Murder For Two
Oh Come All Ye Fatal…After two killer seasons at Hayes in 2023, a deadly sell-out run at Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and lethally entertaining stops at Riverside Theatres and Arts Centre Melbourne in 2024, the musical-comedy-sensation Murder For Two is finally coming home… just in time to deck the halls (and maybe bump off a party guest or two) with the special Christmas Edition.This strictly limited 2025 return season reunites the acclaimed original cast: Maverick Newman (“a rocketship, shedding and shifting characters as he soars towards the stratosphere” – Sydney Morning Herald) and musical comedy powerhouse Gabbi Bolt (Spicks & Specks, Ratatouille the TikTok Musical).Together, they play every character. They also play the piano. And they’re back to sleigh once more in the show that proves murder and mistletoe do mix.Directed by Hayes Co-Artistic Director Richard Carroll (Calamity Jane, Godspell), Murder For Two: Christmas Edition is an ingenious 90-minute madcap mash-up of music, mayhem and multiple suspects – this time with a jolly holiday twist. Don’t miss out… or Yule be next.The Story It’s Christmas Eve. Officer Marcus Moscowicz is a small-town cop with big-time detective dreams. When Great American Novelist Arthur Whitney is shot dead at his own Christmas-birthday party (yep, he’s a Christmas baby), Marcus jumps at the chance to solve the case before the real detective arrives—and while the eggnog’s still chilled.Whodunit?? Was it Whitney’s terminally dramatic widow? The glacial prima ballerina? That overly friendly psychiatrist with a suspicious amount of Christmas cheer? One thing’s for sure: someone made the naughty list.Hear from the Director “It’s been quite a ride taking this brilliant, inventive and hilarious show around the country over the past few years, seeing audiences embrace it everywhere we’ve played. Now it’s pretty special for us to return to the place it started, with the two original members, for an encore Christmas season.”– Richard Carroll
Presented by Hayes Theatre Co.
Running time: approximately 90 minutes.
Seasons
- Hayes Theatre, Sydney NSW — 3 December 2025 to 23 December 2025 · tickets