jun & Jul '23Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along too to provide the alibi. It's foolproof; what could possibly go wrong?
by Marc Camoletti
Adapted by Robin Hawdon
Peninsula Theatre $8 to $25
Jamie and Cathy used to be in love, but now their marriage is over and they're trying to figure out where it all went wrong... The Last Five Years is an emotionally powerful and intimate musical by Jason Robert Brown about two New Yorkers in their 20s who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
Casting Now
Central Coast Music Factory
North Wyong
Sat 27 May to Jun '23When wealthy widow Mrs. Tottenham hosts the wedding of the year, she gets a lot more than a write-up in the society pages!
Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison
​Book by Bob Martin & Don Mckellar
Director: Julie Young
Musical Director: Rich Ferraro
The Wyong Grove Theatre from $25
Four intoxicating parts. One superstar soprano. Homegrown superstar Jessica Pratt returns to Australia to perform in Offenbach's last and greatest work.
by Jacques Offenbach
Sydney Opera House $49 to $345
The Hard Quiz Master and Overlord, Tom Gleeson, is swapping the studio for a theatre and adding a third dimension to Australia's hardest quiz.
The Art House Theatre
Constrained, cocooned, caught in a moment of desire, Butterfly is incandescent. In her embrace, Pinkerton finds paradise, then cruelly condemns his bride to purgatory.
by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Mrs Macquaries Point
It's about high drama, high-sheen angel wings, and all the soaring, emotional arcs and tear-jerking lows of a year in the bohemian life of broke artists in New York. All set to reverberating rock guitar, of course.
Directed by Rob Hale
Musical Director Marianne Powles
Choreographer Lauren Miller
Laycock Street Community Theatre $42 to $48
From Romance to Rest
Uniting Church Hall
Gosford
Winter 2023All Rise! You never really understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around in it
Based on a book by Harper Lee
Director - Vivienne McLaren
Director's Mentor - Daniel Craig
Red Tree Theatre
A hilarious comedy, a kaleidoscopic pastiche of Jane Austen's writing and an outrageous satire of life in Sydney's gay scene.
By Lewis Treston
Directed by Dean Bryant
Wharf 1 Theatre
Walsh Bay
On until Sat 4 MarWhat do you mean you don't have bunker insurance?
Director: Ebony Atmore
Photo: Jamie Hornsby
The Launch Pad from $25
Three unlikely friends take control of their office and learn there is nothing they can't do, even in a man's world.
Music & Lyrics by Dolly Parton
Book by Patricia Resnick
Laycock Street Community Theatre
North Gosford
From July 2023Food fanatic, Ren, steps off the bus at St. Lawrence Prep, the fanciest high school in six towns. She's there with the rest of her peers after a mysterious fire destroyed their beloved - albeit kind of a hole - Woodrich College across town, and these poor students are not welcome.
By Alexander Lee-Rekers
Directed by Calem Madden
Photo: Jamie Hornsby
Red Tree Theatre $15 to $32
An unforgettable portrait of family life 1950s Pittsburgh by one of the US's most lauded playwrights.
By August Wilson
Directed by Shari Sebbens
Wharf 1 Theatre
Walsh Bay
Sat 25 Mar to Sat 6 May '23What if a primary school aged kid messed with spacetime while trying to fix a moment in the past and got herself stuck in a time loop. And what if she gets all her friends to try and help her to get out of the time loop and these friends turn out to be just different versions of herself?
by Sam O'Sullivan
Directed by Ethan Dale
Photo: Jamie Hornsby
The Launch Pad from $28
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Award for Drama 2003, a vivid, timely new play that shines a revealing light on Australia's unsettled soul.
Written by: Joanna Murray-Smith
By arrangement with the author.
Directed by: David Allsopp
Pymble Players Theatre
The cathartic events of the fete are related with humour and pathos, and the upbeat ending affirms the enduring value of village life.
by Pam Valentine
Directed by Fran Godbold and Karen Rowe
Uniting Church Hall from $25
DIRECT FROM THE LONDON PALLADIUM
Capitol Theatre
Haymarket
Sat 11 Feb to Sun 16 Apr '23An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell.
by Agatha Christie
Peninsula Theatre $8 to $30
The legendary tale of King Arthur's quest to find the Holy Grail.
Book & Lyrics by ERIC IDLE
The Wyong Grove Theatre from $25
It's 1990 and Jon, a promising composer turning 30, is at a crossroads. His girlfriend wants to leave, his best friend's making big bucks, and he's waiting tables while writing the next great musical.
On Tour
Sydney Lyric Theatre $65 to $125
The fabulous Helen Thomson plays Lady Bracknell, the wittiest and most wicked role in one of the greatest comedies ever written.
By Oscar Wilde
Directed by Sarah Giles
Roslyn Packer Theatre
Walsh Bay
Sep & Oct '23Flo has just started uni and is living in a share house just off campus. She takes over Arlo's room, who's sleeping in a swag in the backyard while he waits for Tori to finish moving into Brett's room. 4 Dale Street has had a revolving door for 6 years, and no-one really knows who's actually on the lease anymore.
by Joshua Maxwell
Photo: Jamie Hornsby
The Launch Pad from $28
A Newcastle first - Broadway is coming to town!
Presented by Junkyard Dogs and Rodney Rigby
Civic Theatre $69 to $159
Newcastle
Thu 16 Feb to Sun 5 MarEducating Rita is a witty yet poignant look at a working class woman's attempts to change her social circumstances through pursuit of an Open University qualification.
by Willy Russell
Directed by Joshua Maxwell
Red Tree Theatre
Life is seasonal, and those seasons bring change, challenge and hope.
Written by: Andrew Bovell
Exclusively licenced by HLA Management Pty Ltd.
