The Mikado
2025-07-17 - 2025-07-20 | Alexander Theatre Clayton, Monash University 48 Exhibition Walk,, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
The Mikado is an enduringly popular comic opera with memorable music, endearing characters and some of the wittiest lyrical comedy in the English language. Featuring much loved songs such as “I’ve Got A Little List” (the better known title of “As Someday it May Happen”), “A Wand’ring Minstrel I”, “Three Little Maids From School Are We”, “The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring” and many more.
Nanki-Poo loves Yum-Yum but she’s betrothed to Ko-Ko, the new Lord High Executioner. When the Mikado (or emperor) orders a beheading, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko try to come to an arrangement that doesn’t involve anyone losing their head! However, the arrival in town of the spurned Katisha turns everything topsy-turvy. With melodious mischief and preposterous plots, the tangled web unravels; will the punishment fit the crime?

Blood Wedding
2025-07-23 - 2025-08-02 | Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda, VIC, 3182, Australia
Adapted from the original play by Federico García Lorca
Blood Wedding tells the story of a forbidden love between two people born into feuding families. Originally penned in 1933 amidst political unrest and calls for revolution, this bold new adaptation brings Lorca’s work into sharp focus for a contemporary audience—resonating deeply in today’s uncertain world.
At its core, Blood Wedding explores the personal toll of conflict and the silencing of women in patriarchal societies. It’s a battle of tribe against tribe, class against class—building to a tragic climax.
With striking projections, a visceral soundscape, and physical, stylised performance, this production interrogates inherited traditions, gender roles, moral boundaries, freedom, and the raw, destructive force of love—and violence. The blade, both literal and symbolic, becomes a chilling throughline. These themes remain just as urgent today as when Lorca first wrote them.
Knives. Knives. Curse the man who invented them. Do you know what a knife can do? Ever stuffed salt into a knife wound? Pushed a man’s insides back into his belly? Ever seen someone split from throat to groin? Don’t tell me not to talk about knives—I know knives.
— Mother, Blood Wedding

The Forgotten Songbook
2025-07-25 - 2025-07-27 | Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, VIC, 3181, Australia
George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter – these are some of the iconic composers whose music shaped the Golden Age of Broadway. But not all writers left a lasting legacy.
The Forgotten Songbook unearths the music of a brilliant songwriter who faded into obscurity long before his time. Wilbur Weissman’s life was a roller coaster of ‘showmances’, legal battles and underrated hits. With a brand-new book written by historian and composer Emerson Hurley, and songs performed for the first time in decades by Karla Hillam and Jonathan Guthrie-Jones, experience the swinging music of Broadway’s most iconic era as you’ve never heard it before!
In this highly anticipated world premiere, directed by Mikey Halcrow, you decide whether Weissman’s name should join the ranks of Broadway legends or be relegated to history.

Footloose: The Musical
2025-07-25 - 2025-08-24 | Athenaeum Theatre, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
Get ready to cut loose! The 1980s phenomenon Footloose is hitting Australia – bigger, bolder and more explosive than ever.
This brand-new remastered production will have you dancing in the aisles to the iconic hits you know and love, including Holding Out for a Hero, Almost Paradise, Let’s Hear It for the Boy and, of course, the unforgettable title track, Footloose.
Join Ren, the city kid turned rebel with a cause, as he shakes up a small town where music and dancing are outlawed. With electrifying choreography, a feel-good story and sizzling Australian talent, this smash-hit musical will leave you on your feet and cheering for more.

What's Yours
2025-07-26 - 2025-08-24 | Red Stitch: The Actor’s Theatre, Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda East, VIC, 3182, Australia
In this intimate new work by talented Melbourne playwright, Keziah Warner (Control, Red Stitch), Jo and Simon are in love for eight years before breaking up. Simon later falls for Jo’s best friend, Lia. Ten years, a broken friendship, and several failed IVF attempts later, Simon and Lia ask happily child-free Jo to donate her eggs. What’s Yours captures the fallout of this simple but oh-so-complicated question.
Written specifically for ensemble member and Helpmann award-winner, Christina O’Neill (Hour of the Wolf, Malthouse Theatre; Bloom & My Brilliant Career, Melbourne Theatre Company; Calamity Jane, Arts Centre Melbourne), and directed by Isabella Vadiveloo (Wolf Play), this funny, heart-breaking, and hopeful play offers a new and unique insight into the growing childfree-by-choice movement, celebrating the enduring power of women’s friendship and lives lived on their own terms.

