You are seated at a table in a leagues club next to the Daintree Developers Corporation. There are brown paper bags on the table for donations, as this event is a fundraiser for Joh Bjelke-Petersen's campaign to become prime minister.

There are too many imperfections in this musical, and Watch This' interpretation only accents them further.

Sydney Theatre Company has announced that Maggie McKenna will take the lead role for its upcoming production, Muriel's Wedding The Musical, the stage version of the much-loved 1994 film starring Toni Collette.

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You might not have heard of it yet, but the Tony Awards just ensured Dear Evan Hansen is the next big musical.

His performance as host has been widely praised by the industry and viewers.

Julie Andrews on the sexism in My Fair Lady, Donald Trump and cuts she finds 'mind-boggling'.

The path to Broadway stardom is well-trodden.

An all-star new production of Alex Harding's gay musical reaffirms its place in the canon of Australian queer theatre.

• Review

Hello, Dolly! is a great example of The Production Company's ethos of prioritising performing talent over bells and whistles.

Time to debate the lyrics to 'Ironic' again.

This Spring Awakening fails on every level as tragedy. Humour might be the one way to save it, a surrender to travesty with a knowing smirk.

When Alex Harding's boy-meets-boy musical romance Only Heaven Knows premiered at the Stables Theatre in Kings Cross in May 1988, Sydney's gay community was in the grip of the AIDS crisis. Now it is being revived in a new age of conservatism.

Anna O'Byrne​ sings with enchanting beauty, and eventually crisp diction, as Eliza Doolittle, while Robyn Nevin​ is simply sublime as Henry Higgins' mother.

It's the sort of compliment any actress would love to hear, especially from Julie Andrews.

• Theatre review

This musical show never quite allows the balancing and the flying and the hula-hooping to overpower the young man's journey of discovery.

Audiences can enjoy a mix of disco, circus and cabaret in Velvet, now on at The Playhouse.

Technical issues on show's opening night in Melbourne force dramatic response.

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It's not for lack of talent that Gale Edwards' revamped production doesn't quite gel.

Not quite a triple threat but Paulini proves an easy double in her musical theatre debut

Julie Lea Goodwin gets hitched to not one but two eligible men in Opera Australia's Two Weddings, One Bride.

Whitney Houston's pre-internet blockbuster film The Bodyguard now feels dated. The musical about to open in Sydney has updated it to include social media stalking.

 Marcia Hines plays a super-sequinned kind of fairy godmother in Velvet and you can't help but thinking if your life was transported into some kind of disco underworld there'd be no better woman to have at your side.

Supa Productions brings this blend of puppets and people to the stage and warns it might be best to leave the children at home.

Movie reboot musical has the gloss and gleam but loses something in translation