News and Blog

New (old) song, Ruby, coming next week!

You can pre-save/pre-add the song here:
https://TimMinchin.lnk.to/Ruby

Exciting.

“You Don’t Have To Have a Dream (and other life lessons)” is out April 1st 2025 in the US and Canada!

Available for pre-order in the US from:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Books A Million
Bookshop
Available for pre-order in Canada from:
Simon and Schuster
Indigo
Amazon.ca

Already available in the UK and Australia here.
Drawn from three of his most beloved university commencement addresses, Tim’s first non-fiction book is a rallying cry for creativity, critical thinking, and compassion in our daily lives. More details here.

The spectacular Jesus Christ Superstar arena show, with Tim playing his, award winning, dream role of Judas Iscariot, is currently being screened at cinemas across the UK and Australia. The list below is not exhaustive so its worth checking for screenings in your country or local area.

UK:
Vue Cinemas
Picturehouse Cinemas
Showcase Cinemas

Australia:
Cinema Live
Event Cinemas
Palace Cinemas

The show was filmed over two nights at Birmingham’s NIA, for a delighted and emotional crowd, when it first toured UK arenas in 2012. The fabulous cast also includes Melanie C as Mary Magdalene, Alexander Hanson in the role of Pontius Pilate, Chris Moyles as King Herod and winner of the ITV prime-time show Superstar Ben Forster in the title role of Jesus.

Tim attended the G’Day USA Arts Gala on Friday, February 21st, 2025 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

Three Australians were inducted into the organisation’s list of honourees. Tim received the Excellence in the Arts Award for his work as a lyricist and composer of musicals as well as his screenwriting and acting. Warwick Thornton and Teresa Palmer both won Excellence in Film and Television Awards.

Tim performed ‘Play It Safe’ at the event and was presented with his award by David Duchovny.

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“SONGS THE WORLD WILL NEVER HEAR” 2025 UK TOUR
Celebrating 20 years of FKN Hardcore Rock N Roll Nerding

Audiences can expect an evening packed with unforgettable songs and stories, as Tim looks back on how a Perth cabaret pianist ended up building one of the most eclectic and extraordinary careers in entertainment. Delivered with his signature blend of razor-sharp wit, musical virtuosity, and disarming honesty, the set list will see Tim and his band draw from three decades of unique songwriting.

Tim: ”Incredibly, many of my UK fans have been by my side for two decades. They have never flinched as I’ve turned corners and reinvented myself, always engaging open-heartedly with whatever I have to offer. I’m the luckiest artist on the planet, and I can’t wait to be back to deliver a big joyous show, spanning the whole bloody thing.”

TICKETS are available from venue box offices (all links below)
and Ticketmaster.
Accessible ticket bookings can be made directly with the venues

As before there will be a limited number of premium-priced VIP seats at each show, with proceeds contributing £5,000 per night to local charities.
VIP ticket holders will also receive exclusive signed merchandise
(to be collected at the theatre on the night from the merch’ stand)
All charity tickets will be sold via Ticketmaster.

Twickets has been appointed as the official ticket resale partner for the tour.
Ticketmaster also has a resale function. We do not encourage buying or selling tickets on other resale platforms. Twickets is a ticket market place which allows people to trade tickets at FACE VALUE. Twickets fully protects its users with a guarantee against fraud and overpricing and offers an alternative to the exploitative secondary ticketing platforms.

The tour will span 20 cities: The two new dates go on sale Thursday 27th March, at 12 noon.

There’s nothing quite like an evening in Tim’s company: from early comedy classics to heartfelt anthems. and tear-jerking Christmas songs… from boobs to existentialism… from fast fingering to free will…

Sydney! The opening of a new theatre is a rare and wonderful thing… so I’m stoked and proud to be playing 5 VERY intimate shows to mark the occasion of the opening of the brand-spanking-new Foundry Theatre.

I’m getting the band back together and we’re going to have a very very good time. For obvious reasons, we’re calling this little season “First at the Foundry”… we hope you can be first with us.

First at the Foundry: 11th-15th February 2025.
Foundry Theatre, Sydney (tucked within the Sydney Lyric Theatre)

Venue presale: on sale now! PRESALE TICKETS here!
Ticketmaster presale: Thursday 5th December, 10am.

General on sale: Friday 6th December, 10am AEDT.
Tickets here. (Now SOLD OUT).
Auslan Tickets here.