Kimberley Akimbo A Musical
2025-07-26 - 2025-08-30 | Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
The new girl in town is making heads spin. You’ve got to move fast when you’re 16 going on 70.
Kimberly Akimbo is the musical that took Broadway by storm. It won countless hearts and raked in five Tony awards including Best Musical, with music by Jeanine Tesori, the brilliant mind behind the critically acclaimed Fun Home. This Australian premiere directed by four-time Helpmann Award-winner Mitchell Butel and starring Marina Prior, Casey Donovan and Christie Whelan Browne brims with infectious energy and tunes that soar.
New Jersey, 1999: from a sea of teen angst, unrequited crushes and popularity contests bursts Kimberly, a musical heroine like no other. Equal parts teen comedy, heist caper and unlikely love story, her rollercoaster journey shows that the tempo of your own song is yours to set. Born with a genetic rarity that means she ages at four times the rate of everyone else, Kimberly is a teen in mid-life form and living on borrowed time. She can cope with her dropkick dad and narcissistic mum – can’t spell ‘dysfunction’ without ‘fun’, right? But when her criminal aunt Debra shows up with a get-rich-quick scheme too good to be legal, Kimberly decides you’re only young once.

Ms Julie Gabler: trapped
2025-07-30 - 2025-08-09 | Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda, VIC, 3182, Australia
by Kathleen Mary Fallon
In this bold, modern reimagining of Othello told through Desdemona’s eyes, three actors explore love, suspicion, domestic abuse, and pathological jealousy—often called ‘the Othello Syndrome’—in an inter-racial setting. As professional performers, they not only enact their characters but also reveal themselves, their relationships shaped and confined by the theatrical legacies of Shakespeare’s Othello, Strindberg’s misogyny in Miss Julie and The Father, and Ibsen’s feminist tensions in Hedda Gabler and A Doll’s House. Caught in this cultural framework, we’re left to wonder: are they performing themselves, or is the culture performing them?
This powerful exploration of gender, race, and sexuality delves deep into disturbing questions: What happens behind closed doors? Why do women remain in relationships that grow increasingly violent and irrational? How can one tell when ordinary jealousy tips into dangerous obsession? Ms Julie Gabler: trapped goes beyond simplistic labels like ‘evil’, ‘patriarchal’, or ‘misogynistic’ to examine the psychological fragmentation of abusers and the tragic vulnerability of their partners. It exposes not only the torment of those who inflict violence but also the peril of failing to see the signs—until it’s too late.

In The Heights Melbourne
2025-08-01 - 2025-09-06 | The Comedy Theatre, 240 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
From the musical mastermind, Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana) comes the Tony Award®-winning musical sensation In The Heights – a vibrant and exhilarating production set in New York’s Washington Heights.
In The Heights tells the story of a tight-knit community on the cusp of significant change. Full of hopes and aspirations, some are about to embark on an incredible journey of love and ambition while others are faced with some of the biggest challenges of their lives, including what it means to be “home”.
Following its acclaimed runs on Broadway, at the Hayes Theatre, and the Sydney Opera House, In The Heights is poised to ignite the stage at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne this August and HOTA Home of the Arts, Gold Coast this September. This vibrant celebration of community, culture, and the pursuit of dreams blends hip hop, salsa, and Latin rhythms into an infectious musical theatre score that has captivated audiences worldwide.
Bringing this production to life is a standout cast, led by Ryan González (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) as Usnavi, Olivia Vásquez (West Side Story) as Vanessa, Richard Valdez as Piragua Guy and Mariah Gonzalez as Nina Rosario.
Under the direction of Luke Joslin, with dynamic choreography by Amy Campbell, both Helpmann Award nominees for this production, In The Heights delivers an unforgettable theatrical experience that pulses with energy, passion, and heart.
With its high-energy dance numbers, soulful storytelling, and unforgettable music, In The Heights is a must-see theatrical event.

