Robert Catto, Photographer

10/04/2026

Great to be back at Sydney Opera House over Easter weekend for this marvellous concert by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs—they sounded simply wonderful in the room, I had to remind myself to stop listening and take photos!

10/02/2026

Nice to be back working with Well Done Creative on the poster for Head Over Heels at the Hayes Theatre Co later this month. I'm really pleased with how this image turned out, great work by the graphic designer Kenney Designs, and thanks everyone involved in the shoot--Gaz Dutlow is looking amazing thanks to Renee Taylor's hair & makeup efforts, Ellen Simpson's direction & choreography, and Brendan de la Hay's costumes (including headgear!).

Make way good gentlefolk! Our banner struts in finer fashion. A glow-up most royal! Blink not, lest thou miss what mischief comes next 💫

WE CANNOT WAIT to see this gorgeousness in the front window of the Hayes Theatre Co soon! Head Over Heels opens its doors NEXT WEEK! If you haven’t bought a ticket we suggest you do so ANON!

Art by Kenney Designs
Photography by Robert Catto, Photographer
Featuring our Pythio Gaz Dutlow 💜
MUA Renee Taylor

Director Ellen Simpson
Music Director Zara Stanton
Choreographer & Assistant Director Ryan Gonzalez
Set Designer Josh McIntosh
Costume Designer Brendan de la Hay
Lighting Designer Sidney Younger
Sound Designer Em-Jay Dwyer
Stage Manager Tom Hamilton
ASM Angélique Riou

Producers Tim & Sally Dashwood
Associate Producer Sasha Lian Diniz

05/01/2026

Before the new year truly takes over, I just wanted to do a quick look back at some of my highlights of 2025—and apologies to ALL the exceptional casts, directors, creatives & designers I couldn’t tag in each of these! Photos are as follows:

(1-2) Furious Mattress at Belvoir St Theatre, directed by Margaret Thanos
(3) Emma Pask and her Latin Jazz Orchestra perform Cosita Divina at City Recital Hall, Sydney
(4-5) Posh at Old Fitz Theatre directed by Margaret Thanos (that first image is actually eleven photos I spent far too long combining into a single one…!)
(6) MJ Wilson in Type-A Marketing Man at Qtopia
(7) Foam at Qtopia, directed by Gavin Roach
(8) Alinta Chidzey in Strictly Baz Luhrmann at Sydney Opera House, directed by Mark Sutcliffe
(9) Timon of Athens (or: I Hate People) produced by Sport For Jove Theatre at the Seymour Centre, directed by Margaret Thanos
(10) Shack directed by Benjamin Brockman
(11) Bright Star at Hayes Theatre Co, directed by Damien Ryan and Miranda Middleton
(12) The Edit at Belvoir St Theatre, written and directed by Gabrielle Scawthorne
(13) Holiday Inn at Riverside Theatres, directed by Sally Dashwood
(14) Virginia Gay in Carols by Cabaret at Hayes Theatre Co, produced by LPD Productions.

PHEW! And of course there were many more shows over the course of 2025, these were just some of the images that stuck in my mind when I was thinking back. Here’s to a whole new year of more amazing productions!

22/12/2025

SO HAPPY for two of my favourite shows this year, nominated for eleven Sydney Theatre Awards between them. Huge congratulations to everyone involved in The Edit and Furious Mattress (or both!), it’s great to see such beautiful work being recognised!

14/12/2025

I know I'm constantly surprised by the passage of time, but still: how is it twenty years since Peter Jackson's King Kong premiered at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington?! And yet, here we are.

Just a quick note to say I can’t believe it’s been twenty years today since the premiere of Peter Jackson’s King Kong, at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington! I was an accredited photographer in the media pen that day (as I had been for several previous premieres of Peter Jackson films by then),...

07/12/2025

Congrats to Well Done Creative and the Holiday Inn company on their opening night at Riverside Theatres over the weekend! It's a short season (ending on Sunday), but the show looks even better than it did at the Hayes last year. Gobble gobble!
https://riversideparramatta.com.au/whats-on/irving-berlins-holiday-inn/

⭐️ It’s OPENING NIGHT for Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn at Riverside Theatre ⭐️

A big CHOOKAS to the cast, crew and company and well wishes for the season.

It’s so lovely to see this show on the big Broadway-sized stage it deserves!

Photo credit: Robert Catto Robert Catto, Photographer

Pictured: hourigan

08/10/2025

Some new images from The Edit for the good folks at Legit Theatre Co., downstairs at Belvoir St Theatre from now until 26 October! Great script, amazing cast (Matilda Ridgway and Iolanthe), and a beautiful production.

16/09/2025

Nice to be back at the Hayes Theatre Co last week, for Sport For Jove Theatre’s production of Bright Star—and to see so many different cast and crew I’ve worked with elsewhere all in the same place! Congrats to everyone on a great production, hope the shows are going well.

29/07/2025

So I've seen a few posts recently about it being 50 years since A Chorus Line first came out, which of course sent me digging into my archives to see what I could find from the Darlinghurst Theatre Company production(s), in 2020 and 2022...!

Recently it was the 50th anniversary of A Chorus Line, the famous musical based on actual stories from performers working in the industry, their lives, their fears, and the challenges of getting that job and then actually DOING that job. I photographed the Darlinghurst Theatre Company production in

30/06/2025

Lovely to be working with Monkey Baa again earlier this month on Where Is The Green Sheep? I gather there's plans for a national tour soon, it's a really fun show for kids, but with plenty of laughs for grownups as well.