In early September this year Tim embarks on an “In Conversation” mini-tour of England, talking about his first non-fiction book: “You Don’t Have To Have A Dream (Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious)”

Tim: “Hello my English friends: I am genuinely stoked to announce this lovely little Book Tour in early September. It’ll just be me and a smart, charming facilitator/interviewer chatting about the ideas in You Don’t Have To Have A Dream, and answering some of your questions. Can’t wait!”

In conversation with special guest interviewers*, Tim will share his inimitable thoughts and advice on life, art, success, kindness, love and thriving in a meaningless universe. Drawing from his legendary university commencement addresses, Tim’s rallying cry for creativity, critical thinking, and compassion in our daily lives will touch the science-loving reality-romantic in all of us.

*Special Guest Interviewers: Dr. Sian Williams in Manchester, Helen Lewis in Brighton and Eva Wiseman in London.

Tim: “Although I’m a bit nervous to be sitting on a stage without a piano to sugar the pill of my opinions with, I’m really excited to dig deeper into some of the ideas I explore in this book. And, knowing the calibre of my interlocutors and my audiences, I’m sure the chat will push out beyond just those!”

On Sale Now!

Dates and Ticket links: 

The Manchester and London shows start at 7.30pm.
The Brighton show starts at 8pm.
Shows will be 90 minutes with no interval.

Later this year Tim embarks on an “In Conversation” tour of Australia and New Zealand, talking about his first non-fiction book: “You Don’t Have To Have A Dream (Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious)”

Tim: “Australasian compadres: Chuffed here to announce a wee Aus/NZ Book Tour in late Sept / early Oct. It’ll just be me and a lovely, smart facilitator/interviewer sitting* on chairs and chatting about the ideas in You Don’t Have To Have A Dream, and answering some of your questions. *I might stand up if I feel strongly about something.”

In conversation with special guest interviewers (please see below), hear Tim share his inimitable thoughts and advice on life, art, success, kindness, love and thriving in a meaningless universe. Drawing from his legendary university commencement addresses, Tim’s rallying cry for creativity, critical thinking, and compassion in our daily lives will touch the science-loving reality-romantic in all of us.

Tim: “Although I’m a bit nervous to be sitting on a stage without a piano to sugar the pill of my opinions with, I’m really excited to dig deeper into some of the ideas I explore in this book. And, knowing the calibre of my interlocutors and my audiences, I’m sure the chat will push out beyond just those!”

On Sale Info:
Tuesday 18th June 10am Australia local time / 12pm New Zealand – Artist Presale.
Thursday 20th June 10am Australia local time / 12pm New Zealand – General On Sale.
Tickets: Fane.com.au/TimMinchin
Prices from $69 (AUD & NZD)

Auslan and NZSL interpreted shows and booking links below
Prime seats are held in each location for the Deaf community
*Perth Auslan bookings via the Box Office. Call 9231 9999 or email [email protected]

Guest Interviewers

Sun 29th Sep, Perth – Kate Chaney
Tue 1st Oct, Adelaide – Michaela Kalowski
Fri 4th Oct, Melbourne – Virginia Trioli
Sat 5th Oct, Brisbane – Sarah Kanowski
Sun 6th Oct, Sydney – Hannah Ferguson
Tue 8th Oct, Melbourne – Jacinta Parsons
Wed 9th Oct, Geelong – Jacinta Parsons
Sun 13th Oct, Hobart – Ryk Goddard
Wed 16th Oct, Auckland  – Kim Hill
Sat 19th Oct, Canberra  – Beejay Silcox

All shows start at 7:30pm except Brisbane, which starts at 7pm.
Matinees start at 2pm.
Shows will be 90 minutes plus a 20 minute interval.

An Unfunny* Evening With Tim Minchin And His Piano

USA and Canada: The tour you’ve been clamouring for! Tim’s Unfunny* shows sold out across the UK and Australia… and he’ll be playing a 13-city North American Unfunny* tour this August, kicking off 3rd August 2024 in Vancouver, with the final show 25th August in New York.

Tim: “It has been over a decade since I played solo in the States, and I’m SO fkn excited to be back. Nothing compares to US audiences.”

The setlist will be fluid and the shows will have more of an unplanned intimate ‘evening with’ vibe as Tim chats about his songwriting and performs songs drawn from his 2020 studio album, Apart Together, his musicals, Matilda and Groundhog Day, his TV and film writing and from his early song-writing days around the turn of the century.
*the promoter can’t guarantee the artist will not inadvertently amuse.

There’s an artist PRESALE starting this Wednesday 5th June at 10am local time through to Thursday 6th June at 10pm local time.
Use password TIMFAN

TICKETS go on general sale 10am local time on Friday 7th June
Prices from US$39.50
Live Nation
Ticketmaster

Full tour list and venue ticket links:

The shows will be 120 minutes with no interval and they’ll start at 7pm.