Miss Julie
2025-08-02 - 2025-08-17 | Fortyfivedownstairs Theatre, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
Passion, power, and class tensions reach boiling point in the heart of a Melbourne kitchen.
On the night before Greek Easter, the daughter of a high-profile restaurateur and a brooding sous-chef face off after hours. As lamb roasts and ouzo flows, ambition and desire collide—with explosive consequences.
Recent acting graduate Annalise Gelagotis makes her professional debut as Julie, joined by acclaimed Broadway star Adam-Jon Fiorentino (Mary Poppins, Saturday Night Fever) and two-time Green Room nominee Izabella Yena.
Directed by Harry Haynes (founder of The Liminal Space), this daring new adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie reimagines the classic for today—relocated to the cutthroat world of fine dining, where ambition simmers and old power structures still hold sway.
A visceral collision of Mediterranean ritual, modern Australian ambition, and the hunger for something more.
For a fully immersive experience, choose a Dining Experience ticket. This includes the show plus a specially curated Greek-inspired meal and wine pairing from MasterChef alum and celebrity chef Conor Curran (@creamy_confusion), with dessert by Niki Louca of My Greek Kitchen (@mygreekkitchen).

Songs for a New World
2025-08-05 - 2025-08-10 | Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, VIC, 3181, Australia
See the show that took Melbourne theatre by storm in 2023, garnering several Green Room accolades for Best Direction, Best Musical Direction, Best Choreography, Best Lighting, Best Set & Costumes and Best Ensemble. This unique and innovative staging of an explosive musical theatre experience will dazzle.
Jason Robert Brown’s mesmerising song cycle weaves together a tapestry of emotions, dreams and life-altering moments, capturing the raw essence of the human experience, in a performance event which is a feast for the senses. From the first note to the last, Songs for a New World invites you to embark on a riveting exploration of hope, love, loss and the transformative power of choices through complex musical arrangements, soaring vocals and captivating choreography.

The Orchard
2025-08-05 - 2025-08-16 | Malthouse Theatre, 113 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, 3006, Australia
Congratulations!
You’ve inherited a redundant cherry orchard, a crumbling climate, a failing economy, inept institutions and the final play written by Anton Chekhov. What will you salvage? How much are you willing to let go? How much will be taken from you?
Welcome to The Orchard, where doomed inheritances and impossible expectations collide. Choices must be made. Classics must be questioned. Wood must be chopped.
From the ‘frenetically uproarious’ (Time Out) collective renowned for their ‘meticulously practiced feat[s] of coordinated effort’ (The Skinny) such as Burnout Paradise and Grand Theft Theatre, witness Pony Cam as they attempt to adapt Chekhov’s classic for an increasingly demanding world – and transform everything we hold dear along with it.
There will be real indecision, real stories, a person in a tree costume, a lot of cling wrap and a chainsaw borrowed from a friend.
Will you survive the adaptation?

Dial M For Murder
2025-08-07 - 2025-08-16 | Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda, VIC, 3182, Australia
Tony Wendice is convinced he’s devised the flawless crime. After uncovering his wife Margot’s affair, he plans her murder—intent on claiming her fortune and escaping suspicion. After all, who would suspect a devoted husband? But when he places a call through the Mayfair exchange to set his plan in motion, one wrong number unravels everything.
Full of tension, unexpected turns and dangerous deception, this gripping thriller will keep you guessing until the final moment.
Famously adapted by Hitchcock, this bold new take on Dial M for Murder proves that its chilling themes of betrayal, control and justice still hit close to home today.

Home, I'm Darling
2025-08-07 - 2025-08-30 | The Lowe Auditorium, 3 Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully, VIC, 3156, Australia
Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn’t as easy as it looks…
Home, I’m Darling is Laura Wade’s new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.

The Witches
2025-08-08 - 2025-08-23 | Beaumaris Theatre, 82 WELLS ROAD, Beaumaris, VIC, 3193, Australia
This stage adaptation stays true to Roald Dahl’s beloved tale, where a young boy and his fearless Grandmother take on the terrifying Grand High Witch and her coven, who are secretly gathering at a seaside hotel. In the battle that unfolds, the boy is transformed into a mouse.
These witches aren’t your typical broomstick-riding, hat-wearing villains—they blend into the everyday world, disguising themselves as ordinary women to carry out their sinister plans. The production is rich with opportunities for clever stage magic, imaginative puppetry, and visual surprises. Adding a comedic touch is the brash Jenkins family, whose son Bruno also falls victim to the witches’ spells and ends up as a mouse.

