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Opera, Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Phantom of the Opera (Opera Australia’s Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour)

Honouring its 40-year legacy with a phantastic new Phantom at the helm, this spectacular outdoor staging of Lloyd Webber’s megamusical is unmissable.

March 28, 2026
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, News, Theatre
news

Sydney Theatre Awards: The winners

Belvoir's Grief and Hayes Theatre Co's Phar Lap pick up multiple awards at this year's critic and industry peer-voted STAs.

January 20, 2026
News, Opera, Theatre
news

Australian Production Design Guild Awards 2025: The winners

Outstanding design work in film, theatre and opera recognised in the APDG's annual celebration of Australian talent.

August 19, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Belvoir)

Toby Schmitz is in brilliant form in a role that demands the verbal facility of a performance poet as well as access to deep feeling.

August 1, 2025
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, News, Opera
news

Phantom returns to haunt Sydney Harbour

Simon Phillips' 2022 production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical rebooted for a Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour 2026 season.

July 18, 2025
Classical Music, News, Orchestral
features

Newsworthy: June 2025

A round-up of our recent news reports.

May 19, 2025
Theatre
news

Cynthia Erivo to star in Sydney Theatre Company’s Dracula

Kip Williams' STC production will play in London's West End with Wicked star Erivo providing the star power.

May 14, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Happy Days (Sydney Theatre Company)

A brilliant Pamela Rabe performance gives us Winnie's indomitable spirit in the face of oblivion.

May 12, 2025
news

The Picture of Dorian Gray earns six Tony nominations

Actor Sarah Snook, director Kip Williams and designer Marg Horwell among six Australians nominated for the prestigious awards.

May 2, 2025
News, Theatre
news

2024 Sydney Theatre Awards: the nominees

Griffin's Lewis Trilogy, STC's Stolen and the indie hit The Inheritance among the shows picked by the critics as 2024's best.

December 23, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Into the Shimmering World (Sydney Theatre Company)

Angus Cerini’s latest is a jewel of a play: sparely written, expertly polished and, for its 90 minutes, completely engrossing.

April 8, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel & Sydney Theatre Company)

Sarah Snook gives a breath-taking tour de force performance as the London lead in Sydney Theatre Company's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

February 16, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Scenes from the Climate Era (Belvoir)

Scenes from the Climate Era will have you asking: have I just been radicalised by a play? 

June 2, 2023

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