Directed by: Racquel Boyd
Pymble Players Theatre
Shirley Valentine is a bored, middle-aged housewife, trapped in a stale, loveless marriage. Her children are all grown up and she frequently talks to the wall in her kitchen while preparing her husband's regular evening meal.
by Willy Russell
Directed by Annette Rowlison
Red Tree Theatre from $29
An intimate and compelling production that brings the story behind the 'misogyny speech' to life.
By Joanna Murray-Smith
Directed by Sarah Goodes
Sydney Opera House $54 to $104
A fast-paced comedy depicts the strained relations between feuding neighbours and families.
by Richard Harris
Directed by Sarah Lovesy
Peninsula Theatre $8 to $30
You will be on the edge of your seat!
Written by: Patrick Hamilton
By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company
Directed by: Joy Sweeney
Pymble Players Theatre
A raw and raucous coming of age drama, The Boys on the Bus is another masterwork from multi-award winning playwright, Jamie Hornsby. Gritty and gripping, with a jet-black sense of humour.
By Jamie Hornsby
Photo: Jamie Hornsby
The Launch Pad from $28
A ruthless, jaw-dropping and provocative dark comedy of manners by Tony Award-winning satirist Edward Albee.
Directed by Mitchell Butel
Roslyn Packer Theatre
Walsh Bay
Thu, 2nd to 25th March '23Party like it's 1985!
Directed by Ali Hodge
Civic Playhouse
This award-winning New York Times bestseller and book club favourite will be brought to vivid life in a new adaptation.
Adapted by Verity Laughton from the novel by Pip Williams
Directed by Jessica Arthur
Sydney Opera House
Sydney
Oct to Dec '23This entertaining romp will have you in stitches. Not all (illicit) plans are best laid!
Written by: Alan Ayckbourn
By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company
Directed by: Gavin Critchley
Pymble Players Theatre
Pymble
Aug & Sep '23The classic musical CATS, is reimagined into an extravaganza of modern musical theatre, coming to the Concourse Theatre October 2023!
The Concourse $57 to $68
Chatswood
Sat, 14th to 29th October '23Shakespeare may be turning in his grave, but the show that's become a cult classic contains all 37 plays (plus sonnets).
By Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
Red Tree Theatre
Dear Your Majesty the Queen, I need to speak to you urgently... Cleverly lifting the key moments from Gleitzman's novel and presenting them in a light-hearted, amusing and open way, making for an ideal drama.
By Mary Morris from the novel by Morris Gleitzman
Directed by Joshua Maxwell
Red Tree Theatre
Direct from the West End, this enchanting and timeless tale has been brought to life in a reimagined production boasting all the spectacle and grandeur audiences know and love.
Produced in Australia by The Walt Disney Company and Disney Theatrical Productions, under the supervision of Thomas Schumacher
Capitol Theatre
Haymarket
Jun to Sep '23Carrie White is a teenage outcast who longs to fit in. What none of them know is that Carrie's just discovered she's got a special power, and if pushed too far, she's not afraid to use it.
by Lawrence D. Cohen
The Wyong Grove Theatre from $25
Winner of six Tony Awards (including Best Musical), Kinky Boots features a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper and a hilarious, uplifting book by four-time Tony winner, Harvey Fierstein.
Laycock Street Community Theatre
North Gosford
October and November 2023Mystery, intrigue, murder? Lovers' liaisons don't come any more dangerous than this.
by Francesco Cilea
Sydney Opera House
He's hideous. He's hated. He's untouchable. But in this shimmering world of secrets and seduction, can he keep the one he loves most safe?
by Giuseppe Verdi
based on: Le roi s'amuse; by Victor Hugo
Sydney Opera House
An inspiring celebration of the journey of one boy who hangs up his boxing gloves for ballet shoes.
Casting Now
Civic Theatre
Newcastle
Sat, 7th to 22nd October '23A gloriously romantic love story that reflects on the power of human connection and asks, “what if?”.
By Nick Payne
Directed by Ian Michael
Wharf 1 Theatre
Walsh Bay
Jul to Sep '23This thrilling West End production is THE genre-defining murder mystery from the best-selling novelist of all time case closed! Don't just see it. Solve it.
The Mousetrap is supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.
Riverside Theatres
Parramatta
Thu, 15th to 24th June '23Two of our great theatre-makers join forces for this poetic story of community, dignity and love in dark times.
By Nevil Shute
Adapted for the stage by Tommy Murphy
Directed by Kip Williams
Roslyn Packer Theatre
Walsh Bay
Jul & Aug '23On a freezing Christmas Eve, love sparks. Two hands meet in the dark and four friends' lives change forever.
Sydney Opera House
Sydney
On until Sat 11 MarOne of the most beloved musicals of all time is coming to the Concourse Theatre May 2023!
The Concourse $57 to $68
Chatswood
Fri, 12th to 28th May '23Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is a musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.
Music by Mark Hollmann, Lyrics by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, Book by Greg Kotis
Hayes Theatre Co
Elizabeth Bay
On until SundayThis is a story of love so strong it defies enemy lines. This is a story of a kingdom in triumph and a nation in chains. This is a story of betrayal.
Sydney Opera House
Sydney
Jun & Jul '23Witness this moving exploration of human frailty at the ends of the Earth as performed by an all-star cast.
By Patricia Cornelius
Directed by Paige Rattray
Roslyn Packer Theatre
Walsh Bay
Tue 23 May to Jun '23Based on the 1997 British film of the same name. Set in the run-down former industrial epicentre of Sheffield, UK, it follows six unemployed, working class men who decide to do a one-time-only striptease to outdo a touring male strip show and make some desperately needed money.
by Simon Beaufoy
Directed by Howard Oxley
Red Tree Theatre
Thrill to the sound of a mass of voices, singing as one.
Sydney Opera House