The 39 Steps - Sydney
2025-08-08 - 2025-08-30 | Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
4 ACTORS, 130 CHARACTERS AND 100 MINUTES OF HILARITY
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.
Directed by acclaimed theatre-maker Damien Ryan and starring four of Australia’s most beloved talents: Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers, Sea Patrol, The King and I) Ian Stenlake (Sea Patrol, Stingers) and The Umbilical Brothers (David Collins and Shane Dundas) THE 39 STEPS is ready to make its way across Australia in an unmissable national tour this year.
Join the suave but unsuspecting Richard Hannay as he finds himself framed for murder and tangled in a web of spies, secrets, and seductive strangers. To clear his name, he must outrun the law, outwit international agents, and survive a string of increasingly absurd adventures.
In just 100 minutes of non-stop action, four fearless actors play 130 roles in a dazzling display of quick changes, inventive stagecraft, and high-energy hilarity. A gripping fast-paced comedy thriller that will leave you breathless with laughter.
Australian Tour
Sydney 8-30 August 2025 Sydney Opera House
Newcastle 2-9 September 2025 Civic Theatre
Melbourne 10-28 September Comedy Theatre
Brisbane 7-19 October QPAC

Trophy Boys
2025-08-13 - 2025-08-24 | Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
A razor-sharp queer black comedy and drag-fuelled spectacle exploring power, privilege and high school politics.
It’s the night of the Grand Final of Melbourne’s most prestigious Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament, and the elite all-boys team from St Imperium College are ready to crush their sister school rivals—until everything starts to unravel.
Performed entirely by a female and non-binary cast in drag, Trophy Boys unfolds in real time during the team’s one-hour prep session, as they’re forced to debate the motion: “Feminism has failed women.”
What follows is a wildly funny and biting satire on adolescent masculinity, entitlement, and the early grooming of Australia’s future power players.
Winner of Best New Work at the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards and nominated for four Greenroom Awards including Best Production and Best New Writing, Trophy Boys is “truly a joy to watch” (Time Out).
Back in Melbourne after last year’s sell-out season—don’t miss this bold and brilliant return.

Looking for Alibrandi
2025-08-20 - 2025-08-23 | Geelong Arts Centre, 50 Little Malop Street, Geelong, VIC, 3020, Australia
Josie Alibrandi is in her final year of high school. Whip-smart and aspirational, she is a third-generation Italian teenager and scholarship kid, with the shadow of a family curse and a penchant for rule-breaking.
Juggling grades, boys, and the claustrophobia of an overbearing Nonna and saintly mother, Josie’s life becomes tangled in the webs of class, identity, and family history as she finds her place in a changing world.
Iconic novel and cult movie, Looking for Alibrandi is the honest and empowered portrait of 1990s Mediterranean culture that spoke for the first time about systemic racism in Australia from a migrant perspective. It defined a generation and to this day resonates with those caught in the stranglehold of identity and othering in this country.
Award winning director Stephen Nicolazzo (Loaded, Merciless Gods) brought Melina Marchetta’s best-selling novel to the stage for the first time in 2022, where Vidya Rajan’s AWGIE nominated adaptation joined three generations of women in a passionate, heart wrenching, and unmissable rendering of the Australian classic.

Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit
2025-08-21 - 2025-08-23 | Brisbane Powerhouse, 119 Lamington St, New Farm, Brisbane, QLD, 4005, Australia
After a massive run at the 2025 Brisbane Comedy Festival, Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit is returning for a super-sized season of cunningly improvised whodunnits this August.
Immerse yourself in the cozy world of a 1950s Agatha Christie novel as Australia’s funniest improvisers craft eccentric characters and perplexing mysteries from your suggestions. Any of the village’s suspicious denizens could be dispatched at any moment, and any of them could be the murderer. It’s your secret ballot votes that determine who lives, who dies and who will be unmasked as the culprit.
This special return season promises bigger, bolder and funnier mysteries, featuring more suspects, more clues and more red herrings. See if you can solve the crime first… after all, no two chapters of this critically acclaimed show are the same!

The Machine Stops
2025-08-22 - 2025-08-30 | Theatre Works, 14 Acland Street, St. Kilda, VIC, Australia
From the team that brought you The Human Voice and Moth comes the radical 1909 dystopian epic that predicted the internet.
Be transported by this world premier of a new adaptation of the brilliant novella The Machine Stops by EM Forster (A Room with a View).
In this chilling tale of a futuristic information-orientated society all of humanity live subterranean, connected by a global instant-messaging system and grown fearful of first-hand experience.
A rhapsody of sound and light brought to life by two virtuosic performers, THE MACHINE STOPS is more prescient than 1984 and Brave New World combined. Starring Jane Montgomery Griffiths, be taken on another phenomenal theatrical experience where technology has become the ultimate controlling force.

