Hamilton to open in Sydney in 2021

The mega-hit musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda will make its Australian premiere at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in March 2021.

22 May 2019

Richard Watts

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Chris De’Sean Lee, Jose Ramos, Wallace Smith, Miguel Cervantes in Hamilton.Image (c) Joan Marcus 2016.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and multiple Tony and Laurence Olivier Awards in New York and London, the hit musical Hamilton will open a brand new production in Sydney in 2021.

Producers Jeffrey Seller and Michael Cassel together with creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, joined NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian in announcing the much-anticipated production today (Wednesday 22 May).

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts