Phoenix Players present a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about a woman's struggle with bipolar disorder.

Tickets to Broadway sensation Hamilton are already eye-wateringly expensive, but how about $134,000 for two front row seats?

Matilda The Musical leads Helpmann Award nominees with 13 nods, followed by Opera Australia with 10 and Melbourne Theatre Company with eight.

The music and lyrics in this play are a real let-down – a witch's brew of uninspired pop and samey vaudeville. What fun there is to be had in the show comes to the fore through David Wynen's direction.

Meredith Willson's first Broadway musical has retained its popularity for more than half a century.

Dramatic Productions' musical version of Frank Abagnale's shenanigans meets the high standards the company has set.

This well-performed production captures the intelligence and black humour of the musical.

The musical about a man-eating plant is now on at the Canberra Theatre.

Suzie Mathers, star of the Australian production of Wicked, has been announced as the new Glinda in the West End version from September.

There are nuns in habits, children in lederhosen and stars Cameron Daddo and Marina Prior, but at the media call for The Sound of Music at the Regent Theatre, one man manages to outshine them all.

This winning production delivers an entertainment that will captivate audiences.

Frank Abagnale's life as a youthful con artist seemed an unlikely subject for song and dance.

Gretel Scarlett nails Debbie Reynolds' part and Jack Chambers shines as the comic offsider but Adam Garcia is slightly outclassed as the lead.

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While lively and musically secure, Heathers is always threatening to drown in outlandish camp.

Forget your glad rags – this Saturday night, those in the front rows at Singin' in the Rain will be needing another, less stylish accoutrement - a raincoat.

A plant with a taste for human blood is an unlikely subject for a musical.

Sydney beats Melbourne in the latest battle of the musicals, but secrecy surrounds the cost to taxpayers of bringing Beautiful: The Carole King Musical to Sydney.

No matter how good you are as a dancer, roller skates are a whole new challenge.

A 600-person choir belting out Carmina Burana and amateur singers performing in a shower set up in Martin Place are among highlights of the inaugural Sydney Sings festival.

Melbourne may have scored the premiere of the upcoming Broadway hit Kinky Boots but its recently announced leads probably won't be familiar to locals.

Huge shoulder pads, scrunchies and outrageous makeup are integral to evoking the late '80s fictional American high school in which Heathers The Musical is set.

For all of Ben Elton's banging on about the evils of generic entertainment, his jukebox musical We Will Rock You sure serves up plenty of it in its two-and-a-half hours.

From gargantuan, terrifying gorillas to huge, human-devouring plants, it's all in a day's work for Esther Hannaford.