Here You Come Again Perth
2025-08-22 - 2025-08-31 | Regal Theatre, 474 Hay Street, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Here You Come Again is a feel-good, high-energy musical comedy packed with all the greatest Dolly Parton hits. Featuring unforgettable songs like Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the Stream, I Will Always Love You, and of course Here You Come Again, this vibrant production tells the story of a devoted Dolly fan whose imaginary version of the legendary star helps him through life’s biggest ups and downs. With Dolly’s signature humour, heart, and wisdom, he learns powerful lessons about love, resilience, and finding your sparkle—even if your boots aren’t bedazzled.
Starring co-creator Tricia Paoluccio as Dolly herself, alongside Dash Kruck (Little Shop of Horrors, Jesus Christ Superstar) and a stellar local cast and live band, this crowd-pleasing musical has been reimagined for Australian audiences by Fiona Harris and Mike McLeish. Co-created by Tricia Paoluccio, Gabriel Barre, and two-time Emmy winner Bruce Vilanch, this is the must-see musical event of 2025.
National Tour
Melbourne 12- 20 Jul 2025 Comedy Theatre.
Perth 22-31 Aug 2025 Regal Theatre
Sydney 12 -28 Sep 2025. Theatre Royal
Melbourne 23 Oct -2 Nov 2025 Comedy Theatre.
Newcastle 20 Nov 2025 Civic Theatre
Canberra 27-30 Nov 2025 Canberra Theatre Centre
Adelaide 6 -14 Dec 2025 Her Majestys Theatre

Shrek The Musical
2025-08-24 - 2025-08-31 | Alexander Theatre Clayton, Monash University 48 Exhibition Walk,, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
Stars and the Moon Presents Shrek The Musical at the Alexander Theatre
Get ready for a hilariously swampy adventure with Stars and the Moon’s Inclusical, Shrek the Musical, where fairy tales get flipped and friendship takes centre stage.
Join the beloved green ogre, his trusty (and talkative) sidekick Donkey, a fiery princess, and a band of fairy-tale misfits as they dance, sing, and joke their way through an unforgettable quest for acceptance, belonging, and love.
Director Lauren McKenna, musical director Charlotte Greenslade, and choreographer Benjamin Curé reunite to bring this heart-filled blockbuster to life. The show is packed with epic songs, wild dance numbers, a fire-breathing dragon, and of course, plenty of layers (like onions).
Stars and the Moon is a unique all-abilities theatre company. Their castmate model pairs performers with and without disabilities to support one another in creating bold, moving, and accessible theatre with, not despite, their diversity.
Come celebrate what is different, what is human (and ogre), and why real beauty comes from within.

Trophy Boys Brisbane
2025-08-25 - 2025-08-30 | Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Cultural Precinct Cnr Grey & Melbourne Street, QLD, 4101, Australia
A razor-sharp queer black comedy and drag-fuelled spectacle exploring power, privilege and high school politics.
It’s the night of the Grand Final of Melbourne’s most prestigious Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament, and the elite all-boys team from St Imperium College are ready to crush their sister school rivals—until everything starts to unravel.
Performed entirely by a female and non-binary cast in drag, Trophy Boys unfolds in real time during the team’s one-hour prep session, as they’re forced to debate the motion: “Feminism has failed women.”
What follows is a wildly funny and biting satire on adolescent masculinity, entitlement, and the early grooming of Australia’s future power players.
Winner of Best New Work at the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards and nominated for four Greenroom Awards including Best Production and Best New Writing, Trophy Boys is “truly a joy to watch” (Time Out).

The Humans
2025-08-27 - 2025-09-06 | Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke St, Malvern East, VIC, 3145, Australia
‘The Humans’ is a poignant, award-winning drama (Tony Awards, Best Play) that, with humour and compassion explores the tensions and bonds in family life today. In Brigid’s run-down New York apartment, with bad wi-fi and strange noises upstairs, the Blake family comes together to celebrate Thanksgiving, bringing with them their anxieties, fears, and hidden struggles. But as they cook and eat, bicker and joke, darkness begins to fall and long buried tensions and secrets start to emerge. Plus, the strange noises upstairs may not be as innocent as they thought!
‘The Humans’ is warm, funny, uplifting and unsettling. Malvern Theatre Company is proud to present the Victorian premiere of this modern masterpiece, dubbed “Kind, rich and beautiful” (Chicago Tribune).

