Sydney Theatre Company wins big – here’s what to see this year

As the Sydney Theatre Company announces record-breaking numbers, these are the productions you can see in Sydney this year.

Theatregoers can’t get enough of the Sydney Theatre Company, it seems. The local theatre company has revealed its highest revenue in its 45-year history, bringing in $47m last year. It comes hot off the heels of their win at New York’s Tony Awards last weekend, for The Picture of Dorian Gray, produced with fellow Sydneysider Michael Cassel.

In the remarkable production, Australian actor Sarah Snook plays 26 different parts, which earned her the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.

Sarah Snook’s Tony Award win is a deeply deserved honour. Her performance has captivated audiences night after night, and this recognition is a celebration of her extraordinary artistry.

It is also a proud moment for our entire creative team, whose vision and talent have also been recognised tonight. From its beginnings in Sydney to standing ovations on the West End and Broadway, the journey of this show has been nothing short of phenomenal. This accolade is not only a testament to the brilliance of everyone involved, but also to the courage of Sydney Theatre Company and Kip Williams, whose creative genius, ambition and innovation made this groundbreaking piece of theatre possible. I am so proud to be a part of Australian theatre being shared on the global stage.”

— Michael Cassel, on the Tony Award win

While The Picture of Dorian Gray continues to impress on Broadway, there are plenty of productions playing here in Sydney — now and in the coming months.

The 2025 season got underway in February and has barely taken a breath since. It started with the uplifting take on the generation gap in 4000 Miles and the heady horror, Picnic at Hanging Rock, before The Dictionary of Lost Worlds, Bloom and RBG: Of Many, One impressed audiences. On now and in the coming months are:

Happy Days

Star of stage and screen, Pamela Rabe, returned to Sydney Theatre Company to take on the role of one of modernist theatre’s great icons. There are just a few chances left to see this production of Samuel Beckett’s towering masterpiece. Winnie is an eternal optimist, even when buried waist-deep in a dreamlike wasteland with the sun relentlessly beating down on her. The poetic play is about the power of the human spirit, which still has haunting and inspiring resonances to this day.

Where: Wharf 1 Theatre, Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000.
When: Friday, June 13 (7:30pm), Saturday, June 14 (1:30pm & 7:30pm) and Sunday, June 15 (2pm).
Price: Adult from $110, under-30s from $60.

Book tickets at sydneytheatre.com.au.

Circle Mirror Transformation

Director Dean Bryant continues a winning run at STC with this laugh-out-loud play by one of America’s most exciting playwrights, Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker. In a small-town community hall, five people come together to take part in an amateur acting class. Well-meaning and provocative teacher Marty leads the group in a series of drama games, hoping to get them in touch with their inner selves. As the exercises build in intensity and their lives become further intertwined, however, real-life drama begins to seep into the curriculum.

Rebecca Gibney and Cameron Daddo make their STC debut alongside a knockout ensemble cast.

Where: Wharf 1 Theatre, Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000.
When: Saturday, July 12 until Sunday, September 7
Price: Adult from $90, under-30s from $40.

Book tickets at sydneytheatre.com.au.

The Talented Mr Ripley

The twentieth century’s most glamorous thriller has been captivating readers and cinephiles for 70 years. Playwriting icon Joanna Murray-Smith has adapted the page-turner into an electrifying stage experience that makes its world premiere here in Sydney this winter.

Tom Ripley, literature’s most alluring man is played by Will McDonald (Heartbreak High). Barely scraping by in 1950s New York, he has a face no one remembers, whereas Dickie Greenleaf (played by Raj Labade) is everything Tom isn’t. He’s confident, stylish and heir to a large fortune.

Hired by Dickie’s father to bring his son home, Tom is plunged into the glittering world of luxury, beauty and hedonism on the Italian Riviera. Emulating his target, Tom begins dancing, dressing and drinking like Dickie. Imagining another version of himself — a better one — he’s kill for it.

Where: Wharf 1 Theatre, Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000.
When: Tuesday, August 19 until Sunday, September 28.
Price: Adult from $100, under-30s from $50.

Book tickets at sydneytheatre.com.au

Whitefella Yella Tree

Watch Australia theatre at its finest in this elegant and moving First Nations drama, by Palawa playwright, Dylan Van Den Berg. It’s his Sydney Theatre Company debut.

In the early years of colonisation, Ty, a young Aboriginal man, is learning to be his mob’s storyteller, but for now he’s a messenger sent to exchange information with a neighbouring clan group. Neddy shows up to share the news, and their love story blossoms, taking root in Country that is about to be declared ‘Australia’.

Where: Wharf 1 Theatre, Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000.
When: Friday, September 19 until Saturday, October 18.
Price: From $40.

Book tickets at sydneytheatre.com.au.

The Shiralee

An outback classic, Kate Mulvany and Jessica Arthur has transformed it into a charming and epic theatrical production for the first time. Combining a poetic story of life and love on the margins, with a spectacular cast including Mulvany herself (her first onstage STC appearance in 16 years).

Macauley is a rugged swagman who roams mid-century Australia’s highways and byways, taking on odd jobs to survive. His young daughter, Buster, lives with her separated mother Marge in a neglectful home in Sydney. When Macauley discovers Buster’s circumstances he takes her on the road with him, despite his hesitations around fatherhood. Over the course of their travels, the pair develop a deep connection, as Buster discovers her voice in the world. 

Where: Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point.
When: Monday, October 6 until Saturday, November 22.
Price: From $40.

Book tickets at sydneytheatre.com.au.

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Logie Award-winner Kat Stewart makes her Sydney Theatre Company debut in this celebrated production of Edward Albee’s most famous play. It’s a wild and explosive take on love, marriage and everything in between. Following a critically-acclaimed and sold-out season in Melbourne, it promises an unforgettable night of theatre.

Martha and George (played by Stewart and her real-life husband, David Whiteley) are in a bitter and frustrated marriage, defined by the accumulation of small disappointments, and tonight they’re all coming out with a vengeance. After a university faculty party, they lure an unwitting younger couple into their relationship.

Where: Roslyn Packer Theatre, 22 Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay NSW 2000.
When: Friday, November 7 until Sunday, December 14.
Price: From $60.

Book tickets at sydneytheatre.com.au.

Congratulations, Get Rich!

Merlynn Tong penned and performs this larger-than-life musical comedy that is semi-autobiographical. It celebrates the richness of Singaporean culture while asking universal questions about the complexity of mother-daughter relationships.

Mandy is hosting a one-night-only mega reunion special for her last night at the helm of her beloved karaoke bar. It’s a big celebration — until the ghosts of her mother and grandmother crash the party, that is. This spectacularly supernatural and moving family drama pulls the audience into a world where the border between here and the afterlife dissolves.

Where: Wharf 1 Theatre, Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000.
When: Friday, November 21 until Sunday, December 14.
Price: Adult from $90, under-30s from $40.

Book tickets at sydneytheatre.com.au