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Two Kiwi performers, a night out in Berlin, and an unexpected convergence in Melbourne are culminating in the first rendition of The Odditorium, an enchanting concoction of new-school cabaret meets old-school vaudeville, to be performed at The MC Showroom in Prahran this January 11 - 13.

Three of Australia's finest actors, Pamela Rabe (Wentworth), Sarah Peirse (Switzerland) and William Zappa (Rock 'n' Roll), star in Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company's Australian premiere co-production of The Children an incisive drama about the responsibility each generat

Melbourne's summer musical Dream Lover - The Bobby Darin Musical, has just opened to audience and critical acclaim at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Innuendo -The Bad Twin- by Saara Lamberg has won the Audience Award 2017.

The party of the year has arrived in Brisbane! Queenslanders will be saying 'I Do' to the ultimate summer musical MAMMA MIA! as it hits the city following a sold-out national premiere season in Canberra.

Melbourne's summer musical Dream Lover - The Bobby Darin Musical, commences at Arts Centre Melbourne in just 3 weeks from December 27th for a strictly limited season.

If you happen to be looking out this December 24th night for the perv in the red suit taking credit for all the presents your parents bought this year and notice the posse pulling the sleigh looking a little anemic, well there's a perfectly logical explanation:

Dry and acerbic as a gin sling, full of late-night energy and deadpan rowdiness, Moist Yeriza will challenge what you think about drag queens.

Circus, cabaret, vaudeville and comedy combine in the World Premiere of THE UNBELIEVABLES.

On a spring day in 1939, The Prince of Soul Marvin Gaye was born to loving parents in Washington DC and became one of the elite few who shaped the sound of Motown in the 1960s.

MTC will end the year with a box office record, the largest subscriber base of any theatre company in the country and an abundance of artistic triumphs at home and abroad.

wit incorporated has announced another exciting season of theatre 2018, this time with a specific focus on access.

The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's (ABO) Artistic Director and Conductor Paul Dyer has outdone himself with his 2017 program for the annual NOEL!NOEL! Concert.

Due to unprecedented demand, the Australian premiere season of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has now been extended until Sunday 25 February.

When The Beatles moved to psychedelic rock and Dylan went electric, Van Morrison hired New York's finest jazz musicians and recorded two of the classic albums of that golden era Astral Weeks and Moondance.

The Australian Ballet's Storytime Ballet is back with a production of The Sleeping Beauty.

Kick off the festive season in shimmering style at one of the most-loved concerts Carols at Como Park, South Yarra on Sunday 17 December 2017.

Founded in 1994, The St Petersburg Ballet Theatre is renowned globally not just for its beautiful Vaganova trained dancers but also for its stunning, grand, full-length productions.

The summer school holidays are here and so is Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC)'s popular family program SummerSet, with a wonderful selection of shows on offer up to 13 January 2018.

Live Nation is bringing back COMEDY FESTIVAL favourites JASON BYRNE, NAZEEM HUSSAIN, DEANNE SMITH, DES BISHOP and URZILA CARLSON in 2018.

Forty musicians from three generations of Manganiyars, a caste of desert instrumentalists from Rajasthan, will perform in an illuminated 36-window 'jewel box' on Arts Centre Melbourne's State Theatre stage in the visually and musically stunning masterpiece The Manganiyar Seduction on 6 - 7 M

Melbourne's summer musical Dream Lover - The Bobby Darin Musical, commences at Arts Centre Melbourne in just 3 weeks from December 27th for a strictly limited season.

Frontier Comedy are proud to announce twelve world class shows for the 2018 festival season; with dates just announced for Adelaide Fringe, Brisbane Comedy Festival, FRINGE WORLD, Sydney Comedy Festival, Perth Comedy Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival!

Le Corsaire (The Pirate's Story) is one of the world's most loved ballets complete with pirates, beautiful maidens, romance and shipwrecks.

Follow Dorthy and Toto down the Yellow Brick road this May! THE WIZARD OF OZ opens at Regent Theatre May 15, 2018 and plays until June 17, 2018.