The 39 Steps - Newcastle
2025-09-02 - 2025-09-06 | Civic Theatre Newcastle, 375 Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

The Play That Goes Wrong
2025-09-03 - 2025-09-21 | Athenaeum Theatre, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
After nearly eight years, it’s time for audiences old and new to be rolling in the aisles as The Cornley Drama Society attempts to stage a 1920s murder mystery where everything goes hilariously wrong, The Play That Goes Wrong, touring Australia in August – September 2025.
You all know the classic whodunnit story; there has been a murder at a country manor and an inspector is set on the case to find the culprit. But when these accident-prone thespians take it on, everything that can go wrong…does! The actors and crew battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Who murdered Charles Haversham? You’ll have to see for yourself!
Presented by GMG Productions and Stoddart Entertainment Group by arrangement with Mischief Worldwide Ltd, this fan favourite tour coincides with the 10th Anniversary UK performance.
Mischief’s The Play That Goes Wrong opened at the Duchess Theatre, London in September 2014, and this year celebrates its 10th year in the West End. The production shows no signs of slowing down since its first performance at The Old Red Lion Theatre with only four paying customers and has now been performed to over 3.5 million people around the world in every continent except Antarctica.

American Psycho – The Musical
2025-09-04 - 2025-09-21 | Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, VIC, 3181, Australia
Based on Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial 1991 novel and the cult 2000 film, this blistering stage adaptation delivers a satirical punch straight to the heart of capitalism, consumerism and unchecked male power.
With a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale) and music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening), this bold musical dives into the mind of Patrick Bateman: a young, wealthy investment banker with a taste for designer suits by day, and something far more sinister by night.
Set in the money-obsessed Manhattan of the late 1980s and soundtracked by Sheik’s slick score alongside iconic hits from Phil Collins, Tears for Fears, New Order and Huey Lewis and the News, American Psycho is a blood-soaked thrill ride through greed, privilege and moral decay.
Presented by See You Sunday Inc.

Troy
2025-09-04 - 2025-09-25 | Malthouse Theatre, 113 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, 3006, Australia
How far would you go to protect what you love?
Be transported to 12th century BCE, when gods walked among us, epic battles were fought on the sands of time and no one escaped the hand of violence. A great city will be invaded and the stories of its people screamed inside the great machine of war. Can you hear them?
Written by Tom Wright – renowned for his awe-inspiring adaptations The Odyssey, Oedipus and Women of Troy – and directed by Matthew Lutton (Elektra, Antigone), this is the legend of Troy like you’ve never seen it before. A powerhouse ensemble cast will take to a transformed theatre to deliver the most physically demanding and hauntingly poetic performance of their lives under the eyes of the Trojan horse.
Prepare to be struck with wonder as you experience the theatrical event of the season.

MJ The Musical Melbourne
2025-09-09 - 2026-03-13 | Her Majesty’s Theatre, 219 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry is heading to Melbourne in the multiple Tony Award®-winning MJ the Musical.
Centred around the making of his 1992 Dangerous World Tour, MJ the Musical goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Jackson into legendary status.
Created by Tony Award®-winning Director/Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ the Musical Melbourne opens September 2025.
Check out our Review of the Sydney Production of MJ The Musical

The 39 Steps - Melbourne
2025-09-10 - 2025-09-28 | The Comedy Theatre, 240 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia

Chess: The Musical
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-21 | The Round, 379 - 399 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading, VIC, 3131, Australia
NOVA Music Theatre presents Chess: The Musical, a battle of minds, hearts, and nations!
When American grandmaster Freddie Trumper faces off against Russian champion Anatoly Sergievsky, their rivalry extends beyond the chessboard. With Cold War tensions rising and political forces at play, chess second Florence Vassy finds herself torn between loyalty, love, and ambition.
With lyrics by Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita) and music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (Mamma Mia!), Chess delivers an electrifying rock score, including “One Night in Bangkok”, “I Know Him So Well”, and “Anthem.”
Now experience this gripping tale of passion, politics, and betrayal like never before. Who will claim victory—on the board and in love?
