Todd McKenney has reached the stage of his career where he quite enjoys when someone else takes hold of the musical theatre wheel, which is the case for his latest role as The Wizard of Oz in Wicked.
Tanya MacNaughton
ARTRAGE chief executive Jo Thomas is passionate about the arts and loves a good statistic, so she is in her absolute element when it comes to launching Fringe World 2025.
Lovers of dance across Australia would consider David McAllister synonymous with ballet.
STRUT Dance’s free Perth Festival dance hub, Perth Moves, needed a bigger dancefloor for 2025, its relocation to Forrest Place just in time to present renowned choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Manifest.
The fact Perth Festival’s new artistic director Anna Reece is the first WA born artistic director in the festival’s 71-year history is a rather wild and surprising feat.
Germinating a homegrown story with international relevance makes for a riveting theatrical ride in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s final production for 2024, The Seed.
New artistic director Anna Reece has announced the Perth Festival 2025 program, with East Perth Power Station its live music hub for the next four years.
After waiting in the wings for what felt like forever, Sheridan Adams is relishing her chance to fly beside Courtney Monsma in Wicked, the musical theatre performers taking on two ultimate leading lady roles.
Stepping into the shoes of one of musical theatre’s most iconic characters in your first lead role is daunting, but Sheridan Adams has a secret weapon.
The Comprehensive A-Z of Missing Persons Australia will be performed at Liberty Theatre, the abandoned cinema a most dramaturgically fitting venue for the WA Youth Theatre Company play by Grace Chow.
A contemporary Australian play is set to bend the minds of a Wheatbelt town regarding friends, family and parenthood.
Hannah Whitehead
The notion Broadway’s Beetlejuice The Musical creative Eddie Perfect had the capability to write a musical had never occurred to him until he studied music theatre at WA Academy of Performing Arts.
While soprano Prudence Sanders won’t be flying around stadiums like superstar singer Pink any time soon, she is currently experiencing the thrill of performing aerial skills in WA Opera’s Orpheus & Eurydice.
WA will be the Belle of the ball next year when much-loved Disney favourite Beauty and the Beast takes centre stage for the first time in Perth.
Zach Margolius
Tickets are sure to be precious as producers of The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale, the stage production based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic trilogy, announce a Perth season as part of the 2025 Australian tour.
Kate Mulvany’s semi-autobiographical play The Seed is being presented by Black Swan State Theatre Company, with sister Tegan Mulvany taking on a role very close to both their hearts.
WA Ballet’s 2025 season is set to be a wild one as the company builds up to its 75th anniversary in 2027 with a program of favourites, world premieres and female creativity in honour of founder Kira Bousloff.
Heartbreak High star and proud Kamilaroi man Thomas Weatherall’s monologue Blue is one of six productions announced in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s tantalising 2025 season, programmed by Kate Champion.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company’s world premiere of Bruce Denny’s play Operation Boomerang is not just an uplifting family yarn about living on your own terms, but dying on your own terms too.
Wrangling showgirls, glitter and a tonne of paperwork is all part of the job description for Perth International Burlesque Festival director Jessica Gough.
Fringe World comedy and cabaret favourite Reuben Kaye is returning to Perth, the bold and brash queer performer’s magnetic stage presence landing him the royal role of King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Green make-up, a fat suit and facial prosthetics all go into the process of turning performer Falstaff Dowling-Mitchell into the title character of Shrek The Musical, and he would not have it any other way.
Adelaide-based performer Stephen Noonan relishes creating and performing children’s theatre for an incredibly specific age group, doing just that with The Boy and The Ball at AWESOME Festival 2024.
The first reading of Noongar opera Wundig Wer Wilura, written and composed by Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse, happened in the kitchen of an Airbnb in York, and will return to open York Festival 2024.
