What’s Showing
It’s Sydney here! Whether it’s Sondheim, Saint Petersberg, or the Serengeti, we’ve got your hit musicals covered for 2026. Happy theatre-going.
With love,
Anastasia
7 April – 18 July 2026 (Lyric Theatre)
ANASTASIA follows a brave young woman on a journey to discover the mystery of her past. Pursued by an army officer determined to silence her, Anya enlists the aid of a dashing conman and a lovable ex-aristocrat. Together, they embark on an epic adventure to help her find home, love, and family.
The Lion King
18 April – 30 August 2026 (Capitol Theatre)
Giraffes strut. Birds swoop. Gazelles leap. The entire Serengeti comes to life as never before. And as the music soars, Pride Rock slowly emerges from the mist. This is Disney’s THE LION KING, making its triumphant return to Sydney!
Come Alive!
19 May – 26 July 2026 (Entertainment Quarter)
Step inside the Hippodrome and into the world of The Greatest Showman as COME ALIVE! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular arrives to Australia in May 2026. Whether you’re a fan of the film or simply love a spectacular night out COME ALIVE! reimagines the soundtrack as you’ve never experienced it before: live, loud, and breathtakingly up close.
Mackenzie
6 June – 18 July 2026 (The Neilson Nutshell)
From the award-winning creator of FANGIRLS comes a hilarious, twisted, and deeply camp reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her daughter was destined for superstardom.
Hair
6 June – 11 July 2026 (Theatre Royal)
Identity, community, global responsibility and peace, HAIR remains relevant as ever as it examines what it means to be a young person in a changing world. The tribal love rock musical, HAIR celebrates the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory.
The Addams Family
11 July – 9 August 2026 (Hayes Theatre)
Get ready for a fun, mysterious, and freaky spin on one of the world’s most famous families with The Addams Family! Join Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, and the rest of the delightfully macabre clan as they navigate love, family, and chaos in their own peculiar way.
Pride & Prejudice (Sort Of)
16 July – 30 August 2026 (Sydney Opera House)
Following its London triumph, where it won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice (sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate adaptation where the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to romance.
Fiddler on the Roof
31 July – 3 October 2026 (Theatre Royal)
In Fiddler on the Roof it’s 1905 in the tiny village of Anatevka. Tevye, a milkman, lives his life by their proud traditions. For his five daughters, this means a visit from the matchmaker. As each daughter challenges his beliefs, against the backdrop of a changing world, can Tevye hold on to his roots, or must he embrace the unfamiliar?
Waitress
1 August – 4 October 2026 (Sydney Lyric)
In WAITRESS, Jenna, a small-town waitress and expert pie maker longs to escape her rocky marriage and start again. When a baking contest, an unexpected new romance and the support of her fellow waitresses offer her a taste of change, Jenna discovers that the secret ingredient to happiness might be closer than she ever imagined.
How To Succeed In Business
28 August – 27 September 2026 (Hayes Theatre)
Armed with a quirky instructional guide, J. Pierrepont Finch is set on climbing the corporate ladder—without breaking a sweat. With equal parts cunning and charm, he sidesteps snares, outwits obstacles, and plots his rise to the top. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a rollicking comic gem of satire and song.
Heathers
1 September – 19 September 2026 (Roslyn Packer Theatre)
The wickedly funny Heathers the Musical is coming to Sydney. Welcome to Westerberg High, where Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, her dreams of popularity finally start to come true.
My Fair Lady
12 September – 25 October 2026 (Sydney Opera House)
A 20-year-old Julie Andrews was catapulted to superstardom when she originated the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady — an irrepressible Cockney flower girl who transforms into a lady of society. The man attempting to remake her? The appealingly arrogant phoneticist Henry Higgins, who may just be the one transformed.
Six
9 October – 8 November 2026 (Theatre Royal)
From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr are ready to turn up the mic once again in SIX, remixing five hundred years of history into an 80-minute electrifying pop-concert fit for royalty.
Spamalot
15 October – 18 October 2026 (Sydney Event Centre)
MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT, lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy of beautiful showgirls not to mention village idiots, cows, killer rabbits, and French people. A rollicking celebration of all things Monty Python.
A Beautiful Noise: Neil Diamond
From 14 November 2026 (Sydney Lyric)
Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond himself, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE is the uplifting true story of how a kid from Brooklyn became a chart busting, show-stopping American rock icon. An inspiring, exhilarating, energy-filled musical memoir, set to the songs that defined his career.
Whispering Jack
15 November – 27 December 2026 (Roslyn Packer Theatre)
In an outer Melbourne suburban garage in 1986, Farnham, with a new band and manager Glenn Wheatley, began work on an album and a song called You’re the Voice that would transform his career and their lives. Whispering Jack: The John Farnham Musical is the story of an overnight sensation, 20 years in the making.
Moulin Rouge!
9 March – 4 April 2027 (Sydney Lyric)
Enter a world of splendour and romance, of eye-popping excess, glitz, grandeur and glory. Pop the champagne and prepare for the spectacular spectacular… Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical. A celebration of Truth, Beauty, Freedom – and above all – Love.
Mrs. Doubtfire
From March 2027 (Capitol Theatre)
Helloooo, poppets! MRS. DOUBTFIRE – THE MUSICAL, the feel-good comedy musical based on the beloved film, arrives at the Capitol Theatre from March. Out-of-work actor Daniel Hillard will do anything for his kids. After losing custody in a messy divorce, he creates the alter ego of Scottish nanny Euphegenia Doubtfire in a desperate bid to stay in their lives.