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Head to Hollywood with the dazzling stage adaptation of one of the most beloved romantic comedies of all time – Pretty Woman: The Musical!
The iconic story that made us laugh, cry, and fall in love with six extraordinary women is back — live on stage in a dazzling new Australian production. Written by Robert Harling, the timeless tale of STEEL MAGNOLIAS will come alive under the direction of Lee Lewis and a cast of six powerhouse actors.
The global smash-hit phenomenon SIX the Musical is making its royal stage return to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre from July 2026.
Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond himself, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE is the uplifting true story of how a kid from Brooklyn became a chartbusting, show-stopping American rock icon.
The Neil Diamond Musical Is Coming to Melbourne!
Sometimes you get stuck with the cards you’ve been dealt, but Pam is determined to shuffle the deck for her daughter.
Emmy®, Golden Globe® and Tony Award®-winner Anthony LaPaglia stars in the critically acclaimed production that has taken Australia by storm, arriving in Brisbane for a strictly limited season from August 2026.
Following record-breaking, sold-out seasons in London and across the UK, the critically acclaimed Fiddler on the Roof is set to tour Australia in 2026, with its inaugural premiere season at Theatre Royal Sydney from July 2026, before touring nationally to Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
Step into glittering 1930s Berlin in this spectacular staging of an opera’s most moving classic.
Celebrating 70 dazzling years since its glorious Broadway debut, Lerner and Loewe's iconic My Fair Lady will be the first major musical to perform at Arts Centre Melbourne's refurbished Ian Potter State Theatre when its season opens in November 2026.
Discover Watershed, the powerful new opera marking 50 years since Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan’s tragic death that sparked South Australia’s decriminalisation of homosexuality. Experience a critically acclaimed, deeply moving work blending music, drama, and history.
MRS. DOUBTFIRE, the feelgood comedy musical based on the beloved film will premiere in Australia at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre from November 2026.
From the Tony Award winning powerhouse behind Hamilton and Avenue Q comes Bring It On The Musical, a turbo charged, beat dropping, high flying explosion of music, movement and attitude.
This “smart, laugh out loud funny” (Daily Telegraph) show features a string of pop classics including Young Hearts Run Free, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and You’re So Vain.
Experience Verdi’s La Traviata in a dazzling new production debuting in Melbourne. Featuring stunning staging, celebrated sopranos Stacey Alleaume and Samantha Clarke, and emotional depth.
This heartwarming and empowering musical tells the story of Jenna, a small-town waitress and expert pie maker who longs to escape her rocky marriage and start again.
Tennessee Williams’s haunting memory play stars Alison Whyte in a contemporary revival of one of the most beloved and enduring works of the 20th century.
Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day.
An emotionally charged depiction of the human cost of Australia’s worst industrial disaster – the West Gate Bridge collapse of 1970, featuring a stellar cast of cult screen favourites.
Drew Anthony Creative presents the powerful stage adaptation of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK - a young girl's inspiring true story of resilience and hope in the face of unimaginable adversity.
An oddly tender dark comedy set amid the soul-sucking grind of modern corporate culture, from one of the most exciting voices in contemporary theatre.
Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget!
Australia’s biggest ever musical comedy is coming back to the Princess Theatre this February.
Hailed as a ‘funny, feminist triumph’ (The Guardian) and earning multiple five-star reviews in its sold-out premiere season, the joyous My Brilliant Career returns for a limited encore run.
Broadway’s monster smash-hit production Shrek The Musical is making its way to Sydney, Melbourne, Bendigo, Frankston and Geelong this January! Get ready for an exhilarating adventure to a far, far away kingdom… This action-packed spectacle brings your favourite animated characters to life on stage!
Broadway’s monster smash-hit production Shrek The Musical is making its way to Sydney, Melbourne, Bendigo, Frankston and Geelong this January! Get ready for an exhilarating adventure to a far, far away kingdom… This action-packed spectacle brings your favourite animated characters to life on stage!
Broadway’s monster smash-hit production Shrek The Musical is making its way to Sydney and Melbourne this January! Get ready for an exhilarating adventure to a far, far away kingdom… This action-packed spectacle brings your favourite animated characters to life on stage!
Broadway’s monster smash-hit production Shrek The Musical is making its way to Sydney, Melbourne, Bendigo, Frankston and Geelong this January! Get ready for an exhilarating adventure to a far, far away kingdom… This action-packed spectacle brings your favourite animated characters to life on stage!
On 27 July 1985, a ground-breaking musical production had its Australian Premiere at Theatre Royal Sydney, heralding an era of the British “mega-musical” in Australia. Now, 40 years later, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical CATS returns to Theatre Royal Sydney to celebrate it’s 40th anniversary, opening in June 2025.
John Frost for Crossroads Live and Opera Australia today announced that the Broadway hit musical ANASTASIA, will have its Australian premiere at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne in December 2025 before touring to Perth and Sydney in 2026.
The Off-Broadway sendup of the iconic rom-com Christmas movie Love Actually, will make its Sydney debut live on stage this festive season. Whether you love it or love to hate it, you will actually love this show!
Journey to the underworld and back. Gluck’s heartbreaking opera follows the grieving Orpheus into the jaws of Hades to rescue his beloved Eurydice. He must complete his quest without looking back, or lose Eurydice forever.
This five-time Tony Award®-winning production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol will return to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre for a strictly limited 5-week season from 27 November.
Take an adrenaline-pumping ride through lust, jealousy and spectacle in this bold new production of an opera classic.
Beatrice and Benedick are the most modern of Shakespeare’s couples. They have history. They love to hate each other, yet everyone around them knows they’re perfect for each other. Can love really conquer all?
After a chance meeting, an intense but forbidden love is ignited between two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet.
From playwriting icon Joanna Murray-Smith comes this ravishing adaptation of the twentieth century’s most glamorous thriller. Following the triumphant success of Julia, Murray-Smith reunites with director Sarah Goodes to masterfully transform this seductive page-turner into an electrifying, world-premiere stage experience.
When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017.
From its stunning Broadway debut in 1968, HAIR revolutionized musical theatre by defining the “rock musical” with a celebration of 1960s counterculture, anti-war passion, and sexual freedom. Now, experience HAIR like never before in Glenn Elston’s bold new production.
Katya Kabanova is a turbulent love story by Czech composer Leoš Janáček that does not shy away from raw, human feeling.
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel, Manon is a tragic romance unlike any other in ballet.
Step into the haunting world of Daphne du Maurier’s classic 1938 novel, where love and doubt cloak the corridors of Manderley.