Tim wrote a song for the new TV mini series Eric which was released on Netflix last month.

Set in 1980s New York, the six part series drama, written by Abi Morgan, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as puppeteer Vincent, the creative genius behind a Sesame Street-esque show called Good Day Sunshine. When his nine year old son Edgar goes missing, Vincent becomes convinced that if he brings to life the new puppet Edgar had been inventing for the show – Eric – his son will come home. Eric, a seven foot tall muppet invisible to others, follows Vincent around…

Listen to or Download Good Day Sunshine here.

The official Tim Minchin Australasia store has a sale on remaining tour merch’:
Tour Tees, Tea Towels and Totes.

All sale items here.

So if you missed the merch’ stand during the tour, now’s the time to grab something. 

If you’re outside Australia they do ship internationally. Shipping and taxes are calculated at the checkout.

Ooh look! I did a book!

“You Don’t Have To Have a Dream (Advice For The Incrementally Ambitious)” is a gorgeously-bound collection of the 3 Occasional Addresses I’ve made at Universities that have given me Floppyhat Funtimes.

I’ve written some additional ponderous intros and I’m recording the audio book version and I’m going to sign a heap of the hard copies. Gorgeous illustrations by Andrew Rae and designed by Dave Brown.

Out in September in the UK and Australia. (US next year, sorry!) Pre-order available now here.

Stoked about this project. Xxx

More details and a peek inside can be found here. 

A stellar cast has been announced for the award-winning and record-breaking Groundhog Day The Musical which will have its Australian premiere in Melbourne early next year.

Direct from its record-breaking return season at London’s Old Vic, Groundhog Day The Musical will play exclusively at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre, for a strictly limited season from January 24th, 2024. Must close April 20th 2024!

Andy Karl, will reprise his role as Phil Connors, the cynical TV weatherman. He played Phil in the original London production, for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, reprising his role in the Broadway production where he was Tony Nominated for Best Actor in a Musical, and he played Phil again in London for Groundhog Day’s record-breaking return season at the Old Vic this year.

Opposite Andy Karl, playing the quick-witted and kind-hearted television producer Rita Hanson, is Helpmann award-winning performer Elise McCann who played Miss Honey in Matilda in the Australian production.

Full details of the 22 strong cast can be found here or viewed on the second video below.

Tim: “I cannot wait to get down to Melbourne to meet our Groundhog Day The Musical cast. I’m especially excited by the news that Andy Karl will be joining the rest of the Australian cast, who are a brilliant bunch of people. Andy played Phil Connors in the original London production, for which he won an Olivier Award and then on Broadway for which he was Tony Nominated. Ever since the first iteration of Groundhog Day The Musical I’ve been convinced that Australia will love the mix of darkness and light, of head and heart, and complexity and joy in the production.”

Tickets available here and brand new tickets will go on sale on Thursday!.
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This video is the latest version of the song, from Tim’s special, BACK, which was filmed at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in 2021 and released last year. There’s a YouTube Playlist here with two other versions from 2009 and 2017.

As many of you will already know, every year, all proceeds from the sale of (either version of) Tim’s sentimental Christmas song White Wine In The Sun during the months of November, December and January, go to an organisation which supports children and adults on the autism spectrum. Once again, that will be Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect).

If you already have the song, you might like to gift it via iTunes or donate directly here or to a similar charity in your own country.

There are two versions; the 2009 solo version and the 2012 studio version, with strings, french horn and more.

Here are a few more places you can download the 2012 single internationally: iTunes, Amazon (UK), Amazon (US) .

The award-winning and record-breaking Groundhog Day The Musical will have its Australian premiere in Melbourne early next year.

Direct from its record-breaking return season at London’s Old Vic, Groundhog Day The Musical will play exclusively at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre, for a strictly limited season from January 24th, 2024.

Tickets go on sale 9am Friday 6th October and you can join the waitlist for a heads-up when tickets go on sale here.

Casting announcements to be made soon.

groundhogday.com.au
Follow @groundhogdayau on Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok for updates.

‘Groundhog Day is, to be quite honest, in a different league’
The Times

‘A flat out masterpiece’
TimeOut UK

‘It is, literally, marvellous.’
WhatsOnStage

‘A veritable theatrical triumph and a heartwarming treat for anyone lucky enough to get a ticket’
Broadway World

‘Sublimely witty and surprisingly profound’
Evening Standard

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