BURN THE FLOOR – DARE TO DREAM

BURN THE FLOOR – DARE TO DREAM

This year’s tour of international dance sensation BURN THE FLOOR – DARE TO DREAM will star the much loved and supremely talented Phil Burton from globally renowned supergroup Human Nature. The Victorian season will commence in Sale on August 28, then Bendigo August...

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Junior Theatre Celebration Melbourne this weekend

Junior Theatre Celebration Melbourne this weekend

The city of Melbourne is set to host its very first Junior Theatre Celebration Melbourne (JTC Melbourne) on July 27, 2024 at the Bunjil Place Theatre in Narre Warren. This vibrant event offers an exhilarating opportunity for students and teachers passionate about...

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Justine Clarke returns to STC for encore season of smash-hit, Julia

Sold-out hit JULIA returns home to Canberra

Canberra Theatre Centre (CTC) has once again joined forces with Sydney Theatre Company (STC) to return Joanna Murray-Smith’s smash-hit Julia to the Playhouse stage. In 2023, Julia premiered in the nation’s capital less than three kilometres from Parliament House where...

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FRANKENSTEIN cast announcement

FRANKENSTEIN cast announcement

Producers Shake & Stir Theatre Co and John Frost for Crossroads Live have today confirmed an exciting group of award-winning actors, who will bring their gripping stage adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to life. Following their critically-acclaimed...

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The Wharf Revue Announces Last Show Ever

The Wharf Revue Announces Last Show Ever

After twenty-five years in the harsh and unforgiving spotlight of politics, The Wharf Revue has decided to step away from public life. “It’s an opportunity to spend more time with family,” said a spokesperson. “At the end of the day, this is about the need for...

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Snow White cast announced

Snow White cast announced

BONNIE LYTHGOE ANNOUNCES    SNOW WHITE CAST   PLUS EXTRA SHOWS ADDED   EXCLUSIVE SYDNEY SEASON AT RIVERSIDE THEATRES, PARRAMATTA     Bonnie Lythgoe has announced the wonderful cast she has assembled to bring SNOW WHITE to Riverside Theatres...

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AG Theatre announces three musicals for Melbourne

AG Theatre announces three musicals for Melbourne

New Melbourne theatre company AG Theatre  launches with Stiles & Drewe’s The Three Little Pigs Plus new productions of Avenue Q and Once    The historic 783-seat National Theatre Melbourne, where AG Theatre will stage new productions of The Three Little Pigs...

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Final two weeks of The Odd Couple in Sydney

Final two weeks of The Odd Couple in Sydney

Starring as Oscar and Felix in The Odd Couple are Shane Jacobson and Todd McKenney, the archetypal odd couple, as different as chalk and cheese, but best mates and constant collaborators. Since they met on the Channel 7 TV series The Real Full Monty several years ago,...

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Nature Obituary

Nature Obituary

The second show in their 2024 inaugural season, the Deep See Survey Artist Collective now invite audiences to Victoria’s stunning Mornington Peninsula to participate in their latest public performance work; Nature Obituary. Running from mid-tide to low-tide on...

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Bianca Del Rio Announces Australian and NZ Tour

Bianca Del Rio Announces Australian and NZ Tour

BIANCA DEL RIO has officially announced her new stand-up world comedy tour titled Dead Inside, which will bring the RuPaul’s Drag Race icon to Australia and New Zealand in January and February 2025. The comic’s sixth large-scale stand-up tour, Dead Inside, will cover...

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Functional Bottom an Encore

Functional Bottom an Encore

A fusion of storytelling, performance, filth, provocation and tears, Functional Bottom is back for one night only. A darkly humorous exploration of a year in the life of Jessi Ryan – artiste, journalist and hot mess. How else to respond to an ‘anus horribilis’ in the...

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Darebin’s Fuse Festival returns for Spring 2024

Darebin’s Fuse Festival returns for Spring 2024

City of Darebin’s FUSE Festival is thrilled to announce the appointment of Allara Briggs Pattison as Curator-in-Residence for Ganbu Gulin, which launches the City of Darebin's multi-arts festival FUSE Spring 2024, taking place 14 – 22 September. Ganbu Gulin, meaning...

