Welcome to our What’s On Sydney page for kids, teens and adults! Event information is supplied by organisers and may change at any time. We recommend checking the official event page provided via our More info link before attending. Have fun exploring Sydney!
The Tony®, Olivier®, and Grammy® award-winning production THE BOOK OF MORMON will return to Sydney from July 2025. Read our review here.
BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Musical is coming to the Sydney Lyric Theatre from September 2025! Read our review!
La Ronde - A captivating new experience for the bold and the curious is heading to Sydney’s
Grand Electric this October
Head to Hollywood with the dazzling stage adaptation of one of the most beloved romantic comedies of all time – Pretty Woman: The Musical!
Celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Sydney Opera House with the timeless Madama Butterfly. Enjoy an award-winning production plus dinner and midnight party options under the iconic sails."
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly returns to the Sydney Opera House in Moffatt Oxenbould’s award-winning production. A breathtaking tale of love, loss, and tragedy with world-class singers and unforgettable staging.
Putting It Together is a dazzling celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s greatest work. Set at a glamorous cocktail party, the show blends wit, charm, and razor-sharp insight as the cast navigate the complexities of love, ambition, and desire.
Puccini’s Turandot returns in a spectacular new production by Ann Yee. Monumental sets, immersive visuals, and world-class voices bring this grand opera of mystery, courage, and the iconic ‘Nessun dorma’ to life.
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!
This isn’t just a tribute show to the way we were – it’s an illuminating journey through the legacy of a superstar.
Step into a whimsical world with Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel. Dark fairytale meets humour, heart, and magical music in Elijah Moshinsky’s enchanting production, perfect for newcomers and opera lovers alike.
In an exciting coup, the most awarded new American play of 2025 is heading this way. Fresh from winning the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2025 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, Purpose comes directly from Broadway to Sydney Theatre Company in the first new production to be staged since its premiere.
Larry Kramer’s timeless testimony of life and community during the AIDS crisis is given a triumphant new staging.
With iconic hits like “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed,” and a celebration of queer identity at its heart, Head Over Heels is a glitter-drenched, feel-good party for theatre lovers of every generation.
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin returns in Kasper Holten’s moving production, where memory and regret shape the love story of Tatyana and Onegin. Starring Lauren Fagan and Andrei Bondarenko.
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.
Opera Australia has announced the return of The Phantom of the Opera to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2026, launching the musical’s global 40th anniversary celebrations with a spectacular outdoor season.
Miranda Otto makes a grand return to Sydney Theatre Company in Jez Butterworth’s West End hit.
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.
This joyously funny and stupidly clever musical from the creators of Beetlejuice: The Musical gets its first Australian production since it broke Broadway records in 2024.
Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget!
Homer’s Iliad is transformed into a thrilling and deeply moving vehicle for acting powerhouse David Wenham.
Disney Theatrical Group today announced Disney’s The Lion King the world’s #1 musical will return to Australia, premiering in Sydney in April 2026.
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.
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.
Sam Worthington and Pamela Rabe take on the monumental and incendiary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner.
Fall in love with Opera Australia’s glittering production of The Merry Widow — a romantic, witty, and waltz-filled comedy with stunning Art Deco sets and unforgettable melodies.
Get ready for a fun, mysterious, and freaky spin on one of the world's most famous families with The Addams Family!
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.
A time-bending First Nations tale from one of Australia’s favourite playwrights.
Verdi’s Rigoletto returns to the Sydney Opera House in Elijah Moshinsky’s dazzling La Dolce Vita-inspired production — a gripping tale of loyalty, lust, and revenge set to unforgettable melodies.
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.
Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife becomes a powerful new opera — blending grand traditions with contemporary Aboriginal storytelling in a sweeping tale of survival, resilience, and the Australian High Country.
Celebrate the 100th birthday of Joan Sutherland with a star-studded gala at the Sydney Opera House, featuring Jessica Pratt, Kang Wang, and the Opera Australia Orchestra and Chorus.
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.
Armed with a quirky instructional guide, J. Pierrepont Finch is set on climbing the corporate ladder—without breaking a sweat.
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.
Comic dynamo legends juggle political hot potatoes in the nation's capital.
Celebrating 70 dazzling years since its Broadway debut, Julie Andrews’ production of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady returns to the Sydney Opera House.
A high-wire act for one of this country’s most brilliant and beloved performers, Justine Clarke.
An uproarious social farce starring the outrageously funny Helen Thomson.
The global smash-hit phenomenon SIX the Musical is making its royal stage return to Theatre Royal Sydney Theatre from October 2026.
This ensemble-driven whodunit is a gloriously catchy production, in the vein of Hayes hits like Heathers: The Musical, Zombie! The Musical, and Murder for Two—a seriously silly, pop-rock thriller where cheer meets fear. Is it team spirit? Or the spirit of their dead teammates?
