In its first ever programming announcement, new live Sydney entertainment venue Foundry Theatre will host Tim Minchin to kick off 2025.
Nestled within the prestigious Sydney Lyric at The Star, Foundry Theatre is Sydney’s highly anticipated new intimate live entertainment venue.
Following Tim’s performance will be the Australian premiere of new, international musical ‘No Love Songs’. It stars Keegan Joyce and Lucy Maunder, packing an emotional punch with heartfelt songs and honest storytelling.
Then, there’s ‘Kiss Me, Kate’, from the team at Neglected Musicals, a theatre initiative dedicated to presenting musical theatre never or rarely seen in Australia. Not seen in Sydney since the 1950s, Cole Porter’s legendary musical comedy includes tracks like ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’, ‘Too Darn Hot’, ‘Always True To You (In my Fashion)’, ‘Tom, Dick Or Harry’, and ‘So In Love’.
Later in April, musical comedian Gillian Cosgriff will bring her show ‘Fresh New Worries’ to the venue. . . And the laughs continue through to may when comedian, radio DJ, talk show host and published author Akmal brings an avalanche of LOLs. Then, The Umbilical Brothers enable screen addictions everywhere in ‘The Distraction’, and Lawrence Mooney’s new hour of stand-up, ‘Dead Set Country’, follows a city boy gone bush.
From June, Foundry Theatre will welcome guests to ‘L’Hôtel’, an immersive world of French intrigue covering cabaret, burlesque and circus.
“Taking this underutilised space and turning it into a theatre is something that we’ve wanted to do for more than ten years, so we are thrilled to announce its first programming for 2025,” Foundation Theatres Chief Executive Officer Graeme Kearns says. “Audiences have a terrific variety of shows and artists to choose from as they experience our new theatre for the first time.”
“The opening of a new theatre is a rare and wonderful thing, and I was stoked that the legendary Theatre-builder Stephen Found asked me to be the canary in the coalmine. Or the champagne bottle shattering on the hull. Or the mohel removing the foreskin of the. . . Anyway, you get my drift,” Tim Minchin adds, of his opening show. “Stoked.”
Foundry Theatre opens with ‘First At The Foundry’ from Tim Minchin 11-15 February, 2025.