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Only Child at Chapel Off Chapel

Only Child at Chapel Off Chapel

A premiere season of a new play that raises issues of contemporary importance about social media and how much privacy we are prepared to give up in return for “easy money”. A fortune can be made if we can attract a big enough audience – an audience we need to keep...

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SLAP. BANG. KISS. RETURNS FOR A NATIONAL TOUR

SLAP. BANG. KISS. RETURNS FOR A NATIONAL TOUR

SLAP. BANG. KISS. is returning to Australian stages for a National Tour from 30 July – 20 September 2024, as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s acclaimed Education & Families Program. Writer Dan Giovannoni tracks three young people whose stories kickstart a...

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Melbourne Writers’ Theatre – Jennie

Melbourne Writers’ Theatre – Jennie

Rebel. Radical. Revolutionary.  Driven by her desire for a fairer society, and passionate about improving conditions for women and children, Jennie Baines arrived in Port Melbourne in 1926 and made her mark in no uncertain terms! She also left behind a powerful...

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MTC – English

MTC – English

It’s 2008. In a small classroom in Iran, Marjan is teaching English. Her group of adult learners each have their own relationship to this new language – for some it means opportunities abroad, for others a way to grow closer to grandchildren. Whatever their motives,...

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Arlington at Seymour Centre’s Reginald Theatre

Arlington at Seymour Centre’s Reginald Theatre

From the Tony Award-winning writer of Once, Empress Theatre and Seymour Centre are thrilled to present the Australian premiere of the acclaimed dystopian drama Arlington, playing at Seymour Centre’s Reginald Theatre from 2nd to 24th August. This Beckett-meets-Black...

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LEAD CAST ANNOUNCED FOR JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

LEAD CAST ANNOUNCED FOR JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

  The lead cast for the Australian tour of the award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated rock musical JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR has been revealed. The producers have also announced a Perth season of the...

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ANNIE RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA

ANNIE RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA

The beloved tale of Annie has been capturing the hearts of theatregoers around the globe for generations. And now the legendary, joyous and inspiring production returns to Australian stages. The ever-popular Broadway musical Annie will light up Sydney’s Capitol...

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Rehearsals commence for In The Heights

Rehearsals commence for In The Heights

  REHEARSALS COMMENCE FOR IN THE HEIGHTS AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE With the full cast announced for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s vibrant debut musical   The 19-strong cast of irrepressible voices bringing In the Heights to the Sydney Opera House this winter has...

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Ainsley Melham is Melbourne’s new Fiyero

Ainsley Melham is Melbourne’s new Fiyero

  WICKED continues to cast its spell over Melbourne, with its stellar cast enchanting audiences eight times a week with its “brains, heart and courage” (Time magazine). From July though, there will be a new Fiyero in the Emerald City. Due to a knee injury, Liam...

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Bloomshed presents The Importance of Being Earnest

Bloomshed presents The Importance of Being Earnest

A scandalous revival of Oscar Wilde’s trivial comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest is Bloomshed’s latest take-down of high society. Frills, finery, and frivolity. This delightfully self-aware adaptation transforms Wilde’s irreverent satire into a salacious display...

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Dear Evan Hansen cast announced

Dear Evan Hansen cast announced

  BELOVED PERFORMERS, EXCITING NEW FACES JOIN THE AUSTRALIAN CAST OF DEAR EVAN HANSEN  BRAND NEW PRODUCTION TO PLAY SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE AND CANBERRA   Following an exhaustive national search, Sydney Theatre Company and Michael Cassel Group are...

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THE GREAT MOSCOW CIRCUS EXTREME

THE GREAT MOSCOW CIRCUS EXTREME

Under the legendary banner of THE GREAT MOSCOW CIRCUS EXTREME, death-defying acts from around the globe are being presented throughout Victoria in 2024. Covid grounded the Circus in 2021 and due to the sensitive political world situation, these carefully chosen...

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WICKED CELEBRATES PINK DAY THIS SUNDAY 23 JUNE

WICKED CELEBRATES PINK DAY THIS SUNDAY 23 JUNE

    National Pink Day takes place on June 23 every year, when everyone is encouraged to wear something pink on this particular day. It is a day of celebrating everything the colour represents.   Since “Pink goes good with Green”, WICKED is joining National...

