What We’ve Grown
From a Melbourne pub to premiere readings and new productions: twelve years of developing Australian musical theatre.
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Put Australian Musicals on Repeat
A new wave of Australian cast recordings is giving our musicals a life beyond the theatre.
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Australian musical theatre,
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From new releases to rare vinyl finds, plus three international classics.
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Reviews, interviews and stories from the archive.
Sydney Arts GuideReview · 2025Homo Grown at Pride FestMan in ChairReview · 2023Home Grown: October 2023 concertAustralian Arts ReviewNews · 2026Mackenzie reaches its world premiere
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Stage WhispersContributed feature · 2025 seasonHome Grown, in the founders’ wordsAustralian Arts ReviewNews · 2023Bearded: a new queer Australian musicalAustralian Arts ReviewInterview · 2023On the couch with Sean DonehueAussieTheatreNews · 2020Home Grown and Songs for a Future Oz go onlineBroadwayWorldInterview · 2019Kansley & Lidert: Home Grown Songbook SeriesAussieTheatreFeature · 2018Australian Musical Theatre PlaylistAustralian Arts Review, republished from The ConversationIndustry analysis · 2018A great year for Australian musical theatreBroadwayWorldNews · 2016Songbook Series: The Songs of Nick EnrightAussieTheatreInterview · 2016Home Grown: striking while the iron’s hotStage WhispersFeature · 2016 seasonHome Grown in Fertile GroundArtsHubNews · 2015Students to be graded on making a song and danceNewMusicalTheatreFeature · 2015Hedger, Nicholson and new musical theatre in AustraliaRip It UpReview · 2015Home Grown: reviewArchived copyStage WhispersReview · 2014 concertHome Grown: the Halloween concertJOY 94.9, The Royal DaltonsRadio interview · 2014Homegrown HalloweenStage WhispersFeature · ArchiveHome Grown is always bestArchived copy
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TheatrepeopleFeature · ArchiveTop ten Home Grown highlights: fifth anniversaryOriginal article currently unavailable on the publisher’s siteRead saved excerpt
“Home Grown celebrates its 5th anniversary on Sunday with a concert celebration at Melbourne’s Chapel off Chapel. We asked founders of Home Grown, Nick Hedger and Ben Nicholson , to compile their Top 10 Home Grown Highlights from the past five years and here they are … all ELEVEN of them!”
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TheatrepeopleFeature · ArchiveKurt Kansley’s Home Grown dreamOriginal article currently unavailable on the publisher’s siteRead saved excerpt
“Before Evita opens in Melbourne next month, audiences will have the opportunity to hear Kurt Kansley perform one of his original songs tonight at the final Home Grown event for 2018. Hopefully it will be just the start of many more performances of his original works back home.”
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TheatrepeopleReview · ArchiveThe Songs of Nick Enright: reviewOriginal article currently unavailable on the publisher’s siteRead saved excerpt
"An absolutely stellar night of performances, of too many songs and stars to name, but a wonderful tribute to one of Australia’s greatest theatrical names. Home Grown, under the direction of Jason Langley and the fabulous accompaniment of Michael Tyack on piano and with the help of Chapel Off Chapel, City of Stonnington, MTI Australiasia and Hedger and Nicholson, put on a delightful show that would be delightful to see tour or make a comeback in the future."
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TheatrepeopleNews · ArchiveA star-studded cast pays tribute to Nick EnrightOriginal article currently unavailable on the publisher’s siteRead saved excerpt
"Home Grown have assembled an impressive line up for the Songs of Nick Enright . It’s all happening tomorrow night at Chapel Off Chapel! This star-studded cast will all come together for one night only in Home Grown’s latest Songbook Series: The Songs of Nick Enright."
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TheatrepeopleFeature · ArchiveTop ten Home Grown highlights: second birthdayOriginal article currently unavailable on the publisher’s siteRead saved excerpt
"It’s Home Grown’s 2nd birthday, so to celebrate we have the Top 10 Home Grown Highlights from the last two years."
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TheatrepeopleFeature · ArchiveThe creation of Home GrownOriginal article currently unavailable on the publisher’s siteRead saved excerpt
When talented young Australian writing pair Nick Hedger and Ben Nicholson noticed a lack of ability within the Australian theatre industry to showcase new music theatre, they devised a way to fix this problem almost immediately. Because of their hard work and obvious dedication to their craft, Home Grown was born...
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Stage WhispersFeature · ArchiveNurturing Home Grown from the rootsPublisher link could not be verifiedRead saved excerpt
"Nick Hedger and Ben Nicholson, young entrepreneurs and composers, launch a new initiative, Grassroots, and Coral Drouin is excited. When talented young composers Nick Hedger and Ben Nicholson started the Home Grown Series two years ago, they had no idea where it would lead. Young and super talented, they were looking for a way..."
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The Theatre RoomFeature · ArchiveHome Grown heroesOriginal article currently unavailable on the publisher’s siteRead saved excerpt
If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in a musical theatre YouTube vortex, chance are that you’ve stumbled across clips of some of your favourite Broadway stars performing some pretty awesome, yet relatively unknown pieces at New York hotspots ‘Joe’s Pub’ or ’54 Below’...
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News & opportunities.
Ways to take part and what’s coming up.
Home Grown’s Grassroots Initiative: 30/30
Submissions for development are open. Six works, three cities, 30 minutes of reading and 30 minutes of feedback.
Free to apply and participate.
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Meet the 22 writers behind our Sydney concert about climate, the apocalypse and the planet we call home.
Directed by Miranda Middleton, with music direction by David Youings and host Ally Morgan.
Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney · 7:30pm
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