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After a sold out and critically acclaimed Melbourne Comedy Festival season, emerging star Brianna Williams returns with her trademark blend of sketch, improv and audience participation as she searches for the most unattainable state of all: happiness.

Direct from their appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of the #madeinadelaide campaign, A Case of You: The Music of Joni Mitchell featuring Deborah Brennan, Max Garcia-Underwood and Chris Neale plays as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival at The Butterfly Club between September 26 -

Winifred Haun & Dancers will make their way to Melbourne, Australia to collaborate with renowned Australian circus artist, Emma Serjeant, formerly of Casus Circus.

Straight from seasons at the Perth FRINGE WORLD Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival, this riotous cabaret is set to make its Melbourne debut.

What would you do for the sake of comedy? Eat a hot chilli? Stick your head in a bucket of ice-cold water? Walk blindfolded over a stage littered with dangerous mousetraps? The Big HOO-HAA!, Melbourne's longest running improv comedy night, did just that at the 2013 Melbourne International Come

?He's the world's greatest spy, suave, patriotic, with a devil may care attitude, his name is Bond, James Bond.

Presented by Anthony Crowley, Motor-mouth Loves Suck-Face is an apocalyptic musical comedy about a planet on the edge, complete with a pop-rock score ('Suck My Armageddon', ' I Want to Taste Your Fish Paste') and a thumping Bollywood diversion because, well, how else do you distract a mob of brain d

This August, in the depths of The Butterfly Club, the most unexpected of campaign launches is taken place.

Bare Naked Theatre presents CHANGES: A Theatrical Tribute to the Music of David Bowie and his chameleon-like genius at Gasworks Arts Park 27 July - 6 August.

NICA is calling for young people with backgrounds in areas such as sport, circus, gymnastics, dance and theatre to audition for places in Australia's only Bachelor of Circus Arts.

?On the 45th anniversary of one of the best-selling albums of all time, Carole King's pop masterpiece Tapestry will be celebrated by two of Australia's most loved vocalists.

42 years ago the great Mama Cass of Mamas and Papas fame died of a heart attack.

Avenue Q is still kicking on and inciting riotous laughs from every audience member who stops by the little New York street that could.

?Award-winning cabaret artist Catherine Alcorn will debut her 'sassy, classy and a bit bad-assy' cabaret Cathartic in October as the inaugural artist in residence at Slide, Sydney's iconic entertainment venue.

We've all sat through that show.

Dance Territories, Dancehouse's biennial program of boundary-pushing contemporary choreography, returns to the Melbourne Festival in October, presenting live installations by Australian artist Sarah-Jane Norman together with the acclaimed performance The Shout by Algerian-French choreographer Nacera

MELBOURNE, TUESDAY 12 JULY 2016 - The collective stories of six champions of Western Sydney's underground Parkour community will be brought to the Fairfax Studio stage in Jump First, Ask Later from 2 - 6 August.

May Gibbs' classic Australian tale of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie will be brought to life on Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse stage from 17 - 25 September as part of a national tour.

The Coodabeen Champions presented their inaugural Arts Centre Melbourne show to a sell-out audience in 2014 and returned to make it an annual sold-out event in 2015 as part of their 35th anniversary celebrations.

Russian pianist, Elisabeth Leonskaja, is the unrivalled doyenne of the Russian old school, a formidably distinguished personality and one of the most celebrated pianists of our time.

Meet June, a brilliant, bold, brassy, bad-ass opera singer, given to singing to her dead stuffed cat, reminiscing about her lurid love life, consuming vast amounts of vodka, and chastising her lousy ex-husband.

Bare Naked Theatre presents CHANGES: A Theatrical Tribute to the Music of David Bowie and his chameleon-like genius at Gasworks Arts Park 27 July - 6 August.

The Butterfly Club are seeking Expressions Of Interest (EOIs) from producers and artists who wish to be a part of their 2016/17 Curated Summer program.