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Paulini joins Grease in Adelaide

Paulini joins Grease in Adelaide

ADELAIDE, YOU BETTER SHAPE UP!   PATTI NEWTON, JAY LAGA’AIA AND PAULINI CONFIRMED TO APPEAR IN ADELAIDE SEASON OF MUCH-LOVED MUSICAL   Producers of the all-new and electrifying production of GREASE are delighted to announce that Patti Newton, Jay Laga’aia and...

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Full cast of Sister Act announced

Full cast of Sister Act announced

HALLELUJAH! FULL CAST OF SISTER ACT ANNOUNCED “An irresistibly great time” – The Independent (UK)   The final cast members have been unveiled for the Australian premiere musical Sister Act, including Sophie Montague, Bianca Bruce, Raphael Wong and James Bryers....

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A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

Nikki Shiels (Sunday, The Picture of Dorian Gray) steps into one of the great roles of the stage: Blanche DuBois. The Southern belle grapples with her shattered dreams and inner demons as she seeks refuge in the cramped apartment of her sister Stella (The Newsreader's...

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Honouring the remarkable life of Frank Van Straten AM

Honouring the remarkable life of Frank Van Straten AM

A memorial service to honour the extraordinary life and achievements of renowned theatre historian, archivist, author, radio presenter and devoted patron of the performing arts Frank Van Straten AM will be held on Tuesday 16 July 2024, at the Playhouse, Arts Centre...

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The Woman In Black Arrives in Melbourne

The Woman In Black Arrives in Melbourne

The most terrifying live theatre experience in the world arrives in Melbourne tonight. The Woman in Black has been receiving rave reviews across the country, and is playing at the Atheneum Theatre until 6 July. The Woman in Black, described by The Guardian as “A...

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Final two weeks of The Odd Couple in Sydney

THE ODD COUPLE – Final Two Weeks in Melbourne

Starring as Oscar and Felix in The Odd Couple are Shane Jacobson and Todd McKenney, the archetypal odd couple, as different as chalk and cheese, but best mates and constant collaborators. Since they met on the Channel 7 TV series The Real Full Monty several years ago,...

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Hadestown to premiere in Sydney

Hadestown to premiere in Sydney

  Broadway smash-hit musical Hadestown to premiere in Sydney   WINNER OF EIGHT TONY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE AND BEST DIRECTOR WINNER OF GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL THEATRE ALBUM     Seen by three million, streamed by over 350 million...

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Chicago arrives in Sydney

Chicago arrives in Sydney

  Described by The Times (UK) as “The sharpest, slickest show on the block”, the musical phenomenon CHICAGO arrives in Sydney this week for a strictly limited season at the Capitol Theatre following critical acclaim and capacity audiences in Perth, Brisbane and...

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Cast announced for Peter and the Starcatcher

Cast announced for Peter and the Starcatcher

  An all-Australian star cast will bring the 5-time Tony Award-winning Peter and the Starcatcher to life for the very first time in a reimagined Australian production. The Broadway smash hit will premiere October 2024 at Canberra Theatre Centre, ahead of a...

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Sun Rise, The Story Of The King Of Rock ‘N’ Roll

Sun Rise, The Story Of The King Of Rock ‘N’ Roll

Chapel Off Chapel presents SUN RISE THE STORY OF THE KING OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Sat 15 June Starring Zoy Frangos   Chapel Off Chapel is proud to present Sun Rise, The Story Of The King Of Rock ‘N’ Roll, starring the acclaimed Greek-Indigenous theatre star Zoy Frangos....

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Elvis heads to the Gold Coast

Elvis heads to the Gold Coast

  Following a smash-hit national tour Elvis: A Musical Revolution  is set for its Queensland premiere   Authorised by Elvis Presley Enterprises   ★★★★ “PRIMED TO DELIGHT…ROCK N’ ROLL FEVER DREAM” The Age ★★★★ 1/2 “MOVING, MEMORABLE, MAGNIFICENT”  Sydney...

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New performing arts venue for Chatswood

New performing arts venue for Chatswood

CENTURY VENUES OPENS NEW PERFORMING ARTS VENUE IN CHATSWOOD New performing arts venue, The Lounge, has launched at The Concourse Performing Arts Centre, Chatswood and will be home to a diverse range of live performance spanning across music, theatre, cabaret, comedy,...

