Artistic Directors of Hayes Theatre Co, Richard Carroll and Victoria Falconer, have announced seven exciting musicals, a new play with music and a Stephen Sondheim concert that will make up the 2025 program for the Hayes, alongside several special events and cabaret shows. The year opens with the Australian premiere production of Ghost Quartet, written and […]

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Opera Australia (OA) has announced that smash-hit musical West Side Story will return to the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour stage in 2024, along with renewed partnerships with Dr Haruhisa Handa’s International Foundation for Arts and Culture and Destination NSW. This electrifying, larger-than-life production of West Side Story opened in 2019, to rapturous acclaim and remains the most successful […]

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Queensland is renowned for producing incredibly talented performers, and the line-up on stage for Opera Australia and GWB Entertainment’s production of West Side Story at QPAC this July and August is just another exciting case in point. Leading ladies Sophie Salvesani (Maria) and Angelina Thomson (Anita) alongside fellow Queenslanders Jade Coutts, Grace Driscoll, Sebastien Golenko and Jake O’Brien will join the next generation of musical theatre stars in the […]

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West Side Story, the iconic musical masterpiece, is premiering at the Handa Opera stage on Sydney Harbour this autumn. It’s the first time a musical is being featured on this outdoor stage under the stars, and for sisters Karli and Luca Dinardo, it will be their first time performing together in a professional musical production, […]

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Opera Australia has a new version of West Side Story coming to Sydney in March. It will be staged on the open-air stage on Sydney Harbour. Choreographer Julio Monge, one of few people entrusted with staging the choreography by the Jerome Robbins estate, auditioned hundreds of ambitious dancers recently in Sydney. Dance Informa caught up […]

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