An exquisitely moving and exhilarating concert of songs by the greatest musical theatre mind of all. Being Alive celebrates Hayes audiences’ love affair with Sondheim, following acclaimed, award-winning, and sold-out seasons of Assassins (2017), Merrily We Roll Along (2021), and A Little Night Music (2023). After directing a host of Sondheim musicals across her career,… Read More »Being Alive
In a modest, small-town community hall, five people – mostly strangers – come together to take part in an amateur acting class. The class is run by Marty (Gibney), a well-meaning, passionate and provocative teacher who leads the group in a series of drama games. She intends to get them in touch with their inner… Read More »Circle Mirror Transformation
This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get.
“…and the boys shouted I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU and their voice was the life and song of their mother. Unfinished. Beautiful. Everything.” Two young boys fall back on their imaginations as they grapple with their mother’s sudden death. Their father has the soul of a poet but can only see… Read More »Grief Is The Thing With Feathers
A tale of one young girl as she fearlessly follows her heart, defying even the expectations of the Gods From the Tony Award-winning songwriting duo of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Seussical, Ragtime) comes the Olivier Award-winning Once on This Island. This vibrant adaptation infuses its Caribbean roots with Australia’s own rich cultural tapestry, injecting… Read More »Once On This Island
Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps is Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller meets Monty Python madness, now reimagined for a brand-new Australian tour.
Tom Ripley, an orphan and a striver, barely scraping by in 1950s New York. But beneath his woebegone exterior, Tom cultivates certain talents that set him apart: an extraordinary capacity for mimicry and deception. He is a man with a face no-one remembers. Whereas no one could forget Dickie Greenleaf. He is everything Tom isn’t;… Read More »The Talented Mr. Ripley
In commemoration of 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The story takes place in Hiroshima some three years after the dropping of the atomic bomb on that city on 6 August 1945. Mitsue, a young librarian, arrives home to find her father Takezo there. She has not seen him for three years.
It’s 1985. TV prime time. Across Australia, millions of tear-stricken eyes are glued to their television sets in disbelief. A Country Practice’s beloved Molly Jones takes her final breath. Fade to black and she’s gone. Inside the story room, in a creative flurry powered by coffee, cigarettes and Fantales, the eccentric squad of TV writers… Read More »How To Plot A Hit In Two Days
Virginia Woolf’s most beloved and brilliant novel takes to the stage in a joyous new adaptation. Orlando is young, rich and handsome. A courtier in the time of Elizabeth, he sets out in search of love, life, and a fabulous destiny – but he has to travel through 400 years to find it. He dashes… Read More »Orlando
Experience Cirque du Soleil’s signature style of acrobatics in uncharted territory with CRYSTAL – a breakthrough ice experience that blurs the boundaries between gliding sports and circus arts.
CRYSTAL invites you to suspend reality and glide into a world that springs to a colourful life with astounding visual projections, and an original score that seamlessly blends popular music with the signature sound of Cirque du Soleil.
Follow Crystal, the lead character, on an exhilarating tale of self-discovery as she dives into a world of her own imagination, accompanied by a quirky assortment of characters both real and imagined.
In CRYSTAL, gymnasts and skaters perform acrobatics on the ice and in the air, seamlessly combining multiple disciplines together, creating a stunningly unique production.
“The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore…” The NSW premiere of the ingenious and inspiring musical by the superb Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Drawn from a true story and featuring a Tony-nominated score, Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the… Read More »Bright Star
Set against the searing backdrop of the Californian desert, TRUE WEST is a wickedly funny and scorching tale of sibling rivalry. 40 miles east of Los Angeles, Austin has found a writing oasis in his mother’s empty home while she’s abroad. His latest film project has the potential to sell big in Hollywood. In the… Read More »True West
Here You Come Again is a rollicking, joyous new musical comedy featuring all of Dolly Parton's biggest hits! Packed with iconic songs like Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the Stream, I Will Always Love You, Here You Come Again, and many more, this colourful and heartfelt musical tells the story of a diehard fan… Read More »Here You Come Again