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Full cast of Sister Act announced

Sister Act heading to Brisbane

HALLELUJAH! BRISBANE TO BE BLESSED WITH SISTER ACT MUSICAL   “An irresistibly great time” – The Independent (UK)   The most heavenly of musicals, Sister Act, starring Casey Donovan, Genevieve Lemon and Rhonda Burchmore, will debut in Brisbane from February.   In...

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Gorman Grease Scrubs

Gorman Grease Scrubs

GORMAN TO RELEASE GREASE INSPIRED HOSPITAL SCRUBS TO RANGE   Leading fashion brand Gorman has collaborated exclusively with GREASE to create a range of hospital scrubs inspired by the iconic musical currently touring Australia.   The team from Gorman are also...

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Reclaim the Crone at The Explosives Factory

Reclaim the Crone at The Explosives Factory

Returning after a celebrated premiere season at the 2023 Mornington Peninsula Drift Festival, The Space Between Performance Collective brings their electric production of Reclaim the Crone to the Theatre Works Explosives Factory this July. A bold and haunting...

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Cast announced for The Turn of the Screw

Cast announced for The Turn of the Screw

FINAL CAST MEMBERS ANNOUNCED FOR OPERA AT THE HAYES   Final cast members were announced today by producer Craig Baldwin in association with Hayes Theatre Co for the upcoming chamber opera The Turn of the Screw. For the first time, opera will fill the intimate Hayes...

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WICKED heading to Perth

WICKED heading to Perth

BROADWAY’S BIGGEST BLOCKBUSTER IS FLYING INTO PERTH   Rejoicify! The producers of the Broadway blockbuster WICKED today announced that the musical phenomenon will fly into Crown Theatre, Perth in December for the final stop on its Australian tour.   Waitlist...

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CAROUSEL is coming to Sydney and Melbourne

CAROUSEL is coming to Sydney and Melbourne

  Rodgers & Hammerstein's CAROUSEL is coming to Sydney and Melbourne in September   “THE BEST MUSICAL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY” Time Magazine   Two of Australia’s most celebrated leading ladies, Anna O’Byrne and Marina Prior, will star in a lavish...

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Final Cast Members Announced for Opera at the Hayes

Final Cast Members Announced for Opera at the Hayes

 Final cast members were announced today by producer Craig Baldwin in association with Hayes Theatre Co for the upcoming chamber opera The Turn of the Screw. For the first time, opera will fill the intimate Hayes space from 16 August with Benjamin Britten’s...

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FROSTED – A Winter Spectacular

FROSTED – A Winter Spectacular

  Embark on a magical winter journey at FROSTED – A Winter Spectacular, celebrating Christmas in July!   During the months of June and July 2024, the big field in Narre Warren opposite Westfield Fountain Gate will be transformed into a whimsical sanctuary...

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Theatrical presents The Boy From Oz

Theatrical presents The Boy From Oz

Theatrical presents the Tony and Helpmann Award winning Australian musical The Boy From Oz National Theatre Melbourne 20 Carlisle St, St Kilda 6-21 July   “...Theatrical are doing The Boy From Oz at one of my favourite theatres in Melbourne, the National…I am...

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FORM Dance Projects launches IDEA’24 Festival

FORM Dance Projects launches IDEA’24 Festival

FORM Dance Projects will launch its new annual Dance Festival IDEA - Independent Dance Exchange Australia. For four weeks across the Greater Sydney area, IDEA’24 will feature an intensive program of public performances, workshops and seminars held by local and global...

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Sydney Season Extended – PRIDE AND PREJUDICE An Adaptation in Words and Music

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE An Adaptation in Words and Music

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE An Adaptation in Words and Music is a new theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen’s most famous work – Pride and Prejudice. The enduring story of the romance between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy is presented in an intimate drawing-room setting, in...

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Sunset Boulevard opens next week

Sunset Boulevard opens next week

THE LAVISH NEW PRODUCTION OPENS AT MELBOURNE’S PRINCESS THEATRE ON MAY 21   The much-anticipated lavish new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award winning musical masterpiece, SUNSET BOULEVARD, starring musical theatre and international superstar Sarah...

