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KwaYa Australia is excited to present UBUNTU on the 'Make That Change' tour, April to May 2018.

Arts Centre Melbourne's summer visitor numbers exceeded 1.

Max Riebl's 'Hard to Handel' is a virtuosic performance combining high baroque drama with the eerie, nostalgic and dreamy landscapes of early pop.

The Escape Room transforms a studio space in Melbourne's historic Nicholas Building, opposite the Melbourne Town Hall, into a custom-designed puzzle room for a dark comedy play about team-building and breaking points.

The Wizard of Oz has quickly become Australia's smash hit musical and with great excitement the producers can announce a new release of tickets from July 1 will go on sale this Monday 19 March.

This all-out battle for comedic supremacy enjoyed a sell-out run at the Festival in 2017 - and this year they're back for more.

From the fool that brought you Balls Deep (Cam Venn) comes a surreal physical comedy about a giant space chicken that needs impregnating.

Wizard of Oz has quickly become Australia's smash hit musical and with great excitement the producers can announce a new release of tickets from July 1 will go on sale this Monday 19 March.

Multi-award-winning superstar Rachel Marinade (Trevor Ashley) is one of the most successful entertainers ever to have come runner-up on Australian Idol*.

Some people are born with the capacity to do great things.

A courageous musical reverie that propels audience members through the joy of '80s power ballads, spontaneous rap and the low- key Millennial angst of modern pop, Wanda and Mel is a cathartic journey that navigates the turbulent waters of diversity, sacrifice and motherhood while being funny AF.

Fran Middleton is a stand-up comedian and clowny-type performance artist with a knack for absurdity.

Deep down inside Ed always knew he wanted to grow up to be a man.

A wine science talk with jokes, answering questions about how much wine you can drink, why you drink, and how come Hungarians are dangerous with Champagne.

Lyric Opera of Melbourne's 2018 season opens with Francis Poulenc's wacky comedy Les Mamelles de Tiresias (The Breasts of Tiresias).

The internationally celebrated Grammy-award winning coloratura soprano Sumi Jo returns to Australia this July for a series of unmissable concerts in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Tinder Tales - A New Australian Musical is a show for anyone who has puked on a first date, spent an hour constructing a five-word text, or gone on a late-night tinder-binge.

Katie Cullinan has had enough, and after an 8 year hiatus, she's back with her brand new cabaret show for 2018! Katie Cullinan: Catastrophist promises to deliver some unlikely (or likely) scenarios that will make you cringe, quiver and crack-up all at the same time.

Death turns up to work each day, coffee cup in hand, and with a sigh, listens to new versions of old stories, bored out of her skull.

Following on from their recognition at this year's Maribyrnong Civic Awards, wit incorporated are kicking off 2018 with a bang, as they bring the uproarious comedy, Bombshells to Bluestone Church Arts Space.

It was not that long ago, and a time not unlike that which we live in now, that Green Day released the album American Idiot that narrated a story of the world's greatest nation's underbelly that many sought out through the punk movement to ease the social and political tensions at the turn of the mi

Ruby's Wish, a heart-warming tale of friendship, hope and the blurred lines between fantasy and reality, conceived by performer, writer and comedian Holly Austin, will be presented at Arts Centre Melbourne from 12 - 13 May.

An extraordinary new CD, which sees some of Melbourne's finest classical and jazz musicians coming together for one of the most ambitious recording projects staged at St Andrews Anglican Church, Brighton is soon to be released to the public.

In electrifying news for the Rocky Horror Show, it was announced today that theatre, film and television stars Todd McKenney and Shane Jacobson will join the cast for the forthcoming Melbourne season at Her Majesty's Theatre from July 13.

Six of Melbourne's best improvisers will create a completely unique and utterly absurd parody of "cutting-edge" theatre.