Suzie Miller tells an epic true story, a love letter to a game and a community.
The sermon on the mount returns to Sydney for a victory lap as Jonathan Biggins – co-creator and star of The Wharf Revue and one of Australia’s favourite comic actors – transforms into the visionary, reformer and rabble-rouser, Paul Keating.
A bold, funny, wryly inventive, and gloriously offbeat re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island – new musical Silver Tongue rips up the map and re-draws the legend with killer songs, knockabout humour, and a touch of that special Hayes Theatre magic.
John Farnham. King of Pop. Australian hero. The voice of a generation.
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!
Ten years since its spectacular premiere, David McAllister’s opulent production, The Sleeping Beauty, returns to whisk you away into a magical realm of fairies and spells, good versus evil and a royal romance.
Here You Come Again is a rollicking, joyous new musical comedy featuring all of Dolly Parton's biggest hits!
An earth-shattering experience from three of the world’s most inspired choreographers, Prism will leave you breathless with its raw intensity and revolutionary design.
Kat Stewart takes the STC stage with real-life husband David Whiteley in an exquisite new production of Edward Albee’s explosive classic.
Featuring an electrifyingly original pop score and a boldly reimagined script by Laura Murphy, The Lovers is a fresh, in-yer-face remix of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – bursting with heart, humour, and more than a touch of magic. Read our review here.
An unforgettable, heartwarming journey of self-discovery that has captivated audiences worldwide.
Not just another absurdist, electro-swing musical comedy about a thoroughbred racehorse, Phar Lap is a rags-to-riches story with a big heart.
Legendary frontierswoman; notorious daredevil; profane storyteller; unwomanly radical
The Tony Award® nominated, global smash-hit musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUISCAL lands in Sydney from 3 October at TEATRO at the Italian Forum.
Experience the premiere staging of a Broadway hit! PACA Productions is thrilled to present its inaugural staging of & Juliet, the sensational musical that has captivated audiences on the West End and Broadway. Read our review here.
The musical that rocked Broadway is back! Read our review here.
Go on a magical journey back in time to 1910 London, where the mischievous Banks’ children are running amuck in the family home...that is, until the enchanting new nanny Mary Poppins flies in on the wind.
Ladies! It’s time to embrace “The Change” with a night out, full of uncontrollable laughter, uplifting celebration and shared sisterhood!
Here You Come Again is a rollicking, joyous new musical comedy featuring all of Dolly Parton's biggest hits! Read our review.
The NSW premiere of the ingenious and inspiring musical by the superb Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Drawn from a true story and featuring a Tony-nominated score, Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and ‘40s.
Cirque du Soleil returns to Australia with its most unique production CORTEO, set to charm audiences for the very first time.
Mix Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller with a dash of Monty Python-style chaos, and you get THE 39 STEPS — a turbo-charged, Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy smash. After thrilling more than 3 million fans across 39 countries — from London’s West End to Broadway — this international sensation is reimagined and coming to Australia.
Waltzing the Wilarra is an Australian musical play written and composed by David Milroy, set in a mixed-race dance club in post-World War II Perth.
Cut loose with Footloose The Musical at The Concourse Theatre this August 2025. Bursting with 80s hits, high-energy dance, and the spirit of rebellion, this show brings the movie classic to life like never before. Don’t miss it!
Mix Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller with a dash of Monty Python-style chaos, and you get THE 39 STEPS — a turbo-charged, Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy smash. After thrilling more than 3 million fans across 39 countries — from London’s West End to Broadway — this international sensation is reimagined and coming to Australia.
From the Tony Award-winning songwriting duo of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Seussical, Ragtime) comes the Olivier Award-winning Once on This Island. This vibrant adaptation infuses its Caribbean roots with Australia’s own rich cultural tapestry, injecting new life into the Hans Christian Anderson tale, The Little Mermaid.
Being Alive celebrates Hayes audiences’ love affair with Sondheim, following acclaimed, award-winning, and sold-out seasons of Assassins (2017), Merrily We Roll Along (2021), and A Little Night Music (2023).
Strictly Baz Luhrmann is a celebration of the music from the iconic Australian director’s career alongside his longtime Oscar-winning collaborator Catherine Martin.
A show where everything that can go wrong….does!
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.
Experience the mesmerizing journey of the iconic French chanteuse, Edith Piaf, in PIAF! THE SHOW.
They picked the wrong play; the wrong director; the wrong cast… Where did they go right?
No Love Songs brings alive the joys and struggles of Jessie (Joyce) and Lana (Maunder) as they navigate the challenges of their new lives as parents.
Step into the vibrant, hilarious world of 1980s Madrid, where Pepa, a heartbroken actress, finds her life spiralling out of control after her lover’s sudden disappearance.
