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PUFFS or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic has today (17th July 2018) announced a FINAL extension to its season at the Alex Theatre St Kilda.

The 2018 Victorian State Schools Spectacular (VSSS) will showcase 3000 young performers from more than 200 schools across Victoria for two shows on Saturday 15th September at Hisense Arena.

Theatre Works and OpticNerve present Polygraph by Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard, 17th July - 29th July.

Following its sold-out run at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in 2016, shake and stir theatre co's stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's family favourite George's Marvellous Medicine returns to the Cremorne Theatre from 21 August to 5 September 2018, with new performances added due to popular de

What's hotter than a pie at the footy? The Coodabeen Champions now traditional end-of-season live Father's Day show of course, returning to Arts Centre Melbourne on Sunday 2 September 2018 chock full of footy frivolity!

Following their sold-out season of 'The Wind in the Willows,' Playhouse Pantomimes has announced that their September school holiday pantomime will be an original musical adaptation of 'Sleeping Beauty.

Theatre Works and OpticNerve present Polygraph by Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard, 17th July - 29th July.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) today revealed some of the lead cast rotation, including international guest star artists and Principal Dancers, for the world-famous Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company's Australian debut only in Brisbane.

In the role made famous by Joan Cusack in the hit film, Amy Lehpamer will button up, starch up and don her spectacles to play the uptight but lovable straight-laced schoolmarm with a hankering for Stevie Nicks.

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Playhouse Pantomimes is proud to present their original musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' at the Doncaster Playhouse this July school holidays!

Fourteen of Australia's sharpest instrumentalists, the all-female SPIRE ensemble, will step into the spotlight alongside renowned guest artists in a one-night only performance, Stand By Your Woman, on September 16 at Arts Centre Melbourne's Hamer Hall.

StageArt has announced that Melbourne actor Anthony Scundi will be playing the lead role of Guido Contini in their upcoming production of the Broadway smash hit NINE The Musical.

Acclaimed Melbourne composer, Adam Simmons, will perform the world premiere of his latest new musical work, The Kites of Tianjin, at fortyfivedownstairs from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 July.

Following the critical and public triumph of Roberto Devereux, Lohengrin and most recently Tristan and Isolde, Melbourne Opera will next stage Richard Strauss' romantic comedy Der Rosenkavalier, not seen in Melbourne for 16 years, at the beautiful Athenaeum Theatre from 9 - 17 August.

Multi award-winning magician Nick Nickolas is about to deliver a round of knock-out manoeuvres in his brand new family friendly show, Gobsmacked!

Submit yourself to the guilty pleasures of the 1920s speakeasies and gin houses in Nocturnal Fever: Women of Sin, a stunning blues revue punctuated with exceptional burlesque performances.

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From the brilliant mind of James Seamark, an award winning Melbourne Playwright, Director and Producer.

Following its acclaimed season last year, Bangarra Dance Theatre returns to Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC) Playhouse from 24 August to 1 September with its major new dance work Dark Emu.

One of the biggest hits on Broadway, COME FROM AWAY continues its extraordinary success story ahead of its Australian premiere at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre in July 2019, with today's announcement of UK and Irish premieres, a major extension of its Canadian production, and continuous standing room o