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Titanique to sail into Sydney

Titanique to sail into Sydney

NEAR, FAR, WHEREVER YOU ARE: SPLASH HIT MUSICAL TITANIQUE SETS SAIL INTO SYDNEY WHEN THE MUSIC OF CÉLINE DION MAKES SWEET CANADIAN LOVE WITH THE OSCAR-WINNING HIT TITANIC SYDNEY GETS NEW YORK’S HOTTEST NEW SHOW “TITANIQUE IS F*CKING GREAT.” Vulture “VERY FUNNY! A camp...

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ELVIS: A MUSICAL REVOLUTION returns to Melbourne

ELVIS: A MUSICAL REVOLUTION returns to Melbourne

ELVIS: A MUSICAL REVOLUTION ATHENAEUM THEATRE 27 JULY – 11 AUGUST   Melbourne will shake, rattle, and roll when Elvis: A Musical Revolution returns for an encore season this July   The highly acclaimed, award-winning production of Elvis: A Musical Revolution...

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FRANKENSTEIN cast announcement

Frankenstein to play in Melbourne and Sydney

  Producers Shake & Stir Theatre Co and John Frost for Crossroads Live have today confirmed a thrilling new stage adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will play for strictly limited seasons at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre and Theatre Royal Sydney, from...

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SIX THE MUSICAL CROWNS ITS NEW AUSTRALIAN QUEENS!

SIX THE MUSICAL CROWNS ITS NEW AUSTRALIAN QUEENS!

  THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON CONTINUES ITS RECORD-BREAKING SUCCESS TICKETS ON SALE NOW   MELBOURNE - COMEDY THEATRE – FROM 2 AUGUST 2024 SYDNEY - THEATRE ROYAL SYDNEY – FROM 25 OCTOBER 2024 BRISBANE - PLAYHOUSE QPAC – FROM 2 JANUARY 2025   SIXTHEMUSICAL.COM.AU   SIX...

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Rhonda Burchmore joins cast of Sister Act

Rhonda Burchmore joins cast of Sister Act

  HALLELUJAH! RHONDA BURCHMORE CONFIRMED TO GET INTO THE HABIT IN SISTER ACT   ★★★★★ ‘The most feel-good show of the year’ - The Sun, UK     One of Australia’s most-loved musical theatre stars, Rhonda Burchmore, has been confirmed to join Casey Donovan and...

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Cast announced for Little Women at the Hayes

Cast announced for Little Women at the Hayes

  Joshua Robson Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co is thrilled to announce the talented cast members who will be joining the much anticipated production of Little Women at Hayes Theatre Co from 12 July. This beloved classic, based on Louisa May...

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Illuminate Adelaide – Superluminal

Illuminate Adelaide – Superluminal

 Art and science converge at the world premiere of Superluminal, a family-friendly interactive installation from award-winning Patch Theatre that will spark wonder in the enquiring minds of children aged 4 to 8 at the South Australian Museum for Illuminate Adelaide....

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The Woman In Black Arrives in Melbourne

THE WOMAN IN BLACK BEGINS A NATIONAL TOUR

The Woman in Black, described by The Guardian as “A Masterpiece” and by the Daily Telegraph (UK) as “The most brilliantly effective spine chiller you will ever encounter”, is the second longest-running play in West End history, after Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap....

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Wonder returns – Geelong Arts Centre

Wonder returns – Geelong Arts Centre

Following the resounding success of last year's inaugural Wonder Children's Festival, Geelong Arts Centre is thrilled to announce the return of the enchanting program, set to captivate young hearts and minds from 12 – 26 September. Young people, families and schools...

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MALTHOUSE THEATRE: MACBETH (AN UNDOING)

MALTHOUSE THEATRE: MACBETH (AN UNDOING)

Following successful seasons in Edinburgh, London and New York, Zinnie Harris’ acclaimed play Macbeth (An Undoing) will make its Australian premiere at Malthouse Theatre on Friday 5 July. A prophecy has been told, Lord Macbeth will be king, but this side of the story...

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In The Heights to heat up the Sydney Opera House

In The Heights to heat up the Sydney Opera House

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH JOSHUA ROBSON PRODUCTIONS IN THE HEIGHTS Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda   Lights up! Discover Washington Heights at the Sydney Opera House when...

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